Library Web Chic

presented by Lorcan Dempsey

Releasing value of classical bibliographic data

Web 2.0

flat applications

APIs

lightweight service composition and web services
stitching functionality and applications together

Rich interaction

AJAX

GoogleMaps

rich interaction at browser level that we are accustom to at the desktop level
interactivity with the browser
smoother applications
Data in the new functionality

make data work harder
collection, exploitation and mining of data

Wish list and suggestion in Amazon
Page [...]

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presented by Athena Hoeppner & Meg Scharf
Affinity Mapping Projects

Let people organize item into groups
What do people think is most important?
Create understandable labels

How to handle affinity mapping data

Create spreadsheet of all the terms and their score, their catagory
Created mockups

Active learning affinity map project
sort slips into groups
mapping in the library lobby
If students have fun you raise the [...]

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Presented by Darlene Fichter & Frank Cervone
PHP Editor -
PHP Expert Debugger - http://www.ankord.com/phpxdbg.html
Fabulous Firefox extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/

Web Developer 1.02
Colorful Tabs 1.1
Tab X 0.9.1
HTML Validator 0.7.9
Screen grab! 0.7
Copy Plain Text 0.3.2
Edit CSS 0.3.1
View Formatted source 0.9.4.6
LiveHTTPHeaders

EyeonSite (can monitor what is going on on a given server) - http://www.virdi-software.com/eyeonsite
Link Popularity Check - http://www.CheckYourLinkPopularity.com
Widgets at Your Fingertips [...]

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by David King (http://www.davidleeking.com)
Experience User Experience Design

The Elements of User Experience :User Centered Design for the Web - Jeese James Garrett
user centered design for the web
sounds corporate-y but works for any website

Five elements of User Experience Design

Strategy (planning)

corporate objectives
user needs

Scope (figuring out what’s needed and who will do the work)

functional specification
content requirements

Structure (fill in the [...]

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Walking into the Hilton this morning. I immediately ran into several people I know at CIL. It is great to see familiar faces. Although some may be missing because they are at PLA. I also got to meet Meredith Farkas (yeah), which made my morning. I hope to talk wikis with her later. According to [...]

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I arrived safely in Washington DC for Computers in Libraries. The flight was uneventful and it didn’t take long to get from the airport to where I was staying. The highlight of the day was running into Marianne Eimer from SUNY Potsdam and Jill Hurst-Wahl from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies on the subway [...]

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Recently, MPOW got Safari Tech Books Online, and acquisition about which I was very happy. My staff and I use a variety of books from O’Reilly on a regular basis and sometimes it is just annoying to have to share. With Safari Tech Books Online I can use the O’Reilly books at my convinience when [...]

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I’ve been playing around with PMWiki on my website trying to get it installed and configured so that it does what I want. Overall, I like it alot. Its very easy to use and was simple to install. When I say simple I think that almost anyone could do it and it takes less than [...]

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I’ve been really interested in trying to incorporate federated search and federated search results into the Libraries website and have been looking at different tools which I might use to do this. In my search I discovered several open source federated search tools. dbWiz and Keystone DLS are both provide open source federated searching. I [...]

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It really doesn’t seem like I’ve been at my new job for a little over six months now. The time has gone by very fast and I have a hard time recognizing that I’ve been here that long. It still feels like I’m brand new, but my 6 month evaluation is due so I guess [...]

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