I found John Wohlers’ presentation on drupal’s flag module from the recent Chicagoland Library Drupal Group to be quite interesting (skip to 1:20:50 in the stream for that presentation). This module looks like a promising way to allow users to bookmark/favourite content on our new site as well as to flag inappropriate content. I also [...]
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Obligatory monthly library related post so I don’t lose my accreditation. Our website redesign continues to plod along. In preparation, we have purchased a couple of additional III products which will facilitate some things we want to do on the new site. One of them, Patron API, is something I’ve wanted for a long [...] This is an interesting development. Neat to see one of the major labels is willing to offer drm free music via public libraries. How very un-Sonylike. Here’s the page from one of the ten participating libraries. Three songs a week? Hmmmmm. Still this is an improvement over Overdrive’s music offering which of course [...] Definitely check out this video of Dries Buytaert’s keynote at the recent DrupalCon SF. In particular, I found the following two slides about drupal’s market penetration to be extremely informative: The “powers more than 1% of the web” statement is pretty impressive. But the chart really puts the big players in perspective. WordPress is huge and [...] Uh, no. Not the ipad. If you want ipad related articles, go to pretty much any other site on the internets now! I’ve not got on the ebook bandwagon yet but since we are offering ebooks through overdrive, I like to keep up on what’s happening in the device space. Just learned about the [...] This cartoon by Brad Colbow is funny but true, as a member of our Overdrive support team, I know. This video is pretty funny: I received an interesting brief this week at work: look into mapping our active members in order to get a better idea where in the city we need to promote more. Like anyone these days handed a mapping project, my first thought was “Google Maps!”. However my previous experience working on the landmarks map made me [...] I whipped up this proof of concept this week to address a problem with our booklists (and in fact with any lists of books which appear on our website including reviews and new materials lists as well). Booklists are great but what good is a title if it’s not available? Unfortunately, the booklists are on our [...] I keep coming back to our circ stats based book recommendations because it is an evolving system. Each month, I load new circ data into it which changes the recommendations. After I load the data, I always spend a few minutes poking around to see if anything interesting has happened. I have a few favourite author [...] |
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