Monthly Archives: April 2011

Discoveries about Discovery – moving panes, feeding solr, and going public about google

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Art

A couple of reactions have come forward on jamun, our attempt to “search the web site and everything else” project.  For the most part, the comments have been quite positive, but some significant modifications have also been suggested. The “pane” … Continue reading →

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The Pareto principle and the subject page

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Mita Williams

Today I made a presentation to the Leddy Library’s Information Services Department, summarizing some statistics that we had gathered about the Leddy Library website over the last year or so. This presentation’s focus was quite narrow: How many links make … Continue reading →

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The Library Discovery-Layer Product Selection Committee

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Mita Williams

We are amused. (via Metadata)

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Screencast : an Introduction to the Link Module

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Mita Williams

Another <5 minute screencast : Introduction_to_Link_Module This was the answer to last week’s design question: How can we create a list of links from a list of nodes?  

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The next design problem: how to create lists of links from a list of nodes

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Mita Williams

At the moment, the Leddy Library web team is tackling “design problems” to get a better feel of what sort of architecture we need to build.  We are concentrating on how to replace our current A to Z list of … Continue reading →

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Screencast : an Introduction to Nodesqueue

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Mita Williams

Here’s a 5 minute screencast called Intro_to_Nodesqueue_-_for_library_websites_using_Drupal.

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