Linking to Google Books
This must be the month of the OPAC or something. Today I worked up a quick way to link from a book in our Voyager system to Google books via… Read more »
Category: Coding
PHP + DOM + Joel = SMS from OPAC
Mentioned the other day that I was working on adding a “send this call number to your cell phone” capability to our Voyager OPAC (mitigating the “find a scrap of… Read more »
SMS messaging from the Catalog
Getting started on a project where I’ll try to add a “send this item’s location to my cellphone” link in our OPAC (a 21st century analog to the little box… Read more »
Proxy content from an RSS feed
About six months ago we signed a contract with Springshare beginning a relationship as a customer for their LibGuides service. LibGuides is vendor-hosted system for building and presenting subject guides,… Read more »
Help Wanted, Passwords, Zotero Syncs! and Bamboo
Digital Library Developer We’ve posted a job advertisement for a Digital Library Developer and I encourage you to apply if you have an interest in building the sort of tools… Read more »
Sproutcore
It seems there’s some sort of new web development framework released every week or two but the other day I found one that shows a lot of promise: Sproutcore. Odd… Read more »
Moving Forward with Backing Up
If you have sysadmin duties in a library like Mason’s (where our core technologies actually reside in the library and not the computer center), backing up is one big part… Read more »
DSpace and Omeka
I continue thinking about how to exploit a user-friendly tool like Omeka to enable library staff to build inviting exhibitions of digital objects—more particularly, those stored in our MARS (DSpace)… Read more »
Omeka goes public
Mason’s Center for History and New Media announces the release of Omeka – a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed as a solution… Read more »
Research Portal update, LibGuides and more
Work on our first research portal (Bioinformatics) is just about complete. To refresh, we’re combining two open-source products (WordPress and CWIS) to build what we hope will prove to be… Read more »