ALA 2008 Philly

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Genki Online

Genki Online

SCOPA Grants Program

Here's the home page for the SCOPA Grants Program

Siris Cross Catalog Searching

Jeffrey cited the interface of the Lucene/Solr-powered Siris Cross Catalog Searching.

SIRIS stands for Smithsonian Institution Research Information System.

Solr "is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat. See the complete feature list for more details, then check out the tutorial." There are several sessions on Lucene/Solr offered at the Apache Convention, Monday-Friday, Nov. 12-16, 2007, in Atlanta.

MyLibrary

Eric Lease Morgan reminds ngc4lib readers about MyLibrary, a set of object-oriented perl modules that (per README page) lets you generate dynamic web pages from collection data, create personalized pages, perform inventories, support manual data-entry, import MARC and OAI-accessible data, index content and support 'search this site' function, syndicate content to portal, and write reports in form of browsable (subject, title, format, etc.) lists. There's a demo library catalog with 300,000 records, to which I signed in as Eosuchian. According to the about page, "The content of the MyLibrary database was indexed with Kinosearch and made accessible via an SRU interface. Search results sport cover art from Amazon.com. If reviews exist, then they can be read. Users can to view the full MARC records in tagged, MARCXML, and MODS formats. Users can create accounts for themselves and have items (virtually) delivered to them."

Drupal

See John Blyberg's blog, slides [pdf] from LITA 2007 program, article in Library Crunch ("Blyberg's Beautiful Drupal"), and LITA blog on Building Public Libraries with Drupal.

Librarians Seek Open-Access Copyright DB

Library Journal: Librarians seek to free copyright catalog

Yale Weblogs

Templates
Roller uses Velocity template language. See Velocity website and Reference Guide. In Roller the words "page" and "template" are used interchangably.

Invitations
Trying to invite registered Yale Weblog members to CMS Blog.

Interpreting error message via RollerWiki UserGuide_2.x:

"Set the users Permissions by selecting Admin, Author, or Limited. Click on Send Invitation. If roller is not configured to talk to the mail server, you may get the following messages:

User successfully invited.
ERROR: Notification email(s) not sent, due to Roller configuration or mail server problem.

As long as the first message is present, the invite is successful. The next time the user logs into the blog site, they will see the following: on the Main Menu page:

You are invited to join weblog [weblog name will appear here] – accept  |  decline

Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us

BG Sloan via ngc4lib, 9/15 Library Journal has article: Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us

Big E

The Big E, Sept. 14-30, "New England's Autumn Tradition, is the largest fair in the northeast, hosting more than one million people each September at its 175-acre site." Located in West Springfield, Mass. (cf. exact address on Google Maps)

LISNews - Drupal Beta Site

Blake announces testing of an LISNews Drupal Site. He writes, "let me know what you think. Sometime within the next month or so I'll be porting LISNews over to Drupal."

Sakaibrary

Sakaibrary is an eighteen-month project at Indiana University and University of Michigan, supported by Mellon Foundation, to develop OSS tools that integrate licensed digital content within Sakai. Cited by Ross Singer on NGC4LIB.

University Libraries Explore OSS Options

Via Birdie at LISNews, an article from E-Commerce Times on increasing use of OSS in university libraries.

OSS learning management system (LMS) Moodle now used in 56 percent of universities and "an increasing number of content management and portal systems are also open source, and many university libraries are involved in setting up open source repositories." Koha and Evergreen are mentioned as popular OSS library systems in the US and Australia. The Oxford University Library chose Moodle as its LMS and is implementing a CMS called MySource Matrix, derived from Squiz.

OSSWatch manager Randy Metcalfe wisely points out, though, that "open source is not the key feature; the key feature is value for money."

Yehuda Amichai conference at Yale

Nanette's conference "Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai's World" is described in an August 23rd news release.

According to Benjamin Harshav, the keynote speaker: “Amichai is the most universal Israeli poet, expressing the human condition… In an age of ideology, he celebrated the individual’s private moments and existential situation; in an age of war, he celebrated love and love-making.”