The latest communication from Relais tells us that our last revision of the Relais self-registration pages will be posted tomorrow. We wait with bated breath.
I finished correcting the 70+ e-book URLs in the catalogue. Patrons (faculty, staff, and students) now have the ability to access e-books from their homes. Additionally, I also created a tool that will search exclusively for e-book titles. You can find out more about our e-book content at: http://www.mhc.ab.ca/library/ebooks.html. The search tool can also be found on this page.
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Showing posts with label e-books. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
General Update - Relais and Web Work
I have been busy again today. The New Materials lists were created and posted for this month, and I have been working on cleaning up e-book URLs in our catalogue. Soon we should have our full collection of 3,500+ e-books available for home access by faculty, staff, and students.
Relais posted our initial test pages for the ILL patron self registration system. They turned out better than I thought, but I see there is still work to be done. I will be working on those files tomorrow and hopefully have them uploaded a day or two after.
Relais posted our initial test pages for the ILL patron self registration system. They turned out better than I thought, but I see there is still work to be done. I will be working on those files tomorrow and hopefully have them uploaded a day or two after.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Relais Self-Registration & Bowker's Book Analysis System Progress
This week was a busy one for me - if you call three days a "week".
I modified the Relais ILL source code for the ILL self-registration. It employs a combination of CSS, HTML, and JSP. I am familiar with two of the three, but JSP is new to me. The college Webmaster tells me that I am on the right track, but I am not so sure. The folders were zipped and transmitted to Relais. We should know if my work was successful later this week - Relais will post the modified code to its test server. In the meantime, I will keep my fingers crossed.
My technical contact with Bowker's Book Analysis System tells me that one of the two files I uploaded was formatted correctly. Their system tells me that the files are still being processed. I suspect that something is amiss, since it has been processing a relatively small file for more than a week. I will be contacting them later today and find out if this is normal. Perhaps I did not map the categories/headings properly, but I doubt that. It is probably a case where pulling data from MARC fields was not as "clean" as either of us desired.
The Circulation Clerks finished my desired modifications to the NetLibrary holdings' URLs in the catalogue. The next step for me is to build a custom interface to search for e-books from our library pages. This is a low priority, since the OPAC can handle that chore for now.
Next week will be busy. Thankfully there will be five days to accomplish some tasks.
I modified the Relais ILL source code for the ILL self-registration. It employs a combination of CSS, HTML, and JSP. I am familiar with two of the three, but JSP is new to me. The college Webmaster tells me that I am on the right track, but I am not so sure. The folders were zipped and transmitted to Relais. We should know if my work was successful later this week - Relais will post the modified code to its test server. In the meantime, I will keep my fingers crossed.
My technical contact with Bowker's Book Analysis System tells me that one of the two files I uploaded was formatted correctly. Their system tells me that the files are still being processed. I suspect that something is amiss, since it has been processing a relatively small file for more than a week. I will be contacting them later today and find out if this is normal. Perhaps I did not map the categories/headings properly, but I doubt that. It is probably a case where pulling data from MARC fields was not as "clean" as either of us desired.
The Circulation Clerks finished my desired modifications to the NetLibrary holdings' URLs in the catalogue. The next step for me is to build a custom interface to search for e-books from our library pages. This is a low priority, since the OPAC can handle that chore for now.
Next week will be busy. Thankfully there will be five days to accomplish some tasks.
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