I've tried implementing the Gift and Deselection Manager but it had too
many rough edges. However, the GDM team is very responsive. We reported
several bugs and they were fixed promptly. Still, we wound up ditching
it. We are pretty flexible in working with buggy software, but we were
not comfortable becoming reliant on GDM's core team (we do not have any
MS dev expertise in house). Also, I couldn't even find the source code
to make changes, but that may be my ignorance.

So instead, I created a simple Rails CRUD app that polls Z39.50, Amazon,
OCLC, etc when a workstudy scans an item's ISBN. Then, a librarian can
go through and pick books. As Dave said, it's simple. No need to
overcomplicate it (though it'd be super simple to add AJAX, <3 rails
UJS).

Brice Stacey
Digital Library Services
University of Massachusetts Boston
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Mark Sullivan
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

The Gift and Deselection Manager is an easy to implement and easy to use
open-source standalone 
software for automating your gift management and deselection processing.
This standalone software is 
part of the Getting It System Toolkit (GIST), designed to leverage data
of various systems, 
streamline library processes, and reduce staff time for decision making.

If you are interested in a gift and weeding tool, please take a look at
the GIST Gift & Deselection 
Manager:

http://gist.idsproject.org

Mark

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Mark Sullivan
Systems Administrator for the College Libraries
1 College Circle
SUNY Geneseo
Geneseo, NY 14454
(585) 245-5698



On 5/12/2011 4:38 PM, Madrigal, Juan A wrote:
> I'd be curious.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juan Madrigal
>
> Web Developer
> University of Miami
> Richter Library
>
> On 5/12/11 3:56 PM, "Jason Griffey"<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> We are actually right in the middle of a massive weeding project here
>> at UTC, and my Web Tech librarian, Andrea Schurr (whom some of you
>> probably met at C4L this year) built a really cool system to handle
>> it. We aren't using ajax (although I argued for it, she talked me out
>> of it). However, our project necessitates feedback from subject
>> faculty, so it has the ability to allow for the Chemistry faculty,
for
>> example, to review the discard list, mark items to keep, and that
list
>> is then further reviewed by Library liaisons to make sure the faculty
>> aren't just telling us to keep everything. :-)
>>
>> It's all pre-populated with our bib data. She's on vacation this
week,
>> but the plan is to open-source the setup asap. If anyone is
>> interested, drop me a line and I'll make sure and let you know when
we
>> get it up.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Ken Irwin<[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>>> AJAX for slickness and ease of use. We could do form html, but I'd
>>> prefer something that's updated in real time.
>>>
>>> As for the scanner -- my plan was to pre-populate the database from
our
>>> OPAC, so we won't need to scan each book individually.)
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of
>>> Dave Caroline
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:39 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper
>>>
>>> Why ajax! just a plain html form
>>> and add a barcode scanner, to pick that books data from the db
>>>
>>> Scan shelf, scan contents, you now have updated list of contents and
>>> books gone awol
>>>
>>> jump to updating page
>>> scan book, update, rinse repeat
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave Caroline
>>>