Subject Guides - alternatives

Wed Jul 3 09:49:38 EDT 2013

Just to throw it out there, SubjectsPlus is by no means *incompatible* with
Bootstrap (or other responsive solutions). At Ithaca College, we use SP,
but pull in Bootstrap-based CSS rather than the default SP styles.

You can browse our guides here <http://ithacalibrary.com/subjects/>.

Ron Gilmour
Web Services Librarian
Ithaca College Library

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu>wrote:

>  Hey everyone,****
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> Just jumping in for a moment. I think the fears about *silo*ing are a
> little overblown. Taking a previous commenter’s word about a SubjectsPlus
> API, I’d add that LibGuides—as of this Fall—and Wordpress have robust APIs
> that allow you to freely syndicate content. If a person is ambitious s/he
> could even use the Wordpress JSON API to take content from another source
> and *post* it to Wordpress. ****
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> Now I guess my take on a subjects management tool: we kind of homegrow
> everything, but something like this is only feasible if there’s a dedicated
> web team. We also have LibGuides. Honestly, LibGuides is IMHO ugly as sin,
> but this Fall there is a major *free* update that *Bootstraps* LG—making
> it responsive and painless to theme—as well as adds a [supposedly robust]
> API so all that LG content can be syndicated. ****
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> And I guess I’ll just add my general advice for any product a person
> pursues: if it doesn’t have an API, don’t consider it.****
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> All the best!****
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> Michael****
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> A front-end librarian****
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Andrew Darby
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 03, 2013 8:49 AM
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> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Subject Guides - alternatives****
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> 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.****
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Nina Work <nina at atendesigngroup.com>
> wrote:****
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> ...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? :)
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> 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:**
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>  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.
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> Andrew
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> [1] library.miami.edu/sp/subjects/databases.php****
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Ross Singer <rossfsinger at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
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> 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.****
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> -Ross.****
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> On Jul 2, 2013 11:17 AM, "Sigrid Kelsey" <sigridkelsey at gmail.com> wrote:**
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>  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/****
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> 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****
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Teresa Coberly <
> teresa.coberly at colorado.edu> wrote:****
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> 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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> Teresa****
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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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>  ****
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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:****
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> 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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> Trey Terrell
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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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> Kind regards****
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> Tanja****
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