What do you use for your Database Library listing?

Tue Oct 7 11:12:44 EDT 2014

Sue,

I haven't used it, but Query Wrangler is a Wordpress Plugin that might be worth looking into...

https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-wrangler/

Aaron Waller
Web Developer
awaller at mymcpl.org
816-503-4182
Mid Continent Public Library - www.mymcpl.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Dentinger [mailto:sdentinger at library.wisc.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 11:12 AM
To: Aaron Waller
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] What do you use for your Database Library listing?

Thank you Aaron, we are a wordpress site, but I wonder if something similar
could be done.

--Sue Dentinger

On 10/2/2014 9:32 AM, Aaron Waller wrote:
> We also use Drupal for our database listings (and our main website).  Like Erik, we have a content type with name, description , and URL fields, but we also attach a "Tags" taxonomy to allow for more dynamic sorting and displaying with the "Views" module.
>
> In addition to an alphabetical listing, we've configured "Views" to look for "arguments" in the URL that allow us to display databases by subject (Tags).
>
> There is a bit of a learning curve with Drupal, but it is perfect for storing and dynamically listing things like this.
>
> Aaron Waller
> Web Developer
> awaller at mymcpl.org
> 816-503-4182
> Mid Continent Public Library - www.mymcpl.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Erik Sandall
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:34 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] What do you use for your Database Library listing?
>
> Drupal. We have a "database" content type that includes the name, a
> description, and a link. The nodes are brought together alphabetically via
> a View. Some Javascript lets us provide subject/category "tabs" to group
> similar databases. This probably works best for small libraries with a
> small number (< 25) of databases.
>
> /Erik
>
> --
> Erik Sandall
> Electronic Services Librarian & Webmaster
> Mechanics' Institute
> 57 Post Street
> San Francisco, CA 94104
> 415-393-0111
> esandall at milibrary.org
>
>
> On Tue, September 30, 2014 2:28 pm, Teresa Coberly wrote:
> For an A - Z list of our databases with descriptions, access instructions
> and links we use an open source software package called Subjects Plus.  We
> also use it for our Research Guides.
>
> Here is the entry page that we created on our website
> http://lawlibrary.colorado.edu/find.   If you click on Show All Databases
> it will give you an alphabetical list.
>
> It is great software and the developers are very responsive to questions
> and requests for support.  http://www.subjectsplus.com/
>
> Teresa
>
> ---
> Teresa Coberly
> William A. Wise Law Library, University of Colorado Law School
> Phone 303-492-4711  : Fax 303-492-2707
> teresa.coberly at colorado.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Laura Robbins
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:18 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] What do you use for your Database Library listing?
>
> We use an access database and asp scripts to power our database listings.
> This way we can update in one place and it propagates across the
> alphabetical and subject listing pages.
>
> Laura Pope Robbins
> Professor/Reference Librarian
> Dowling College
>
>
>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Sue Dentinger <sdentinger at library.wisc.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We have used the open source Xerxes with MetaLib for our Database
>> Library as well as having Primo and Primo Central. Due to Primo Central,
>> we have stopped offering metasearching, figuring that for anyone needing
>> more depth or direct access to a database or service beyond what Primo
>> Central offers, the native interface is the better option.  So we are
>> dropping MetaLib and need to find an alternative for our 1200 plus
>> entries in our Database Library.
>>
>> So the question is what are you using for your Database Library?
>>
>> I know many sites have moved to Libguides 2.0 for their Database Library
>> listing, and I've seen some on Serials Solutions or VuFind which would
>> not be options for us. Are there any others of you using something
>> besides these listed above that you would care to share about?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> --
>> Sue Dentinger
>> Library Technology Group
>> Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries
>> 608-263-3250
>>
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