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Actually, he asked me about it on Friday and I told him it would be posted soon. I'm meeting with him this afternoon to go over the media stuff so I'll mention it then. Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 / Skype: mark.jordan50 [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- > Love the idea, but the form is now throwing a 404 error on submission. > Any chance it can be fixed? > > > Peter > > On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > > So I was in #code4lib, and skome asked about ideas for library > > hours. > > And I recalled that there have been at least two articles in the C4L > > Journal on this topic, so suggested them. > > > > Then I realized that there's enough body of work in the Journal to > > be > > worth searching there whenever you have an "ideas for dealing with > > X" > > question. You might not find anything, but I think there's enough > > chance > > you will, illustrated by that encounter with skome. > > > > Then I realized it's not just the journal -- what about a Google > > Custom > > Search that searches over the Journal, the Code4Lib wiki, the > > Code4Lib > > website, and perhaps most interestinly -- all the sites listed in > > Planet > > Code4Lib. > > > > Then I made it happen. Cause it seemed interesting and I'm a > > perfectionist, I even set things up so a cronjob automatically syncs > > the > > list of sites in the Planet with the Google custom search every > > night. > > > > The Planet stuff ends up potentially being a lot of noise -- I tried > > to > > custom 'boost' stuff from the Journal, but I'm not sure it worked. > > But I > > did configure things with facet-like limits including a "just the > > planet" limit, if you do want that. But even though it's sometimes a > > lot > > of noise, it's also potentially the most interesting/useful part of > > the > > search, otherwise it'd pretty much just be a Journal search, but now > > it > > includes a bunch of people's blogs, as well as other sites deemed of > > interest to Code4Lib community (including a couple other open source > > library tech journals) -- without any extra curatorial work, just > > using > > the list already compiled for the Planet. > > > > I'm curious what people think of it. Try some searches for library > > tech > > questions or information and see how good your results are. If > > people > > find this useful, I'll try to include it on the main code4lib.org > > webpage in some prominent place, spruce up the look and feel etc. > > (Or > > try to draft someone else to do that, I think my time to work on > > this > > might be _just_ about up after staying until 9.30 hacking on this > > cause > > it seemed cool). > > > > http://www.code4lib.org/custom_search/search_form.html > > > > -- > Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 > Ass't Director, Technology Services Development http://dltj.org/about/ > LYRASIS -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. > The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ > Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/