[Web4lib] Facebook pages and web opacs?

[Allie Flanary]

I'm struggling with the new FB Pages myself as we speak.

The only pro I'm seeing to these tabs and boxes is that almost anything 
in boxes can be moved to its own tab (except WorldCat, grr). So, you can 
have a catalog tab. FB has made this nearly impossible to sort out. If 
you go to boxes and don't see the option to move your catalog to its own 
tab, try going to edit your page, and then selecting your catalog box 
from the edit page and sending it to be a tab. That's the only 
workaround I can see for getting things out of the boxes tab.

Sadly, there's no way to remove the entire boxes tab, which is what I'd 
like to do. There's a 10 page FB developer's guide to new FB pages that 
was just realized at 
http://www.new.facebook.com/advertising/FacebookPagesProductGuide.pdf

Allie Flanary, Faculty Librarian
Web & Outreach Specialist
Portland Community College Library
Sylvania Campus
allinee.flanary at pcc.edu | 503.977.4686

Michael McEvoy wrote:
> Hard to answer this. Facebook just changed the rules on "pages", making them work more as Profiles than as Pages (and thus destroying millions of created Pages all at once). 
>
> We'd managed to get our Catalog into our Library's Facebook page just a day before they changed these rules... which resulted in the catalog being buried in "Boxes". Not so happy with Facebook on that decision... 
>
> Either way, look into the Profile HTML tool. This allows you to use straight HTML to include any type of HTML code, including code that would search an OPAC. You can currently find ours hidden under Boxes at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Northville-MI/Northville-District-Library/47820517709
>
> Thus far, it's not allowing us to move our RSS Calendar feed or the Catalog Search up to the Wall location... hopefully Facebook fixes this bug soon.
>
> You can find a page for Profile HTML at:
> http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6165549526&ref=pr
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wilfred Drew" <DrewW at tc3.edu>
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:26:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [Web4lib] Facebook pages and web opacs?
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> I have been trying to get our web opac to work on an actual page not a profile page.  The problem is none of the HTML apps will work on the page I created.  It is at:
> http://tinyurl.com/32djv4
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> Any suggestions?
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