dewey cloud enhancement at wintec library
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Presented by Aleš Vanek, ITPNZ Libraries Forum 3 -5 July 2007 – EIT Hawke’s Bay, New ZealandTRANSCRIPT
Wintec OPAC enhancementsDewey Cloud
Presented by Aleš VanekITPNZ Libraries Forum
3 -5 July 2007 – EIT Hawke’s Bay
WebVoyage ‘Cover Page’
Dewey Cloud – basic factsFree softwareAuthor: Steve Thomas
[email protected] an HTML page providing a visual presentation of the Library's print collection.
The script first extracts call numbers from the Voyager MFHD. Only the first three digits are used, and non-Dewey numbers are ignored. A hash is built with a count of MFHD holdings against each Dewey-thousand.
On completion of the scan, an HTML page is produced as described above.
Clicking on a category will link to the Library Catalogue to browse that category.
> continue...
Dewey Classification headings are ranked according to the number of items under each heading.
Ranking is indicated by a larger or smaller size : the larger the text, the greater the number of items.
Moving the cursor over a category will reveal the Dewey number and number of items in the category.
Dewey Cloud
Dewey Cloud – text roll-over function
More technical details
Wintec library uses 5 categories. Final .html page is well customizable.
