Hi all,

Our hours page has some history! We originally used Andrew Darby's code using Google Calendar. Then Google Calendar went belly up and a former colleague rewrote the code as https://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/calibr

This required regularly uploading a file with new hours, and our hours vary according to time of year, day of week, and possibly phase of moon so I kept making mistakes and having to fix them. Also separately we have to keep the hours correct in Alma anyway, and I was already using the Alma API to pull out other things, so I mashed up various bits of code and now it pulls from there instead. 

But it is quite a messy hybrid of calibr plus our  https://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/LTLstats (library dashboard) code to create the whole (bilingual) hours module at https://library2.lincoln.ac.nz/hours/ and also custom widgets on our (Wordpress-based) website https://ltl.lincoln.ac.nz/ which use cURL to GET a couple of mini-pages we've created in php on our own server, for hours of the day (for the home page) and hours of the week (for our About LTL tab).

So it'd be a mess to share - I mean I'd be happy to, but I can't imagine anyone willingly wanting to implement it from scratch. Instead for people using Alma I'd recommend something like https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/Alma-Hours-API-Widget 

Deborah

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Hi all,

We are working on a website migration/redesign into WordPress and I am trying to figure out an automated solution for posting and keeping up to date the hours on the home page.  I am wondering, how do other institutions manage this?  Are there any good tools I should be looking into?  Any insights or suggestions are appreciated.

Matt Sherman

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