Comments on: Top and New Items RSS http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/04/top-and-new-items-rss/ A library-geek blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:13:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: ex libris » libraries, music, tech » Blog Archive » library roundup http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/04/top-and-new-items-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-6675 ex libris » libraries, music, tech » Blog Archive » library roundup Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:05:01 +0000 http://www.blyberg.net/?p=24#comment-6675 [...] Just a few different things I wanted to post about:@ cplWe rolled out a couple minor new features this week in our website and opac.Hot Titles - We have a new list of our top 20 most popular books (including an RSS feed naturally). This list is based on the number of holds on books. I stole the idea from John Blyberg and he was kind enough to provide me with feedback on the process. Thanks John!IMDB Links - We are now linking new dvds we catalogue to their records in the Internet Movie Database so patrons can easily get more info about movies we have. For an example, try this dvd entry.what is going on in georgia?Michael Stephens posted on the Gwinnett library board’s firing their library director. Even after reading the background material, I still don’t have a clear picture of what is going on here. It all seems very surreal.amazon as opacThanks to Casey for alerting me on this one. David Walker has used Amazon’s API to let us all experience what Amazon would be like if it used the frontend of a certain nameless ILS vendor’s opac. Damn that’s ugly! (and funny) [...] [...] Just a few different things I wanted to post about:@ cplWe rolled out a couple minor new features this week in our website and opac.Hot Titles – We have a new list of our top 20 most popular books (including an RSS feed naturally). This list is based on the number of holds on books. I stole the idea from John Blyberg and he was kind enough to provide me with feedback on the process. Thanks John!IMDB Links – We are now linking new dvds we catalogue to their records in the Internet Movie Database so patrons can easily get more info about movies we have. For an example, try this dvd entry.what is going on in georgia?Michael Stephens posted on the Gwinnett library board’s firing their library director. Even after reading the background material, I still don’t have a clear picture of what is going on here. It all seems very surreal.amazon as opacThanks to Casey for alerting me on this one. David Walker has used Amazon’s API to let us all experience what Amazon would be like if it used the frontend of a certain nameless ILS vendor’s opac. Damn that’s ugly! (and funny) [...]

]]> By: eli http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/04/top-and-new-items-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-30 eli Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:52:42 +0000 http://www.blyberg.net/?p=24#comment-30 John knows that Johnson County has good schools... his boss (me) is a graduate of one of them (Blue Valley North). However, you can't have him. NOW BACK OFF. =) John knows that Johnson County has good schools… his boss (me) is a graduate of one of them (Blue Valley North).

However, you can’t have him. NOW BACK OFF. =)

]]> By: john http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/04/top-and-new-items-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-13 john Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:40:08 +0000 http://www.blyberg.net/?p=24#comment-13 Erika: Plans for world domination are forthcoming, they were stuck in committee for awhile, and now just need board approval. Oh.. and Geek is good, always! Embrace it! Eby: We handle grabbing data for popular and new items separately. New item data is just a list of bib numbers generated by a daily report. Though, of course it's manually done because III DOESN'T RUN AUTOMATIC REPORTS!!! (aaarrghh!! I can't believe it's 2005 and I'm typing that!!! -- give me a minute for my pulse to lower). Getting popular item data is so totally subversive, it makes up for III's so-totally-20-years-ago approach to generating reports. There is a file in /iiidb/circ called holdsplaced that is actually a flat file(!!) of, well, holds placed. You can easily tell which records are bib-level holds and grep those out and parse the results. No we don't have shell access, that's why its so wonderfully subversive. I'll just say that ssh and scp are your friends. Oh yes, xterm is installed on the server and RSA key-auth is allowed. That should be enough to get you in :) This gives me an idea for a blog post... Erika: Plans for world domination are forthcoming, they were stuck in committee for awhile, and now just need board approval. Oh.. and Geek is good, always! Embrace it!

Eby: We handle grabbing data for popular and new items separately.
New item data is just a list of bib numbers generated by a daily report. Though, of course it’s manually done because III DOESN’T RUN AUTOMATIC REPORTS!!! (aaarrghh!! I can’t believe it’s 2005 and I’m typing that!!! — give me a minute for my pulse to lower).
Getting popular item data is so totally subversive, it makes up for III’s so-totally-20-years-ago approach to generating reports. There is a file in /iiidb/circ called holdsplaced that is actually a flat file(!!) of, well, holds placed. You can easily tell which records are bib-level holds and grep those out and parse the results.
No we don’t have shell access, that’s why its so wonderfully subversive. I’ll just say that ssh and scp are your friends. Oh yes, xterm is installed on the server and RSA key-auth is allowed. That should be enough to get you in :)

This gives me an idea for a blog post…

]]> By: Eby http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/04/top-and-new-items-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Eby Sat, 05 Nov 2005 20:53:58 +0000 http://www.blyberg.net/?p=24#comment-12 I was wondering how you are creating your new and popular items. Is this something you are aggregating with drupal? I've had trouble getting a always updated list of items that have been added. Thanks. I was wondering how you are creating your new and popular items. Is this something you are aggregating with drupal? I’ve had trouble getting a always updated list of items that have been added. Thanks.

]]> By: Erica http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/04/top-and-new-items-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Erica Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:55:03 +0000 http://www.blyberg.net/?p=24#comment-11 Dreamy: yes. You really do amazing things--let us know when you want to move to the (lower, western) midwest aka Kansas City metro. Johnson County, KS has reeaally good schools ;) In the meantime, I hope you'll be talking up your open source solutions to patron/staff needs all over the place. The library world (ok, world in general) needs more programmers like you. Thanks for getting us all hyped up again over the hope and promise of the Internet, Library Web pages, and integration of purchased content. (I'll ignore how geeky my last statement sounded--hope you all grant me the same slack) ;). Dreamy: yes.

You really do amazing things–let us know when you want to move to the (lower, western) midwest aka Kansas City metro. Johnson County, KS has reeaally good schools ;)

In the meantime, I hope you’ll be talking up your open source solutions to patron/staff needs all over the place. The library world (ok, world in general) needs more programmers like you. Thanks for getting us all hyped up again over the hope and promise of the Internet, Library Web pages, and integration of purchased content. (I’ll ignore how geeky my last statement sounded–hope you all grant me the same slack) ;).

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