[Web4lib] Great script, but Catch 22

[Harish Maringanti]

Stacy,

At K-State, you can either contact Dale Askey [daskey at ksu.edu] or Harish
Maringanti [harish at ksu.edu].

Kalee Sprague [Yale] and Andy Kohler [UCLA, akohler at library.ucla.edu]
are the contacts from other universities.

Best,
Harish
Harish Maringanti
Application Support Programmer
Kansas State University Libraries



Quoting Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu>:

> A while back, someone posted a link to a nice javascript that fixes
> some of
> the serious problems in the Endeavor Voyager keyword search.  The
> script and
> instructions are posted to:
> <http://ksulib.typepad.com/did/2006/04/voyager_keyword.html>
>
> Here's the thing:  the blog entry says that the fix is free for
> noncommercial
> use, but that request that people ask for permission to use it.  They
> also
> suggest asking permission from the people they got it from, and two
> steps
> upstream as well (Yale and UCLA libraries).
>
> But no contact emails are provided either for KSU, Yale or UCLA.
>
> It makes it hard to be polite and ask permission if you can't find
> the right
> people to ask. I tried contacting the person who I think made the
> blog entry
> (it's signed with initials only), but no reply.  And Yale and UCLA
> libraries
> are pretty big places - I have no idea who to ask at those
> institutions.
>
> I want to be nice and ask permission,  but it's hard without names
> and
> contact info.
>
> Any suggestions?  I really want to get our implementation of Voyager
> fixed,
> as the generic interface is just awful.  Users who enter boolean
> terms in
> a keyword search get error messages (example: keyword search "war and
> peace"
> gives an uninformative generic "search not understood" type error.)
>
> --
> Stacy Pober
> Information Alchemist
> Manhattan College
> O'Malley Library
> Riverdale, NY 10471
> stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
>
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