Comments on: Dreaming on…library developers… http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/05/15/dreaming-onlibrary-developers/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:27:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/05/15/dreaming-onlibrary-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2705 Kathryn Greenhill Sun, 20 May 2007 14:22:26 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/05/15/dreaming-onlibrary-developers/#comment-2705 Sorry, I saw you the night after you made this comment and forgot I hadn't replied. In my next life I'm coming back as a librarian programmer. In this one I'm going to try to know enough so I can talk to librarians and to developers and help them work together. I agree, it's much better if I could do it all. I will pass your catalogue gadget on to our web librarian, however and see what she can do with it. Sorry, I saw you the night after you made this comment and forgot I hadn’t replied.
In my next life I’m coming back as a librarian programmer. In this one I’m going to try to know enough so I can talk to librarians and to developers and help them work together. I agree, it’s much better if I could do it all.
I will pass your catalogue gadget on to our web librarian, however and see what she can do with it.

]]> By: Matthias http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/05/15/dreaming-onlibrary-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2283 Matthias Tue, 15 May 2007 05:56:38 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/05/15/dreaming-onlibrary-developers/#comment-2283 Another good place to spend that money would be to send technologically-minded librarians to learn how to program. The thought of going back to study fascinates some people and terrifies others, however. If you have a look at the source of the <a href="http://forms.library.uwa.edu.au/search_tools/uwacat.xml" rel="nofollow">UWA Library catalogue gadget</a>, you'll see it's deceptively simple (you might need to save it to your computer, then open it in a text editor like Notepad to make it more readable). It can be easily adapted to any catalogue that uses GET requests (I've adapted it to Voyager). Anybody that understands HTML should be able to do it. (Give it a shot for your library, Kathryn. I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have) Another good place to spend that money would be to send technologically-minded librarians to learn how to program. The thought of going back to study fascinates some people and terrifies others, however.

If you have a look at the source of the UWA Library catalogue gadget, you’ll see it’s deceptively simple (you might need to save it to your computer, then open it in a text editor like Notepad to make it more readable).

It can be easily adapted to any catalogue that uses GET requests (I’ve adapted it to Voyager). Anybody that understands HTML should be able to do it. (Give it a shot for your library, Kathryn. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have)

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