RE: [IUG] Something 'fun' for your Friday -- send catalogrecordsviaSMS

["Lynch, Michael" <lynch at middlebury dot edu>]

Sure, I'll second this.  DRA used to give out Award of Excellence
plaques for such folks at their Users' Conference.  

Without Bob's massive help we might still be in the Dark Ages with our
WebBridge implementation.  I've got over 100 saved e-mails from him in
answer to various questions others have posted to the lists.

He is indefatigable and extremely generous in sharing what he has
learned/figured out!

Mike Lynch
Systems Librarian
Middlebury College


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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Zhou, Don
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:48 AM
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Subject: RE: [IUG] Something 'fun' for your Friday -- send
catalogrecordsviaSMS

Bob,

Thanks for your suggestion.  I will check it out. I put it out for our
reference librarians who did a presentation on social book-marking, so I
did not do a thorough testing.  Plus, it is still beta.


On a different note, I would recommend you for the most helpful person
on the list in terms of webOPAC.  I think Corey and the steering
committee should think of giving out some awards for you for the
upcoming IUG [might be too late, but not a bad idea for next year].  I
have personally benefited so much from your help.

Second, anybody?

Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law




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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Bob Duncan
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:01 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: [IUG] Something 'fun' for your Friday -- send
catalogrecordsviaSMS

At 03:45 PM 05/04/2007, Don wrote:
>Here is a neat stuff I did for our beta: you can social bookmark a bib
>using del.icio.us or other programs.  To see it,
>
>Come here: http://library.wmitchell.edu:2082/
>
>Do a search for anything
>
>Pull up the full record.  You will see the icon.
>
>This one takes only a few minutes to set up.


This is really slick;  thanks for pointing it out.  One little 
problem with the default set up though---the script passes the URL of 
the window as the URL for the bookmark, and since WebOPAC window URLs 
typically are not persistent/durable, most bookmarks won't be any 
good for long.  If you edit the AddThis.com-supplied code slightly 
you can get the record number URL to be passed instead.  I realize 
these URLs have some issues with scoped catalogs, but I think a 
bookmark is better off with this URL than the window URL.

To use the recordnum URL, replace:

         onclick="addthis_url   = location.href;

...with:

         onclick="addthis_url   = document.getElementById('recordnum');


And because the document title is always going to be something 
generic like the name of your library, I'd be inclined to replace:

         addthis_title = document.title;

...with something along the lines of:

         addthis_title = 'REPLACE THIS TEXT WITH BOOK TITLE';

(Although I'm not sure which is worse---multiple bookmarks with the 
title "REPLACE THIS TEXT WITH BOOK TITLE" or multiple bookmarks with 
the title "Lafyette College Libraries".)

Bob Duncan


~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~
Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette dot edu
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/  


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