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Sorry everybody, I reponded to the wrong message. #lookuponceinawhile ----- Original Message ----- > 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/