I've put together my first hack using pewbot — suggestions based on an individual's loan history. By running a user's loan history against the "also borrowed" database, it's possible to build a list of titles that should be of interest to that borrower. For example, if a student had borrowed the following 4 IT books: [...]
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Live OPAC search terms display
Another shameless hack inspired by the "Making Visible the Invisible" at SPL. I've tweaked HIP to cache keyword search terms and then put together a couple of pages that display successful searches (in tasteful shades of purple and lilac) and failed searches (in gruesome greens). IE has a nice CSS blur, so I've coupled that [...]
Curse you Superpatron!
It's way past my bedtime, but the Ann Arbor Superpatron has been planting ideas in my head again… Recently Checked Out Books feed (in RSS or otherwise) I've not built a feed, but I have come up with these two representations of the most recent check outs (click for larger versions): 1) The last 30 [...]
A Perfect Library 2.0 Day
Just relaxing with a glass of wine after a very very Library 2.0 day With a lot of help from Iman Moradi (blog/flickr), we ran an introduction to Library 2.0 for members of our Subject Teams and Tech Services this afternoon. Then, after a coffee break, we watched the SirsiDynix Institute Weblogs & Libraries: Communication, [...]
"Did You Mean?" – part 2
I've been keeping an eye on the search terms and suggestions over the last few days and I noticed that we're getting quite a few people getting failed keyword searches simply because there's nothing that matches the term. In particular, we've got a lot of students searching for diuretics. As there's no matches found, the [...]
"Did You Mean?" for HIP 2 or 3
[update: we're now using Aspell and the Text::Aspell module] HIP 4 contains a spellchecking "did you mean?" facility which, although not as powerful as Googles, is certainly a step in the right direction. One of the basic rules of designing any web based system that supports searching or browsing is to always give the user [...]
HIP Tips!
Adding a message to your log in page At Huddersfield, we've added some text to our HIP login page: This is a really easy hack and just involves editing a single XSL page (security.xsl). As always, make a safe backup of the file before you do any editing! Firstly, open up security.xsl in your favourite [...]
HIP Tips!
Do your 856 URLs show up in a big font size that doesn't seem to quite fit in with the rest of the text on the full bib page? The quickest way to fix it is to fire up the Horizon table editor, select marc_map, and then locate the marc_map that you use for your [...]
DUG/HUG – Friday
Friday started off with a session about the RFID implementation at Middlesex, with Alan Hopkinson, Tim Pond (D-Tech Direct), and Gregor Hotz (Bibliotheca). We're planning to implement RFID at Huddersfield during 2006. Next up, James Castle (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and myself did a 45 minute session entitled "HIP Ideas". James talked about the issues involved [...]
replacement inactive tab GIFs
The default GIF images used in HIP 3.04 for the inactive tabs only really work if you stick with the grey colour. Once you change that background colour, they no longer match: Not only that, but the two corner GIFs are actually a different colour (more olive/brown than grey): You can call me "sad", but [...]