YHS-LibGuide-Customizations

This a customization project for York House School's Senior Learning Commons LibGuides 2 website.

• /overrides contains the actual code affecting the website.
• /SLC - Archive for Live Server is an archive of the website from Jan 14, 2025. It is used to provide a somewhat functional live server for development. Note that the archive cannot record dynamic content, such as our "All Databases" page.
• YHS_database_list .csv & .numbers files are for updating our list of databases

To Do...

Styling

• Add ".active" functionality to navbar links https://gemini.google.com/app/f9b762a8883cd5e3
• News/Forum Posts to feature new library materials & events?
• Home page - Iconography for common questions
  • Printing Help
  • FAQ
  • Citing
  • Book a Tutor
  • Book a Room
  • Upcoming Events - feature calendar?
• Style Search Results
  • cull extra info - author?
  • follow branding
  • add images for results?
• Review & Comment code
• user testing record screen
  • tasks? - ask Phillip for more ideas
    • Request a new book
    • Find a book in our library's catalogue
    • Find the pathfinder for Art 8's Comic Drawing assignment
    • Find a book collection about Mental Health
    • Access a science database
    • Ask a question to library staff

Content

• add to resources
  • ILL Request
  • snopes
  • internet archive
  • Standard E-Books (well formatted e-books of open source books, and older books with expired copyright) https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=frankenstein&sort=newest&view=grid&per-page=12
  • World in data https://ourworldindata.org/
• Reference guides for site admins
  • Note: deleting/replacing an image takes one full day for the site to refresh.
  • how to update databases
• How To: MLA Guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PRmpaQG7nBpiSTEPXo8F0NOqKiYwREKl/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=101727043423308905952&rtpof=true&sd=true
• Collection: book list for Model UN
• Collection: Major subject book lists & resource guides
• Add Library Resources overview to resources page
  • LibGuides
    • Databases
    • E-Books
    • Assignment Showcase
  • 3D Printer
  • Laptop Loans
  • Spare Textbooks
  • Puzzles & Boardgames
  • Fiction & Non-Fiction Collection
    • French & Spanish
    • Yorkie Made
  • DVD collection
  • Projector
  • Whiteboards
• Improve makerspace guide:
  • Link to printed models
    • Thingiverse Official Remix Flexi Extra Size Cat (Print-in-place)
    • Thingiverse Hypocyloid Engine
    • Thingiverse Tic-Tac-Toe
    • Printables Good, Fast Cheap
    • Printables PIP Spring
    • Printables PIP Engine
    • Printables PIP Dial Indicator
    • NIH heart https://3d.nih.gov/entries/3DPX-007207 note: NIH models may need to be cleaned up before printing
  • Include and Link to Ruben's excellent posters https://www.billieruben.info/post/my-3d-printing-posters-1
  • Link to advanced modelling tips
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TiFKUlsR_Y
    • Print in Place
  • Eventually add student projects to 3D Printing guide.
  • Add graphics
    • Your Maker Coin
    • Premade Models - Feature representative 1 model from each site
    • Your Own Project
      • Program Icons
      • Cura details
  • Compare Maker Coin & Own Project steps
  • While PLA is foodsafe, dyed filament is not. The pourous result is also fertile ground for bacteria.

Design Notes

• Our Figma Project
• https://library.rrc.ca/home
• Wentworth Institute of Technology Libguides
  • Their Github Project Page
• LibGuides ABC.xlsx - From Aviva
• brooklyn public library case study https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/restructuring-the-brooklyn-public-librarys-information-architecture-c9675a313ff1
• The website depends on several google drive files, as a way to protect PII behind a google login. They are all in this folder in Kaleb's drive
  • Book Request - Form & Spreadsheet
  • Book Review - Form & Spreadsheet
  • Contact Us - Form & Spreadsheet
  • Database Links/Logins - Multi-slide Presentation
  • Featuring Student - Multiple 1 slide Presentations
• Guide Type - How we use them...
  • General Purpose - Website Pages & Clubs
  • Course Guide - Assignments
  • Subject Guide - What Is..?
  • Topic Guide - How To..?
  • Internal Guide - Deprecated Pages & Internal Notes (these are hidden from patrons)
  • Template Guide - 2 Page Templates (these are hidden from patrons)

LibGuide Limitations

• We are developing overrides for existing LibGuides conventions, and do not have the entire codebase to host in a live server. To combat this, an archive of the website was made using HTTrack.
• Don't have a way to upload custom fonts - need to use google hosted fonts.
• Can upload custom images. They take a day to update on the server when deleted or replaced.
• Can edit individual HTML templates for:
  • Homepage
  • Guides
  • Search Results
  • Subject Page
  • Profile
  • A-Z Guide Browser
• Can edit CSS & JS: Site-wide, or embed in per-page <style> & <script> tags
• The Site-wide navigation (header.html) cannot autopopulate, and must be manually specified. The required data (links, titles & tags) are not available on every page, and cannot be saved anywhere.
  • It might be possible to fake the API call SpringShare uses to populate the default homepage... but it's more trouble than it's worth.