Achieving a Superb SFX Menu without Changing the Ex Libris Code

Abstract

Peggy Kain, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Jesse Cross, Systems Analyst, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The session will show how the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mervyn H. Sterne Library successfully managed to achieve a clean, elegant, user friendly SFX menu just by using the tools provided by Ex Libris, without changing any code. We will show how we achieved this on the Unix side by modifying the SFX server configuration files and style sheets, as well as through the Admin Center, by creating logic display rules to get the desired effect. We hope to provide the audience with simple yet effective means to accomplish the desired end without all the work.