1. LibData Customizations at Macalester College Johan Öberg Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian Macalester College Library Technology Conference March, 2009

2. Old A-Z List:
A LibData PageScribe page
Resources added manually
Slightly customized
Old A-Z List:
No interactivity
No ability to filter list
No guidance on database selection
Goals:
Make interactive
Add ability to filter by subject

3. New AZ List
Lists number of databases
New AZ List
Not based on PageScribe
Separate PHP page called az.php
New AZ List
XHTML compliant
New AZ List
Launched 11/08

4. New AZ List:
Dropdown for limiting by subject

5. By subject draws on subject guides listings combined with AZ listings
Ability to sort by most used
Dynamically generated, context-appropriate link to subject guides

6. Filter by Type is available:
When viewing all resources
Filter by Type is available:
At the subject level
Additional Filter Feature:
Filter by type
Based on InfoType in LibData
Sort by Most Used
Ranking is based on clicks on subject guide pages (RQS pages)

7. LibData Customizations at Macalester College
…and SQL queries to the MySQL LibData database and the LibStats database…
Resource and Res_Loc table. Associate AZ List location with resources.
The Sub_Res_InfoType table links the subjects and the resources
Resource information in the resource table
Basic building blocks for the Sort by Type links?
Type is in the Infotype table
It was built on top of LibData using SQL queries executed with PHP
The Res_Sub_Infotype table links Infotype to the subjects and the resources
Subject information is in the subject table
Basic building blocks for filtering resources by subject?
Let’s look at the Entity-Relation Diagram (available on the LibData website)
What does this mean?
Basic building blocks for creating a separate AZ page?
Location table. Create AZ list location - via LibData Admin interface
A little bit about how this was created…
Our new AZ list was done using the original LibData database structure.

8. To sum up:
The new A-Z page has:
Interactivity
Ability to filter list
Through sorting, guidance on database selection
To sum up:
A page called az.php built using PHP and SQL queries to the LibData MySQL database.
Thank you.