Subject Guides - alternatives

Wed Jul 3 08:48:59 EDT 2013

Not sure I understand.  SubjectsPlus (Library a la Carte, LibGuides) have a
lot of (interrelated) moving parts.  "Just" building in WP would be a
tremendous amount of work, and doesn't make much sense when something
already exists to handle these functions.  If you mean, just build a given
page (say your staff list) in WP by hand coding a bunch of HTML, then you
are siloing the content within your own site, as it will be just stored as
one large undifferentiated blob.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Nina Work <nina at atendesigngroup.com> wrote:

> ...but why bother with the separate interface at all? Is it a better back
> end experience for staff? No snark, just honestly wondering how that model
> works better than just building them in WP? :)
>
> Sent from my iPad Mini
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> On Jul 2, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Andrew Darby <darby.lists at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Well, SubjectsPlus does have an API (newish, and maybe not 100%
> fleshed-out), so the ease of integration depends somewhat on the other
> systems.  For instance, we do a nightly pull of data from our III ERM
> system to update our SP-powered database listing page [1], and before the
> API, because SubjectsPlus is PHP, it was trivial to pull SP data into our
> main WordPress website.
>
> Andrew
>
> [1] library.miami.edu/sp/subjects/databases.php
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Ross Singer <rossfsinger at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This is still a silo. The point is that the content isn't easily
>> integratable into other systems, although you probably at least have access
>> to it.
>>
>> -Ross.
>> On Jul 2, 2013 11:17 AM, "Sigrid Kelsey" <sigridkelsey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  A few more words about SubjectsPlus- it is an open source program that
>>> installs right on your web server- so there isn't aren't silos.  It also
>>> has a staff directory and resources list too.  I've integrated the
>>> SubjectsPlus information into webpages across our site- it is pretty
>>> seamless.   For example, our staff directory (
>>> http://www.lib.lsu.edu/admin/faculty.php) pulls from the SubjestPlus
>>> database.  The guides are here: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sp/subjects/
>>>
>>> I wanted to keep some of our existing urls when I installed
>>> SubjectsPlus, and I managed to switch the staff directory and indexes and
>>> databases pages over with hardly anyone noticing a difference.
>>>
>>> Sigrid
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Teresa Coberly <
>>> teresa.coberly at colorado.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are just starting with the open source product Subjects Plus.  I’ve
>>>> been very impressed so far.  Well written product with good support.  *
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>>>> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]
>>>> *On Behalf Of *Wardroper, Lawrence
>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 02, 2013 8:20 AM
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>>>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Subject Guides - alternatives****
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>>>> I agree with you Nina – we have a DRAFT CMS built with our ILS
>>>> Software. Not perfect at all but, definitely integrated with all our other
>>>> resources and allows us to present content consistently to our staff and
>>>> our users without having to worry about "interoperability" (did I spell
>>>> that thing correctly??).****
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>>>> Always interested in other products to help me with additions to this
>>>> in-house design of ours.****
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>>>> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>]
>>>> *On Behalf Of *Nina McHale
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, July 01, 2013 6:30 PM
>>>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Subject Guides - alternatives****
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>>>> Hey, all,****
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>>>> While my preferred approach to this is an entire web site in a CMS with
>>>> a guide as a content type--we have content in enough silos, and most CMSs
>>>> are perfectly capable of displaying this type of information without
>>>> additional tools or features--I know that's not possible for everyone.
>>>> ****
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>>>> That said, at my last academic library job, LibGuides was very easy to
>>>> use and SpringShare provided excellent support.****
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>>>> Nina ****
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>>>> Nina McHale****
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>>>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Terrell, Trey <
>>>> Trey.Terrell at oregonstate.edu> wrote:****
>>>>
>>>> We’re currently in the process of moving to LibGuides (and writing a
>>>> migration tool from LALC -> LibGuides.) That being said, the folks at
>>>> LibraryH3lp have taken up further development of Library a la Carte – it
>>>> might be interesting to see what they come up with (
>>>> http://libraryh3lp.blogspot.com/2013/06/library-la-carte-resurrected-open.html).
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>>>> Oregon State University Libraries
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>>>> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]
>>>> *On Behalf Of *Tanja Webster
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, July 01, 2013 3:04 PM
>>>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>>> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Subject Guides - alternatives****
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>>>> Hi there,****
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>>>> We are currently using Library a la Carte and are looking for an
>>>> alternative solution to create subject guides.****
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>>>> Any suggestions or recommendations are greatly appreciated.****
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