Posted on 1st April 2010 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
The Lucy Scribner Library’s Special Collections include a beautiful selection of Artists’ Books. 100 of the books have been cataloged, photographed, and included in a new interface.
We set up a WordPress installation and loaded the MARC records for the books. The load created a post for each record with all bibliographic information stored in custom fields. The title field was loaded as the post title, and the author/artist field was loaded as the post category. The “additional information” tab is the post content and easily edited by staff. The images were named after bib id #, making it easy to create galleries and script the inclusion of those galleries using bib id # again.
The collection can be browsed by title or author, and is fully searchable.
<< The gallery view includes a thumbnail image. The title is a link to the full record for the title. The artist link performs a search for all works by that artist in the collection.
Posted on 1st April 2010 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
We’ve been talking about a “Going Green” campaign for a while, but it’s been hard to pull a ton of ideas together in a meaningful way. Enter the Library’s Earth Day Blog. We’ll be posting something daily for the month of April which will help collect everything in one place and hopefully give our efforts some focus.
Posted on 17th March 2010 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
I found this link to Daniel Sinker’s digitized copy of 2010: Living in the Future (written in 1972) while cleaning up my bookmarks. The section on libraries:
“A very popular room is the library. There are no books. The floor is shaped into tables and benches. Built into these tables are hundreds of vision phones. The books, films, and newspapers are all stored in the library computer.
First you dial the library index. This file contains all the books that have ever been written. It does not matter whether they were first written in Chinese or French. They will be here, translated into English. There is also an index of films and newspapers. You could spend all day watching comics, but it wouldn’t be a good idea.
To select the book you wish to read, you dial the book’s number. The first page appears on your screen. You can turn the pages backward or forward by using buttons on the vision phone.
If you are halfway through a book and you have to leave, there is no reason why you can’t finish it when you get home. You can dial the library and the book number from home and go on with your reading.
While you are in the library, you might look at some travel film, to help you decide where to go for your summer vacation.
How about Australia? ….”
But my favorite part is really the jumpsuits…..
“In the year 2010 everyone wears a jumpsuit and shoes. The clothes may look odd, but they are sensible. The jumpsuits and shoes are made in thousands of colors, from a material so light you can hardly feel it. The material keeps you warm when it is cold and cool when it is hot.”
Yes, sensible….
Posted on 17th March 2010 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
How often do you find EXACTLY what you need!?
Excellent Anaytics is an open source Excel 2007 plugin that allows you to log in to your Google Analytics account, pull in your stats, and query/filter using all of the Analytics options. I just installed it and it works like a charm. Awesome!
Posted on 16th March 2010 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
Inspiration:
A great overview of how libraries are using a variety of mobile services and tips for going mobile at your own library.
Many good examples of how libraries are going mobile. (I don’t think this one is on the list: University of Florida iPhone app for Digital Collections)
“Spectrum Is Devoted To Documenting Any and All Topics Relating To Mobile Learning, Mobile Library Services, and Mobile Technologies.”
Getting Started:
“This article will share Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries’ experience creating a mobile Web presence and will provide key design and development strategies for building mobile Web sites.”
Michael Doran’s practical approach to designing mobile web apps.
Create a Mobile Site:
Mobile apps/services you can promote now:
Further Reading:
Posted on 15th March 2010 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
The Libology Blog recently posted about the University of Michigan’s PictureIt Rare Book Reader. It will be great to see this code released under Creative Commons!
I was looking at the WordPress FlippingBook plugin the other day. Talk about a plugin made for libraries! Now what to do with it…..
Posted on 6th November 2009 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
Posted on 21st October 2009 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
I’ve set up an AquaBrowser Google Group to share tips and post questions. If your library uses AquaBrowser, please consider joining. Licensed sites only, please.
Posted on 11th October 2009 by Kathryn in Uncategorized
General:
Modules/Components used in our site:
- FrontPage Slide Show
- JV ContentLinks (subscription resource link management)
- ImageFlow (book, cd, and dvd covers)
- Sourcerer (allows inclusion of PHP in articles)
- Highslide (expanding images, screenshots)
- Slick RSS
- JCE 154 (editor)
Examples:
Community:
These are examples and additional resources for my LiSUG presentation on Open Source Content Management Systems.
“Skidmore College’s Lucy Scribner Library went live with a new website built using an open source content management system in August of 2009. The site includes many new features designed to improve the user’s experience: scrolling album, dvd, and book covers that link to catalog records; new books titles feeding into appropriate subject pages via RSS; library hours that update automatically; and more. The use of an open source content management system has improved the functionality and visual appeal of our web presence, but also changed the way we create, maintain, and manage our web content. This presentation will demonstrate the front and back ends of the software used to create the site, including the customizations mentioned above, and discuss the changes in workflow that the content management site has occasioned.”
