LS Web Design

28 March 2009

LS Staff Survey Results

Here are two compilations of the survey results:

Email to Staff (2/20/09):
The Web Committee is working towards a redesign of the Library Web Site to look more like the ACC Web Site. (Anticipated completion date is mid-July.)

The first thing we want your opinion on is the look of the Library Home Page. [Note: You will be asked about other library web pages later.]

Please go to this LS Staff Survey to give us your ideas about how we can redesign our home page. Your opinions are very valuable to us and we would like you to give us as much information as you can. In
particular, we want to know what content or links you feel should be on the home page. So, think about this before you begin the survey.

The deadline for completing this survey is next Saturday, 28 February.
http://library.austincc.edu/survey/surveyStaffMail.htm

Any questions should be directed to me. Thanks for your participation. --mp

09 Redesign

Here is a mind map of the process for redesigning.

http://irtstaff.austincc.edu/peloquin/09Redesign/09RedesignFl.pdf

28 August 2008

sortable html table with widget

From: http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?showDownload=true&whichScript=table_widget

How to use

You create the table by use of plain HTML as shown in the textaera code for <BODY>. What's important is that you:

Have a parent div like this: <div class="widget_tableDiv">

Use a <THEAD> tag as parent of your header row.

Use <TD> and not <TH> as tags for your header content

Use a <TBODY> as parent of your table data rows(<TR>).

Look in the example for further help.

The last thing you have to do is to call the javascript function initTableWidget() which "converts" the table. Example:

The arguments you send to this function are:

'myTable' = The ID of your table. example: <TABLE id="myTable" ...

500 = Width of table widget

250 = Height of table widget

Array('S','N','S','N','S') = An array telling how the columns should be sorted. "S" = String, "N" = Numeric.
Use false(without quotes) instead of "S" and "N" if you have columns that shouldn't be sorted at all.

25 August 2008

Worldcat API

Worldcat API
August 18, 2008

The Worldcat API was released beyond the original trial group while I was away.The WorldCat Search API provides access to WorldCat bibliographic records and holdings using the FRBR concepts to pull together various editions of the same work. The API provides access to the WorldCat databases from clients that can send RESTful URI queries with either the OpenSearch or SRU protocols and can accept RSS, Atom, MARC XML or Dublin Core [WorldCat Search API [OCLC - Web and Data Services]] Technical details are here; eligible users described here....