From susan.basye at UNI.EDU Thu May 1 16:11:11 2014
From: susan.basye at UNI.EDU (Susan Basye)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 15:11:11 -0500
Subject: Job Opening: Web Developer at University of Northern Iowa,
Rod Library
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2014.151111.0500.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Please excuse the cross postings. We are hiring a full time Web Developer
at Rod Library at the University of Northern Iowa. We use Drupal as our
content management system. Please see the attached advertisement for more
information. I would be happy to answer any questions regarding the
position. Happy May Day!
Thanks,
Susan Basye
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Susan Basye
Administrative Operations Coordinator
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
1227 West 27th Street
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613-3675
(319) 273-3638
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From maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM Thu May 1 16:25:37 2014
From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad)
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 01:25:37 +0500
Subject: How to change kohaadmin password in koha
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Have good day to all
How to change kohaadmin password in koha
1. change the password in the /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml replace
"katikoan" with your "new password" read complete article
<http://tech-dig.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-change-kohaadmin-password-in-koha.html>
http://tech-dig.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-change-kohaadmin-password-in-koha.html
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Thomas Hodge <thom at hodgenet.com> wrote:
>
> Web Services Librarian
>
> An exceptional international opportunity awaits an innovative
> forward-thinking librarian at the American University of Sharjah, United
> Arab Emirates (near Dubai). As part of Technology and Technical Services,
> the successful candidate will manage web services in collaboration with
> other professional staff to achieve the library's mission and goals.
> Areas of responsibility include: develops the AUS Library's online
> presence, including the library website and mobile applications;
> administers LibGuides; works collaboratively with other librarians on best
> practices related to web services and emerging technologies; provides
> reference and research assistance; provides liaison services (collection
> development, instruction, and outreach) to assigned academic departments;
> participates in ongoing professional development activities.
>
> Required Qualifications
>
> Master's degree in library science from an ALA-accredited school with a
> minimum of two years of recent related experience; knowledge and
> understanding of best practices, current issues and trends in web services
> and emerging library technologies; strong commitment to customer service;
> demonstrated experience in library website design and development,
> including the building and/or integration of a variety of web applications;
> demonstrated knowledge and experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript;
> excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication and planning skills
> complemented by the ability to take initiative; ability to work
> independently and meet deadlines.
>
> Preferred
>
> Knowledge and experience with PHP or other scripting language, XML/XSLT
> and SQL; familiarity with usability testing and web analytics.
>
> Salary and Benefits
>
> The salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience; includes a
> 10% of base salary payment in lieu of retirement benefits. Free furnished
> accommodation and utilities are provided along with nine weeks' annual
> vacation. A self-directed benefit plan provides a variety of choices
> including annual air tickets to place of origin for self and family,
> healthcare and dependent educational allowance. The UAE levies no income
> tax, however, some U.S. Federal taxes may apply to U.S. citizens and
> resident aliens.
>
> Background
>
> The American University of Sharjah is located in the United Arab Emirates
> and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
> Established in 1997, the university consists of four Schools and Colleges:
> Architecture, Art and Design, Business and Management, Engineering, and
> Arts and Sciences and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees to 5000
> students from 80 different countries. The language of instruction and the
> workplace is English. The UAE offers a high standard of living with
> abundant cultural, recreational and travel opportunities. The UAE is a
> safe, open and friendly environment for individuals and families of all
> cultures. The AUS Library serves as a focal point for educational and
> social interactions on campus. The library features a large Information
> Commons (135 workstations), 20 group study rooms, 2 computer classrooms,
> and RFID system. Please see http://library.aus.edu.
> Please email a cover letter, r?sum? and the names of three professional
> references to:recruitment at aus.edu. Only short-listed candidates will be
> contacted.
>
>
> --
> Thomas Hodge
> Assistant University Librarian for Technology & Technical Services
> American University of Sharjah
> University Library
>
> tel +971 06 515 2260 <+971%2006%20515%202260>
> fax +971 06 558 5008 <+971%2006%20558%205008>
>
> PO Box 26666, Sharjah
> United Arab Emirates
> http://library.aus.edu/
> thodge at aus.edu
> thom at hodgenet.com
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From beesleym at JOCOLIBRARY.ORG Sun May 4 15:56:45 2014
From: beesleym at JOCOLIBRARY.ORG (Michelle Beesley)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 15:56:45 -0400
Subject: Job: Web Content Developer, Johnson County Library, Kan.
Message-ID: <SUN.4.MAY.2014.155645.0400.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Do you love writing for elegant, user-friendly websites?
Would you jump at the chance to work with a team of clever and talented Web Content Developers and Designers in developing the next generation of fully integrated and engaging online library experiences?
Johnson County Library, a vibrant, forward-looking public library, seeks a dynamic, creative, committed individual to serve as Web Content Developer with primary responsibility for writing, creating, repackaging and managing content for the Library?s website; contributing to a lively social media presence; and analyzing Library and community information needs to plan for short and long-term site development.
As a member of the Web Content Team, the position reports to the Web Content Manager and works with three other Web Content Developers and the Web Designer as well as other library colleagues, patrons, and community partners to provide access to ideas, information, experiences and materials that support and enrich people?s lives.
Qualifications
Required:
? Master?s Degree in one of the following disciplines: Library/Information Science (ALA accredited school), Journalism, English, Communication, Information Design or related field.
? 2 years of experience in technical or non-fiction writing, online publishing or information design.
? 1 year experience in meeting facilitation and project management.
? Previous experience in HTML.
? Analytical skills, including research skills, ability to interpret data, conceptualize, analyze information and write formal recommendations based on findings.
? Outstanding interpersonal, communication, organization and leadership skills, plus strong attention to detail.
Preferred:
? Experience working in libraries.
? Experience with usability studies and user-centered design practices; working with Drupal and Wordpress.
? Expertise in training, education or library instruction; website and graphic design; Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat; content management; social networking software; web-based applications such as RSS; and CSS.
Salary range: $18.54 - 26.38/hr
Contact: Please apply online at www.jocolibrary.org/jobs. Applications received by May 15 will receive first consideration.
Michelle Beesley
Web Content Manager
Johnson County Library
Office (913) 826-4526 | Mobile (913) 888-8567
beesleym at jocolibrary.org
www.jocolibrary.org
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From maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM Sun May 4 22:30:24 2014
From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 07:30:24 +0500
Subject: How to Enable Unicode / UTF-8 in Koha and Zebra
Message-ID: <MON.5.MAY.2014.073024.0500.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
please read below complete guideline "How to Enable Unicode / UTF-8 in
Koha and Zebra"
step -1
We need icu installed
? libicu-dev
? libicu38
? yaz-icu
Step-2
Copy following files from /usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab/ to
/etc/koha/zebradb/etc/
? icu.idx
? phrases-icu.xml
? string.chr
? words-icu.xml
Click here to read complete guideline
<http://tech-dig.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-to-enable-unicode-utf-8-in-koha-and.html>
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Regards
*Maqsood Ahmad*
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The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
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http://library.iub.edu.pk , dba at iub.edu.pk , www.facebook.com/maqsood.dba
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From rlitwin at GMAIL.COM Mon May 5 10:11:18 2014
From: rlitwin at GMAIL.COM (Rory Litwin)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 07:11:18 -0700
Subject: Library Juice Academy - Courses on Web Development Topics
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Library Juice Academy
Courses on Web Development Topics:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/courses-webdev.php
Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. These workshops earn Continuing Education Units, and are intended as professional development activities. Workshops are taught asynchronously, so librarians can participate as their own schedules allow.
Note: Enrollment is possible through the first week of instruction. If you need a class to be paid for in the new fiscal year, if it's that time of year for you, contact us to reserve your spot and pay for the class after the first of the month of your new fiscal year.
We use Moodle, an easy-to-use open source platform with few technical requirements beyond an internet connection and standard browser interface. Courses involve reading assignments, offline activities, and class participation. A four week course involves about fifteen hours of work. Our instructors are knowledgeable professionals and academics actively engaged in the learning process, and are there to support learners.
We give discounts on purchases of bundles of registrations. Five registrations come at a 10% discount; 15 at a 15% discount, and 25 registrations come at a 20% discount. Bundled registrations can be used to register multiple people for individual classes, or can be used to register individuals in several classes over time. In addition to bundled discounts, there is a ten percent discount when enrolling in the full set of courses in a certificate program.
Library Juice Academy
P.O. Box 188784
Sacramento, CA 95818
Tel. 218-260-6115
Fax 916-415-5446
inquiries at libraryjuiceacademy.com
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/
Testimonials:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/testimonials.php
Check out our jingle:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=139
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From bob.stromberg at GMAIL.COM Mon May 5 11:50:23 2014
From: bob.stromberg at GMAIL.COM (Bob Stromberg)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 11:50:23 -0400
Subject: Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone Issue
In-Reply-To: <7b800882b93e4dcb9b0018716ae78b36@VM-EXMB02.fauquiercounty.gov>
Message-ID: <MON.5.MAY.2014.115023.0400.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Hi,
I found a library web site (the Colorado Virtual Library) that describes
how to set up a first Gmail account, written with (to me) clear, complete
instructions.
http://coloradovirtuallibrary.org/content/setting-your-first-email-account-gmail
Points to ponder:
-- For the first and last name fields, you don't need your first and last
names. You can enter your initials, or a two-word nickname. BUT other
people receiving emails from you might not recognize who you are when they
receive emails from someone named B S. <grin>
-- You don't want your email address to be recognizably you. Don't use your
name or nickname as all or a portion of your email address. (In other
words, do as I say, not as I do.)
-- Also, some folks might prefer to "spoof' their birth date, entering an
alternate that still represents their age group correctly (they don't want
ads for people outside of their age range). Don't forget what you enter
here!
-- When assisting someone with this task, I recommend sending and receiving
a "test" email right then and there. The proof is in the pudding!
-- I also recommend signing out and signing back in immediately. It's a
good habit to sign out when you're done, and it's good to practice the new
password. "Be kind to yourself. Do it again later today."
Bob Stromberg
Round Lake, NY
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Pruntel,Alison <
Alison.Pruntel at fauquiercounty.gov> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> *Alison Pruntel*
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Fauquier County Public Library
> 11 Winchester Street
> Warrenton, VA 20186
> 540-422-8515
>
> Like Us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/fauquierlibrary
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Salazar, Christina [mailto:christina.salazar at CSUCI.EDU]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 1:04 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone Issue
>
>
>
> According to Google, the mobile phone info is ?optional, but strongly
> recommended if you have a mobile phone? -
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1733224?hl=en
>
>
>
> Are you saying it?s not possible to have a Gmail account without the
> mobile phone?*[Pruntel,Alison] * I thought this was the case when he went
> to create an account, as it asked for mobile along with name, etc. (none of
> the fields said required or not, all appeared to be required). This morning
> I tried and was able to just leave that blank and I could create an account.
>
>
>
>
>
> Christina Salazar
>
> Systems Librarian
>
> John Spoor Broome Library
>
> California State University, Channel Islands
>
> 805/437-3198
>
> [image: Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>]
> *On Behalf Of *Elaine Anderson
>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 9:59 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone
> Issue
>
>
>
> We have had a patron with the same problem but at some point
> Outlook/Hotmail allowed us to put in an alternate email address instead
> which he already had set up. A verification code was supposedly sent to one
> of those addresses. When it didn?t come into his Gmail account, we sent
> another request to his Yahoo account. He got into Outlook with the access
> code. However, I think when he tried to log into Outlook again, he was
> asked for a cell number. I wasn?t in front of the computer when he was
> trying this, so I?m not sure exactly what happened but he couldn?t access
> his account.
>
>
>
> Does Gmail require a cell phone number for all new accounts?
>
>
>
> If anyone has a solution, I?d be interested in hearing what people have
> done to work around the problem.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Elaine
>
>
>
> *Elaine Anderson*
>
> Public Services Coordinator
>
> Pelham Public Library
>
> 43 Pelham Town Square
>
> Box 830
>
> Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0
>
> 905.892.6443
>
> http://www.pelhamlibrary.on.ca
>
> http://www.pelhamlibrary.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Pruntel,Alison
> *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 11:46 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone Issue
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> How are you dealing with library patrons who are being required to enter a
> mobile number to receive text notifications (receive security code) for
> authenticating their email account? I thought there were still a few free
> webmail apps out there that didn?t require a mobile phone/text option for a
> security code, but did not have luck helping elderly gentleman yesterday
> (his Hotmail/Outlook account now requires a mobile; he doesn?t have one and
> using his land line did not work). When I tried to help him create a new
> account on Yahoo, Aol, etc., they now all ask for a cell phone number when
> you sign up. The only one that didn?t was mail.com, but when we tried to
> create a new account for him on that service, it kept giving the message to
> try again later.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice/tips?
>
>
>
> *Alison Pruntel*
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Fauquier County Public Library
> 11 Winchester Street
> Warrenton, VA 20186
> 540-422-8515
>
> Like Us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/fauquierlibrary
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU Mon May 5 17:38:06 2014
From: Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU (Wiegand, Laura K.)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 17:38:06 -0400
Subject: Libguides and UX
Message-ID: <MON.5.MAY.2014.173806.0400.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Hi all,
I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway.
My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles:
* Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
* Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place.
* Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout
* Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface
* Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website)
* Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
* It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
* We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS
I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
____________________________________________________________________
Laura K. Wiegand
Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
wiegandl at uncw.edu
Phone: (910) 962-3680
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From dholt at SCU.EDU Mon May 5 18:00:16 2014
From: dholt at SCU.EDU (David Holt)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:00:16 -0700
Subject: Libguides and UX
In-Reply-To: <68ECDB295FC42D4C98B223E75A854025DAA1EE1282@uncwexmb2.dcs.uncw.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.5.MAY.2014.150016.0700.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Interesting question. My opinion is that you may have these same problems
using a CMS (such as Drupal) as you would libguides. Both systems need a
style guide to ensure consistency and meet patron expectations.
I was very reluctant to adopt libguides in my library for the same reasons
you are listing here. We were a late adopter. However, after we purchased
a subscription I did see the value. For one, the SEO on libguides is quite
high so you are going to attract traffic that you would otherwise not get.
If your library provides public services, or you simply want to raise the
public profile of your library, then this may be valuable.
In terms of interface consistency, I think we are going to see a lot of
libraries use Libguides 2.0 (which is just now coming out) as their main
library interface. There are a number of advantages of doing that (ease in
creating search widgets, refreshing the content on the library's landing
page, use of Bootstrap for mobile usage, ease in adding dynamic content,
etc.).
Just my $.02,
David
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. <Wiegandl at uncw.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system
> librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented
> Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (
> http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our
> site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were
> more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5
> years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools
> who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift
> both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing
> so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to
> Drupal 7 anyway.
>
>
>
> My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My
> resistance is based on these principles:
>
>
>
> ? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
>
> ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e.,
> some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a
> different place.
>
> ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring)
> layout
>
> ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library
> interface
>
> ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another
> eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main
> website)
>
> ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there
> tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
>
> ? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
>
> ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house
> via a CMS
>
>
>
>
>
> I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their
> own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template
> adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
>
>
>
> Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with
> their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an
> in-house CMS?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> Laura K. Wiegand
>
> Coordinator of Discovery Services
>
> William M. Randall Library <http://library.uncw.edu/>
>
> University of North Carolina Wilmington
>
> 601 South College Road
>
> Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
>
>
>
> wiegandl at uncw.edu
>
> Phone: (910) 962-3680
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Heafey Law Library
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From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Mon May 5 18:33:11 2014
From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 22:33:11 +0000
Subject: Libguides and UX
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Hi
I wish I could find it...but can't;
I saw a great presentation on ux and libguides...the presenter, towards the start, just showed a series of say, 20 slides, that showed random libguides from universities...I don't remember if she included horror music, but watching that slide show was...horrifying to say the least...(this was her point and she was nice enough to mark out the library names, and promised us it was a random sample).
She was questioning our reliance on them, and really, I do too...the best use I have seen for them is integration within a discovery tool..so, if someone does a search on an engineering topic, the guide comes up..
Would perhaps other formats be better? An interactive slide deck or presentation? An interactive ebook? There are many new media out there...and maybe we should explore those instead?
Michael Cabus
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Interesting question. My opinion is that you may have these same problems using a CMS (such as Drupal) as you would libguides. Both systems need a style guide to ensure consistency and meet patron expectations.
I was very reluctant to adopt libguides in my library for the same reasons you are listing here. We were a late adopter. However, after we purchased a subscription I did see the value. For one, the SEO on libguides is quite high so you are going to attract traffic that you would otherwise not get. If your library provides public services, or you simply want to raise the public profile of your library, then this may be valuable.
In terms of interface consistency, I think we are going to see a lot of libraries use Libguides 2.0 (which is just now coming out) as their main library interface. There are a number of advantages of doing that (ease in creating search widgets, refreshing the content on the library's landing page, use of Bootstrap for mobile usage, ease in adding dynamic content, etc.).
Just my $.02,
David
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. <Wiegandl at uncw.edu<mailto:Wiegandl at uncw.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway.
My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles:
? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place.
? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout
? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface
? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website)
? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS
I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
____________________________________________________________________
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Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
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From McHale_N at CDE.STATE.CO.US Mon May 5 19:52:19 2014
From: McHale_N at CDE.STATE.CO.US (McHale, Nina)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 23:52:19 +0000
Subject: Libguides and UX
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Laura,
I agree wholeheartedly with all of your reasons, and I survived (did I?) a fairly traumatic LibGuides experience as a web librarian an a similar sized academic library. A colleague and I were tasked to draw up best practices to ensure consistency and usefulness of guides and content, and I was told that I was impinging on my colleagues' academic freedom for doing so. Because of this, the best practices were never implemented, and two years later, everyone who created content for LibGuides was frustrated with it because everything my colleague and I knew would happen...had happened. Inconsistent navigation, completely different layouts, complaints that so-and-so was using pink for text, no one used the tabs in the same way, the chat widget should always be over here, and it's not, etc. etc. etc.
In short: there is NOTHING inherently magical about LibGuides that prevents them from the potential of a UX nightmare. In fact, unchecked, they can enable really poor web development and user experience. It's yet ANOTHER content silo for the content that needs a silo the least.
In your situation, I'd start by sitting down with the LibGuides advocates and chatting with them about what they want out of ANY guide creation mechanism, in a conversation that centers on the content rather than the platform. What are the objectives? Why create guides in the first place; what's their value for STUDENTS? Are they truly useful? And PROVE that last point with some usability studies before launching into any new project. Anything that you decide should dovetail into the overall goals of the library's web presence and the institutional strategic plan.
One final note: it kills me to say this because I love SpringShare! I got great support from them, and the price is crazy cheap. Those weren't things I was used to. ;)
Nina
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wiegand, Laura K.
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 3:38 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX
Hi all,
I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway.
My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles:
* Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
* Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place.
* Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout
* Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface
* Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website)
* Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
* It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
* We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS
I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
____________________________________________________________________
Laura K. Wiegand
Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
wiegandl at uncw.edu
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From j.bosman at UU.NL Tue May 6 10:06:22 2014
From: j.bosman at UU.NL (Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen))
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:06:22 +0000
Subject: Libguides and UX
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Dear Laura,
Please find my reaction between your lines...
Although we use LibGuides in a perhaps unusual way (not for course/topic based guides but for information literacy subjects and training sessions) I think we have found a way to avoid most of the pitfalls you mention. You can find them here: http://libguides.library.uu.nl (as yet, not all of them have been translated into English)
Best,
Jeroen
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wiegand, Laura K.
Sent: maandag 5 mei 2014 23:38
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX
Hi all,
I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway.
My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles:
? Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
? You can make them stand out more prominently, give them colors etc
? In LibGuides2 you can switch to left side navigation if you wish
? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place.
? This requires adherence to some basic rules, checking by a moderator/admin
? You can make template guides for everybody to work from, creating a coherent look&feel
? You can prohibit to have more tabs than fit on one line
? In LibGuides2 you can have workflows that involves review by and admin before someone can publish a guide
? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout
? As said: basic rules for editors to adhere to + templates
? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface
? That is not necessary you can simply have central CSS dictate how a your libguide look like; that way you can give them the same look&feel as you main site if you want that
? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website)
? That needs some thinking and planning. Wherever possible it would indeed be preferable to just present information from existing silos in LibGuides boxes using RSS/Widgets etc.
? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
? Again, with a little bit more central planning of content this should be avoidable.
? You can find commitment from your librarians to create a coherent system as a collaborative effort; we use a number of 'rules' that editors need to follow when creating new boxes:
o Look if there is something similar already in the system; if so, embed that box in stead of creating your own
o Create your content in such a way that each box can stand on its own, so is embeddable (in other libguides or ELO/Blackboard or mail or whatever)
? Have two 'owners' for each LibGuide: that creates discussion on the content and will make editor more cautious before adding too much new stuff
? It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
? It would be great if you have something that librarians love to build and that students just find useful.
? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS
? True, but the cost is very moderate
I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
____________________________________________________________________
Laura K. Wiegand
Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
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wiegandl at uncw.edu
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From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB])
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:40:40 +0000
Subject: x-index: A Fantastic New Indicator for Quantifying a
Scientist=?Windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=Scientific Impact
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Colleagues/
FYI > x-index: A Fantastic New Indicator for Quantifying a Scientist?s Scientific Impact
Xiaojun Wan / (Submitted on 4 May 2014)
h-index has become the most popular indicator for quantifying a scientist's scientific impact in various scientific fields. h-index is defined as the largest number of papers with citation number larger than or equal to h and it treats each citation equally. However, different citations usually come from different papers with different influence and quality, and a citation from a highly influential paper is a greater recognition of the target paper than a citation from an ordinary paper. Based on this assumption, we proposed a new indicator named x-index to quantify a scientist's scientific impact by considering only the citations coming from influential papers. x-index is defined as the largest number of papers with influential citation number larger than or equal to x, where each influential citation comes from a paper for which the average ACNPP (Average Citation Number Per Paper) of its authors larger than or equal to x . Through analysis on the APS dataset, we find that the proposed x-index has much better ability to discriminate between Physics Prize Winners and ordinary physicists.
Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1405.0641 [cs.DL] (or arXiv:1405.0641v1 [cs.DL] for this version)
Source and Full Text Links Available Via:
http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2014/05/x-index-fantastic-new-indicator-for.html
Thanks to my Facebook colleague, Xavier Ajengo, Director de Proyectos at Fundaci?n Ignacio Larramendi, Madrid, Spain
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From: daznar at UNAV.ES (David Aznar)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 09:30:45 +0200
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From: mjordan at SFU.CA (Mark Jordan)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 03:41:46 -0700
Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems)
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Hi David,
I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is it the source or the target?
Mark
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> We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems) to
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> that we already have in Dspace.
> Does anyone know any initiative about this question?.
>
> Thank you very much,
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> David
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From posixeleni at GMAIL.COM Wed May 7 10:46:07 2014
From: posixeleni at GMAIL.COM (Eleni Castro)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 10:46:07 -0400
Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems)
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Hi David,
Have you looked at SWORD and it's support for Dspace?
http://swordapp.org/tag/dspace/
Cheers
Eleni
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mark Jordan <mjordan at sfu.ca> wrote:
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>
> I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is it
> the source or the target?
>
> Mark
>
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> > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to OJS
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> > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?.
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From: lbell927 at GMAIL.COM (Lori Bell)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 09:51:23 -0500
Subject: SJSU SLIS/VCARA invite you to the 5th annual VCARA conference In
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*5th Annual VCARA Conference ? May 20, 2014 5:30-8:30 p.m. SLT*
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SJSU SLIS/VCARA is pleased to invite you to the 5th Annual VCARA Conference
in the virtual world of Second Life. There are many ways to share wisdom
and culture in both the physical and virtual worlds. Attend this
conference to learn how those presenting provide access to stories,
educational experiences, administrative publications, historical events,
and more.
At 5:30 pm SLT Geoffrey Giglierano will set the stage for the conference by
speaking about Building a Shared Narrative: Living, Learning and
Storytelling in Virtual Communities. John Jamison will follow at 6 pm with
an example of providing a learning experience in virtual worlds with an
overview of the Lincoln Walks Project and a comparison of Second Life and
Unity 3D.
At 6:30 PM SLT, participants will enter the VCARA Walkway to attend
presentations on a number of diverse but related topics,
including:
? Reality Reflected: Recreating Public Library YA spaces in Second
Life ? Lori Harris
? Preserving Local History in Virtual Worlds: West Fargo ? Erienne
Graten
? Preserving Access: Digitization of Tulane University?s School of
Medicine Annual Announcements ? Laura Wright
? Educational and Preservation Considerations in VCARA ? Faylene Keep
? Machinima as a Means of Virtual World Event Preservation ? Sarah
Fihe
? Archiving an Academic Research Tool: PREMIS and XMP as Tools for
the Task ? Larentia Romaniuk
? Preserving Digital Objects ? Marea Daniell Whittington
? Documenting Educational Experiences Using Machinima of Object
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From daznar at UNAV.ES Thu May 8 02:43:21 2014
From: daznar at UNAV.ES (David Aznar)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 08:43:21 +0200
Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems)
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From mjordan at SFU.CA Thu May 8 06:06:48 2014
From: mjordan at SFU.CA (Mark Jordan)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 03:06:48 -0700
Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems)
In-Reply-To: <536B2789.40103@unav.es>
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Hi David,
OJS lets you export issues or articles in a relatively simple XML format. As Journal Manager, go to:
http://url.to.your.journa/manager/importexport/plugin/NativeImportExportPlugin
and choose which you want. The format is explained here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Importing_and_Exporting_Data . You or someone else will need to write a script to convert from this XML to the format DSpace uses, explained at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Importing+and+Exporting+Items+via+Simple+Archive+Format (exact URL will vary depending on your version of DSpace).
Perhaps someone one the OJS forum or DSpace email list already has a script to do this.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
> Hi:
>
> We know that we can export from OJS to Dspace with SWORD.
>
> But we have a number journals in our Institutional Repository with
> Dspace (previous to the installation of OJS in the university), and
> we would like to import these journlas with all the issues and years
> to Dspace.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> El 07/05/2014 16:46, Eleni Castro escribi?:
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
>
> Have you looked at SWORD and it's support for Dspace?
> http://swordapp.org/tag/dspace/
>
>
> Cheers
> Eleni
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mark Jordan < mjordan at sfu.ca > wrote:
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is
> it the source or the target?
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi:
> >
> > We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems)
> > to
> > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to
> > OJS
> > that we already have in Dspace.
> > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?.
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> >
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From lanaamy52 at GMAIL.COM Thu May 8 08:40:53 2014
From: lanaamy52 at GMAIL.COM (Amy Lana)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:40:53 -0500
Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems)
In-Reply-To: <536B2789.40103@unav.es>
Message-ID: <THU.8.MAY.2014.074053.0500.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Your best bet is to ask the DSpace Tech list for help; you'll need to sign
up first: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
They're good people there--quite willing to help.
Amy
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:43 AM, David Aznar <daznar at unav.es> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> We know that we can export from OJS to Dspace with SWORD.
>
> But we have a number journals in our Institutional Repository with Dspace
> (previous to the installation of OJS in the university), and we would like
> to import these journlas with all the issues and years to Dspace.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> David
>
>
>
> El 07/05/2014 16:46, Eleni Castro escribi?:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Have you looked at SWORD and it's support for Dspace?
> http://swordapp.org/tag/dspace/
>
> Cheers
> Eleni
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mark Jordan <mjordan at sfu.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is it
>> the source or the target?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Hi:
>> >
>> > We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems) to
>> > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to OJS
>> > that we already have in Dspace.
>> > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?.
>> >
>> > Thank you very much,
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> > Universidad de Navarra
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > David Aznar Lafont
>> > Gesti?n y desarrollo web
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>> > Servicio Bibliotecas
>> > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a
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From coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG Thu May 8 20:41:06 2014
From: coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG (Coral Sheldon-Hess)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:41:06 -0800
Subject: Libguides and UX
In-Reply-To: <68ECDB295FC42D4C98B223E75A854025DAA1EE1282@uncwexmb2.dcs.uncw.edu>
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Hi, Laura!
I don't know if this is going to be super helpful to you, but because I've
kind of accepted the inevitability of LibGuide creation (I haven't let any
of the non-Systems librarians into my main CMS, so I either accept being
the bottleneck or I let them make guides), my focus has been on getting
people to follow guidelines/rules--which we call "best practices" for
palatability. There was a multi-year sales job in there, that I'm kind of
glossing over, right now, but setting these rules BEFORE you start should
be easier than having to go back and fix things afterward. I think. (I can
point you at some usability studies, if you need to make a case.)
For now, all we've standardized are the guides for academic
subjects/disciplines (which we call "Topic Guides" - don't get me started),
not guides for courses or guides for "how to do citations," etc.; those
sets of best practices are on hold until after we convert to LibGuides 2.
Not everyone is following the guidelines we've created, yet, but enough
people are that the peer pressure on the others is growing. Also, one of
our Web Team members is gung-ho enough to go out and get permission and
convert people's guides FOR them, if they don't want to do the work
themselves. :)
Here's the template guide I created, based on the findings of the usability
studies I read: http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/topic-guides-template
And here's the written Best Practices document (which is already out of
date and in need of updates):
https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/360/sites/default/files/topicguidesbestpractices.pdf
Note that this is all for LibGuides v1, and parts of it will have to change
drastically for v2.
--
Coral Sheldon-Hess
http://sheldon-hess.org/coral
@web_kunoichi
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. <Wiegandl at uncw.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system
> librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented
> Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (
> http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our
> site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were
> more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5
> years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools
> who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift
> both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing
> so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to
> Drupal 7 anyway.
>
>
>
> My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My
> resistance is based on these principles:
>
>
>
> ? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
>
> ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e.,
> some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a
> different place.
>
> ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring)
> layout
>
> ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library
> interface
>
> ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another
> eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main
> website)
>
> ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there
> tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
>
> ? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
>
> ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house
> via a CMS
>
>
>
>
>
> I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their
> own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template
> adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
>
>
>
> Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with
> their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an
> in-house CMS?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> Laura K. Wiegand
>
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>
> William M. Randall Library <http://library.uncw.edu/>
>
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>
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From 23eris at GMAIL.COM Fri May 9 10:50:28 2014
From: 23eris at GMAIL.COM (Heather Rayl)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:50:28 -0400
Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe?
Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAY.2014.105028.0400.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Hey all!
We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested
that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe
so people could see if it was busy or slow.
Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors are
going off the more I think about it.
Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know
that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed,
but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing.
Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use
this live webcam to stalk someone?
I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel...
Thanks for you help and thoughts!!
~heather
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From eanderson at PELHAMLIBRARY.ON.CA Fri May 9 10:57:38 2014
From: eanderson at PELHAMLIBRARY.ON.CA (Elaine Anderson)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:57:38 -0400
Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe?
In-Reply-To: <CAGqVT5yCxYiT0Z7ioF2EpeYM3ZXOYAtDcZ31uQWAe7HwUivLNA@mail.gmail.com>
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I think your instincts are right.
Elaine Anderson
Public Services Coordinator
Pelham Public Library
43 Pelham Town Square
Box 830
Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0
905.892.6443
<http://www.pelhamlibrary.on.ca/> http://www.pelhamlibrary.on.ca
<http://www.pelhamlibrary.blogspot.com/> http://www.pelhamlibrary.blogspot.com
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Heather Rayl
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 10:50 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe?
Hey all!
We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe so people could see if it was busy or slow.
Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors are going off the more I think about it.
Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed, but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing.
Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use this live webcam to stalk someone?
I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel...
Thanks for you help and thoughts!!
~heather
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From bakerl at ACU.EDU Fri May 9 11:09:08 2014
From: bakerl at ACU.EDU (Laura Baker)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:09:08 -0500
Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe?
In-Reply-To: <CAGqVT5yCxYiT0Z7ioF2EpeYM3ZXOYAtDcZ31uQWAe7HwUivLNA@mail.gmail.com>
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What a timely message! Our library is considering the same thing. There
are a number of libraries that do this. Here are some examples:
http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/camera/
http://library.wustl.edu/m/webcams.html
http://m.lib.ncsu.edu/webcam/
Additionally, there was an excellent presentation a few years ago at ALA
from a library who did this (perhaps NCSU?), and they said the webcam was
easily one of the most frequently accessed links on their mobile site. I
believe there is another publication by ALA on mobile libraries, and it
lists webcams as common content for consideration on mobile sites.
I asked some libraries with webcams if they encountered a privacy issue.
While all had considered it, none said it was a problem. Camera placement
is critical. Some suggestions were to keep the camera up high and perhaps
use a lower resolution so as not to seem to focus on faces. What you want
is just a general sense of space and activity.
We ran the idea by our campus police, who felt it was not a privacy issue.
They pointed out that a number of restaurants, hotel lobbies, and
storefronts have public webcams. The cameras are in public places, and as
long as we had a notice on the doors that cameras are in place, then they
felt that was good. We informally polled students about the idea, and they
were okay with it. Interestingly enough our staff are the ones with
concerns.
I would be very interested in hearing from others who have webcams and what
your experience has been.
Laura
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Heather Rayl <23eris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested
> that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe
> so people could see if it was busy or slow.
>
> Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors are
> going off the more I think about it.
>
> Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know
> that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed,
> but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing.
>
> Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use
> this live webcam to stalk someone?
>
> I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel...
>
> Thanks for you help and thoughts!!
>
> ~heather
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From 23eris at GMAIL.COM Fri May 9 11:40:55 2014
From: 23eris at GMAIL.COM (Heather Rayl)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:40:55 -0400
Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe?
In-Reply-To: <CAP7StNM2pM+jQriVQffzCnWSyfVQME0h=y2eEjZLuD4dBVhZDQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAY.2014.114055.0400.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Awesome, Laura! Thanks for the links. They were exactly what I was looking
for.
~heather
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Laura Baker <bakerl at acu.edu> wrote:
> What a timely message! Our library is considering the same thing. There
> are a number of libraries that do this. Here are some examples:
>
> http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/camera/
> http://library.wustl.edu/m/webcams.html
> http://m.lib.ncsu.edu/webcam/
>
> Additionally, there was an excellent presentation a few years ago at ALA
> from a library who did this (perhaps NCSU?), and they said the webcam was
> easily one of the most frequently accessed links on their mobile site. I
> believe there is another publication by ALA on mobile libraries, and it
> lists webcams as common content for consideration on mobile sites.
>
> I asked some libraries with webcams if they encountered a privacy issue.
> While all had considered it, none said it was a problem. Camera placement
> is critical. Some suggestions were to keep the camera up high and perhaps
> use a lower resolution so as not to seem to focus on faces. What you want
> is just a general sense of space and activity.
>
> We ran the idea by our campus police, who felt it was not a privacy
> issue. They pointed out that a number of restaurants, hotel lobbies, and
> storefronts have public webcams. The cameras are in public places, and as
> long as we had a notice on the doors that cameras are in place, then they
> felt that was good. We informally polled students about the idea, and they
> were okay with it. Interestingly enough our staff are the ones with
> concerns.
>
> I would be very interested in hearing from others who have webcams and
> what your experience has been.
>
> Laura
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Heather Rayl <23eris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all!
>>
>> We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested
>> that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe
>> so people could see if it was busy or slow.
>>
>> Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors
>> are going off the more I think about it.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know
>> that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed,
>> but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing.
>>
>> Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use
>> this live webcam to stalk someone?
>>
>> I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel...
>>
>> Thanks for you help and thoughts!!
>>
>> ~heather
>> ============================
>>
>> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib
>>
>> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/
>>
>> 2014-05-09
>>
>
>
>
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> Librarian -- Digital Research and Learning
> Abilene Christian University Library
> 221 Brown Library / ACU Box 29208
> Abilene, TX 79699-9208
>
> bakerl at acu.edu
> phone: (325) 674-2477
> fax: (325) 674-2202
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From: sjturner at GMAIL.COM (Steven Turner)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:57:20 -0500
Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe?
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I agree with Laura - many colleges and universities have been hosting
webcams for a very long time without issues - Sewanee, Auburn, etc. we -
UA - have even placed them in our Rec center to have realtime access to
view current capacity in order to alleviate crowding issues - in fact, if
there was ever a place to consider stalking issues, it would be a
university rec center. Additionally we are a very conservative (legally)
university, so I cannot imagine there are any possible issues in terms of
state or federal or even case law with these cameras as our legal counsel
would have performed considerable vetting prior to allowing the cameras. I
personally think the advantages outweigh any privacy concerns.
Additionally, many states have live views of any and all traffic cameras
located within that state (Mississippi and Louisiana's are highly
accessible and the view of traffic, people, license plates, activities,
etc., is highly visible).
I find this timely as well as I have been pushing on and off for my
institution to implement something similar. We already provide real time
mapping of computer usage and campus bus locations, so to me, this would be
an extension of those sorts of services, but even more interesting and just
as useful
Steven.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Laura Baker <bakerl at acu.edu> wrote:
> What a timely message! Our library is considering the same thing. There
> are a number of libraries that do this. Here are some examples:
>
> http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/camera/
> http://library.wustl.edu/m/webcams.html
> http://m.lib.ncsu.edu/webcam/
>
> Additionally, there was an excellent presentation a few years ago at ALA
> from a library who did this (perhaps NCSU?), and they said the webcam was
> easily one of the most frequently accessed links on their mobile site. I
> believe there is another publication by ALA on mobile libraries, and it
> lists webcams as common content for consideration on mobile sites.
>
> I asked some libraries with webcams if they encountered a privacy issue.
> While all had considered it, none said it was a problem. Camera placement
> is critical. Some suggestions were to keep the camera up high and perhaps
> use a lower resolution so as not to seem to focus on faces. What you want
> is just a general sense of space and activity.
>
> We ran the idea by our campus police, who felt it was not a privacy
> issue. They pointed out that a number of restaurants, hotel lobbies, and
> storefronts have public webcams. The cameras are in public places, and as
> long as we had a notice on the doors that cameras are in place, then they
> felt that was good. We informally polled students about the idea, and they
> were okay with it. Interestingly enough our staff are the ones with
> concerns.
>
> I would be very interested in hearing from others who have webcams and
> what your experience has been.
>
> Laura
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Heather Rayl <23eris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all!
>>
>> We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested
>> that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe
>> so people could see if it was busy or slow.
>>
>> Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors
>> are going off the more I think about it.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know
>> that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed,
>> but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing.
>>
>> Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use
>> this live webcam to stalk someone?
>>
>> I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel...
>>
>> Thanks for you help and thoughts!!
>>
>> ~heather
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From MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU Fri May 9 13:09:37 2014
From: MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU (Hess, M. Ryan)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 17:09:37 +0000
Subject: Libguides and UX
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Great topic?really gets to the core issue with online librarianship?librarians are not formally trained (usually) in UX and yet nearly everything we do is online nowadays.
We?ve been fortunate at my institution because we had early buy in from the librarians that standards and best practices are important. Rarely have our audits met with resistance as I think we did/do a good job of pointing people to the research on LibGuides and overall usability studies.
That all said, we have run into a major problem where we took our initial content management success and let it get ahead of us, moving (currently over 50%) of our website into LibGuides since our current CMS is broken and its replacement has been slow in arriving. So, to others, if you have choices, I don?t recommend LibGuides as a web CMS, even though you can do it, since for the reasons stated below, there are no robust built-in controls for regulating the architecture, no version history and rollbacks and other key things a CMS should give you.
We have one particular place in our LibGuides that is used for a section of our website that is a case study in all of these issues, which we?re having to completely overhaul just a few months after publishing it. So things can degrade quickly.
Anyway, like I said, my colleagues have a good shared understanding of the value of solid UX and standards, so we do pretty well despite the ?wild west? potential of LibGuides. So it can be done...
M Ryan Hess
Web Services Coordinator
DePaul University
JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614
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On May 8, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG<mailto:coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG>> wrote:
Hi, Laura!
I don't know if this is going to be super helpful to you, but because I've kind of accepted the inevitability of LibGuide creation (I haven't let any of the non-Systems librarians into my main CMS, so I either accept being the bottleneck or I let them make guides), my focus has been on getting people to follow guidelines/rules--which we call "best practices" for palatability. There was a multi-year sales job in there, that I'm kind of glossing over, right now, but setting these rules BEFORE you start should be easier than having to go back and fix things afterward. I think. (I can point you at some usability studies, if you need to make a case.)
For now, all we've standardized are the guides for academic subjects/disciplines (which we call "Topic Guides" - don't get me started), not guides for courses or guides for "how to do citations," etc.; those sets of best practices are on hold until after we convert to LibGuides 2. Not everyone is following the guidelines we've created, yet, but enough people are that the peer pressure on the others is growing. Also, one of our Web Team members is gung-ho enough to go out and get permission and convert people's guides FOR them, if they don't want to do the work themselves. :)
Here's the template guide I created, based on the findings of the usability studies I read: http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/topic-guides-template
And here's the written Best Practices document (which is already out of date and in need of updates): https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/360/sites/default/files/topicguidesbestpractices.pdf
Note that this is all for LibGuides v1, and parts of it will have to change drastically for v2.
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@web_kunoichi
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. <Wiegandl at uncw.edu<mailto:Wiegandl at uncw.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway.
My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles:
? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place.
? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout
? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface
? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website)
? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS
I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
____________________________________________________________________
Laura K. Wiegand
Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
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From: roytennant at GMAIL.COM (Roy Tennant)
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:48:31 -0700
Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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Roy
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Hello all.
I was wondering how you have your services working?
I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited"
budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe?
Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online?
Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information.
I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or
small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but
with some resources shared between them.
BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of
your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share
the link of them.
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From riley at TFSGEO.COM Sat May 10 23:18:23 2014
From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs)
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 23:18:23 -0400
Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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DigitalOcean, all the way
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Hello all.
I was wondering how you have your services working?
I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited"
budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe?
Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online?
Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information.
I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or
small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but
with some resources shared between them.
BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of
your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share
the link of them.
Have a great day.
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From: academichussy at GMAIL.COM (Lisa Rabey)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 00:22:50 -0400
Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Riley Childs <riley at tfsgeo.com> wrote:
> DigitalOcean, all the way
I second DigitalOcean. We've had them for a year for home projects and
they are tops!
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From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 00:34:57 -0400
Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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Just note: They don't offer managed hosting, it is really AWS but a lot cheaper.
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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Riley Childs <riley at tfsgeo.com> wrote:
> DigitalOcean, all the way
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From mpaulmeno at DELTASTATE.EDU Sun May 11 10:56:52 2014
From: mpaulmeno at DELTASTATE.EDU (Michael J. Paulmeno)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 14:56:52 +0000
Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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At work our campus IT folks have a set of servers on which they create virtual machines using VMware. These include Active Directory, WordPress, printing, etc. Our catalog server is a separate, physical machine here at the library.
Where personal projects are concerned, AWS looks interesting, but rather confusing. I?ve heard good things about Linode: https://www.linode.com/. Their pricing seems to be comparable to Digital Ocean although I have no experience with either.
Cheers,
Mike
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Hello all.
I was wondering how you have your services working?
I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited"
budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe?
Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online?
Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information.
I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or
small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but
with some resources shared between them.
BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of
your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share
the link of them.
Have a great day.
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From: listuser at CHILLCO.COM (Cary Gordon)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:54:29 -0700
Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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I have recent experience with Linode, and it hasn?t been wonderful. The company is fine, but getting a good fit with their offerings is difficult.
We are AWS partners and big fans. When we started with AWS, seven years ago, it was a pig in a poke and it was difficult to configure. Now, their offerings are well defined, and most services can be managed through their control panels. With AWS, you can get exactly what you need, where you need it. You can try a configuration, and if it is too big or too small, you can resize it with only a few minutes of downtime.
Cary
On May 11, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Michael J. Paulmeno <mpaulmeno at deltastate.edu> wrote:
> At work our campus IT folks have a set of servers on which they create virtual machines using VMware. These include Active Directory, WordPress, printing, etc. Our catalog server is a separate, physical machine here at the library.
>
> Where personal projects are concerned, AWS looks interesting, but rather confusing. I?ve heard good things about Linode:https://www.linode.com/. Their pricing seems to be comparable to Digital Ocean although I have no experience with either.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:49 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
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>
> The following is posted on behalf of Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com>.
> Roy
>
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> Hello all.
>
> I was wondering how you have your services working?
> I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited"
> budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe?
> Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online?
>
> Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information.
>
> I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or
> small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but
> with some resources shared between them.
>
> BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of
> your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share
> the link of them.
>
> Have a great day.
>
>
>
> Jorge Biquez
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From: paolo.manghi at ISTI.CNR.IT (Paolo Manghi)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:49:23 +0200
Subject: CFP: Second Workshop on "Linking and Contextualizing
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[*** Apologies for cross-posting ***]
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Second Workshop on "Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets?
On ?Growing a Global Data Publishing Culture?
City University of London
London, UK, September 12th, 2014
Web site: http://lcpd2014.research-infrastructures.eu/
E-mail: lcpd2014 at isti.cnr.it
In conjunction with Digital Libraries 2014 (http://www.dl2014.org)
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014)
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014)
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###### Workshop Objectives ######
The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Libraries, e-Science, and e-Research, with a forum where they can constructively explore foundational, organizational and systemic challenges in contexts having publishing, interlinking, preservation, discovery, access, and reuse of publications and datasets as focal points. It expects to contribute to the actual picture of the state of the art approaches and solutions that researchers and practitioners active in these fields have investigated and realized. Inspired by the indications resulting from the plenary discussion of the first edition of the workshop (TPDL 2013, Malta), special attention this year will be drawn towards research activities aimed at consolidating and building a common understanding of ?data publishing?.
###### Workshop topics ######
The workshop welcomes submissions reporting on theoretical, systemic, and foundational work targeting popular topics of linking and contextualizing datasets and publications. The topics of this workshop are of interest to, but not limited to, the following research avenues:
[Growing a Global Data Publishing Culture]
- Data papers and dataset peer-review: discipline specific or general-purpose approaches, data journals ideas, etc
- Data publishing workflows: publishing workflows, data publishing policies, validation steps
- Data citation: dataset metadata, dataset granularity, citation for rewards, citation for re-use, interlinking with publications.
- Dataset contextualization: data models, tools, semantic enrichment for better discovery, re-use and quality evaluation.
[General topics]
- Metadata formats for publications and datasets: interlinking or contextualizing research outputs.
- Metadata access services: exporting/discovering metadata to facilitate interlinking or contextualizing research outputs.
- Data models expressing relationships between publications, datasets and other information apt for re-use, contextualization, etc.
- Aggregation services: robust and scalable collection, integration, storage, interlinking, and visualization of heterogeneous objects and metadata from publication, dataset, and contextual content data sources
- Linking and contextualization services: processing/mining interlinked objects and metadata relative for enrichment, disambiguation, annotation
- Future publication models and services: novel concepts and management of ?enhanced publications?, ?research objects?, ?executable papers?.
For more on these topics, please visit the workshop website.
###### Important Dates ######
Research paper submission: June 30th, 2014 - 23:59 CET
Notification of acceptance: July 21st, 2014
Camera ready version: August 15th, 2014
###### Paper Submission ######
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Submitted manuscripts will have to be limited to 8-12 pages, following the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Submission is on line at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcpd2014 (EasyChair on-line system: you need to register an account to submit).
Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a single-blind peer-review process by Program Committee members. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions should be revised according to the reviews and at least one author is required to register and present the paper at the workshop.
Proceedings, including abstracts from the invited speakers and the revised papers, will become a publication (publisher to be decided).
###### Workshop Organisers ######
- Lukasz Bolikowski, Centre for Open Science, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI), National Research Council - (CNR), Pisa, Italy
- Nikos Houssos, EKT, National Documentation Centre, Greece
- Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany
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Paolo Manghi
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR
Tel: +39 050 315-2038 - Fax: +39 050 315-3464
Web: http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/P.Manghi
InfraScience Research Group: http://nemis.isti.cnr.it/groups/infrascience
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From lhenry at BCGOV.NET Mon May 12 08:32:08 2014
From: lhenry at BCGOV.NET (Henry, Laura)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:32:08 +0000
Subject: Library websites and how they're made
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Hi, all -
What did you use to build your library website (Drupal, WordPress, templates, nothing but your wits)? Do you find it easy to manage, update, and upgrade? If you had to do it again, what would you do differently?
Laura C. Henry, MLS
Assistant Systems Librarian
Beaufort County Library
311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902
Phone 843.255.6444 lhenry at bcgov.net
www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
For Learning ? For Leisure ? For Life
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From paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM Mon May 12 08:45:38 2014
From: paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM (Paul Poulain)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:45:38 +0200
Subject: Library websites and how they're made
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Le 12/05/2014 14:32, Henry, Laura a ?crit :
> Hi, all -
> What did you use to build your library website (Drupal, WordPress,
> templates, nothing but your wits)? Do you find it easy to manage,
> update, and upgrade? If you had to do it again, what would you do
> differently?
Hi Laura,
There are so many ways to do it...
Imho, you should describe: what kind of content do you want in your
website ?
If you want just to present your library and opening hours, it's so
different than if you want one website for your library, that present
the library, the library events, the main catalog (from the ILS),
digital resources (locally produced, stored on another software or
stored on the main website), external resources (federated search /
discovery)...
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From 23eris at GMAIL.COM Mon May 12 09:51:52 2014
From: 23eris at GMAIL.COM (Heather Rayl)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:51:52 -0400
Subject: Site Search Tool
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Since you all were so helpful to me last week, I thought I'd try again!
We are in the midst of developing a new site, and we are doing it
hand-coded (for a variety of reasons that I will not go into here).
Our old site used an apparently antiquated google script that is no longer
being used/supported.
Google's current free version of its site search leaves something to be
desired in the realm of customization, and my workplace does not like the
idea of purchasing an enterprise search license from Google, since it's
done my number of searches conducted.
Does anyone have a favorite stand-alone website search/crawler that they
love? It doesn't have to be free. We have some budget to purchase.
Many thanks!!
~heather
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From vegamf at UCI.EDU Mon May 12 11:56:13 2014
From: vegamf at UCI.EDU (Mark Vega)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:56:13 -0400
Subject: Site Search Tool
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We are in the process of dropping our Google CSEs and attempting to build our own search tool using the free, open-source Apache Nutch and SOLR modules (Nutch for crawling and SOLR for indexing crawled content) overlayed with a PHP search interface. We are using them to crawl and index all of our websites and databases and provide a unified search across all sources from a single search box. We've only just started our first public BETA and I expect to be making adjustments for at least the next 6 months to a year in order to get the search tool we want, but we we've been dissatisfied with the Google CSE for some time and were not willing to pay for the Google Search Appliance. Once you learn how to configure and use these two modules, they are a powerful combination but be advised that, although the basics are pretty simple, there is an extremely high learning curve to tweak the crawling, indexing and searching to get the results exactly as you want and as your users expect.
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University of California, Irvine Libraries - Web Services
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From Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU Mon May 12 12:11:00 2014
From: Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU (Wiegand, Laura K.)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:11:00 -0400
Subject: Libguides and UX
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Thanks to everyone who replied, very helpful stuff, give me a lot of ideas/perspectives to work with.
____________________________________________________________________
Laura K. Wiegand
Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
wiegandl at uncw.edu
Phone: (910) 962-3680
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 1:10 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX
Great topic...really gets to the core issue with online librarianship...librarians are not formally trained (usually) in UX and yet nearly everything we do is online nowadays.
We've been fortunate at my institution because we had early buy in from the librarians that standards and best practices are important. Rarely have our audits met with resistance as I think we did/do a good job of pointing people to the research on LibGuides and overall usability studies.
That all said, we have run into a major problem where we took our initial content management success and let it get ahead of us, moving (currently over 50%) of our website into LibGuides since our current CMS is broken and its replacement has been slow in arriving. So, to others, if you have choices, I don't recommend LibGuides as a web CMS, even though you can do it, since for the reasons stated below, there are no robust built-in controls for regulating the architecture, no version history and rollbacks and other key things a CMS should give you.
We have one particular place in our LibGuides that is used for a section of our website that is a case study in all of these issues, which we're having to completely overhaul just a few months after publishing it. So things can degrade quickly.
Anyway, like I said, my colleagues have a good shared understanding of the value of solid UX and standards, so we do pretty well despite the "wild west" potential of LibGuides. So it can be done...
M Ryan Hess
Web Services Coordinator
DePaul University
JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614
office: 773-325-7829 | cell: 650-224-7279 | fax: 773-325-2297 | mhess8 at depaul.edu<https://outlook.depaul.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
On May 8, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG<mailto:coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG>> wrote:
Hi, Laura!
I don't know if this is going to be super helpful to you, but because I've kind of accepted the inevitability of LibGuide creation (I haven't let any of the non-Systems librarians into my main CMS, so I either accept being the bottleneck or I let them make guides), my focus has been on getting people to follow guidelines/rules--which we call "best practices" for palatability. There was a multi-year sales job in there, that I'm kind of glossing over, right now, but setting these rules BEFORE you start should be easier than having to go back and fix things afterward. I think. (I can point you at some usability studies, if you need to make a case.)
For now, all we've standardized are the guides for academic subjects/disciplines (which we call "Topic Guides" - don't get me started), not guides for courses or guides for "how to do citations," etc.; those sets of best practices are on hold until after we convert to LibGuides 2. Not everyone is following the guidelines we've created, yet, but enough people are that the peer pressure on the others is growing. Also, one of our Web Team members is gung-ho enough to go out and get permission and convert people's guides FOR them, if they don't want to do the work themselves. :)
Here's the template guide I created, based on the findings of the usability studies I read: http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/topic-guides-template
And here's the written Best Practices document (which is already out of date and in need of updates): https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/360/sites/default/files/topicguidesbestpractices.pdf
Note that this is all for LibGuides v1, and parts of it will have to change drastically for v2.
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http://sheldon-hess.org/coral
@web_kunoichi
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. <Wiegandl at uncw.edu<mailto:Wiegandl at uncw.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway.
My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles:
* Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages
* Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place.
* Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout
* Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface
* Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website)
* Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides.
* It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides.
* We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS
I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written.
Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura
____________________________________________________________________
Laura K. Wiegand
Coordinator of Discovery Services
William M. Randall Library<http://library.uncw.edu/>
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
wiegandl at uncw.edu<http://wiegandl at uncw.edu/>
Phone: (910) 962-3680<tel:%28910%29%20962-3680>
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From listuser at CHILLCO.COM Mon May 12 12:41:52 2014
From: listuser at CHILLCO.COM (Cary Gordon)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:41:52 -0700
Subject: Site Search Tool
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Good choice. While tuning is non-trivial, it is well-documented and there are many support resources.
The pre-release version of David Smiley?s Apache Solr 4 Enterprise Search Server is available from Packt, and might be worth a look. I found his books on 1.4 and 3 helpful.
Cary
On May 12, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Mark Vega <vegamf at UCI.EDU> wrote:
> We are in the process of dropping our Google CSEs and attempting to build our own search tool using the free, open-source Apache Nutch and SOLR modules (Nutch for crawling and SOLR for indexing crawled content) overlayed with a PHP search interface. We are using them to crawl and index all of our websites and databases and provide a unified search across all sources from a single search box. We've only just started our first public BETA and I expect to be making adjustments for at least the next 6 months to a year in order to get the search tool we want, but we we've been dissatisfied with the Google CSE for some time and were not willing to pay for the Google Search Appliance. Once you learn how to configure and use these two modules, they are a powerful combination but be advised that, although the basics are pretty simple, there is an extremely high learning curve to tweak the crawling, indexing and searching to get the results exactly as you want and as your users expe!
> ct.
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> Programmer/Analyst
> University of California, Irvine Libraries - Web Services
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From steffen.schilke at GMAIL.COM Mon May 12 15:26:19 2014
From: steffen.schilke at GMAIL.COM (Steffen Schilke)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 21:26:19 +0200
Subject: Site Search Tool
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Hallo,
I did a similar thing but as we developed our own site we used plain Lucene
for the crawling and search buy building scheduled task for indexing and a
search interface. If you have an own page editor it makes sense to crawl a
page when you publish it (not save the act of setting it free into the wild
;-) If you delete pages you should remove them from the index in the delete
function. Once in a while some maintance is necessary and a rebuild of the
index is called for.
Kind regards
sws
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Mark Vega <vegamf at uci.edu> wrote:
> We are in the process of dropping our Google CSEs and attempting to build
> our own search tool using the free, open-source Apache Nutch and SOLR
> modules (Nutch for crawling and SOLR for indexing crawled content)
> overlayed with a PHP search interface. We are using them to crawl and
> index all of our websites and databases and provide a unified search across
> all sources from a single search box. We've only just started our first
> public BETA and I expect to be making adjustments for at least the next 6
> months to a year in order to get the search tool we want, but we we've been
> dissatisfied with the Google CSE for some time and were not willing to pay
> for the Google Search Appliance. Once you learn how to configure and use
> these two modules, they are a powerful combination but be advised that,
> although the basics are pretty simple, there is an extremely high learning
> curve to tweak the crawling, indexing and searching to get the results
> exactly as you want and as your users expe!
> ct.
> --
> Mark Vega
> Programmer/Analyst
> University of California, Irvine Libraries - Web Services
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From nls2 at HOTMAIL.COM Tue May 13 12:01:26 2014
From: nls2 at HOTMAIL.COM (Karen Merguerian)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:01:26 -0400
Subject: Job opportunities, Northeastern University
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Please excuse cross-postings.
The
Northeastern University Libraries are pleased to announce a cluster of new positions
as part of our growing research and development activities in the fields of
digital humanities and digital libraries.
The Libraries are undertaking an ambitious agenda in support of emerging
digital humanities and quantitative social sciences research efforts at
Northeastern. With the launch of a new digital repository service and an
increasing number of major grant-funded projects, the Libraries are deeply
engaged with the university?s research mission.
These
positions will work as part of a team that includes the staff of the Digital
Scholarship Group and Library Technical Services to develop and expand support
for digital scholarship, digital repository services, discovery tools, and
other critical library services. We are looking for technically confident, fast
learners who are equally comfortable with collaborative development, thoughtful
experimentation, and critical system support. Team members have opportunities
to participate in grant-funded research, collaborate on cutting-edge digital
scholarship projects, and lead the development of new tools and systems. If you
are interested in exploring new ways that technology can support research in
the humanities and social sciences, we would like very much to hear from you.
Library Web Developer
The Library Web
Developer has responsibility for designing, programming, and/or adapting
existing web tools to enhance the Library?s various web-based systems. This position develops customized and
project-specific solutions in JavaScript, PHP/Perl, CSS and other related web
technologies, as well as contributing to the development of other core
services, such as the Digital Repository Service, faculty online publications, remote
service systems, and the online catalog.
He or she works collaboratively with library colleagues as well as
colleagues in Information Technology Services and across campus, and
participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library
technologies.
Qualifications
Bachelor's
degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or
equivalent experience).
Excellent
knowledge of database-driven web development using PHP.
Significant
experience with front-end development (CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc.).
Significant
experience with Drupal, including customization of Drupal modules
preferred.
Significant
experience with front-end development -- tools, techniques and workflow
automation (using CSS and preprocessors, XHTML, JavaScript/JQuery,
git/github, bootstrap responsive design framework, etc.).
Knowledge
of current web development standards and cross platform compatibility and
accessibility techniques.
Experience
with Open Source software.
Ability
to work in an API environment and experience with SOAP and/or REST
desirable.
Excellent
oral and written skills to communicate with technical and non-technical
individuals and prepare project documentation to support training and best
practices encoding guidelines
Strong
interpersonal skill; ability to work successfully in a collaborative
environment.
Ability
to take initiative and meet deadlines.
Experience
with IT in a library or higher education setting desirable.
Web Applications Programmer
The Web
Applications Programmer has responsibility for designing, programming, and/or
adapting existing web tools to augment and enhance the Library?s various web-based
systems. This position maintains key
digital architecture in Drupal, WordPress, and Omeka, as well as contributing
to the development of other core services, such as the Digital Repository
Service, remote service systems, and the online catalog. He or she works collaboratively with library
colleagues as well as colleagues in ITS and across campus, and participates in
an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library technologies. This is a 2-year position with the
possibility of extended funding.
Qualifications
Bachelor's
degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or
equivalent experience).
Excellent
knowledge of database-driven web development using PHP.
Significant
experience with Drupal and WordPress, including customization of
associated modules.
Experience
with Omeka preferred.
Experience
with front-end development (CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc.).
Experience
with Git/Github and other web development and testing platforms
Knowledge
of current web development standards and cross platform compatibility and
accessibility techniques.
Experience
with Open Source software.
Ability
to work in an API environment and experience with SOAP and/or REST
desirable.
Excellent
oral and written skills to communicate with technical and non-technical
individuals and prepare project documentation to support training and best
practices encoding guidelines
Strong
interpersonal skill; ability to work successfully in a collaborative
environment.
Ability
to take initiative and meet deadlines.
Experience
with IT in a library or higher education setting desirable.
XML Applications Developer
The XML
Applications Developer develops and maintains XML applications in support of
the Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) and faculty projects affiliated with the
DSG, with major focus on the TEI Archiving, Publishing and Access Service
(TAPAS) and the Women Writers Project.
He or she provides programming and systems analysis for the design,
development and documentation of complex research tools across a wide range of
projects. The XML Applications Developer will be responsible for designing,
developing, testing and deploying new technologies, tools and resources to
extend and enhance digital content and services, developing application
programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate multiple submission and access
pathways. He or she writes and/or
modifies code and conducts quality assurance on code contributed by other
developers, and performs related duties as necessary. He
or she works collaboratively with library colleagues as well as colleagues in
ITS and across campus, and participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging
academic and library technologies. This
is a 2-year position with the possibility of extended funding.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and a minimum
of 2-3 years of XML development experience.
Demonstrably strong working
knowledge of XML/XSL and Xquery.
Ability to work in an API
environment and experience developing REST-based services.
Knowledge of RDF and linked
data structures and applications.
Strong analytical and problem
solving skills and the ability to formulate options, develop, and
recommend solutions.
Creativity in problem solving
to independently resolve numerous technical issues arising in a constantly
changing work environment, and analytical skills and judgment to
extrapolate from one situation to another and to make appropriate
decisions in a dynamic work environment
Demonstrated experience with
Unix, Unix utilities, device handling, data storage, and basic UNIX
administration.
Strong understanding of
information organization and retrieval technologies used to organize,
store, and access digital content.
Experience with programming
best practices, including test-drive development and design patterns.
Knowledge of current web
development standards and cross platform compatibility and accessibility
techniques.
Experience with Open Source
software.
Excellent oral and written
skills to communicate with technical and non-technical individuals and
prepare project documentation to support training and best practices
encoding guidelines
Strong interpersonal skills;
ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment.
Experience with IT in a higher
education setting desirable.
Experience working on complex
humanities data desirable
About
Northeastern University Libraries
The Northeastern University Library is
at the hub of campus intellectual life. Resources include over 900,000 print
volumes, 500,000 e-books, and 60,000 electronic journals. The Snell Library
building welcomes 1.5 million visitors a year on the Boston campus and the
library?s web site serves users around the world. The library provides
award-winning research and instructional services, a growing focus on networked
information, and extensive special collections that document social justice
efforts in the Greater Boston area. The library has an ambitious vision to
expand its digital initiatives by developing its digital repository, digitizing
unique collections, constructing integrated collaborative spaces, and fostering
the adoption of digital media and the creation of new knowledge. The
Northeastern University Library leads the way in redefining library service in
the 21st century. For more information, please visit www.library.northeastern.edu.
About
Northeastern
Founded
in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in
the heart of Boston. Northeastern is a leader in worldwide experiential
learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global
and societal needs. Our broad mix of experience-based education programs?our
signature cooperative education program, as well as student research, service
learning, and global learning?build the connections that enable students to
transform their lives. The University offers a comprehensive range of
undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in
nine colleges and schools. See http://www.northeastern.edu.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received; first consideration
will go to those received by May 23, 2014.
To apply for this position, and
to view job grade and salary information, please visit: http://bit.ly/1ooI3cd
Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes
applications from minorities, women and persons with disabilities. Northeastern University is an E-Verify
Employer.
Karen MerguerianNortheastern UniversityBoston, MA
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From Elizabeth.Swanson at ARTSTOR.ORG Tue May 13 15:07:12 2014
From: Elizabeth.Swanson at ARTSTOR.ORG (Elizabeth Swanson)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 19:07:12 +0000
Subject: job opening - Junior Interaction Designer - Artstor
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Junior Interaction Designer
New York, NY
Overview
The Junior Interaction Designer assists in the development and implementation of strategies and creative methods for a range of interactive products that enhance and augment the Artstor platform.
Developing design prototypes for new and existing Web and mobile applications, the Junior Interaction Designer is responsible for contributing to exceptional Artstor user experience through Information Architecture, UX Design, and Usability Testing.
As a member of the technology team, the Junior Interaction Designer is involved in all aspects of developing documentation, including use cases, site requirements, transaction flows, navigation models, user interface components, and especially wireframes and design comps. Under the direction of the Information Architect, the Junior Interaction Designer aids the development and effective application of high-quality user interfaces and solutions.
Responsibilities
* Conceptualize solutions in collaboration with user researches, stakeholders, and project development teams
* Participate in conceptual development with project teams to generate innovative ideas.
* Scope and develop technical requirements with assistance from the Technology department.
* Work under the direction of the Information Architect to help develop and execute a consistent, creative vision for all deliverables throughout all production phases.
* Develop and implement a consistent and quality visual style guide across software platforms
* Illustrate scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, and design comps to communicate design concepts to team members and product groups.
* Document feature/software behavior in detail through use cases, user personas, storyboards, wireframes, concise site maps, transaction flows, diagrams, interface schematics, and help manuals.
* Represent the interests of the information/interaction design team in company digital initiatives
* Ensure that progress is made in a timely and efficient manner.
* Contribute to the design culture and process at Artstor
Qualifications
The Junior Interaction Designer must have a firm grounding in the principles of graphic and interaction design. The candidate will be energetic and flexible, have keen interpersonal and communication skills, have the ability to work closely with a small dedicated team in a fast-paced environment, and will be committed to the delivery of high-quality service to users in the educational and arts community. The ideal candidate will be able to take direction, work independently and in a self-directed manner, and demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with professional staff members in all sectors, internally and externally.
Required
* 1-3 years creating visual designs for BOTH interactive and non-interactive design work
* Visual portfolio demonstrating firm understanding and working knowledge of the principles of graphic and interaction design, including color, composition, and narrative sequence.
* Demonstrated ability to work with typography and complex grids to bring clarity to complex systems.
* Web design experience along with familiarity with Web standards and accessibility.
* Competency in XHTML, CSS, and basic knowledge of JavaScript
* Familiarity with client and server side development
* Experience working with information architects, programmers, and designers.
* Unflinching attention to detail.
* Excellent communication skills - oral, written, listening, presentation.
* Ability to research, understand, and organize specialized content.
* Proven ability to multi-task and to be extremely well organized.
* Undergraduate degree in graphic design, interaction design or related fields. Degree holders from other disciplines will also be considered as long as visual competency is demonstrated through a portfolio of works.
* Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite, including Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop.
Desired
* Experience working with controlled vocabularies/authorities.
* Understanding of image/multimedia cataloging practices.
* Experience working in an agile development process.
* Competency in JavaScript
Artstor is a nonprofit organization with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and sciences. We bring together 1.8 million high-quality images for education and research and offer the tools to catalog, manage, and distribute digital media collections. Artstor is headquartered in New York, NY.
Artstor is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and a collegial working environment. Nominations and applications, including a cover letter, resume, and salary history should be emailed to: careers at artstor.org.
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From perkintj at MIAMIOH.EDU Tue May 13 18:59:25 2014
From: perkintj at MIAMIOH.EDU (Perkins, Jody)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:59:25 -0400
Subject: CFP: DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments
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Apologies for cross-posting
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We invite submissions for DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared
Environments:
metadata, tools and techniques in the Digital Humanities, to be held in
conjunction
with the ACM Document Engineering 2014 conference.
http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014
Digital Humanities is rapidly becoming a central part of humanities
research, drawing upon
tools and approaches from Computer Science, Information Organization, and
Document Engineering to address the challenges of analyzing and annotating
the growing
number and range of corpora that support humanist scholarship.
== Focus of workshop
>From cuneiform tablets, ancient scrolls, and papyri, to contemporary
letters, books,
and manuscripts, corpora of interest to humanities scholars span the
world?s cultures
and historic range. More and more documents are being transliterated,
digitized, and
made available for study with digital tools. Scholarship ranges from
translation to
interpretation, from syntactic analysis to multi-corpus synthesis of
patterns and
ideas. Underlying much of humanities scholarship is the activity of
annotation.
Annotation of the "aboutness" of documents and entities ranges from
linguistic markup,
to structural and semantic relations, to subjective commentary; annotation
of "activity"
around documents and entities includes scholarly workflows, analytic
processes, and
patterns of influence among a community of scholars. Sharable annotations
and
collaborative environments support scholarly discourse, facilitating
traditional
practices and enabling new ones.
The focus of this workshop is on the tools and environments that support
annotation,
broadly defined, including modeling, authoring, analysis, publication and
sharing.
We will explore shared challenges and differing approaches, seeking to
identify
emerging best practices, as well as those approaches that may have
potential for
wider application or influence.
== Call
We invite contributions related to the intersection of theory, design, and
implementation, emphasizing a "big-picture" view of architectural, modeling
and
integration approaches in digital humanities. Submissions are encouraged
that discuss
data and tool reuse, and that explore what the most successful levels are
for reusing
the products of a digital humanities project (complete systems? APIs?
plugins/modules?
data models?). Submissions discussing an individual project should focus on
these
larger questions, rather than primarily reporting on the project's
activities. This
workshop is a forum in which to consider the connections and influences
between DH
annotation tools and environments, and the tools and models used in other
domains,
that may provide new approaches to the challenges we face. It is also a
locus for
the discussion of emerging standards and practices such as OAC (Open
Annotation
Collaboration) and Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
(LODLAM).
See also: http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014/cfp
== Submission procedures
Papers should be submitted at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcase2014
.
An abstract of up to 400 words must be submitted by June 1st, and the
deadline for
full papers (6 to 8 pages) is June 8, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by
the
program committee and selected external reviewers. Papers must follow the
ACM SIG
Proceedings format.
Up to three papers of exceptional quality/impact will be invited to submit
an extended
abstract (2-4 pages) for inclusion in the DocEng 2014 conference
proceedings.
== Key dates:
June 1 Abstracts due (400 words max)
June 8 Full workshop papers due
June 30 Notification of acceptance to workshop. Up to 3 papers may be
invited to submit extended abstracts
Sept. 16 Workshop
We look forward to seeing you in Ft. Collins!
Workshop Organizers: Patrick Schmitz, Laurie Pearce, Quinn Dombrowski
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Center for Digital Scholarship
Miami University Libraries
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From chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Wed May 14 03:27:36 2014
From: chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Christian Pietsch)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:27:36 +0200
Subject: Site Search Tool
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Dear Heather,
most search solutions are based on Apache Lucene. I agree with Mark
that Apache Nutch is an obvious choice for crawling, but you probably
do not need it given that all your files are local.
These days, most programmers do not use Lucene directly but use Solr
or Elasticsearch as an intermediate layer. Wikipedia and its sister
projects just switched from pure Lucene to Elasticsearch. Here is a
short summary of their reasons to prefer Elasticsearch over Solr:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Solr_vs_Elasticsearch
I would add that replication and scaling is easier with Elasticsearch.
For your hand-coded website, this could all be overkill. Ease of
setup, integration, and maintainance might outweight scalability for
you. So in addition to Elasticsearch, I would recommend looking at
Omega, which is based on Xapian <http://xapian.org/docs/omega/>,
Sphider (if you can run PHP and MySQL), or Yacy (if you can run Java).
For really small websites there are client-side jQuery search plugins.
Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal come with a built-in
search facility. Whatever prevented you from using a CMS might also
prevent you from setting up your own site search service I'm afraid.
I hope this helps.
Christian
--
Christian Pietsch ? http://purl.org/net/pietsch
LibTec ? Library Technology and Knowledge Management
Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany
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From jkucsma at METRO.ORG Wed May 14 07:57:20 2014
From: jkucsma at METRO.ORG (Jason Kucsma)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:57:20 -0400
Subject: Job Posting: Empire State Digital Network Technology Specialist
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Located in New York City, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
is a nonprofit member services organization serving more than 260
libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage nonprofits in New York
City and Westchester County. METRO has an almost 50-year tradition of
providing a range of programs and services to its members, including
grants, consultative and digital services, collaborative initiatives, and
professional development and training. We are seeking an enthusiastic,
dedicated individual to manage Empire State Digital Network (ESDN), a
statewide initiative to deliver content from New York?s cultural heritage
institutions to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
*POSITION OVERVIEW:*
The ESDN Technology Specialist is a full-time, newly created position for
one year with the possibility of extension. This position is open to
early-career and experienced information professionals. Candidates should
be enthusiastic about supporting expanded access to digital collections
from New York libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions via
the DPLA.
In coordination with the ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist, the
Technology Specialist will participate in the implementation of key
technologies to meet ESDN program objectives. This person will focus on
developing the technical processes necessary to accomplish required data
manipulation and transformations. The Technology Specialist will configure
open-source tools and will develop custom programming solutions to
streamline project workflows as needed. Creativity, flexibility and the
ability to experiment and invent will be essential.
*IF YOU FILL THIS POSITION, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO:*
- Work as a flexible member of a small, highly-collaborative team.
- Configure REPOX and other ingest, harvest, and data normalization
tools for ESDN project needs.
- Work closely with ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist to write and
apply XSLT data transformations according to defined project specifications.
- Select, configure and manage technology solutions for data
normalization tasks as needed.
- Provide programming and technical support for all components of
multiple ESDN workflows.
- Envision, develop and implement custom programming solutions to
streamline data ingest, remediation, and transformation processes as needed.
- Work closely with METRO Digital Services Manager to provide technical
support for METRO administered collections in Fedora/Islandora as needed.
*THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:*
- Master?s Degree in Library and Information Science or a related degree.
- Experience working in a library, archive or cultural heritage
organization, or affiliated educational, non-profit, or professional
organization.
- Experience with standard software and web application development
tools and programming languages and technologies including JavaScript,
Python, JSON, and Ruby.
- Strong working knowledge of XML, XPath/XQuery, and XSLT required.
- Knowledge of library practices and data formats including XML,
OAI-PMH, MODS, MARC, and Dublin Core.
- Experience installing and configuring open-source software tools
relevant to LAMs digital collections and specifically to databases and
repositories.
- Ability to administer PHP/MySQL applications.
- Experience working with version control systems.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a
highly collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
*POSITION DETAILS:*
This position will remain open until filled. The ESDN Technology Specialist
works in collaboration with the ESDN Manager and Technology Specialist. The
salary range is $60,000-70,000, commensurate with skills and experience.
METRO provides excellent benefits, pension, and leave package. Position may
entail four-day, 35-hour workweek. METRO?s offices are located at 57 E.
11th Street in New York City. Remote employment within the mid-Atlantic
region will be considered.
*APPLICATION DETAILS:*
The application period ends May 30th, 2014. Please send a resume or cv and
a cover letter as a PDF attachment to info at metro.org with ?ESDN Technology
Specialist? in the subject line. No phone calls please.
View the posting on our website:
http://metro.org/jobs/empire-state-digital-network-technology-specialist/
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From: brinmobile at GMAIL.COM (Lise Brin)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:21:49 -0300
Subject: Link Resolver icon wording
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Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we
have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short
for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article
conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will
have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that
includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few
institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement)
while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is
rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny*
icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing
to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you
learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From lsergy at THEALBERTALIBRARY.AB.CA Wed May 14 13:52:51 2014
From: lsergy at THEALBERTALIBRARY.AB.CA (Sergy, Lauren)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:52:51 -0600
Subject: Netspeed 2014: Registration now open!
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The Alberta Library invites you to register for
*Netspeed 2014: The Human Side of Technology*
*October 16 and 17 at the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree Resort*
*Netspeed* is a leading library technology conference that connects
librarians, library technicians, and information technology staff from
public, academic, government, and special libraries from Western Canada and
beyond. Technology is embedded in virtually every aspect of the library
experience and the Netspeed conference addresses this convergence of people
and technology.
We offer learning experiences that include lectures, discussion, technology
demonstrations, and forums for conversation. This year?s program is packed
with high-quality, timely sessions on topics that include makerspaces,
intellectual property, social media, digitization, and more. Presenters
are coming from across Canada to present ideas, research, technologies, and
innovative projects impacting public, post-secondary, and special
libraries.
We are excited to introduce *NExpo*, our new exhibitors? showcase. NExpo
is a venue to meet with your current service providers and meet new
potential partners. Come learn about products, services, and innovations
and take the opportunity to have quality meetings with your library?s
vendors in one convenient location. The *NExpo Stage *provides an
additional learning stream, where exhibitors can educate delegates about
improvements, developments, and new offerings.
Netspeed delivers a high-impact experience for many levels of library
staff, from decision makers to front-line implementers. Register today!
Rates:
Early Bird (available until September 15): $252
Regular Rate (after September 15): $362
*Register forNetspeed online
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*Visit theNetspeed website
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From BElish at WINTHROP.ORG Wed May 14 14:19:42 2014
From: BElish at WINTHROP.ORG (Elish, Barbara)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:19:42 +0000
Subject: Link Resolver icon wording
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We have only the name of our institution on our button. No one has complained.
Barbara
Barbara Elish, MSLS, AHIP
Director, Hollis Health Sciences Library
Winthrop-University Hospital
259 First Street
Mineola, NY 11501
P: 516-663-2783
F: 516-663-8171
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin
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To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From blakisto at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed May 14 14:32:53 2014
From: blakisto at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto))
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:32:53 +0000
Subject: Link Resolver icon wording
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I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link.
Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much.
What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next).
Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results?
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
User Experience and Engagement Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
@blakistonr
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin
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To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From Michael.BraunHamilton at CCV.EDU Wed May 14 15:42:18 2014
From: Michael.BraunHamilton at CCV.EDU (Braun Hamilton, Michael R)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:42:18 +0000
Subject: Link Resolver icon wording
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We have a lot of EBSCO databases, and since the link resolver button displays where EBSCO otherwise displays links to Full Text, I recently replaced our old ?Find it @...? link resolver button in these databases with one that says ?Find Full Text? and is styled to look like EBSCO?s Full Text links.
Here?s a screenshot showing 2 results ? one where EBSCO has the full text available and one that links out to the link resolver - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/772340/EBSCO_icons.png
With the caveat that I have neither done any usability testing nor gotten any feedback from anyone since I changed it, I hope that at least it looks more obvious to click on now. (Whether students can navigate the link resolver it links out to is another story, of course.)
-Michael
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I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link.
Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much.
What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next).
Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results?
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
User Experience and Engagement Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
@blakistonr
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From: christina.salazar at CSUCI.EDU (Salazar, Christina)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:47:38 +0000
Subject: Link Resolver icon wording
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I think there?s two problems here really: one is a usability problem and the other is that link resolver/open URL is a somewhat problematic technology ? it?s definitely better than nothing, but it still has lots of hiccups and not a lot of transparency.
I was thinking (because I know how tiny that icon is): ?Check for it? ? slightly shorter than ?Check for full text? but probably less clear about what?s going on. Again, this is only based on my knowledge of how problematic labeling this service is, not on any research I?ve done around possible solutions.
Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
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I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link.
Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much.
What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next).
Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results?
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
User Experience and Engagement Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From JPHEINTZ at STTHOMAS.EDU Wed May 14 23:32:50 2014
From: JPHEINTZ at STTHOMAS.EDU (Heintz, John P.)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 03:32:50 +0000
Subject: link resolver wording
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Lise,
We went from Get It to Find It and back to Get It. We never should have taken journey. To me the key is you want people to click that link. To most students, once they've found an article in a database, it makes no sense to have to "Find It" again.
I didn't hear you say that those faculty who mentioned it were confused by the function of the icon/link, just that they disliked that it sometimes didn't produce the full-text. Mitigate that irritation by clear mapping and labeling to request via ILL on your results page, and by educating that handful of faculty (and staff, if that's an issue), that you can't actually afford all published content, and that your ILL is fast, convenient, and cost-effective. Don't chase the mirage of the "perfect" label.
John Heintz
University of St. Thomas
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:27:36 +0200
From: Christian Pietsch <chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Site Search Tool
Dear Heather,
most search solutions are based on Apache Lucene. I agree with Mark
that Apache Nutch is an obvious choice for crawling, but you probably
do not need it given that all your files are local.
These days, most programmers do not use Lucene directly but use Solr
or Elasticsearch as an intermediate layer. Wikipedia and its sister
projects just switched from pure Lucene to Elasticsearch. Here is a
short summary of their reasons to prefer Elasticsearch over Solr:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Solr_vs_Elasticsearch
I would add that replication and scaling is easier with Elasticsearch.
For your hand-coded website, this could all be overkill. Ease of
setup, integration, and maintainance might outweight scalability for
you. So in addition to Elasticsearch, I would recommend looking at
Omega, which is based on Xapian <http://xapian.org/docs/omega/>,
Sphider (if you can run PHP and MySQL), or Yacy (if you can run Java).
For really small websites there are client-side jQuery search plugins.
Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal come with a built-in
search facility. Whatever prevented you from using a CMS might also
prevent you from setting up your own site search service I'm afraid.
I hope this helps.
Christian
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:57:20 -0400
From: Jason Kucsma <jkucsma at METRO.ORG>
Subject: Job Posting: Empire State Digital Network Technology Specialist
Located in New York City, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
is a nonprofit member services organization serving more than 260
libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage nonprofits in New York
City and Westchester County. METRO has an almost 50-year tradition of
providing a range of programs and services to its members, including
grants, consultative and digital services, collaborative initiatives, and
professional development and training. We are seeking an enthusiastic,
dedicated individual to manage Empire State Digital Network (ESDN), a
statewide initiative to deliver content from New York?s cultural heritage
institutions to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
*POSITION OVERVIEW:*
The ESDN Technology Specialist is a full-time, newly created position for
one year with the possibility of extension. This position is open to
early-career and experienced information professionals. Candidates should
be enthusiastic about supporting expanded access to digital collections
from New York libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions via
the DPLA.
In coordination with the ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist, the
Technology Specialist will participate in the implementation of key
technologies to meet ESDN program objectives. This person will focus on
developing the technical processes necessary to accomplish required data
manipulation and transformations. The Technology Specialist will configure
open-source tools and will develop custom programming solutions to
streamline project workflows as needed. Creativity, flexibility and the
ability to experiment and invent will be essential.
*IF YOU FILL THIS POSITION, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO:*
- Work as a flexible member of a small, highly-collaborative team.
- Configure REPOX and other ingest, harvest, and data normalization
tools for ESDN project needs.
- Work closely with ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist to write and
apply XSLT data transformations according to defined project specifications.
- Select, configure and manage technology solutions for data
normalization tasks as needed.
- Provide programming and technical support for all components of
multiple ESDN workflows.
- Envision, develop and implement custom programming solutions to
streamline data ingest, remediation, and transformation processes as needed.
- Work closely with METRO Digital Services Manager to provide technical
support for METRO administered collections in Fedora/Islandora as needed.
*THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:*
- Master?s Degree in Library and Information Science or a related degree.
- Experience working in a library, archive or cultural heritage
organization, or affiliated educational, non-profit, or professional
organization.
- Experience with standard software and web application development
tools and programming languages and technologies including JavaScript,
Python, JSON, and Ruby.
- Strong working knowledge of XML, XPath/XQuery, and XSLT required.
- Knowledge of library practices and data formats including XML,
OAI-PMH, MODS, MARC, and Dublin Core.
- Experience installing and configuring open-source software tools
relevant to LAMs digital collections and specifically to databases and
repositories.
- Ability to administer PHP/MySQL applications.
- Experience working with version control systems.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a
highly collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
*POSITION DETAILS:*
This position will remain open until filled. The ESDN Technology Specialist
works in collaboration with the ESDN Manager and Technology Specialist. The
salary range is $60,000-70,000, commensurate with skills and experience.
METRO provides excellent benefits, pension, and leave package. Position may
entail four-day, 35-hour workweek. METRO?s offices are located at 57 E.
11th Street in New York City. Remote employment within the mid-Atlantic
region will be considered.
*APPLICATION DETAILS:*
The application period ends May 30th, 2014. Please send a resume or cv and
a cover letter as a PDF attachment to info at metro.org with ?ESDN Technology
Specialist? in the subject line. No phone calls please.
View the posting on our website:
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:21:49 -0300
From: Lise Brin <brinmobile at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we
have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short
for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article
conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will
have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that
includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few
institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement)
while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is
rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny*
icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing
to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you
learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:19:42 +0000
From: "Elish, Barbara" <BElish at WINTHROP.ORG>
Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording
We have only the name of our institution on our button. No one has complained.
Barbara
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Winthrop-University Hospital
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From: "Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto)" <blakisto at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording
I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link.
Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much.
What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next).
Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results?
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
User Experience and Engagement Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
@blakistonr
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From: "Braun Hamilton, Michael R" <Michael.BraunHamilton at CCV.EDU>
Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording
We have a lot of EBSCO databases, and since the link resolver button displays where EBSCO otherwise displays links to Full Text, I recently replaced our old ?Find it @...? link resolver button in these databases with one that says ?Find Full Text? and is styled to look like EBSCO?s Full Text links.
Here?s a screenshot showing 2 results ? one where EBSCO has the full text available and one that links out to the link resolver - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/772340/EBSCO_icons.png
With the caveat that I have neither done any usability testing nor gotten any feedback from anyone since I changed it, I hope that at least it looks more obvious to click on now. (Whether students can navigate the link resolver it links out to is another story, of course.)
-Michael
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I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link.
Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much.
What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next).
Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results?
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
User Experience and Engagement Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
@blakistonr
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From: "Salazar, Christina" <christina.salazar at CSUCI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording
I think there?s two problems here really: one is a usability problem and the other is that link resolver/open URL is a somewhat problematic technology ? it?s definitely better than nothing, but it still has lots of hiccups and not a lot of transparency.
I was thinking (because I know how tiny that icon is): ?Check for it? ? slightly shorter than ?Check for full text? but probably less clear about what?s going on. Again, this is only based on my knowledge of how problematic labeling this service is, not on any research I?ve done around possible solutions.
Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link.
Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much.
What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next).
Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results?
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
User Experience and Engagement Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
@blakistonr
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]> On Behalf Of Lise Brin
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording
Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?
All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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From rlitwin at GMAIL.COM Thu May 15 10:37:29 2014
From: rlitwin at GMAIL.COM (Rory Litwin)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 07:37:29 -0700
Subject: Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing (online class)
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Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing
Instructor: Rebecca Blakiston
Dates: June 2-27, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/001-usability-testing.php
In this 4-week course, you will learn how to conduct effective usability tests in order to improve your website. You will walk through the process of defining primary tasks and translating them into scenarios, making a plan, recruiting participants, and conducting the actual tests. You will learn how to analyze the results to make decisions about your website?s information architecture, labeling, and content. You will also strategize about how to implement affordable methods of usability testing in a systematic and sustainable way.
This course can be taken as one of six courses needed to earn our Certificate in User Experience (UX), but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Rebecca Blakiston is an Instructional Services Librarian and the Website Product Manager at the University of Arizona Libraries in Tucson, Arizona. She specializes in instructional design, focusing on scenario-based activities and active learning. She also provides oversight, management, and strategic planning for the library website, specializing in guerilla usability testing, writing for the web, and content strategy. She has published and presented nationally on topics including instructional design, e-learning, user experience, and continuous learning.
Course structure
This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The class does not meet together at any particular times, although the instructor may set up optional sychronous chat sessions. Instruction includes readings and assignments in one-week segments. Class participation is in an online forum environment.
Payment info
You can register in this course through the first week of instruction. The "Register" button on the website goes to our credit card payment gateway, which may be used with personal or institutional credit cards. (Be sure to use the appropriate billing address). If your institution wants to pay using a purchase order, please contact us to make arrangements.
Library Juice Academy
P.O. Box 188784
Sacramento, CA 95818
Tel. 218-260-6115
Fax 916-415-5446
inquiries at libraryjuiceacademy.com
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Testimonials:
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From theanalogdivide at GMAIL.COM Thu May 15 13:06:15 2014
From: theanalogdivide at GMAIL.COM (Toby Greenwalt)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:06:15 -0400
Subject: Job Posting: Manager,
Information Technology at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Manager, Information Technology
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is seeking a qualified
professional to guide operations for the Library's IT
department. Balancing up-to-date network management skills
with an eye for experimentation, this position will support existing
technology needs while helping to develop new services and
strategies. The Manager of Information Technology will take
a leading role in all aspects of IT operations, from strategic development
to
hands-on implementation. This position reports to the
Director of Digital Strategy.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
?Directing and managing the efforts of the IT department;
?Creating and implementing the vision for technology, processes, and
communication that will lead to improved customer service and departmental
efficiency;
?Managing existing technologies;
?Modernizing CLP's website and Intranet;
?Collaborating with eiNetwork and participating as technology representative
in system-wide operational projects.
Requirements & Qualifications:
?Demonstrated creative thinking and strong problem-solving skills in the
areas
of project management, budgeting, systems analysis and design, information
science, and current technology trends;
?Ability to document and communicate requirements to technical and business
audiences;
?Ability to write Web applications using standard object-oriented
development
languages and methods;
?Working knowledge of Windows server environments, MS SQL Server, and other
web related technologies;
?Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Information Science;
?Seven or more years' experience in the technology field; including
experience
in web applications, n-tier systems analysis & design, management of
technical
staff, user/customer interfacing and software design,
?Previous experience with project planning and management, budget
preparation
and oversight, and contract negotiation and oversight;
?PA Criminal Record Check, PA Child Abuse History Clearance, and Credit
Check
required upon offer of employment.
Work Hours: Exempt position with a base schedule of 37.5
hours per week Monday through Friday; additional evening or weekend time as
needed.
How to Apply: Interested candidates should apply online at
http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH09/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CARNEGIELIBRARY&c
ws=1&rid=481. Applications are due by May 28, 2014.
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From dyv.researcher at GMAIL.COM Thu May 15 15:27:33 2014
From: dyv.researcher at GMAIL.COM (DYV)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:27:33 -0400
Subject: Summer 2014 Volunteer Collection Assistants - Lesbian Herstory
Archives (NYC)
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The
?
Lesbian Herstory Archives <http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/> is
looking for librarians and archivists to assist with a number of project in
preparation for the launch of our OPAC in December. We are looking for
folks with at least 1 year of experience and skills in the areas outlined
below
*We need volunteers on site to work with the following collections:*
- Periodicals
- Books
- Prints/Graphics
- Video/Film
- Ephemera
*We are also looking for people to assist remotely with the following:*
- Web Development
- Data Clean-up
- Fundraising
We are asking for a minimum commitment of 1 day per month from May through
August. Weekend days and some evenings could be arranged.
?You may be working in a team with an intern in addition to one of the LHA
coordinators.
*How To Sign Up *
If you are interested in participating as a volunteer this summer, just
send an email to lha_interns at gmail.com?. Please put *Summer 2014 Volunteer
Collection Assistant* in the *Subject field*. Indicate your location and
affiliation, availability, email and area of interest.
?Thanks in advance for your interest.
?
> Peace,
> D?sir?e Yael Vester
> Caretaker, Librarian, Archivist
> ??
> Lesbian Herstory Archives <http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/>
>
>
> *About The **Lesbian Herstory Archives*
>
> In operation since 1974, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the
> world's oldest and largest collection of archival, bibliographic and
> multimedia materials by and about the diverse lesbian experience. LHA is
> an all-volunteer run, 501(c)3 , non-profit educational organization. We
> offer research assistance, tours, exhibits in-house events and a
> semester-long Lesbian Studies course. Our open hours are listed on our
> website in the "Calendar" section. Please visit us to browse, do research
> or volunteer any time we are open.
>
> *Facebook:
> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lesbian-Herstory-Archives/24939682269>*
> ?
> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lesbian-Herstory-Archives/24939682269>
> *Website: <http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/>*
> ?
> <http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/>
> *Email:* lesbianherstoryarchives at gmail.com
> *Address:* 484 14th St. Brooklyn, NY 11215
> *Telephone:* 718-768-3953
> *Fax: *718-768-4663
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From dyv.researcher at GMAIL.COM Thu May 15 16:08:20 2014
From: dyv.researcher at GMAIL.COM (DYV)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:08:20 -0400
Subject: EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION for Summer 2014 Volunteer Collection
Assistants @ Lesbian Herstory Archives
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?Hello All,
Please send your email to* ?lha_interns at earthlink.net
<lha_interns at earthlink.net>*
I'm so sorry for the error in the earlier email.
I look forward to hearing from you.
?
> Peace,
> D?sir?e Yael Vester
> Caretaker, Librarian, Archivist
> ??
> Lesbian Herstory Archives <http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/>
>
>
> *About The **Lesbian Herstory Archives*
>
> In operation since 1974, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the
> world's oldest and largest collection of archival, bibliographic and
> multimedia materials by and about the diverse lesbian experience. LHA is
> an all-volunteer run, 501(c)3 , non-profit educational organization. We
> offer research assistance, tours, exhibits in-house events and a
> semester-long Lesbian Studies course. Our open hours are listed on our
> website in the "Calendar" section. Please visit us to browse, do research
> or volunteer any time we are open.
>
> *Facebook:*
> ?
> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lesbian-Herstory-Archives/24939682269>
> *Website:*
> ?
> <http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/>
> *Email:* lesbianherstoryarchives at gmail.com
> *Address:* 484 14th St. Brooklyn, NY 11215
> *Telephone:* 718-768-3953
> *Fax: *718-768-4663
>
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From J.Neubert at ZBW.EU Fri May 16 03:05:58 2014
From: J.Neubert at ZBW.EU (Neubert Joachim)
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 07:05:58 +0000
Subject: Deadline extension for SWIB14 (Semantic Web in Libraries) to
1.6.2014
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The submission deadline for the sixth conference "Semantic Web in Libraries" (SWIB), 1.-3.12.2014 in Bonn, has been extended to June 1, 2014.
The call for proposals here once again:
Call for Proposals: SWIB14 - Semantic Web in Libraries Conference 1.12. - 3.12.2014, Bonn, Germany
The SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries, German: "Semantic Web in Bibliotheken") is an annual conference focusing on Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) in the library world. It is held by turns in the Cologne region and Hamburg. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in applied sciences, industry applications, and LOD activities in other areas. SWIB mainly targets IT staff, developers, librarians and researchers.
As in prior years, SWIB14 will be organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz) and the ZBW - German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. The conference language is English.
Is there an interesting service, research topic or project that you would like to present at the conference? Or would you like to offer a pre-conference tutorial or workshop on the afternoon of 1 December? We appreciate proposals on the following or related topics:
Projects & Applications
* integration of LOD into productive library applications
* authorities and knowledge organization systems (thesauri, classifications, ontologies)
* mash-ups (using data from different sources)
* presenting and visualizing LOD
* end-user environments for interaction with LOD (e.g. annotation)
* crowdsourcing/gamification approaches involving LOD sources
Technology (focus on Open Source software)
* semantically enhanced data publication
* data transformation/integration/enhancement/mapping
* searching/information retrieval
* linked data in library systems
Standards & Best Practices
* RDF, JSON-LD, BIBFRAME & other open standards for libraries
* application profiles & provenance information
* providing updates & syncing data sources
* open data licensing
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals by *1 June 2014*.
Please submit an abstract of 1000-1500 characters using our website at https://www.conftool.net/swib14.
For the first time, this year's propsals will be reviewed by an international programme committee:
- Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia)
- Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands)
- Karen Coyle (Consultant, USA)
- Sarah Hartmann (German National Library)
- Anja Jentzsch (HPI, Germany)
- Niklas Lindstr?m (National Library of Sweden)
- Joachim Neubert (ZBW, Germany - Chair)
- Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany - Chair)
- Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA)
- MJ Suhonos (Ryerson University, Canada)
- Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)
- Jakob Vo? (GBV Common Library Network, Germany)
Website: http://swib.org/swib14
Hashtag: #swib14
Twitter: @swibcon
If you want to look at previous SWIB conferences: http://swib.org/swib14/history.php
Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions:
Adrian Pohl
hbz
Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de
or
Joachim Neubert
ZBW
Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462
E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu
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From rk11 at RICE.EDU Fri May 16 12:38:25 2014
From: rk11 at RICE.EDU (Rafal Kasprowski)
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:38:25 -0500
Subject: Electronic Resources Librarian Position, Rice University
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*Electronic Resources Librarian*
Rice University is seeking a dynamic, service-oriented Electronic
Resources Librarian. The successful candidate will work in a team
environment as the primary resource person for all aspects of electronic
resources maintenance. The position reports to the Head of
Acquisitions in the Technical Services
Department.
Specific areas of responsibility include acquisitions, license review,
access management, receipt, records maintenance, product trials,
management of EZProxy and the OpenURL link resolver (currently SFX) and
working with the discovery layer (currently EDS). The Electronic
Resources Librarian supervises one FTE and works closely with vendors,
IT staff, collection development librarians, cataloging staff, faculty
and students.
Required Qualifications include: ALA-accredited master?s degree in
library or information science (may substitute an advanced degree
(Master?s or PhD) and an additional year of library experience above and
beyond the requirement for the MLS degree); two years of library
experience; excellent communication skills; an understanding of
technical standards; strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
strong commitment to customer service and thorough understanding of
electronic product licensing terms.
Salary & benefits: $52,000 minimum, with hiring salary commensurate
with experience and qualifications; no state or local income tax; 21
benefit days; 8 study days; a range of retirement options including
TIAA/CREF; health and life insurance and tuition waiver.
Environment: Rice University provides a stimulating work environment,
with opportunities to participate in the delivery of innovative library
services supported by leading edge technologies. Fondren Library
(http://www.rice.edu/fondren) is a research library with more than 2.8
million volumes and more than 141,000 subscriptions, including titles
available through aggregators. The Library has a state-of-the-art
off-site shelving facility. An active program of digital resource
delivery and development is grounded in successful collaboration among
library and University staff from Digital Scholarship Services, other
library departments and University information technology staff. The
Technical Services Department is committed to using both established and
emerging methods to provide access to library materials.
Houston is a vibrant, multicultural city, with world-class visual and
performing arts ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde. The
fourth largest city in the country, Houston enjoys a moderate cost of
living and easy proximity to the Gulf Coast. For more information, see:
http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/General_Information.asp.
Applications received by June 18, 2014 will receive first consideration.
Please apply with cover letter, resum?, and the names, titles,
addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three references
at: http://jobs.rice.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=54226. Inquiries:
Melinda Reagor Flannery at (713) 348-3773 or reagor at rice.edu. Rice
University is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer.
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From maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM Fri May 16 17:30:35 2014
From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 02:30:35 +0500
Subject: Top 5 Royalty free images websites for Librarians, bloggers ,
Designers and students
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*1. * *http://pixabay.com* <http://pixabay.com/>
*Pixabay* - a repository for stunning public domain pictures. You can
freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for
personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the
original author.
Currently there are 194120 images available: 143992 Photos + 50128
ClipArt's
Read Complete article Top 5 Copy Rights free images
repositories<http://tech-dig.blogspot.com/2014/05/top-5-royalty-free-images-website-for.html>
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. "
Regards
*Maqsood Ahmad*
Database Administrator / Coordinator* Lincoln Corner Bahawalpur*
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Cell: 0092 333 6359133
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From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 02:34:24 +0500
Subject: What is Responsive Web Design? Why Responsive Design important
for Libraries?
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*What is Responsive Web Design? *
Responsive Web design is an approach in which a designer design a Web page
that resizes itself depending on the type of device it is being seen
through. That could be an oversized desktop monitor, a laptop, a 9.7-inch
iPad, a 7-inch tablet, or a 5-inch smartphone screen. The purpose of
responsive design is *Click here to read complete post
<http://tech-dig.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-is-responsive-web-design-why.html>*
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Regards
*Maqsood Ahmad*
Database Administrator / Coordinator* Lincoln Corner Bahawalpur*
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
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From WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG Tue May 20 11:25:09 2014
From: WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG (Wright, Jen)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:25:09 +0000
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
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*apologies for cross posting*
Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share?
Jennifer Maguire-Wright
Special Projects Director
Information Technology
Free Library of Philadelphia
215-686-5353
wrightj at freelibrary.org<mailto:wrightj at freelibrary.org>
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From alan.boyd at OBERLIN.EDU Tue May 20 11:31:44 2014
From: alan.boyd at OBERLIN.EDU (Alan Boyd)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:31:44 -0400
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
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Our campus networking staff block an individual's peer to peer access for
the remainder of a given academic year when we receive a proper DMCA
notice. This has cut way down on the number of notices we've received over
the past 5 years or so. Not necessarily a public library solution
though....
--
Alan Boyd
Associate Director of Libraries
Oberlin College Library
148 W. College St.
Oberlin, OH 44074-1532440-775-5015440-775-6586 (fax)alan.boyd at oberlin.edu
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Wright, Jen <WrightJ at freelibrary.org>wrote:
> **apologies for cross posting**
>
>
>
> Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to
> ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
>
>
>
> Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are
> willing to share?
>
>
>
> Jennifer Maguire-Wright
>
> Special Projects Director
>
> Information Technology
>
> Free Library of Philadelphia
>
> 215-686-5353
>
> wrightj at freelibrary.org
>
>
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From rclaringbole at GMAIL.COM Tue May 20 11:37:49 2014
From: rclaringbole at GMAIL.COM (Ryan Claringbole)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:37:49 -0500
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
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I contacted Carrie Russell at the ALA OITP office and she sent me the
attached document on 3rd party liability DMCA.
Hope this helps.
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3rd party liability DMCA-
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Wright, Jen <WrightJ at freelibrary.org>wrote:
> **apologies for cross posting**
>
>
>
> Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to
> ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
>
>
>
> Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are
> willing to share?
>
>
>
> Jennifer Maguire-Wright
>
> Special Projects Director
>
> Information Technology
>
> Free Library of Philadelphia
>
> 215-686-5353
>
> wrightj at freelibrary.org
>
>
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From PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG Tue May 20 12:10:50 2014
From: PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG (Phillip Whitford)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:10:50 +0000
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
In-Reply-To: <4D3B2BB663604840B22E388FD46E03130121F76EB0@EXCHMB1.private.library.phila.gov>
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAY.2014.161050.0000.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the compliant for a reply.
We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access which reads like this (library name and location redacted):
"The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on them or download copyright protected material to them it would be automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them had been used for improper purposes.
The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof.
Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from occurring."
So far this process has served us well.
Phillip B. Whitford
Associate Director for Support Services
Braswell Memorial Library
Rocky Mount, NC
Opinions expressed are my own.
From: Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
*apologies for cross posting*
Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share?
Jennifer Maguire-Wright
Special Projects Director
Information Technology
Free Library of Philadelphia
215-686-5353
wrightj at freelibrary.org<mailto:wrightj at freelibrary.org>
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From wjohnson at DCPLIBRARY.ORG Tue May 20 12:24:52 2014
From: wjohnson at DCPLIBRARY.ORG (Wesley Johnson)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:24:52 -0500
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
In-Reply-To: <0E7A8A3C9AB17243A7DB06C7A0105EE160F6AA17@2sparky.braswell-library.org>
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We are filtered pretty well as far as torrenting. We have more of an issue with illegal streaming sites. Those are difficult to block due to how many there are.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 20, 2014, at 11:13 AM, "Phillip Whitford" <PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG<mailto:PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG>> wrote:
We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the compliant for a reply.
We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access which reads like this (library name and location redacted):
?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on them or download copyright protected material to them it would be automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them had been used for improper purposes.
The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof.
Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from occurring.?
So far this process has served us well.
Phillip B. Whitford
Associate Director for Support Services
Braswell Memorial Library
Rocky Mount, NC
Opinions expressed are my own.
From: Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
*apologies for cross posting*
Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share?
Jennifer Maguire-Wright
Special Projects Director
Information Technology
Free Library of Philadelphia
215-686-5353
wrightj at freelibrary.org<mailto:wrightj at freelibrary.org>
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From joyce.wong at LANGARA.BC.CA Tue May 20 17:59:21 2014
From: joyce.wong at LANGARA.BC.CA (Joyce Wong)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:59:21 -0700
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....for students
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAY.2014.145921.0700.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Hi everyone
Apologies for any duplication.
Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on
programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is
interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
Thank you
Joyce
--
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Coordinator of User Experience
Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
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From william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM Wed May 21 04:10:10 2014
From: william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM (William Gunn)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 01:10:10 -0700
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....for students
In-Reply-To: <537BD039.2020808@langara.bc.ca>
Message-ID: <WED.21.MAY.2014.011010.0700.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware
of.
Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
--
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http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Apologies for any duplication.
>
> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on
> programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is
> interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
>
> Thank you
> Joyce
>
> --
> Joyce Wong
> Coordinator of User Experience
> Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
> T: 604-323-5047
> F: 604-323-5512
> joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca
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>
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From william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM Wed May 21 04:14:57 2014
From: william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM (William Gunn)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 01:14:57 -0700
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
In-Reply-To: <0E7A8A3C9AB17243A7DB06C7A0105EE160F6AA17@2sparky.braswell-library.org>
Message-ID: <WED.21.MAY.2014.011457.0700.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
I think that's a great response, Phil. You might want to add that there are
significant non-infringing uses for the bittorrent protocol, for
example Bittorrent
Sync <http://www.bittorrent.com/sync>, which is a service similar to
Dropbox, but more secure in that it syncs directly between computers
without cloud storage.
Best,
--
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Phillip Whitford <
PWhitford at braswell-library.org> wrote:
> We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via
> government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent
> sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets
> thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA
> violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups
> (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance
> request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the
> government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we
> can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the
> compliant for a reply.
>
>
>
> We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice
> the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending
> software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response
> back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access
> which reads like this (library name and location redacted):
>
>
>
> ?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the
> Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The
> alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright
> holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers
> computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and
> file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition
> when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their
> approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on
> them or download copyright protected material to them it would be
> automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once,
> and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in
> this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them
> had been used for improper purposes.
>
>
>
> The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was
> used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device.
> Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant
> to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls
> and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but
> as you know such measures are not foolproof.
>
>
>
> Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not
> condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright
> infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from
> occurring.?
>
>
>
> So far this process has served us well.
>
>
>
>
>
> Phillip B. Whitford
>
> Associate Director for Support Services
>
> Braswell Memorial Library
>
> Rocky Mount, NC
>
> Opinions expressed are my own.
>
>
>
> *From:* Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
>
>
>
> **apologies for cross posting**
>
>
>
> Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to
> ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
>
>
>
> Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are
> willing to share?
>
>
>
> Jennifer Maguire-Wright
>
> Special Projects Director
>
> Information Technology
>
> Free Library of Philadelphia
>
> 215-686-5353
>
> wrightj at freelibrary.org
>
>
>
>
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From riley at TFSGEO.COM Wed May 21 06:28:53 2014
From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:28:53 -0400
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
In-Reply-To: <CAOygOr5E5R3+OWZeyKk5NjOTQdrw4AZGOMc95szJq_=NyJ4ZZg@mail.gmail.com>
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But unfortunately the risk outweighs the reward, we block torrents, except for IT Staff.... We use a SonicWall appliance, but want to move to Smoothwall, if you are looking for a firewall I highly recommend Smoothwall.
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086
RileyChilds.net
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
-----Original Message-----
From: "William Gunn" <william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:19 AM
To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU" <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
I think that's a great response, Phil. You might want to add that there are significant non-infringing uses for the bittorrent protocol, for example Bittorrent Sync, which is a service similar to Dropbox, but more secure in that it syncs directly between computers without cloud storage.
Best,
--
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Phillip Whitford <PWhitford at braswell-library.org> wrote:
We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the compliant for a reply.
We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access which reads like this (library name and location redacted):
?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on them or download copyright protected material to them it would be automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them had been used for improper purposes.
The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof.
Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from occurring.?
So far this process has served us well.
Phillip B. Whitford
Associate Director for Support Services
Braswell Memorial Library
Rocky Mount, NC
Opinions expressed are my own.
From: Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
*apologies for cross posting*
Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share?
Jennifer Maguire-Wright
Special Projects Director
Information Technology
Free Library of Philadelphia
215-686-5353
wrightj at freelibrary.org
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From riley at TFSGEO.COM Wed May 21 06:30:28 2014
From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:30:28 -0400
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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+1
Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086
RileyChilds.net
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
-----Original Message-----
From: "William Gunn" <william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU" <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
--
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca> wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies for any duplication.
Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
Thank you
Joyce
--
Joyce Wong
Coordinator of User Experience
Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
T: 604-323-5047
F: 604-323-5512
joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca
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From sforrest at BCGOV.NET Wed May 21 07:48:02 2014
From: sforrest at BCGOV.NET (Forrest, Stuart)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:48:02 +0000
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
Stuart Forrest PhD
Beaufort County Library
Beaufort
South Carolina
843 255 6450
For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
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On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
+1
Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086
RileyChilds.net<http://RileyChilds.net>
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
________________________________
From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
--
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies for any duplication.
Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
Thank you
Joyce
--
Joyce Wong
Coordinator of User Experience
Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047>
F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512>
joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>
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From jmacdonald at AUS.EDU Wed May 21 08:15:26 2014
From: jmacdonald at AUS.EDU (James MacDonald)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:15:26 +0400
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
In-Reply-To: <3DE65BE4-2D3D-478B-A867-C52A60B47CBA@bcgov.net>
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I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless).
James MacDonald
Web Services Librarian
University Library
Tel +971 6 515 2270
Fax +971 6 558 5008
American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
http://www.aus.edu
jmacdonald at aus.edu
On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET> wrote:
> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
>
> Stuart Forrest PhD
> Beaufort County Library
> Beaufort
> South Carolina
> 843 255 6450
> For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
>
> +1
> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net<http://RileyChilds.net>
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> ________________________________
> From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
>
> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
>
> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
>
> --
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Apologies for any duplication.
>
> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
>
> Thank you
> Joyce
>
> --
> Joyce Wong
> Coordinator of User Experience
> Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
> T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047>
> F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512>
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From: jmacdonald at AUS.EDU (James MacDonald)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:15:26 +0400
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless).
James MacDonald
Web Services Librarian
University Library
Tel +971 6 515 2270
Fax +971 6 558 5008
American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
http://www.aus.edu
jmacdonald at aus.edu
On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET> wrote:
> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
>
> Stuart Forrest PhD
> Beaufort County Library
> Beaufort
> South Carolina
> 843 255 6450
> For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
>
> +1
> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net<http://RileyChilds.net>
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> ________________________________
> From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
>
> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
>
> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
>
> --
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Apologies for any duplication.
>
> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
>
> Thank you
> Joyce
>
> --
> Joyce Wong
> Coordinator of User Experience
> Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
> T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047>
> F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512>
> joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>
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From paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM Wed May 21 08:16:34 2014
From: paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM (Paul Poulain)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:16:34 +0200
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....for students
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Le 21/05/2014 10:10, William Gunn a ?crit :
> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm
> aware of.
>
> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
Right. From a legal point of view (french laws, but US ones are close
here afaik), there is no plagiarism: if you copy/paste code, it can be a
copyright infringement (except if you use Open Source licenses ;-) ),
not a plagiarism. If you rewrite the code, it's not plagiarism.
HTH
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From bhockenberry at SJFC.EDU Wed May 21 08:30:19 2014
From: bhockenberry at SJFC.EDU (Hockenberry, Benjamin)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 12:30:19 +0000
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing Computer Code" you mentioned (http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different.
I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for dismissal after only one or two occurrences.
Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce?
Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu<mailto:bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James MacDonald
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless).
James MacDonald
Web Services Librarian
University Library
[cid:image001.jpg at 01CE464E.49BB2D00]
Tel +971 6 515 2270
Fax +971 6 558 5008
American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
http://www.aus.edu<http://www.aus.edu/>
jmacdonald at aus.edu<mailto:jmacdonald at aus.edu>
On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET<mailto:sforrest at BCGOV.NET>> wrote:
Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
Stuart Forrest PhD
Beaufort County Library
Beaufort
South Carolina
843 255 6450
For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
Sent from my iPad
On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM><mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
+1
Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086
RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/><http://RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/>>
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
________________________________
From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU><mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
--
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca><mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies for any duplication.
Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
Thank you
Joyce
--
Joyce Wong
Coordinator of User Experience
Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047>
F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512>
joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca><mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>
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From william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM Wed May 21 09:07:22 2014
From: william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM (William Gunn)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:07:22 -0700
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
In-Reply-To: <F981167CA5EC504EA650846AB9C4690E5518CB59@w2k8-mbx02.academia.sjfc.edu>
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I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding they'll
do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to explain
about licenses, of course.
If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something,
you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize
those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse
things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept
in this domain.
Just my $0.02...
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn
On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" <bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>
wrote:
> The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing
> Computer Code" you mentioned (
> http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to
> define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable
> example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example
> in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different.
>
>
>
> I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were
> implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop,
> but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a
> sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student
> responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would
> cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic
> institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for
> dismissal after only one or two occurrences.
>
>
>
> Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure
> and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this
> discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce?
>
>
>
> Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
>
> Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
> 14618
>
> (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu
>
>
>
> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *James MacDonald
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
> Codes....forstudents
>
>
>
> I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited
> including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
>
>
>
> https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
>
>
>
> There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common
> knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you
> cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
>
>
>
> Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets
> of code (without which your code would be useless).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *James MacDonald *Web Services Librarian
> University Library
>
>
>
> Tel +971 6 515 2270
> Fax +971 6 558 5008
>
> American University of Sharjah
> PO Box 26666, Sharjah
> United Arab Emirates
> http://www.aus.edu
> jmacdonald at aus.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET> wrote:
>
>
>
> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
>
> Stuart Forrest PhD
> Beaufort County Library
> Beaufort
> South Carolina
> 843 255 6450
> For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<
> mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM <riley at TFSGEO.COM>>> wrote:
>
> +1
> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire
> files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net <http://rileychilds.net/><http://RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/>
> >
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> ________________________________
> From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM<william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
> >
> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> >
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
> Codes....forstudents
>
> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware
> of.
>
> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
>
> --
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<
> mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>>> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Apologies for any duplication.
>
> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on
> programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is
> interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
>
> Thank you
> Joyce
>
> --
> Joyce Wong
> Coordinator of User Experience
> Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
> T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047 <604-323-5047>>
> F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512 <604-323-5512>>
> joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>
> >
>
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From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:40:20 +0000
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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Hi
From what I read, the responses have largely missed the boat on this one.
Citing sources in both programing and writing serves a functional purpose; and I think not emphasizing this to students is doing them a huge disservice.
Often when you are learning to program (and write) you need to borrow other ideas/code?and, in programming, with GitHub, finding repositories is easy enough; adapting to your context is harder, but, if possible.
Having been in a grad program that relies on programming, I have seen all too frequently students who just grab whatever code they get online and, if it works reasonably well, call it a day, without notating in a comment where the code comes from and why they used it.
This creates a problem if you ever want to use this code again?as you did not write it, it may be you do not quite understand what it is doing?if it breaks, you have lost your reference to the ?handbook?, which describes what is happening and may even point to why the code has broken (and have an update); if you are working in the real world, where another person will look at this code at some future point, and they just assume you wrote it, then they will spend considerable time interpreting it, when it could have been an easy reference to its source, which would have given them a good overview.
Assuming you are using one piece of ?borrowed code?, these would be the issues; if you are using parts and pieces of numerous libraries, your code will be almost undecipherable without commentary and citations?it becomes a monster?I have seen enough ?monster code? from people with good intentions, who want to create something, but as the person who had to rework it, it proved to be a nightmare just understanding the various pieces?
It is particularly a disservice to students as many programming departments at companies want to see code samples as part of the hiring process; if the student sends them monster code, and the programmers recognize bits and pieces taken from places with credit (it could even be their code library, or one they contributed to), this will look sloppy and unprofessional?good programmers like order, neatness as much as good librarians do..these things separate talent from ?well, it?s good enough?.
Calling it plagiarism may not be quite accurate, but there is still a professional duty here, that, if not done, is not good for the person or their reputation.
Michael Cabus
Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library
Philadelphia University
Phone. 215.951.5365
*opinions are my own*
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Gunn
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:07 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to explain about licenses, of course.
If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept in this domain.
Just my $0.02...
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn
On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" <bhockenberry at sjfc.edu<mailto:bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>> wrote:
The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing Computer Code" you mentioned (http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different.
I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for dismissal after only one or two occurrences.
Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce?
Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 385-8382<tel:%28585%29%20385-8382> | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu<mailto:bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless).
James MacDonald
Web Services Librarian
University Library
Tel +971 6 515 2270<tel:%2B971%206%20515%202270>
Fax +971 6 558 5008<tel:%2B971%206%20558%205008>
American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
http://www.aus.edu<http://www.aus.edu/>
jmacdonald at aus.edu<mailto:jmacdonald at aus.edu>
On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET<mailto:sforrest at BCGOV.NET>> wrote:
Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
Stuart Forrest PhD
Beaufort County Library
Beaufort
South Carolina
843 255 6450<tel:843%20255%206450>
For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
Sent from my iPad
On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM><mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
+1
Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086<tel:%28704%29%20497-2086>
RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/><http://RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/>>
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
________________________________
From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU><mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
--
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca><mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies for any duplication.
Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
Thank you
Joyce
--
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From: andreadisd at DENISON.EDU (Debra Andreadis)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 09:45:32 -0400
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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I am a bit dismayed by all the answers that say that reusing code is not
plagiarism. When reusing code, comments should include sources for the code
just as in text. According to U.S. copyright law, computer code is
classified as a literary work, and as such it is covered under all
copyright legislation. Actually, that is why companies state that they are
only leasing you a copy of their program because that removes some of the
rights of the consumer (such as resale and duplication for your own use) of
a purchased work.
Debby Andreadis
--
Assistant Director for Education and Research Services
Denison University Libraries
Granville OH 43023
andreadisd at denison.edu
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:07 AM, William Gunn <william.gunn at mendeley.com>wrote:
> I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding
> they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to
> explain about licenses, of course.
>
> If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something,
> you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize
> those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse
> things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept
> in this domain.
>
> Just my $0.02...
>
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn
> On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" <bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing
>> Computer Code" you mentioned (
>> http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to
>> define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable
>> example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example
>> in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were
>> implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop,
>> but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a
>> sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student
>> responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would
>> cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic
>> institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for
>> dismissal after only one or two occurrences.
>>
>>
>>
>> Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this
>> ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities.
>> Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce?
>>
>>
>>
>> Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
>>
>> Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
>> 14618
>>
>> (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
>> Behalf Of *James MacDonald
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM
>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
>> Codes....forstudents
>>
>>
>>
>> I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited
>> including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
>>
>>
>>
>> There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common
>> knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you
>> cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
>>
>>
>>
>> Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets
>> of code (without which your code would be useless).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *James MacDonald *Web Services Librarian
>> University Library
>>
>>
>>
>> Tel +971 6 515 2270
>> Fax +971 6 558 5008
>>
>> American University of Sharjah
>> PO Box 26666, Sharjah
>> United Arab Emirates
>> http://www.aus.edu
>> jmacdonald at aus.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
>>
>> Stuart Forrest PhD
>> Beaufort County Library
>> Beaufort
>> South Carolina
>> 843 255 6450
>> For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<
>> mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM <riley at TFSGEO.COM>>> wrote:
>>
>> +1
>> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire
>> files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
>>
>> Riley Childs
>> Student
>> Asst. Head of IT Services
>> Charlotte United Christian Academy
>> (704) 497-2086
>> RileyChilds.net <http://rileychilds.net/><http://RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/>
>> >
>> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
>> ________________________________
>> From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM<william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
>> >
>> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
>> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
>> Codes....forstudents
>>
>> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm
>> aware of.
>>
>> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
>>
>> --
>> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
>> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<
>> mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>>> wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Apologies for any duplication.
>>
>> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on
>> programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is
>> interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
>> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Joyce
>>
>> --
>> Joyce Wong
>> Coordinator of User Experience
>> Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
>> T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047 <604-323-5047>>
>> F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512 <604-323-5512>>
>> joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>
>> >
>>
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From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Wed May 21 09:46:57 2014
From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:46:57 +0000
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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Hi
I re-read my response, and need to revise my ?code?.
I meant to say, if students send a code sample without citing it, it will look sloppy. Which shows details are important, but a rare commodity. Writing that was a lesson to me as a programmer?it is easy to get into bad habits, but articulating what you value helps you get out of them (creating and academic writing, and programmer are a great pair, like peanut butter and jelly, but that is a different topic).
Hope everyone is well,
Michael
Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library
Philadelphia University
Phone. 215.951.5365
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Gunn
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:07 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to explain about licenses, of course.
If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept in this domain.
Just my $0.02...
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn
On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" <bhockenberry at sjfc.edu<mailto:bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>> wrote:
The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing Computer Code" you mentioned (http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different.
I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for dismissal after only one or two occurrences.
Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce?
Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 385-8382<tel:%28585%29%20385-8382> | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu<mailto:bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>] On Behalf Of James MacDonald
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless).
James MacDonald
Web Services Librarian
University Library
Tel +971 6 515 2270<tel:%2B971%206%20515%202270>
Fax +971 6 558 5008<tel:%2B971%206%20558%205008>
American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
http://www.aus.edu<http://www.aus.edu/>
jmacdonald at aus.edu<mailto:jmacdonald at aus.edu>
On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET<mailto:sforrest at BCGOV.NET>> wrote:
Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
Stuart Forrest PhD
Beaufort County Library
Beaufort
South Carolina
843 255 6450<tel:843%20255%206450>
For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
Sent from my iPad
On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM><mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
+1
Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086<tel:%28704%29%20497-2086>
RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/><http://RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/>>
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
________________________________
From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU><mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
--
William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749<tel:%28650%29%20614-1749>
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca><mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies for any duplication.
Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
Thank you
Joyce
--
Joyce Wong
Coordinator of User Experience
Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
T: 604-323-5047<tel:604-323-5047><tel:604-323-5047>
F: 604-323-5512<tel:604-323-5512><tel:604-323-5512>
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From cmarkman at CLARKU.EDU Wed May 21 10:07:29 2014
From: cmarkman at CLARKU.EDU (Chris Markman)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:07:29 -0400
Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs
In-Reply-To: <537c7ffc.834be00a.2757.1470@mx.google.com>
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While we're on the subject, just thought I'd share a link to this recent
article I co-wrote on D-Lib Magazine:
BitTorrent and Libraries: Cooperative Data Publishing, Management and
Discovery <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march14/markman/03markman.html>
There's lots of reasons why BitTorrent traffic needs to be *managed* in a
public IT setting but please please please do not categorically block
the protocol from your computers *or* your mind. There's a long list of
opportunities for libraries and librarians to build on or adapt this
technology.
BitTorrent Sync is a great example and their blog lists a variety of use
cases: http://blog.bittorrent.com/tag/sync-hacks/ :-)
?Chris
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Chris Markman
Resource Library Coordinator
Visual & Performing Arts
Clark University
cmarkman at clarku.edu
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Riley Childs <riley at tfsgeo.com> wrote:
> But unfortunately the risk outweighs the reward, we block torrents, except
> for IT Staff.... We use a SonicWall appliance, but want to move to
> Smoothwall, if you are looking for a firewall I highly recommend Smoothwall.
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> ------------------------------
> From: William Gunn <william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:19 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
>
> I think that's a great response, Phil. You might want to add that there
> are significant non-infringing uses for the bittorrent protocol, for
> example Bittorrent Sync <http://www.bittorrent.com/sync>, which is a
> service similar to Dropbox, but more secure in that it syncs directly
> between computers without cloud storage.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Phillip Whitford <
> PWhitford at braswell-library.org> wrote:
>
>> We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via
>> government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent
>> sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets
>> thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA
>> violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups
>> (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance
>> request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the
>> government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we
>> can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the
>> compliant for a reply.
>>
>>
>>
>> We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice
>> the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending
>> software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response
>> back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access
>> which reads like this (library name and location redacted):
>>
>>
>>
>> ?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the
>> Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The
>> alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright
>> holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers
>> computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and
>> file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition
>> when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their
>> approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on
>> them or download copyright protected material to them it would be
>> automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once,
>> and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in
>> this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them
>> had been used for improper purposes.
>>
>>
>>
>> The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this
>> was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned
>> device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be
>> vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees
>> firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized
>> traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof.
>>
>>
>>
>> Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not
>> condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright
>> infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from
>> occurring.?
>>
>>
>>
>> So far this process has served us well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Phillip B. Whitford
>>
>> Associate Director for Support Services
>>
>> Braswell Memorial Library
>>
>> Rocky Mount, NC
>>
>> Opinions expressed are my own.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM
>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
>>
>>
>>
>> **apologies for cross posting**
>>
>>
>>
>> Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due
>> to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are
>> willing to share?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jennifer Maguire-Wright
>>
>> Special Projects Director
>>
>> Information Technology
>>
>> Free Library of Philadelphia
>>
>> 215-686-5353
>>
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From lsefton at GMAIL.COM Wed May 21 10:22:48 2014
From: lsefton at GMAIL.COM (Laurie Sefton)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:22:48 -0700
Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents
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Here's a pointer to Stanford's Computer Science Honor Code, which discusses
plagiarism: http://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/ug/HonorCode.shtml
I taught and graded for programming courses a while back. I'd have to say
the most blatant plagiarism involved taking a card deck (I taught a *long*
time ago!), changing the job control cards, and submitting the old set of
cards as their own. Given this was for a COBOL class, the people involved
forgot that there's what's called the "identification division" where the
students placed cards that had their name and what section they were in.
The students who were cheating didn't bother to change those.
A lot of Computer Science and programming courses will repeat the same
homework assignment for years. That makes it awfully tempting for a student
to copy and paste in a previous student's code, change the identification,
and turn it in as their own. The closest analogy would be a student
changing the title page on a paper and turning it in as their work. Then
there are students who will program as a group when they shouldn't be doing
so, and each turn in the same code. In most cases I've seen, either copying
from a previous semester, or sharing code are what's being checked for
plagiarism.
Some take it further than that, and want to know what parts of the code did
you write, what parts did you reuse from a class you previously took, and
what you received help on, or used from a book. This is both instilling
good programming practices, and making sure that the work turned in is
properly cited.
Laurie
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Cabus, Michael <CabusM at philau.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I re-read my response, and need to revise my ?code?.
>
>
>
> I meant to say, if students send a code sample* without* citing it, it
> will look sloppy. Which shows details are important, but a rare commodity.
> Writing that was a lesson to me as a programmer?it is easy to get into bad
> habits, but articulating what you value helps you get out of them (creating
> and academic writing, and programmer are a great pair, like peanut butter
> and jelly, but that is a different topic).
>
>
>
> Hope everyone is well,
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
> Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library
>
> Philadelphia University
>
> Phone. 215.951.5365
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>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *William Gunn
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:07 AM
>
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
> Codes....forstudents
>
>
>
> I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding
> they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to
> explain about licenses, of course.
>
> If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something,
> you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize
> those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse
> things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept
> in this domain.
>
> Just my $0.02...
>
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn
>
> On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" <bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>
> wrote:
>
> The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing
> Computer Code" you mentioned (
> http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to
> define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable
> example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example
> in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different.
>
>
>
> I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were
> implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop,
> but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a
> sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student
> responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would
> cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic
> institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for
> dismissal after only one or two occurrences.
>
>
>
> Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure
> and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this
> discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce?
>
>
>
> Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
>
> Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
> 14618
>
> (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu
>
>
>
> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *James MacDonald
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
> Codes....forstudents
>
>
>
> I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited
> including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:
>
>
>
> https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code
>
>
>
> There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common
> knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you
> cite say a for loop for iterating through and array.
>
>
>
> Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets
> of code (without which your code would be useless).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *James MacDonald *Web Services Librarian
> University Library
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>
>
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>
>
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET> wrote:
>
>
>
> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
>
> Stuart Forrest PhD
> Beaufort County Library
> Beaufort
> South Carolina
> 843 255 6450
> For Learning, For Liesure, For Life.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<
> mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM <riley at TFSGEO.COM>>> wrote:
>
> +1
> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire
> files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net <http://rileychilds.net/><http://RileyChilds.net<http://rileychilds.net/>
> >
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> ________________________________
> From: William Gunn<mailto:william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM<william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM>
> >
> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> >
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer
> Codes....forstudents
>
> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware
> of.
>
> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
>
> --
> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<
> mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>>> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Apologies for any duplication.
>
> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on
> programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is
> interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
>
> Thank you
> Joyce
>
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From ricese at APPSTATE.EDU Wed May 21 14:50:46 2014
From: ricese at APPSTATE.EDU (Scott Rice)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:50:46 -0400
Subject: Call for Proposals Extended: E-Learning Innovations in Academic
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Call for Chapter Proposals: E-Learning Innovations in Academic Libraries
Librarians from Appalachian State University invite you to submit a
proposal for a chapter in their upcoming book, E-Learning Innovations in
Academic Libraries, to be published by McFarland Publishing. This
practical book is intended to be a guide for academic librarians
interested in the creation and uses of e-learning tools, and will be
divided into three sections. Section 1 will include e-learning projects
connected with synchronous/asynchronous classroom learning experiences.
Section 2 will be comprised of chapters about the creation and/or
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teaching with technology, and focus on ways e-learning enhances the
in-classroom experience.
Examples of relevant topics include:
Virtual tours
Instructional games
Geo-spatial applications
Virtual reality applications
Classroom use of technology
For consideration, e-mail a 1-2 page proposal to either of the editors
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significance. Proposals should include information about the audience
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other libraries. Final chapters will be 5-7000 words, excluding
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Margaret Gregor, MALS, Ed.D.
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From Alison.Pruntel at FAUQUIERCOUNTY.GOV Thu May 22 09:16:27 2014
From: Alison.Pruntel at FAUQUIERCOUNTY.GOV (Pruntel,Alison)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:16:27 +0000
Subject: Laptop Recommendations
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*Excuses for cross-posting to multiple lists*
I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our summer reader database).
Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless.
Thanks in advance,
Alison Pruntel
Electronic Resources Librarian
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From agutierr at EMPORIA.EDU Thu May 22 09:58:44 2014
From: agutierr at EMPORIA.EDU (Art Gutierrez)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:58:44 +0000
Subject: Laptop Recommendations
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Hi Alison,
We have had very good luck with the Latitude line of laptops from Dell. I would encourage you to call and talk with a salesperson in order to get a better deal on pricing especially if you are ordering say 6 or more laptops. Also if you cannot get the price down you may be able to get warranty coverage for the battery or something else. I will say that we have had issues with the AC adapters sort of falling apart but we use these laptops for student checkout so they are sort of used and abused. We typically use the laptops for just over 3 years. I think we have the 14" size.
Thanks
Art Gutierrez
Head of Systems and Technical Services
Assistant Professor
Emporia State University
Agutierr at emporia dot edu
620-341-6205
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:16 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations
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I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our summer reader database).
Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless.
Thanks in advance,
Alison Pruntel
Electronic Resources Librarian
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From riley at TFSGEO.COM Thu May 22 10:11:17 2014
From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 10:11:17 -0400
Subject: Laptop Recommendations
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I recommend Lenovo, very reliable laptops
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086
RileyChilds.net
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
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Sent: ?5/?22/?2014 10:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations
Hi Alison,
We have had very good luck with the Latitude line of laptops from Dell. I would encourage you to call and talk with a salesperson in order to get a better deal on pricing especially if you are ordering say 6 or more laptops. Also if you cannot get the price down you may be able to get warranty coverage for the battery or something else. I will say that we have had issues with the AC adapters sort of falling apart but we use these laptops for student checkout so they are sort of used and abused. We typically use the laptops for just over 3 years. I think we have the 14? size.
Thanks
Art Gutierrez
Head of Systems and Technical Services
Assistant Professor
Emporia State University
Agutierr at emporia dot edu
620-341-6205
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:16 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations
*Excuses for cross-posting to multiple lists*
I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our summer reader database).
Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless.
Thanks in advance,
Alison Pruntel
Electronic Resources Librarian
Fauquier County Public Library
11 Winchester Street
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From steffen.schilke at GMAIL.COM Thu May 22 10:16:45 2014
From: steffen.schilke at GMAIL.COM (Steffen Schilke)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 16:16:45 +0200
Subject: Laptop Recommendations
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Dear Alison,
if it should be sturdy I recommend Toughbooks from Panasonic or any other
Notebook with military specs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6mX8Q1waA
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Pruntel,Alison <
Alison.Pruntel at fauquiercounty.gov> wrote:
> *Excuses for cross-posting to multiple lists*
>
>
>
> I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public
> computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program
> (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our
> summer reader database).
>
>
>
> Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> *Alison Pruntel*
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Fauquier County Public Library
> 11 Winchester Street
> Warrenton, VA 20186
> 540-422-8515
>
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From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Thu May 22 10:41:09 2014
From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:41:09 +0000
Subject: Laptop Recommendations
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Hi
Lenovo's are good, but get one that is model T430 or higher; our university uses Lenovo and had an issue with Microsoft programs opening on the model I had, so they had to switch out a lot on campus.
In general, just be sure there are no reported issues with the laptops if you go with Lenovo, they can be hit or miss.
Michael
Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library
Philadelphia University
Phone. 215.951.5365
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From TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET Thu May 22 11:03:06 2014
From: TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET (Thomas Edelblute)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:03:06 +0000
Subject: Laptop Recommendations
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In Anaheim, we use HP computers and they have worked out well for us. I have a 10 laptop mobile lab that we can use for training and special events. I will be taking them to the Anaheim job fairer on June 11 so people can apply for jobs online.
But if you need something that is rugged, then I would recommend the Panasonic Toughbook. This is what Anaheim Police and Public Utilities use in the field.
Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library
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From PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG Thu May 22 12:20:16 2014
From: PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG (Phillip Whitford)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 16:20:16 +0000
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We have had several different loaner laptop brands and the Dell Latitude laptops have always held up best. No matter the brand the cords on the power supplies eventually fail but the laptops themselves have held up really well.
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Braswell Memorial Library
Rocky Mount, NC
Opinions expressed are my own.
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From: jevansg at NCSU.EDU (Jason Evans Groth)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 16:34:31 -0400
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Head, Information Technology
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The NCSU Libraries invites applications for two positions: Head,
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From: thayes at CUMBERLAND.LIB.NC.US (Tiffany Hayes)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:38:12 -0400
Subject: mixed-device public computer labs?
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Does anyone have experience with public computer labs that offer multiple types of devices--not just desktops but also laptops and/or tablets?
We're looking at this as an option for our computer labs. We currently have 8 branches, each with a lab of up to 30 desktop computers, which we manage with Envisionware. They get heavy use by patrons! It seems reasonable that some people could do their computing on tablets or something like Chromebooks, if they're doing Facebook, playing games, etc, thus saving money and space. But those who are doing school assignments, resumes, job applications, anything with significant typing or using MS Office would need a computer with a keyboard. Our dilemma is how to manage something like this with a minimum of staff time. Envisionware does not yet offer management for tablets, and also how would we screen customers so they're using the right device for their needs? We currently check out a few laptops for use in the branch, they are on Envisionware, but the checkout process is a huge killer of staff time. Not to mention the dilemma of having to ask customers what they're doing on the computer to determine which device they need!
Anyone have a lab like this, or know of one? Thanks!
Tiffany Hayes, Library Training Coordinator
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
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From J.Phillips-Bacher at WELLCOME.AC.UK Fri May 23 10:41:26 2014
From: J.Phillips-Bacher at WELLCOME.AC.UK (Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:41:26 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
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From: gealach at GMAIL.COM (Cindy)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:19:47 -0400
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Hi Jenn,
Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and
New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons,
though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other
American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There
may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in
government.
>From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search
outside of the traditional "library" setting.
Best of luck,
Cindy
Cynthia Zweier
Librarian
NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer <
J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job
> description?
>
> I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of
> 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is
> responsible for:
>
> - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content
> with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
> - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
> - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to
> external stakeholders
> - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring
> technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
> - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all
> the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people
> and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
>
> Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few
> other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have
> (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
>
> Best wishes
> Jenn
>
>
> *Jenn Phillips-Bacher*
> Web Editor
> Wellcome Library
> 183 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BE, UK
> *T* +44 (0)20 7611 8746
> *F* +44 (0)20 7611 8369
> *E* *j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk* <j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
> *http://wellcomelibrary.org* <http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
>
> *Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as
> part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for
> business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas
> will be temporarily closed.*
>
> *If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please
> check for updates on the* *Library blog*<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/>*
> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.*
>
> *The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our
> opening hours please check our **website*<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>
> *.*
>
> We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary
> improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in
> biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support
> includes public engagement, education and the application of research to
> improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial
> interests.
>
> The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no.
> 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company
> registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at
> 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
>
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From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Fri May 23 11:41:14 2014
From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:41:14 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Hi
I think Jenn is just having fun, making up a pretend library job that would be the ?dream job??
I heard a dream job title on a podcast this week: explorer-in-residence; it satisfies both my desire for adventure and my need to be grounded, all at the same time.
Happy Friday everyone,
Michael
Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library
Philadelphia University
Phone. 215.951.5365
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 11:20 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hi Jenn,
Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons, though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in government.
From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search outside of the traditional "library" setting.
Best of luck,
Cindy
Cynthia Zweier
Librarian
NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer <J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746<tel:%2B44%20%280%2920%207611%208746>
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369<tel:%2B44%20%280%2920%207611%208369>
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From randtke at GMAIL.COM Fri May 23 12:20:17 2014
From: randtke at GMAIL.COM (Wilhelmina Randtke)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:20:17 -0500
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Chattanooga Public Library hosts hackathons and has a makerspace. Here's
more info on that http://chattlibrary.org/4th-floor
UNT's data management ("corral" and other cowboy names) and probably other
big university data management initiatives are getting to be closer and
closer to taking library services to external stakeholders. Partly, this
is because in a huge university, other departments are external
stakeholder. Partly, this is because many states have a level of
cooperation that's mandated between universities. (Hint, hint, I would be
curious to hear what Georgia's doing, because that's a state with a hugely
mandated level of cooperation between libraries and more sharing of systems
than most state systems.)
The DPLA hubs for digitization of materials will also lay a framework for
doing more cooperation later. I'm at a tiny private Catholic university,
St. Mary's of San Antonio, and all our law school student newspapers are in
the process of digitization through the DPLA hub Portal to Texas History at
UNT. So, that's a library we've never done business with before, that now
we're doing business with.
-Wilhelmina Randtke
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Cindy <gealach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jenn,
>
> Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and
> New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons,
> though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other
> American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There
> may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in
> government.
>
> From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search
> outside of the traditional "library" setting.
>
> Best of luck,
> Cindy
>
> Cynthia Zweier
> Librarian
> NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer <
> J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job
>> description?
>>
>> I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of
>> 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is
>> responsible for:
>>
>> - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised
>> content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
>> - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
>> - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to
>> external stakeholders
>> - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring
>> technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
>> - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all
>> the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people
>> and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
>>
>> Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few
>> other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have
>> (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Jenn
>>
>>
>> *Jenn Phillips-Bacher*
>> Web Editor
>> Wellcome Library
>> 183 Euston Road
>> London NW1 2BE, UK
>> *T* +44 (0)20 7611 8746
>> *F* +44 (0)20 7611 8369
>> *E* *j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk* <j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
>> *http://wellcomelibrary.org* <http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
>>
>> *Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes
>> as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for
>> business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas
>> will be temporarily closed.*
>>
>> *If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please
>> check for updates on the* *Library blog*<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/>*
>> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.*
>>
>> *The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our
>> opening hours please check our **website*<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>
>> *.*
>>
>> We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving
>> extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the
>> brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our
>> breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the
>> application of research to improve health. We are independent of both
>> political and commercial interests.
>>
>> The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no.
>> 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company
>> registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at
>> 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
>>
>>
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From TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET Fri May 23 12:31:19 2014
From: TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET (Thomas Edelblute)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:31:19 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
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From Ana.Krahmer at UNT.EDU Fri May 23 13:21:18 2014
From: Ana.Krahmer at UNT.EDU (Krahmer, Ana)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:21:18 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Happy birthday, Thomas! It is my birthday, too. Hah!
Sent from my iPad
On May 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, "Thomas Edelblute" <TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET<mailto:TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET>> wrote:
Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From ray.henry at WSU.EDU Fri May 23 13:23:56 2014
From: ray.henry at WSU.EDU (Henry, Ray)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:23:56 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
In-Reply-To: <6057DED69540C2469906BBF2B9615C7A0373F04B@VM-Kenya.wellcomeit.com>
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Sounds a great deal like a Scholarly Communications Librarian:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/jobScholarlyCommLibrarian.htm
--Ray
Ray Henry
Web Services Librarian
Washington State University Libraries - Pullman
509.335.9624
ray.henry at wsu.edu
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU Fri May 23 13:55:10 2014
From: haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU (Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm))
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:55:10 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran.
________________________________
From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From sforrest at BCGOV.NET Fri May 23 13:57:34 2014
From: sforrest at BCGOV.NET (Forrest, Stuart)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:57:34 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
In-Reply-To: <368C651461AEDA4C9052964EB2C25BE145AA24AE@UCMAILA6.ad.uc.edu>
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Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about integration....
Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
sforrest at bcgov.net<mailto:sforrest at bcgov.net>
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
For Liesure, For Learning, For Life
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran.
________________________________
From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET Fri May 23 14:07:47 2014
From: TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET (Thomas Edelblute)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 18:07:47 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
In-Reply-To: <52B8ECD78B6D0A40BBCC5C79AC2246326C50247B@MXMBX.bft.county>
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The Borg!!! That is where the hackathon is really needed.
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:58 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about integration....
Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
sforrest at bcgov.net<mailto:sforrest at bcgov.net>
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
For Liesure, For Learning, For Life
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran.
________________________________
From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From cblatchley at CCPA.NET Fri May 23 14:50:22 2014
From: cblatchley at CCPA.NET (Blatchley, Carolyn)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 18:50:22 +0000
Subject: Library Technology & Web Site Assistant (Part-Time); Carlisle, PA
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Library Technology & Web Site Assistant (Part-Time)
Position Description
Library System Headquarters in Carlisle, PA seeks an energetic multi-tasker to support technology activities, such as Drupal web site development and maintenance, Sierra Integrated Library System software functionality, Raiser's Edge development software, Evanced program software support, and statistical reporting. The ideal candidate understands the needs of the library environment, collaborates enthusiastically with system headquarters staff and various team members, and readily provides support to member library staff. 29 - 30 hours per week.
Essential Functions
1. Works in collaboration with the Automated Services Coordinator and System Executive Director to evaluate, develop and maintain the library system's public and intranet web site services, including social media web sites and digital content, such as reference databases, eBooks, eAudios, summer reading program registration software, etc.
2. Collaborates with the Automated Services Coordinator and Training Services Coordinator to implement System-wide Web Advisory Team committee recommendations and to maintain web site standards.
3. Prepares, edits, and posts graphical and narrative materials to the library system websites regularly.
4. Provides help desk support to member library web site editors as needed.
5. Works in collaboration with the Capital Area Library District to develop and maintain digital content resources.
6. Assists the Automated Services Coordinator with various maintenance and statistical routines for currently adopted integrated library system software (Sierra), such as updating annual calendars; verifying and updating web site links and scripted searches; formatting customer notices and staff reports; resolving and distributing failed customer notices to member libraries; compiling user statistics, etc.
7. Assists the Automated Services Coordinator with various maintenance and statistical routines for currently adopted library development software (Raiser's Edge), such as establishing secure library fund accounts; importing integrated library system customer records into the development software; making quarterly National Change of Address directory updates, etc.
8. Assists the Executive Director with formatting and distribution of customer communications in both digital and print formats.
Requirements
Must have knowledge and working experience with the following:
* Microsoft Office 2007 (Word and Excel)
* Web site content management systems (Drupal preferred)
* cPanel, WHM (Web Host Management), PHPMyAdmin
* HTML, CSS, using an editor and coding by hand
* Adobe Photoshop
Desired: PHP, XML, Java, Javascript and SQL
Minimum Training and Experience:
* Associates degree in computer science or equivalent. Preference given to those with library science or information science degree.
* 2 years working experience in library information technology, especially web site management, software, and databases.
How to Apply
Please complete the online application at http://www.ccpa.net/index.aspx?NID=2091 (under "Cumberland County Employment Opportunities (Non-Civil Service/Part-time) and upload your cover letter and resume to apply for this position. We prefer all candidates apply online for this position. However, if necessary, you can mail your application and resume to the Human Resources Department, One Courthouse Square, Carlisle, PA 17013.
Application deadline: Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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Training Services Coordinator
Cumberland County Library System
1601 Ritner Highway, Suite 100
Carlisle, PA 17013-9304
717.240.5379 | cblatchley at ccpa.net
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From Betsy.Aldridge at PACCAR.COM Fri May 23 15:35:07 2014
From: Betsy.Aldridge at PACCAR.COM (Betsy Aldridge)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 19:35:07 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
In-Reply-To: <52B8ECD78B6D0A40BBCC5C79AC2246326C50247B@MXMBX.bft.county>
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Must be enthusiastic about wearing Spider-Man costume and web walking for promotional activities.
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:58 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about integration....
Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
sforrest at bcgov.net<mailto:sforrest at bcgov.net>
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
For Liesure, For Learning, For Life
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran.
________________________________
From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From: Ana.Krahmer at UNT.EDU (Krahmer, Ana)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 19:50:48 +0000
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
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Qualifications:
Previous experience with the both temporal and standard prime directives
Working knowledge of dilithium crystal technology
Managerial experience preferred.
Sent from my iPad
On May 23, 2014, at 2:44 PM, "Betsy Aldridge" <Betsy.Aldridge at PACCAR.COM<mailto:Betsy.Aldridge at PACCAR.COM>> wrote:
Must be enthusiastic about wearing Spider-Man costume and web walking for promotional activities.
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:58 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about integration?.
Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
sforrest at bcgov.net<mailto:sforrest at bcgov.net>
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
For Liesure, For Learning, For Life
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran.
________________________________
From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET<mailto:TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET>]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt.
Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include:
Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing.
Start with that and feel free to edit.
Thomas Edelblute
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator
Hello all
It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description?
I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for:
- seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
- organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
- advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders
- coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
- and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
Best wishes
Jenn
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
Web Editor
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed.
If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website<http://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/visiting-the-library/opening-hours/>.
We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests.
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK).
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From findharpreet at GMAIL.COM Sat May 24 10:33:04 2014
From: findharpreet at GMAIL.COM (Harpreet Singh)
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:03:04 +0530
Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships
coordinator
In-Reply-To: <D3829CEEF7C2CB489B9A3FBBF0BAC31A2D5BDA83@ITDRENMX04.na.paccar.com>
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I guess I cannot apply because Google Translate does not offer
Cardassian and Bajoran services.
On 5/24/14, Betsy Aldridge <Betsy.Aldridge at paccar.com> wrote:
> Must be enthusiastic about wearing Spider-Man costume and web walking for
> promotional activities.
>
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:58 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content
> partnerships coordinator
>
> Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about
> integration....
>
>
> Stuart Forrest PhD
> Library Systems Specialist
> Beaufort County Library
> 843 255 6450
> sforrest at bcgov.net<mailto:sforrest at bcgov.net>
>
> http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
>
> For Liesure, For Learning, For Life
>
>
>
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content
> partnerships coordinator
>
> I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as
> Bajoran.
> ________________________________
> From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of
> Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content
> partnerships coordinator
> Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one.
> So here is my first attempt.
>
> Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that
> can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements
> include:
>
> Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited
> to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources
> Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire
> Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships
> Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language
> processing.
>
> Start with that and feel free to edit.
>
> Thomas Edelblute
>
>
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content
> partnerships coordinator
>
> Hello all
>
> It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job
> description?
>
> I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of
> 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is
> responsible for:
>
> - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content
> with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
> - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
> - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to
> external stakeholders
> - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring
> technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
> - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the
> digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and
> pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
>
> Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few
> other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have
> (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
>
> Best wishes
> Jenn
>
>
> Jenn Phillips-Bacher
> Web Editor
> Wellcome Library
> 183 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BE, UK
> T +44 (0)20 7611 8746
> F +44 (0)20 7611 8369
> E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk>
> http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/>
>
> Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as
> part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for
> business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas
> will be temporarily closed.
>
> If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check
> for updates on the Library
> blog<http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/label/wellcome-collection-development/>
> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.
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Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:29:59 -0700
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From weblibrarian at GMAIL.COM Tue May 27 11:04:23 2014
From: weblibrarian at GMAIL.COM (Maureen Wynkoop)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:04:23 -0400
Subject: Job Posting: Library 4, Head of Information Technology,
Camden County Library System
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*Job Announcement*
Open: 05/27/14
Close: 06/17/14
Job Title: Librarian 4, Full Time, JP 013-14 (Repost), Head of Information
Technology
Department: Information Technology Department, M. Allan Vogelson Regional
Branch, Voorhees, NJ
Salary: 65,000.00 annually
Schedule: Generally Monday through Friday, day hours,
*Schedule adjusted based on Library needs
Status: Pending Civil Service Procedures
Description of Duties
The Camden County Library System is seeking a Head of Information
Technology who will oversee all aspects of IT for users and staff of our
eight branch system and lead a team of six staff members. A successful
candidate will be familiar with computer hardware, software, data and voice
networks; have knowledge of digital, electronic, mobile and online services
and their applications in a public library setting; and demonstrate a
knowledge of and enthusiasm for implementation of emerging technologies.
Experience maintaining or administering an ILS is a plus. Excellent
communication, leadership, teamwork, organizational and management skills
are a must.
Specific duties of the IT manager include:
? Coordinate, oversee and direct the planning, evaluation and
implementation of all aspects of technology in a multi-branch public
library setting, including hardware and software, digital, electronic,
mobile and online library services and emerging technologies.
? Oversees the library system?s data and voice network, Internet
connectivity and wireless access.
? Co-administrator for the Integrated Library System (ILS), primarily
bibliographic, authority and item record loading, systems administration,
loan rule administration, software upgrades, database maintenance and
system back up.
? Work with partner libraries and Camden County College Library regarding
shared ILS.
? Supervise IT department staff
? Develop and monitor the IT department budget; facilitates all purchasing
for IT
? Coordinate e-rate funding applications
? Serve on Library Management Team
? Involved in creation and implementation of the Library?s strategic plan
and technology plan.
? Recommend changes and additions to library policy as relating to
technology and IT
Education:
Graduation from an ALA accredited college or university with a Master's
degree in Library or Information Science or from a New Jersey Master's
program in Library Science that has been deemed acceptable by Thomas Edison
State College.
Experience:
Three (3) years of professional librarian experience. A valid New Jersey
professional librarian?s license is required.
The successful candidate will have experience in aspects of IT as outlined
above.
Employment applications may be obtained at any of our branches or may be
printed off our website at www.camdencountylibrary.org/employment-library.
*Candidates who previously applied to this opening need not reapply,
application will remain active during this process.
Completed applications are due by June 17, 2014 at 2pm and should be
forwarded to:
Camden County Library
Department of Human Resources
203 Laurel Road
Voorhees, NJ 08043 or Fax: 856-772-2761 or E-mail:
jdinich at camdencountylibrary.org .
*Please refer to the Job Posting Number on your application; failure to
submit a completed application or to indicate job posting number may be
reason for your application not to be considered.
We meet the learning, recreational and information needs of our customers,
providing an open environment for our community.
The Camden County Library is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action
Employer.
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Web Services Librarian
Camden County Library System
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From Imma.Subirats at FAO.ORG Tue May 27 12:36:55 2014
From: Imma.Subirats at FAO.ORG (Subirats, Imma (OPCC))
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:36:55 +0200
Subject: Call for Papers Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open
Repositories,
Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures at MTSR 2014
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****** I apologize if you receive this message more than once! ******
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Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/tracks/2-uncategorised/12-tracks-b
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Part of the 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2014)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany, November 27-29, 2014
http://www.mtsr-conf.org/
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AIM AND SCOPE
The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly important aspect of scientific activity. Text publications are traditionally the main way of publishing research output and challenges still exist for their optimal recording and dissemination. Scientific communities increasingly recognise the immense significance of storing, discovering, processing, preserving and re-using data sets as well as other types of research objects like workflows and software. Furthermore, Public Sector Information, potentially valuable for research purposes, is provided openly by governments although not always in forms that enable re-use.
Metadata is a critical factor in this area, actually providing the means to promote black-box digital files to discoverable and re-usable objects. Rich metadata about research output needs to be recorded and disseminated, including contextual and provenance information (for example, relationships of publications and data sets with people, organisations, funding information, facilities and equipment). For certain use cases, metadata needs to be uniformly accessed across research domains, to foster collaboration and re-use of data sets among different disciplines and vertical communities. However, the recording and utilisation of domain-specific information is also significant in many circumstances. A range of open research and technical issues have to be addressed towards these goals, while it is also recognised that international harmonisation on standards and technologies is of critical importance.
The aim of this Special Track is to serve as a forum for experts to present recent results and experiences, establish liaisons with other groups and reflect on the state-of-the-art of metadata and semantic aspects of open repositories, research information systems and data infrastructures.
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TOPICS
Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues:
* Metadata, knowledge representation and relevant standards in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
* Semantic interoperability and information integration in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
* Application of semantic web technologies in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
* Data infrastructures (e.g. scientific data, public sector information)
* Contextual and provenance metadata in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
* Metadata interoperability for data infrastructures across disciplines
* Metadata quality in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
* Mechanisms, tools and infrastructures for shared services in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
* Digital preservation workflows and mechanisms and impact on metadata
* Value-added services based on open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures
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IMPORTANT DATES
* 13 July 2014: Paper submission (PDF File formatted in Springer LNCS style)
* 17 August 2014: Acceptance (or rejection) notification
* 31 August 2014: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted paper
* 27-29 November 2014: MTSR'14 in Karlsruhe
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SUBMISSIONS
Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) reporting on either mature or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission will be available through the EasyChair subission System.
If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the MTSR'14 page.
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PUBLICATION
The submissions to the Special Track will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the book of MTSR'12 proceedings by Springer (CCIS Series) . The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in: Scopus, EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
Revised and extended versions of best papers will be published in selected international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program: Electronic library and information systems (Emerald) (list incomplete).
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SPECIAL TRACK PROGRAM COMMITEE
* Sophie Aubin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
* Thomas Baker, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, USA
* Hugo Besemer, Wageningen UR Library, The Netherlands
* Gordon Dunshire, University of Strathclyde, UK
* Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
* Siddeswara Guru, University of Queensland, Australia
* Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
* Keith Jeffery, Keith G Jeffery Consultants, UK
* Rebecca Koskela, University of New Mexico, USA
* Jessica Lindholm, Malm? University, Sweden
* Daniela Luzi, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies - Italian National Research Council (IRPPS-CNR), Italy
* Devika P. Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute, India
* Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies-Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy
* Natalia Manola, University of Athens, Greece
* Brian Matthews, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
* Eva Mendez, University Carlos III, Spain
* Joachim Sch?pfel, University of Lille, France
* Jochen Schirrwagen, University of Bielefeld, Germany
* Birgit Schmidt, University of G?ttingen, Germany
* Panagiotis Stathopoulos, National Documentation Centre, Greece
* Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Daniel Vila, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
* Zhong Wang, Sun-Yat-Sen University, China
* Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
* Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA
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ABOUT MTSR'14
The 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference will be hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 27 to 29 November, 2014. MTSR'14 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as well as applications of the semantic web and related technologies.
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SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Imma Subirats Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)
* Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre (Greece)
For your intention to submit a paper, or any other inquiry, contact the track chairs using <imma.subirats at fao.org> or <imma.subirats at gmail.com>
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Imma Subirats-Coll
Knowledge and Information Management Officer
OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome (Italy)
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From jtonyan at NWACC.EDU Tue May 27 12:57:44 2014
From: jtonyan at NWACC.EDU (Tonyan, Joel)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:57:44 +0000
Subject: JOB OPENING: Community College Systems Librarian Position
Message-ID: <TUE.27.MAY.2014.165744.0000.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Hi all,
I wanted to let you know about a systems librarian position that's available at NorthWest Arkansas Community College:
https://jobs.nwacc.edu/postings/4697
It's a great job for anyone who want to work with systems, provide reference assistance, and teach information literacy. Recent graduates are encouraged to apply, too. NorthWest Arkansas Community College has an FTE of nearly 5,000 students, and is located in Bentonville, Arkansas, a town that is home to Walmart and the Crystal Bridges Art Museum and within a 25-minute drive of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where the University of Arkansas is located. Northwest Arkansas is a growing area and offers plenty of job opportunities for two-income families.
This position is the one I'm currently occupying. I've accepted a job at a university in Colorado, but I can say that I've loved my time here at NWACC and enthusiastically recommend this position to anyone interested in systems, whether you're a recent graduate or simply looking for a new venture.
Thanks,
Joel Tonyan, MA, MLIS
Systems Librarian
NWACC Library
One College Dr
Bentonville, AR 72712
Phone: 479-619-4183
http://guides.nwacc.edu/joel_tonyan
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From info at EDUICONF.ORG Tue May 27 13:55:17 2014
From: info at EDUICONF.ORG (EdUI Conference)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 13:55:17 -0400
Subject: edUi schedule
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Web4Lib readers,
The schedule for the 2014 edUi conference
<http://eduiconf.org/schedule/>has been announced!
*Keynotes *
A Brief History of Tomorrow <http://eduiconf.org/sessions/edui_tomorrow/> ?
Matt Novak
Stop Doing What You?re Told <http://eduiconf.org/sessions/edui_told/> ?
Stephen P. Anderson
Discuss Design Without Losing Your
Mind<http://eduiconf.org/sessions/edui_discuss/>? Adam Connor
*Workshops *(One is included with registration)
Content With Clout <http://eduiconf.org/sessions/edui_clout/> ? Colleen
Jones
Site Design, One Piece at a Time
<http://eduiconf.org/sessions/edui_piece/>? Boon Sheridan & Curtiss
Grymala
>From Zero to App <http://eduiconf.org/sessions/edui_apigee/> ? Greg Rewis
*Other Highlights*
*Captain Phonegap and the Web Avengers
<http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-m/> Cardsorting for
Humanities <http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-c/> With Drupal,
Your Website is an API <http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-yh/>
Design is How it Works, Prototyping UX
<http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-yk/> It?s What?s Inside That
Counts: Testing Content Effectiveness
<http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-yu/> Web Components: Back to
the Future of UI/UX <http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-jl/>
Making Aural Information Accessible: Captioning as Universal Design
<http://edui.cmail3.com/t/r-l-xikjrut-plyuyjif-jr/>*
*What is edUi?*
edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities,
libraries, and museums. Our focus is on practical skill building in the
areas of user interface and user experience.
*The 2014 conference takes place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Richmond, VA.*
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From gilbert.j at WHITEHALLPL.ORG Wed May 28 11:45:45 2014
From: gilbert.j at WHITEHALLPL.ORG (Jim Gilbert(WTPL))
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:45:45 +0000
Subject: Torrents and public PCs
In-Reply-To: <4D3B2BB663604840B22E388FD46E03130121F76EB0@EXCHMB1.private.library.phila.gov>
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We have yet to receive a notice.
We do not block on our public PCs.
I block peer-to-peer via our firewall for our public wireless access, however no peer-to-peer torrent downloading software is installed
I am not sure if a 3rd party service (bitlet, etc) would show a library IP as the requestor or website IP.
Hope this helps.
James Gilbert, BS, MLIS
Systems Librarian
Whitehall Township Public Library
3700 Mechanicsville Road
Whitehall, PA 18052
610-432-4339 ext: 203
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wright, Jen
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:26 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs
*apologies for cross posting*
Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies?
Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share?
Jennifer Maguire-Wright
Special Projects Director
Information Technology
Free Library of Philadelphia
215-686-5353
wrightj at freelibrary.org<mailto:wrightj at freelibrary.org>
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From blakisto at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed May 28 16:37:42 2014
From: blakisto at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto))
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 20:37:42 +0000
Subject: 2-week course on usability testing - still time to register!
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Summer got you down? Learn something new! From June 2nd-27th, I am once again teaching this online course through Library Juice Academy, and there are still a few seats left!
This is a great class for anyone who is interested in conducting usability testing on a lean budget and in an ongoing way. It will be useful for those who have experience conducting usability tests and would like to hone their craft, as well as those who are brand new and just want to get their feet wet.
Still not convinced? Here is some feedback from students who took the class last August:
* "I really enjoyed the lectures! ... was very effective and you provided a lot of information without making them feel overly long or overloaded."
* "The templates for different tasks each week were very helpful and I plan to use them again. Also appreciated the focus on active learning."
* "This course gave me great ideas on usability testing. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. This short course gives me hope and makes it less scary."
100% of students said they would recommend the course to others. Not too shabby.
See the course overview<http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/001-usability-testing.php>, let me know if you have any questions (I'm happy to share the full syllabus upon request), and help me spread the word!
Thanks,
Rebecca
Rebecca Blakiston
User Experience Librarian
University of Arizona Libraries
blakisto at email.arizona.edu<mailto:blakisto at email.arizona.edu>
(520) 307-2834
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From waltcrawford at GMAIL.COM Wed May 28 16:57:05 2014
From: waltcrawford at GMAIL.COM (Walt Crawford)
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:57:05 -0700
Subject: Cites & Insights 14:6 (June 2014) available
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAY.2014.135705.0700.WEB4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Cites & Insights 14:6 (June 2014) is now available for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i6.pdf
The print-oriented two-column version is 16 pages long. You may also
view or download a 32-page one-column 6x9" ereader-oriented version at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i6on.pdf
This issue includes three sections:
The Front: Beyond the Damage (pp. 1-4)
Libraries that subscribe to Library Technology Reports should, some
time in the next few days or weeks, receive "Big-Deal Serial
Purchasing: Tracking the Damage"--and academic libraries that don't
subscribe to LTR may want to purchase this edition from ALA Editions.
It brings last year's The Big Deal and the Damage Done forward to
cover 2002-2012 and offers a tighter and more sophisticated view of
the situation. (Spoiler alert: Things got worse from 2010 to 2012)
Simultaneously, I'm publishing Beyond the Damage: Circulation,
Coverage and Staffing, a book looking at some other aspects of
academic libraries and how they changed between 2002 and 2012. It's
available in two forms, each $45: a 130-page paperback with color
graphs--or a site-licensed PDF ebook with precisely the same content.
Easiest way to find it: go to Lulu.com and search "Crawford beyond
damage" (no quotes needed)--that currently yields just the two
versions.
Media: Mystery Collection, part 7 (pp. 4-12)
For the first time, most of these movies are in color--which doesn't
necessarily mean they're better, as this is also (I believe) the first
time I've given up on movies before they're finished in five out of 24
cases. There are some gems, but also some real dross here.
The Back (pp. 12-16)
Little snarky essays on a variety of things, not all of them entirely humorous.
Next time...
As previously announced, the next issue (which might be the July
issue, the July/August issue, or the Summer 2014 issue) should appear
some time in June and will be a single- essay issue delving into the
realities behind the Beall list--including not only original research
but a control group!
After that...well, there's still time to become a supporter or sponsor
of Cites & Insights.
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From Aalia.Oosman at TANDF.CO.UK Thu May 29 12:04:52 2014
From: Aalia.Oosman at TANDF.CO.UK (Oosman, Aalia)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:04:52 +0000
Subject: Join Taylor & Francis=?Windows-1252?Q?=92_?=Twitter Party on the
use of social media in the library
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Taylor & Francis is investigating how social media is used in the academic library and how this differs based on the experience level, knowledge, and focus of librarians. We are producing a White Paper<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/white-paper-social-media-in-the-library-best-practice.pdf> (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/white-paper-social-media-in-the-library-best-practice.pdf) and, as part of this research, we?re hosting a Twitter party on Thursday June 5 between 10:00-10:45 AM, EDT, to discover your thoughts on using social media in the library.
Take part in our qualitative research and engage with other librarians through one of the most popular means of social communication, Twitter! Your input will help form the basis of our upcoming White Paper.
Is this your first Twitter party? Here?s how to take part:
Register by June 4th and sign into Twitter on the time and day above, and then search for #tfsocialmedia. You?ll instantly see the discussion and can join in by tweeting @librarylantern, using #tfsocialmedia to share your thoughts on:
? The challenges and opportunities social media presents to the library community
? Social media as a teaching tool - the role social media plays in information literacy
? User engagement & perception of using social media in the library
? Accessibility? how SNS are being promoted in the library
? Measurability - the impact of social media
Everyone who registers will receive the discussion guide in advance and a small gift afterwards. Click here to register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CDDNQ66
The hash tag for this event is #tfsocialmedia and it will be hosted on Library Lantern (www.twitter.com/LibraryLantern<http://www.twitter.com/LibraryLantern>). We look forward to welcoming you there!
Best regards,
Elyse Profera<mailto:Elyse.Profera at taylorandfrancis.com> and Aalia Oosman<mailto:Aalia.Oosman at tandf.co.uk>
Library Communications Project Team
Taylor & Francis Group<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/15M59pwTyGFVTtqbfPUJKP3>
Email: elyse.profera at taylorandfrancis.com<mailto:elyse.profera at taylorandfrancis.com> aalia.oosman at tandf.co.uk<mailto:aalia.oosman at tandf.co.uk>
www.tandfonline.com<http://www.tandfonline.com>
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From zimmel at COLL.MPG.DE Fri May 30 08:14:15 2014
From: zimmel at COLL.MPG.DE (Daniel Zimmel)
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:14:15 +0200
Subject: Touchscreen approach to JournalTocs & CrossRef
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Hi,
we just released some early code for a responsive design interface to the JournalTocs and CrossRef APIs, running in our intranet on a huge touchscreen besides the "new journals" shelf. Whenever I peek around the corner, our scholars seem to enjoy it so far.
If anyone is interested in contributing better code, feel free to send me a message.
If the code base is too messy for you, we might still enjoy seeing forks and re-implementations of the idea.
A huge problem is still getting/marking reliable updates from the APIs. Right now, we try some basic checking with the JournalTocs Premium API.
Demo:?
http://www.coll.mpg.de/bib/jtdemo-public/
http://bibliocoll.github.io/JournalTouch/
Best, Daniel
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Max Planck Institute for
Research on Collective Goods, Bonn ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?||/| Library
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