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Bright Ideas for the Web
Darlene [email protected]
University of Saskatchewan
Internet Librarian
Monterey, CA
November 4, 2003
Overview
External Content integration Getting easier Examples
Web parts, portlets, gadgets, widgets New mind set Examples
Land of Oz Assimilate and be assimilated
RSS and headlines
Create your own “newspaper” Use Bloglines
Publish your list to the web Sites to read
No coding Web forms Javascript Cut and paste
http://library.usask.ca/~pas508/blogline.html
News to Read
zFeeder
zFeeder is a PHP script used to display RSS content on your webpages
Show the news to your visitors
It parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml files) and shows content formatted
It is simple to use, implement and customize accordingly to your needs
http://zvonnews.sourceforge.net/zfeeder.php
zFeeder Example
Show the headlines Example
Why just news stories?
High quality links to web sites? Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/liintw92.rss Example
To the land of Oz and back
Future is not a page Think of it as parts Building blocks It’s not all assembled from your
database or your site
Amazon web services
Amazon web services Associate ID Web token
Light weight (non-programmer) XML Scratch Pad
Heavier weight (programming)
Each of these areas
First steps
News feed New web sites Integration of some Amazon content
Amazon for fundraising and/or content
Fundraising Set up a Amazon store Sell complimentary items – posters,
calendars, toys
Output choices
XML Get a script that can display it
XML and XSLT Use one of Amazon’s Make your own
Use a CSS
Canned XLST templates
So how can this help My Library?
Integrate this rich book content with your catalogue of books, movies, music
Provide Related LinksBe Creative
Find more by a “publisher” Scratch Pad – manufacturer
Books by Oxford University Press
From Oz to Kansas again
Jon Udell’s Library Lookup http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/
stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html Innovative Voyager iPac DRA Talis
Library catalog bookmarklet
Drag a link to your library to browser's link toolbar or add it to bookmarks
You can look up books at your local library when you’re on a book-related site (Amazon, BN, isbn.nu, All Consuming)
ISBN must be in the URL
ISBN
My Library Catalog
Bigger steps
Be everywhere New portal
Portal with every students course schedule, link to course web pages
What should be there?
Students – see their courses
• Ideally the library would have a list of resources for each course
Faculty
• Easy ways to link at the lesson level to our material
• We need to offer vendor products like ILSs and article databases like ProQuest that support and allow deep and persistent links
• Wizards to make this easy for our faculty
More services
HotScripts.com Search for XML http://www.hotscripts.com
Look, learn and experiment
Questions? Darlene Fichter
[email protected] of Saskatchewan Librarylibrary.usask.ca/~fichter/