SFX Documentation

Michigan Gets It

Michigan just changed their button for SFX, and now call the service Get It. I'm glad to see them do this, not least because it would be wonderful if all of us in libraries would call link resolving, regardless of the background technology, the same thing (and, of course, I'd vote for Get It, not only because we already use it, but because it's a descriptive name). I'm also happy that they appear to have done some user testing or surveying to arrive at this choice, which puts some user assessment behind the choice we made, which we based on our assumptions about the various choices (yes, sometimes we librarians actually know now to avoid dumb names).

Student bond money proposals

These are the two proposals I submitted.

Evaluation points for blogging/CMS software

As requested, here is a preliminary list of criteria we can use to assess the suitability of a particular software for our site. Please feel free to comment away so that we can shape this into a usable list.

• multi-level admin: more than just a central admin person and users, ability to create sub-admin who have rights for certain content but not all
• access-control: what is available for restricting the viewing
• ability for sub-admins to control sidebar content and/or create categories
• clear direction about where a post will appear
• strong editing tools

Link resolving fun with SFX

As many people have heard one way or another, the library is moving towards adopting SFX for link resolving. I've put together a page with information about SFX that also has links to some SFX Citation Linkers where you can try it out for yourself.