Imminent domain
With various new services arising out of the ongoing Library ICT systems review, we’re amassing a nice little collection of library-related 2nd-level subdomains. Here’s a list, which I’ll edit as they...
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I Am Collecting A Collection
As part of the setup process for our forthcoming EBSCO Discovery Service (“Find it at Lincoln”), we’ve been rationalising the location and collection codes which display on our library catalogue (HiP)....
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HiP to go (but not on iPad)
In 2010 I blogged this: As an experiment, Chris L. and I have switched on a version of the library catalogue which may be more suited to reduced-width mobile browsers than our everyday, familiar...
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Minerva, We Hardly Knew Ye
Some of the Library’s online services are now sporting the University of Lincoln’s new ‘crest’ logotype, instead of the old Minerva head logo. Library Catalogue Find it at Lincoln Reading Lists Lincoln...
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Banners advertising the new Library website
A banner image promoting the forthcoming new Library website has been added to the library catalogue: …the Portal: …and Blackboard:
View ArticleZ39.50 setup changes, again
Because of the launch of our new website and the change to our catalogue URLs, the details of our Z39.50 setup have changed (for the second time this year). The new details are: URL:...
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No Portal
Now that the Library website is live, we need to start referring all students and staff to the new website and not to the University Portal for information about the Library’s services. We need to...
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Reading lists now show real-time book availability
The University of Lincoln’s online reading lists now show the live, real-time availability of books in the Library. If you go to an online reading list (here’s an example) and click on one of the...
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Search limiters in Find it at Lincoln
Find it at Lincoln uses limiters to allow you to refine searches to particular types of item. We’ll make changes to our limiters in response to user feedback and as we learn more about how to get the...
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It’s son of Jerome! (Basic BibJSON in data.lincoln.ac.uk)
It’s been a while since we ran the Jerome project at the University of Lincoln, but it’s far from dead, and thanks to the recent leaps forward in establishing a proper data.lincoln.ac.uk (and...
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