Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
OCLC has a bunch of really neat tools, in particular, the WorldCat Affiliate Tools which allow libraries to use data and services from OCLC in more meaningful ways. Some of my favorites that I’ve been playing with include
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Many of these tools started out as OCLC Research Works projects, which has a few tools I feel [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
So as part of the Social Software Showcase this year, I’m hosting two virtual discussions via TalkShoe.
I’m a relatively new TalkShoe user. I’ve participated in Greg Schwartz’s Uncontrolled Vocabulary podcast recording once, but never hosted a TalkShoe event myself. As a result, I’ve been trying to get a sense of the instruction/directions I might need [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
My co-author Jason called me last night to tell me that copies of our book “Library Bloggng” had arrived on his doorstep. YAY!! At long last! Finally! Unfortunately my copies haven’t appeared yet so I’ll just have to link to Jason’s pic below instead of a photo of me doing the happy dance in front [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 18th, 2008 5 Comments »
For the last 3 weeks I’ve been working on a widget for Wordpress which allows you to send a particular search to WorldCat, return the results and display them in the sidebar in Wordpress. The results are mashed-up with data from Amazon, the GoogleBook API, and LibraryThing. The goal of the project was to demonstrate [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
For the last three weeks I’ve been working on creating a prototype of a Wordpress widget which retrieves search results from the WorldCat API and mashes that data up with information from other sources including (LibraryThing, Google Books, Amazon and Open Library). The idea is to create a sidebar listing of books with enhanced information [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I originally planned for this summer to be a quiet one without any travel after early June. I wanted to have some time to recover and also not be stressed out the way I was last summer with too many commitments (professional and personal) and a web redesign I was trying to push to get [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
I don’t know if it is my luck or just because I like to use Drupal modules that aren’t quite right yet. I’ve been trying to get the TinyMCE or FCKEditor modules for version 6 of Drupal to work right this week with little success. Thus far the TinyMCE modules is the closest to working, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
When I started here at UH (three years ago this coming August) my primary mandate was to give librarians and staff the ability to create and maintain their own content on the library website in a scalable, easy to use way. I’m starting to feel like we are very close to achieving that goal. While [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
You may or may not know that I’ve spent the better part of the last year working on a book entitled Library Blogging with Jason Griffey from University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Last week we got the page proofs to review. Looking at them reminded me that like most technology books though, the darn thing is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week I was working to put together a survey/vote in Drupal for the YourBIGWIG site in order to allow people to vote on topics for this year’s Social Software Showcase. As always, this sort of endeavor is one big experiment. First I had to find a module that would do the job. Then install [...]
