On the mylib-dev mailing list a person saw a press release regarding Notre Dame’s acquisition of Primo, and they asked, “There is concern from some on-campus here that this announcement means the end of future development of MyLibrary. What can I tell them?” I thought I’d echo my reply, below.
As Rob said, there are not […]
By the way, MyLibrary was briefly reviewed in Issue #2 of Code4Lib Journal. From the text:
…Today, MyLibrary is now much more than simply a subject guide portal. While creating dynamic Web pages, such as subject guides, is still one of the major features of MyLibrary, it is now a full-fledged digital library framework […]
After doing a bit of professional reading, two articles have bubbled up to the top of my consciousness and they have relevance to MyLibrary and library catalogs. [1, 2]
Library websites
The first article, by Liu, surveyed about 100 ARL library websites for Web 2.0 characteristics. Typical content and navigation includes resources organized by title & format […]
A new LITA Guide on usability is available from Neal-Schuman:
If your library’s website is not as user-friendly as it could or should be, you need this book. A LITA guide, it is the most authoritative, current reference on usability testing for libraries. It gives you practical advice in clear, non-technical prose, plus success stories from […]
I have read with great interest the latest report from the British Library and JISC called “Information behavior of the researcher of the future”. [1] Some of the comments support the need for MyLibrary-like applications.
Purpose
The purpose of the study was to predict how younger (school and pre-school aged) people are likely to access and interact […]
Happy New Year!
Among other things, open source software is about community. In an effort to build the MyLibrary community one of my New Year’s resolutions is to increase the number of MyLibrary mailing list subscribers by 20%. There are currently 149 subscribers. Therefore, by the end of the year I hope to increase that number […]
Open source software is filled with people who like to solve problem, so, here’s a problem I hope someone here will be able to help me solve.
How can I make the subroutine, get_location, faster? It is given a resource object and a scalar representing the human-readable location type. The routine then finds all the locations […]
More imitation as the sincerest form of flattery.
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the Charleston Conference. During one of the sessions someone reported the results of their various usability studies. To resolve some the issues the studies uncovered they decided to create a system where people would log in and be presented […]
I believe we will be implementing a “Reference Desk FAQ” using MyLibrary.
Over the past year the reference department has facilitated online reference chats. They have kept these chats in a database but the database’s support has dried up. They now use simpler tools for chat reference like IM. Given the year’s worth of data, they […]
For a few days last week I went to Boston College and attended a meeting for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA), also known as the “Catholic Portal”. In its present state, the portal is really an index to rare and unique materials of interest to catholic scholars. The system runs on top of MyLibrary. […]