Archive for April, 2009

CIL Notes: New Tools for Metrics and Measures

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Staff members are probably your website’s biggest users. –Edward Iglesias I remain convinced that there are more useful ways of examining our data. We collect large numbers of stats – both those required for state reporting and those for our own internal measures – but each individual statistic seems to exist as an island unto [...]

CIL: Hacking Blackboard: Customized Content Portals

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

The folks at UNC-Greensboro discussed their work in pulling the college’s Blackboard software to deliver library materials specific to academic subjects and departments. This is nice, as it uses informaiton that’s already available – the declared major listed in the student database – to pull up these customized spaces. These serve as an overlay to [...]

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