[Web4lib] How to feed Today's Library Hours to home page?

[John Fereira]

Ingrid Redman wrote:
> Hello,
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> I would like to display "Today's Open Hours" on our library home page in an
> automatic fashion.  Currently our hours are available in a google calendar
> (http://www.poly.edu/library/services/hours.php) and I was thinking I could
> set up a  feed to the home page with just today's hours, but I'm not sure
> how.
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> Does anyone have experience doing this kind of thing with Google calendars?
> Or could you recommend another solution?  I'm not much of a coder.

I am going to start working on this myself pretty soon.  In my case, we 
want to be able set the "default hours" and then layer a number of 
difference exceptions such as hours for weekends, spring/fall breaks, 
summer hours, etc.  We also want to maintain a separate hours calendar 
for our reference desk, and the cafe that is located in the building. 
to complicate things further we not only want to be able to display 
hours on the main web site, but also on a couple of display kiosks, AND 
it needs to be callable as a service so that an equipment/room 
reservation system that is being developed will be ablt to determine if 
an item is reservable during a certain time period.  We have a bunch of 
of reservable classroom and student study rooms that obviously can't be 
reserved for a period when the library is closed.
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Ingrid
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> Ingrid Redman
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