[Web4lib] Facebook pages and web opacs?

[Greg Johnson]

I received this really good advice yesterday (see email below).  And once I
figured out how to do this, they went and changed the rules on me, but it
seems like we have come up with a decent solution..

Now we have our OPAC search as one of the tab (or boxes or whatver they are
called) and we were able to set the name of the tab as well.  It's nowhere
near as attractive and I don't like it as much as the old way (which I was
able to see for about 20 mins before it was changed), but it seems good
enough.  And I would imagine, when we roll out our chat service, we can
throw a chat box in the same tab as well as other virtual reference
services.

Here is our profile.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/University-Park-IL/Governors-State-University-Library/50098383706?v=wall&viewas=1544338094

Hope this helps,

greg
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Gregory Johnson
Distance Learning and Reference Librarian
Governors State University
University Park, IL
g-johnson2 at govst.edu
708-235-7516


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Chris Bourg <mchris at stanford.edu> wrote:

>  Hi Greg--
> We have used the Static FBML app<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/apps/application.php?id=4949752878&from=20755551473>to add a Meebo widget and other stuff to our
> Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stanford-CA/Green-Library-Stanford-University/20755551473>page; so I assume it would work for VuFind search HTML.
> Would you be willing to share your VuFind html???
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Bourg
> Head, Information Center
> Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources
> http://infocenter.stanford.edu
>
>
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Allie Flanary <allinee.flanary at pcc.edu>wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Librarian, Systems and Tech Services/Electronic Resources/Serials
>> Tompkins Cortland Community College  (TC3) Library:
>> http://www.tc3.edu/library/
>> Dryden, N.Y. 13053-0139
>> E-mail: dreww at tc3.edu
>> Phone: 607-844-8222 ext.4406
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Gregory Johnson
Distance Learning and Reference Librarian
Governors State University
University Park, IL
g-johnson2 at govst.edu
708-235-7516