Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question

Matt, Our library's website is visually and navigationally part of the larger university website, but housed on its own server. We are under the "Academics" tab in the "Centers of learning" block along with the writing center, community service office, etc. Being part of the larger university f

[CODE4LIB] tool for finding close matches in vocabular list

tural difference, e.g.: Irwin, Ken Irwin, Kenneth Irwin, Mr. Kenneth Irwin, Kenneth R. Basketball - Women Basketball - Women's Basketball-Women Basketball-Women's I would love to have some sort of pattern-matching tool that's smart about this sort of thing that could go through the list

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python in Your Library

This is the only python we've got going on in our library: http://www.wittprojects.net/library_blog/?p=573 http://ezra.wittenberg.edu/record=b1252845~S0 Ken -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:1

[CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding

Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups,

Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding

Thanks all, This has given me a few things to work with and I think I can move forward. Joys Ken -Original Message- From: Will Martin [mailto:w...@will-martin.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 5:26 PM To: Code for Libraries Cc: Ken Irwin Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] library of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tablet Uses for Library Staff

Three things I do with a tablet in the library: 1. guerrilla reference -- if I'm carrying a tablet I don't need to be near a computer to help folks out when wandering around the library. (this is an ad hoc activity for me, but I imagine some people do it more deliberately.) 2. weeding -- my We

[CODE4LIB] looking for a good PHP table-manipulating class

Hi folks, I'm hoping to find a PHP class that designed to display data in tables, preferably able to do two things: 1. Swap the x- and y-axis, so you could arbitrarily show the table with y=Puppies, x=Kittens or y=Kittens,x=Puppies 2. Display the table either using plain text columns or formatte

Re: [CODE4LIB] circulation statistics

Eric, It's not Aleph, but... III's catalog has a "create list" function that lets you create a list of records (bib records, item records, patron records, etc) that meet certain criteria (patrons who live is x zip code, items in the main stacks with more than 5 checkouts, etc.) To do what

Re: [CODE4LIB] IP Authentication for Online Access to the New York Times

Brett, This isn't quite an answer, but perhaps a perspective/option. Our library hasn't been able to get NYT to do straight-up IP authentication and for years they have been a challenge for us. Recently, they rolled out an educational institutional access option. Through that option, our user

[CODE4LIB] replacing deprecated PHP code throughout website

Hello all, I've just learned that the PHP mysql_* functions are all deprecated as of PHP 5.5, and I'm trying to figure out what this means for my life. My library's website is heavily database-driven, hand-coded, and all written using the mysql_* functions. It's currently running PHP 5.4, so pr

Re: [CODE4LIB] replacing deprecated PHP code throughout website

sense, so I'll start exploring those ideas again too. And/or, I may take TK up on the idea of giving it all up an opening a coffee shop instead... Many thanks -- I 'm glad to have such a robust community of experienced co-conspirators. Ken >>> On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Ken

[CODE4LIB] getting started with Drupal for library website

Hi folks, Thanks to all who responded a few weeks ago to my inquiry about updating the code on my library's website. Many folks suggested moving to a CMS, and I'm starting to look into that possibility, and particularly Drupal. In doing so, I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel, and I'm hoping

[CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool

Hi folks, I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the library's hours of operations, including: * Displaying today's hours * Displaying an upcoming schedule of hours * Updatable though a GUI interface by non-techy library staff * Able to u

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool

ing open overnight. Let me know if you'd like more info. Ron Gilmour Web Services Librarian Ithaca College Library On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the > library'

Re: [CODE4LIB] back to minorities question, seeking guidance

What both Kelly and David say is true here: David: programming needs math, not arithmetic. Kelly: computers are good at arithmetic on their own. To which I'll add: the related skill that I see as necessary here is quantitative reasoning - not the crunching of numbers but the correct assembly o

Re: [CODE4LIB] what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered

I've set up email address-based accounts for PayPal and Facebook APIs using organizational gmail accounts. Our university is picky about not having email accounts accessible by more than one person ("refdesk@mylibrary" is a mailing list/distribution list that can receive email but cannot send it

[CODE4LIB] mobile framework for Win 8 + iOS + Android?

Hi folks, I'm looking for simple, JS-based mobile framework (like jQT, formerly jQuery Touch) that looks good on both iOS and Win 8 (and, you know, everything else). For this particular purpose I'm NOT looking for a responsive framework (e.g. Bootstrap, Skeleton). I just checked out jQT on a W

Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile framework for Win 8 + iOS + Android?

PS - I should have mentioned that what I'm looking for is a mobile WEB framework. I'm not doing app development -- just trying to deliver reasonably simple HTML pages. thanks Ken ____ From: Ken Irwin Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:40 AM To: Code for

Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile framework for Win 8 + iOS + Android?

Well I feel pretty silly -- I think jQuery Mobile is what I'm looking for. Ken From: Ken Irwin Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:40 AM To: Code for Libraries Subject: mobile framework for Win 8 + iOS + Android? Hi folks, I'm looking for simple, JS-ba

[CODE4LIB] phone app for barcode-to-textfile?

Hi all, Does anyone have a phone app (pref. iOS) that will just scan barcodes to a textfile? All the apps I'm finding are shopping oriented or other special uses. I just want to replace our antique barcode scanner that spits out a list of barcodes as a text file. Anyone have such a thing? Or a

Re: [CODE4LIB] phone app for barcode-to-textfile?

] phone app for barcode-to-textfile? You might want to look at http://www.clz.com/barry/ -- Aaron Addison Unix Administrator W. E. B. Du Bois Library UMass Amherst 413 577 2104 On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 17:40 +, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have a phone app (pref. iOS)

[CODE4LIB] same css, different servers, one breaks in IE

Hi folks, I've been working on integrating some Bootstrap into our library website, and I've stumbled on weird thing that I can't explain: I'm using the basic bootstrap templates, straight out of the box with no customization, and the CSS feature that compresses the header on narrow screens do

Re: [CODE4LIB] same css, different servers, one breaks in IE

Never mind? This appears to be a campus network issue, not inherent to IE On Jun 28, 2013, at 10:11 AM, "Ken Irwin" mailto:kir...@exchange.wittenberg.edu>> wrote: Hi folks, I’ve been working on integrating some Bootstrap into our library website, and I’ve stumbled on we

[CODE4LIB] netflix search mashups w/ library tools?

Hi folks, Is anyone out there using library-like tools for searching Netflix? I'm imagining a world in which Netflix data gets mashed up with OCLC data or something like it to populate a more robustly searchable Netflix title list. Does anything like this exist? What I really want at the momen

Re: [CODE4LIB] netflix search mashups w/ library tools?

ave ISBNs and if you use title you can get into trouble because movies get remade. So title + date seems to work best if you can get the information. Karen On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is anyone out there using library-like tools for searching Netflix?

[CODE4LIB] capturing only relevant CSS for a selection

Hi all, I'm looking for a tool that I hope exists, and that I hope someone here might be able to point me too. I want to select a portion of a web page (or of the html behind it), and be able to copy it ALONG WITH whatever CSS rules apply to that section of code. I don't want the whole 1000+ li

[CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

Hi all, I'm working on a project for which we're looking for some image gallery management software (ie, upload, organize, tag, etc.) that's a standalone piece of software: ie, not part of a larger CMS like WordPress, Drupal, ContentDM, etc. We'd of course like something that is simple, awesom

[CODE4LIB] RDA gibberish in user interface

Hi all, In our library, we've noticed lately a lot of raw-looking RDA info from MARC records that shows up in the user interface. Our head of tech services translated the gibberish for the librarians, and we are now considering what to do with it. (The example and her excellent translations fol

[CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?

Hi all, Forking off from the mobile-detection thread: Does anyone have any favorite books, articles, websites, etc. for the real "how to" business of building mobile-friendly websites. I have been astonished at the apparent dearth of such books, and was delighted earlier this year to discover

Re: [CODE4LIB] III Mobile Catalog

I've been pretty happy with the results we were able to get with a home-grown mobile catalog. It's not a "product" that one could install (though I'd be happy to share our code, much of which would likely work out well.) Basically, my approach was to write mobile stylesheets that kill a lot of t

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

I hypothesize that until you get your 100,000 results, that authors like Chaucer and Shakespeare will rise to the top because they are the ones we've all read; they're going to get more total votes because more people will have read them. Are you capturing the "losses" as well as the wins here

[CODE4LIB] detecting user copying URL?

Hi all, I have just, for the severalth time, just talked to a student who had lost a bunch of work in a common way: he had copied-and-pasted a bunch of database-content URLs on the fairly-reasonable (but, of course, incorrect) assumption that those URLs would get him back to the content later.

Re: [CODE4LIB] easy/classy save-marked-records functionality?

I was just struck with a bit on inspiration on this, so perhaps I'll have a thing to share later Ken From: Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 3:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: easy/classy save-marked-records functionality? Hi all, Thanks for your thoughts yest

[CODE4LIB] easy/classy save-marked-records functionality?

Hi all, Thanks for your thoughts yesterday re: dealing with vendors & impermanent URLs - I think the advice of the group re: getting vendors to change their ways makes more sense than the techno solution I had in mind. For today's question, I am the db supplier, so I get to make my own choi

Re: [CODE4LIB] easy/classy save-marked-records functionality?

current purposes. Feel free to re-use/improve the code to your heart's content. Ken From: Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 3:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: easy/classy save-marked-records functionality? Hi all, Thanks for your thoughts yesterday re: dealing with v

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time

Nathan, Would it make sense to break this up into several documents and add a search function? You could still have a giant, one-page (and thus easily-printable) option, but maybe that wouldn't be the default. The search feature I'm envisioning would just be a search of key words in the title

[CODE4LIB] data export help: line breaks on tab-delimited download

Hi all, I've got a dataset that I'm trying to make exportable for MiniTab, etc. It's tab-delimited and lines end with "\n". When I serve it up as "text/plain" and view it in my web browser, it works just fine and all the line breaks are in the right places. When I send the header to make it a

Re: [CODE4LIB] data export help: line breaks on tab-delimited download

're still setting the content-type appropriately; and you may need to make the filename end in .txt anyway. The line breaks are probably still there, your web browser is just rendering the file as html rather than txt, is my guess. On 1/11/2011 3:29 PM, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: [CODE4LIB] data export help: line breaks on tab-delimited download

AM To: Code for Libraries Cc: Ken Irwin Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] data export help: line breaks on tab-delimited download Windows NotePad probably needs an \r\n combo at the end of every line, windows style. Whether you should worry about that depends on where the file is destined for and if it ma

[CODE4LIB] more general travel considerations: airport transportation

Hi all, Is there any effort currently underway to help folks get from the airport to/from the conference? If not, shall we start one? I'll be driving thru Indianapolis to/from the event and would be glad to pick up a person or two on the way. I'm sure we don't need to work that all out on the

Re: [CODE4LIB] more general travel considerations: airport transportation

ion Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/ (202) 633-1706 | (202) 786-2861 (f) | richar...@si.edu On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any effort currently underway to help folks get from the airport > to/from the conference? If not, shall we start one? I&#x

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?

Drupal Solr/Blacklight Rr Hula-hoop tricks -Ken On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Edward Iglesias wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) on > changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a while > back (if you partici

[CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

Hi all, I'm about to embark upon a summer weeding project, and would like to do so with the help of a little web tool - perhaps one that you've already invented or for which a generic AJAX-based CRUD interface already exists. (Mostly I think I'm just looking for a low-power AJAX-based CRUD thin

Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

It turns out that this is one of those "I should have just searched first" questions. Once it became clearer to me that I didn't need a library-specific app but that all I really needed was AJAX+CRUD, the problem simplified. Solution: http://www.ajaxcrud.com/ It looks like it can do all of th

Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

AJAX for slickness and ease of use. We could do form html, but I'd prefer something that's updated in real time. As for the scanner -- my plan was to pre-populate the database from our OPAC, so we won't need to scan each book individually.) Ken -Original Message- From: Code for Libra

[CODE4LIB] does your OPAC pass HTML validation?

Hi all, I'm curious: does ANYONE have an OPAC that passes an HTML validator test? I've know mine doesn't, and none of the ones I spot-checked do either. (TPD: OhioLINK gets a prize for coming way closer than anyone, by at least an order of magnitude and sometimes several!) Do catalogs even val

[CODE4LIB] memory management for grownups

I have a feeling it may be time for me to learn some grown-up programming skills, and I hope someone here might be able to help. I have a PHP script chewing over a large MySQL query. It's creating a handful of big associative arrays in the process, and punks out after the arrays get to 32MB. Fa

[CODE4LIB] mysql subquery response time

Hi all, I've not done much with MySQL subqueries, and I'm trying right now with what I find to be surprising results. I wonder if someone can help me understand. I have a pile of data that with columns for "institution" and "date". Institution gets repeated a lot, with many different dates. I w

Re: [CODE4LIB] screen scraping

I don't know that there are two many rules about this, but here's what comes to mind for me: 1. respect robots.txt 2. cache content so you don't hit their site more often than is reasonable. (i'd say that once a day is pretty reasonable) 3. also cache or mockup or something when you're writing y

[CODE4LIB] web spam block less awful than Captcha?

Hi folks, Some of our online forms (contact, archives request, etc.) have been getting a bunch of spam lately. I have heretofore avoided using any of those obnoxious Captcha things and would rather not start now. (I personally loathe them and they keep getting harder, which tells me that the sp

Re: [CODE4LIB] web spam block less awful than Captcha?

This is an intriguing approach, Dre. I wonder how to render this non-problematic for folks with screen-readers too. You could just say "leave this field blank" but that's sort of weird too. Is there a WAI-ARIA approach that would get screen readers to hide this field too? I'm looking into Moll

Re: [CODE4LIB] web spam block less awful than Captcha?

pport from other readers. I'm assuming some kind of "skip" mechanism > will be built in to WAI-ARIA too. > > Spam catcher - do not complete > this field /> > > -- > Erin White > Web Applications Developer, VCU Libraries > 804-827-3552 | erwh...@vcu.edu | http

Re: [CODE4LIB] web spam block less awful than Captcha?

That's a great point, Same. Thanks. The spam-bots have been falling for the "confirm_email" and filling it in with the "correct" value, but I think I'll try switching it to something obtuse that the auto-fillin isn't likely to have a value for. "what_would_you_do_for_a_klondike_bar" comes to min

[CODE4LIB] mysql: "terminated by AUTO" -- myAdmin v commandline

Hi folks, Using the ever-handy phpMyAdmin tool for MySQL db management, there's a CSV import option to parse lines like this (all GUI-like): LOAD DATA INFILE 'file.csv' INTO TABLE tbl_name FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' FIELDS ENCLOSED BY '\"', FIELDS ESCAPED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY 'auto' Howeve

[CODE4LIB] best practices for video accessibility?

Hi all, I'm working with someone who's working to make their videos available online and is particularly looking for mobile accessibility. That seems to be a moving target these days, and I'm wondering if anyone with more experience in this area might have some best-practices up their sleeve.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

HTML, CSS, and PHP make for a great start. For interface development, I'd suggest adding jQuery to the mix (especially JQueryUI and JQuery Mobile). I find jQuery to be useful for two particular things: 1) modifying interfaces over which you have limited direct control (like OPACs) -- it lets y

Re: [CODE4LIB] server side vs client side

My general approach is "server-side first". Unless it's wildly easier to accomplish something client-side, then I think it makes sense to go for the consistency of server-side processing. So taking a text file, doing some processing, and spitting out what should behave for the user as if it's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get Lamp showing at cod4libcon

Well I feel real silly -- all this time I thought Get Lamp was a documentary about the power of open-source technologies (e.g. LAMP). I just watched the trailer and that turns out not to be the case... I'm sad to be missing out on the Seattle experience. Y'all have fun and learn lots! Ken

[CODE4LIB] what's friendlier & less powerful than phpMyAdmin?

that would prevent users from doing things like accidentally changing primary key data and things like that. I've thought about writing something, but I suspect that would be reinventing the wheel. Any ideas? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

Re: [CODE4LIB] what's friendlier & less powerful than phpMyAdmin?

kins University Ken Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/30/08 9:35 AM >>> Hi folks, I have some straightforward MySQL data tables that I would like to be editable by some of my less- techy colleagues. I tend to think of phpMyAdmin as a perfectly serviceable and reasonably in

Re: [CODE4LIB] what's friendlier & less powerful than phpMyAdmin?

adds up fast. Of course, the same arguments could be leveled against PHP in favor of C, against C in favor of assembly, etc.. Abstraction always has merits and demerits. Tim -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

[CODE4LIB] code to guide installation of software?

-load the data tables, not assuming the user has command-line mysql access.) Any ideas? Thanks Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

[CODE4LIB] another distribution question: 32- or 64-bit tarballs

all it says is "Use Tar!" with no ambiguity about architecture. Is everyone in the world on 64-bit architecture except this one test server that I have access to? Any advice? Thanks! Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

Re: [CODE4LIB] another distribution question: got it!

Quoth Erik: There is no difference between tar files created on 32 bit or 64 bit machines. There can be differences between GNU tar & (for instance) solaris tar. What problem are you having specifically? This is the error I was getting: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsoles

Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc

This sounds like a great idea for a Firefox plugin... Ken > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Tim Shearer > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:18 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, et

[CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script

Hi all, I'm moving to a new web server and struggling to get it configured properly. The problem of the moment: having a Perl CGI script call another web page in the background and make decisions based on its content. On the old server I used an antique Perl script called "hcat" (from the Pelic

Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script

Hi Joe, That's really helpful, thanks. Actually finding out what the error message is nice: HTTP Error : 500 Can't connect to www.npr.org:80 (connect: Permission denied) I've tried this with a few websites and always get the same error, which tells me that the problem is on my server side. Any

[CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script - solved!

Hi all, Thanks for your extensive suggestions and comments. A few folks suggested that SELinux might be the issue. Tobin's suggestion to change one of the settings proved effective: "# setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1". Thanks to everyone who helped -- I learned a lot. Joys Ken -O

[CODE4LIB] character-sets for dummies?

Hi all, I'm looking for a good source to help me understand character sets and how to use them. I pretty much know nothing about this - the whole world of Unicode, ASCII, octal, UTF-8, etc. is baffling to me. My immediate issue is that I think I need to integrate data from a variety of charact

Re: [CODE4LIB] character-sets for dummies?

Hi all -- thanks for these fabulous replies. I'm learning a lot. Armed with a bit of new knowledge, I've done some tinkering. I think I've solved my original quandaries, and have opened new cans of worms. I have a few more specific questions: 1) It appears that once I switch my MySQL table ove

Re: [CODE4LIB] character-sets for dummies? THANKS

Thank you all for this abundance of guidance and information. I feel much better equipped to face this now. I'm much farther along with this than I was this morning. Thanks! Ken

[CODE4LIB] image maps + lightbox/thickbox/ibox/etc

Hi all, Does anyone have an-AJAX "pop-up window" style tool that works with image maps? I'm thinking of something in the the lightbox, thickbox, ibox family. I've found a bunch of references to people online *looking* for this functionality, but no one finding it. Any ideas? Thanks! Ken

Re: [CODE4LIB] image maps + lightbox/thickbox/ibox/etc (clarified)

t!) Thanks ken From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin [kir...@wittenberg.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:20 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] image maps + lightbox/thickbox/ibox/etc Hi all, Does anyo

Re: [CODE4LIB] image maps + lightbox/thickbox/ibox/etc -- SOLVED

Sometimes the answer is "quit working, go home, and ask your sweetie". My partner is a genius and had a very straightforward solution: get rid of the imagemap and replace it with some absolutely-positioned links that use regular anchor tags. Not only does this solve the problem in a lightbox-fri

[CODE4LIB] favorite jQuery plugins for libraries?

Hi all, I'm on a mission to finally learn some jQuery, and I'm kind of falling in love with it. In particular, I'm finding in it the perfect tool for modifying our OPAC in ways that the catalog vendor never intended, tweaking the DOM to my heart's content. Having worked my way through the bas

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

I would come from Ohio to wherever we choose. Kalamazoo would suit me just fine; I've not been back there in entirely too long! Ken > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Scott Garrison > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM > To:

[CODE4LIB] Duct tape (was: PHP bashing (was: newbie))

I love how we changed the name of this thread to "PHP bashing" just in time for it to become a thread about duct tape. And y'all are forgetting the best automotive use for duct tape: as a temporary scaffolding for smearing Bondo onto. I just did this, in fact, and have the pink residue on my fi

[CODE4LIB] SMS headers in email->sms

Hi all, Does anyone know if there's a way to specify/alter the equivalent of email-headers on SMS messages sent from an email address? We send SMS messages to users through the library website, but the messages come from a bogus email address. We'd like it to come from a real email address so

Re: [CODE4LIB] SMS headers in email->sms

We originally tried changing the From and Reply-To mail headers, but the phones we tested on didn't honor the email headers. Instead they show an address @www6.wittenberg.edu (ie, our web server). That's why I was thinking there would be some sort of SMS-equivalent-header that it cared about mor

[CODE4LIB] system for web-based annotated bibliography?

Hi folks, I'm starting in on a pretty big bibliography project, for what I expect will be a web-based annotated bibliography. Kind of part-book-review-blog/part-bibliography. I'm wondering if there are any systems out there that would support this kind of thing. I think what I want is essentia

Re: [CODE4LIB] system for web-based annotated bibliography?

Julia -- that look quite plausible; it just means that I'll finally have to learn Drupal! I am not opposed to this fate, just foot-draggy... :) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Bauder Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 10:10 AM To

[CODE4LIB] free source for issn->periodical-type data?

Hi folks, Does anyone know of a free data source that correlates ISSNs with data that includes "what kind of publication is this?" e.g. *Academic journal (+/- peer review?) *Popular magazine *Newspaper *Trade journal *Etc Obviously, there's some wiggl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib MidWest

Thanks Ranti! I am definitely interested, and would favor a the latter end of the proposed timeframe. Ken -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Schultz Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 3:08 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

[CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow

Hi folks, Our library is planning to post some video guides in the next little while, and I'd like to make it as simple-for-me and accessible-for-everyone-else as possible. Does anyone have a good handy guide/idea/workflow/etc on current best practices for presenting html5-happy video that has

Re: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow

Quoth Jason: > I've just written a script which takes source video, adds a common credits > snippet to each video, > and then wraps system calls to convert to MP4 and WebM. The script also takes > the first frame of the video to create a poster image. Is this a share-able script? That sounds l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars

My id agrees with the calls to let IE die a horrible death, but I agree with your point: from a service perspective, we cannot just drop support for IE. Libraries will hopefully uphold a higher standard of accessibility than some other places on the web. In my heart of hearts, I assume that an

[CODE4LIB] any Libki / Userful Pre-Book users out there?

Hi folks, Anybody out there using the Libki computer kiosk/reservation manager system? Our library is looking for a (preferably free/OSS) solution to manage access to our public kiosks. Libki looks possible, but the documentation on their website really only goes as far as installation. I'd li

Re: [CODE4LIB] Survey + policy

Eric++ I was thinking the same thing. Along those lines: for the folks working on the draft policy - I'd like to suggest adding "gender expression" and "gender identity" to the mix of things we're not discriminating about. Language from the GLAAD Media Reference Guide

[CODE4LIB] directing users to mobile DBs, was RE: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live

Sarah asks about how to direct users to mobile versions of databases where appropriate. The way I'm doing it is: 1. All database links are served up from a database table, so the link on our website is http://$OUR_LIBRARY/redirect?$db_id 2. The db-of-dbs knows if there is a mobile specific url

Re: [CODE4LIB] directing users to mobile DBs, was RE: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live

I use the PHP code from: http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/ (free for personal and non-profit use) Ken -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:36 PM To: Code for Libraries Cc: Ken Irwin Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] directing

Re: [CODE4LIB] directing users to mobile DBs, was RE: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live

t; Thanks, > Mark > > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >> What method do you use to detect mobile-or-not? >> >> >> On 1/2/2013 3:33 PM, Ken Irwin wrote: >>> >>> Sarah asks about how to direct users to mobile versions of

[CODE4LIB] LC sort problems (php)

et of cutters, but now I find it's even lamer than I thought. Help! Thanks Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC sort problems (php)

shtml -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] LC sort problems (php) Hi folks, I've been using a Library-of-Congress sort routine for a few year

[CODE4LIB] sorting LC in PHP: kick my tires

ill be a code4lib.org page for this eventually, but not just yet. Thanks to Michael and everyone else who offered suggestions last week. joy, Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

[CODE4LIB] "Expect" OPAC output to web?

verlooking. 3) Is there a much smarter way to do this? What think you all? expect "ingenious replies" send "Ken" interact -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Expect" OPAC output to web? (I'm on III)

17) 244-4688 What think you all? expect "ingenious replies" send "Ken" interact -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Expect" OPAC output to web?

1 Stockholm SWEDEN Phone : +46 8 162769 Mobile: +46 70 6904281 -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken Irwin Skickat: den 7 juli 2006 15:57 Till: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Ämne: [CODE4LIB] "Expect" OPAC output to web? Hi folks, I&#x

[CODE4LIB] SQL query: looking for NON-intersection of tables

WHERE book_id != '4' and book_id != '7'... That works on really small sets, but I don't want to go that route. Is there a savvy way to structure this MySQL query. I don't even know the language to use to look for this information. Thanks for any help you can provide

[CODE4LIB] Thanks! Re: [CODE4LIB] SQL query

Hi all, Thanks for these myriad responses! I've gotten at least three distinct approaches to try. I knew there had to be a better way. your sql-fu is appreciated! joys Ken

[CODE4LIB] MINUS in MySQL (was Re: Thanks!) -- also intesection with LIKE?

om lib_books where bad_thing = 'TRUE' I think MINUS is faster than JOIN. Other SET OPERATIONS include UNION and INTERSECT. Set operations require that the underlying result sets be "compatible": Same number of columns. Corresponding columns have matching datatypes. Ken Irwin w

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