Library Tech
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A Journey to MPPL’s New Website
Over the past few months I have had the privilege to create a new website, https://mppl.org in collaboration with the great people at WebLinx. This was a long project, with as much lead time meeting with internal stakeholders, designers, and looking at our research data. What parts of our old website should go, which should…
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Featured List Custom WordPress Block
The Mount Prospect Public Library wanted their staff to be able to leverage their list systems API too easily create lists in their WordPress posts and pages. I created a custom block plugin that allowed them to easily add dynamic lists to their posts and pages.
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Search Tabs for Sirsi Dynix Enterprise
The Mount Prospect Public Library wanted their patrons to be able to search different types of material in a single click. They asked for tabs to be created with the contents of the dropdown. The Enterprise catalog allows for HTML Widgets, a container that you can add CSS, HTML, and JavaScript to. I wrote an…
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Config Creator for Evanced Slideshow
I created a slideshow program that took its configuration from a JSON file. This file might be difficult for some users to update, so I created a program that will do it for them.
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Slideshow for Evanced Calendar
Digital signage for libraries based on their Evanced Calendar The slideshow pulls content from the Evanced calendar and displays it as individual slides. The slides layout consists of a sidebar and a main section. The sidebar has the library logo, the date of the event, the time and length of the event, and a qr…
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PDF Creator for Evanced Calendar
Many libraries want to create quick lists of their upcoming programs to hand out to patrons, with the Evanced Calendar it can be difficult to create the exact print out you’re looking for. By default you can print in a calendar view, but that doesn’t provide details about the event, or you can view the…
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WordPress Custom Block Calendar Plugin for Evanced Signups
To help WordPress users who also use the Evanced Signups calendar application I created a custom block plugin. Once you’ve installed the plugin next go to the options screen. \wp-admin/admin.php?page=calendar-block-options Enter your library ID. This is at the beginning of your calendar URL. https://YOURLIBRARYID.evanced.info/signup and click Save Changes. This saves your id to the database.…
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Whodunit
After the success of my Ready Player One project the library decided that we should do a spiritual successor. I thought about different ideas, but settled on a mystery. Like RPO this would have both a digital and a physical component. I liked the idea of not going to far away from the things that…
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Patron Counter
After the library reopened to the public we were still under a strict max occupancy limit. Library staff needed to know how many patrons were currently in the library, and library management wanted to know how many people were in the building that day. My solution was to create a local web app. The app…
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Library List System
What do you do when the system that you’re using doesn’t work, you make a new one. The library needed a way to create lists and display them on the website, I could have started everything from scratch but, the catalog system already had a way to make lists, there was just no way to…