Summary

It is possible to create links to generate three types of hours for a library or services point:

1. Generate current hours for a library or service point

2. Generate next term's hours for a library or service point

3. Generate today's hours for a library or service point

You can also point to a version of all the library hours for the current term at http://library.dartmouth.edu/libhours/display.php?period_id=current&shtml=2,
all the library hours for the next term at http://library.dartmouth.edu/libhours/display.php?period_id=next&shtml=2,
and a dynamic version of all the library hours by month at http://library.dartmouth.edu/libhours/calendar.php.

Existing libraries and service points are listed in the first column of the library hours web page. If you are interested in generating hours for a library or service point that is not currently listed on the hours page, you'll need to send an email to Mary LaMarca.

To generate hours for a library or service point, just substitute the name of the .ihtml file in the right column of the following table for the corresponding library or service point. _current_hours stands for the current semester's hours, _next_hours stands for the next semester's hours. If the library office makes any changes to the hours, they will be automatically update on your web pages since they are being dynamically generated from a database.

Generate current hours for a library or service point

As of Spring Term 2008, all library accounts should reside on Webster, the main college web server. The URL for this server starts with http://www.dartmouth.edu/. The following code example can be modified to generate hours on a web page; this code generates the hours for the current semester for the Biomedical Libraries, both Dana and Matthews-Fuller:

<!--#include virtual="/~library/hours_includes/biomed_current_hours.ihtml"-->

The above code generates the following:

Begin code generation

Fall Term 2008

September 24 through December 09

	Mon-Thu	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Dana Library	7am-12 midnight	7am-12 midnight	9am-12 midnight	9am-12 midnight
Matthews-Fuller Library	8am-11pm	8am-6pm	9am-5pm	1pm-9pm

Exceptions to above:

	Wed Nov 26	Thu Nov 27	Fri Nov 28	Sat Nov 29	Sun Nov 30	Tue Dec 2	Fri Dec 5	Sat Dec 6	Sun Dec 7
Dana Library	7am-5pm	Closed	9am-5pm
Matthews-Fuller Library	8am-5pm	Closed	8am-5pm

End code generation

Generate next term's hours for a library or service point

Follow the directions as above (for current hours), but substitute the word "next" for "current".

<!--#include virtual="/~library/hours_includes/biomed_next_hours.ihtml"-->

Generate today's hours for a library or service point

There is also a new feature for the redesign, you can now specify today's hours with an include. See http://library.dartmouth.edu/libhours/accessPointList.php for the table that contains the numbers you need to use. If you want to dynamically generate 'today's hours' for "Library Administration", you'd use the following code:

<p>Today's Hours: <!--#include  virtual="/~library/hours_includes/daily_hours_23.ihtml"--></p>

This would generate:

Begin code generation

Today's Hours: 8am-5pm

End code generation