Re: [VuFind-General] VuFind renewals 'widget'

[<M....@ls...>]

Hi Demian,

Thanks. If anyone is interested in giving it a whirl please let us know
- we're happy to provide assistance in getting it running.

We're on Voyager 6.5.3 at the moment, which works with the current
renewals api. We have Voyager 7 on our development server though, and
we're hoping that the improved SIP2 functionality in v7 will mean that
we can develop a fine payment widget that works with that.

Michael.

-----Original Message-----
From: Demian Katz [mailto:dem...@vi...] 
Sent: 06 October 2009 17:39
To: Fake,M; vuf...@li...
Subject: RE: VuFind renewals 'widget'

Thanks for sharing this -- looks like interesting work!

What version of Voyager are you using?  I'm not familiar with Voyager's
SIP2 support, but it looks like the techniques you used here might be
adaptable as improvements to VuFind's Voyager driver....

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M....@ls... [mailto:M....@ls...]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:27 AM
> To: vuf...@li...
> Subject: [VuFind-General] VuFind renewals 'widget'
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Hope you don't mind me posting this here. The LSE Library has been
> working on a 'Library Widgets Toolkit' project, funded as a rapid
> innovation project by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee
> (JISC). The idea is that we create some middleware and front-end
> widgets
> that will allow libraries to offer basic services (list of loans, book
> renewals, overdues, reading list information, fines payments) from
> within a variety of online / social applications.
> The details / blog are here: http://lib-1.lse.ac.uk/library-widgets/
> 
> At the moment the middleware is running on grails, and is primarily
> using SQL and SIP2 protocols to talk to our underlying Voyager ILS.
One
> of the early 'widgets' we created was really a plugin for VuFind, to
> drop renewals functionality into the MyResearch page. It's now been
> running successfully in our live server for several weeks, and we'd
> like
> to encourage other sites who are interested to try downloading it and
> testing it out. There's also a Facebook app, a somewhat crude Google
> Gadget, and we're currently working on Moodle integration.
> 
> We've tried to tidy up the documentation and configuration, but we
> won't
> know what's missing until we hear back from other sites, so if anyone
> feels like experimenting please give it a go and let us know how you
> get
> on.
> 
> Michael Fake
> Library Systems Manager
> London School of Economics & Political Science
> T: +44 (0) 20 7955 6447
> E: m....@ls...
> 
> 
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