[Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website
TLAlekson at fhsu.edu
TLAlekson at fhsu.edu
Mon Jan 25 14:55:57 EST 2010
We just went through this same process. How shortsighted of some
administrators, that they don't think the library is an integral part of
any institution serious about showing off to potential students. Many
students don't think a school is academically credible unless it has a
decent library.
Like you, we wrote a letter outlining our concerns and pointing out how
important the library was to both future and current students. We also
included screenshots of the homepages of other institutions and
highlighted their accessible and prominent library link, usually available
on the main navigation and therefore on every page within the site. We
made sure to include major national institutions (e.g. Harvard),
universities of repute in areas our school is concerned about (e.g.Wake
Forest), and schools we are directly competing against (U of Kansas,
K-State, Emporia State, Pittsburg State). In each case, the library link
was on the main page, in the main navigation, and available from all
inside pages.
We managed to get onto our "quick links" throughout the site, but are
working on increasing the profile in other menus.
Good luck!
Tania Alekson
Learning Commons Coordinator
Forsyth Library
TLAlekson at fhsu.edu
785-628-5494
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2. Technology Training from Amigos (Christine Peterson)
3. NETSL Award 2010: 2nd Call for Nominations (Helen L)
4. Link to Library site on College website (nancy at thesmudge.com)
5. Digital Library/Library IT Jobs at DigitalKoans (Charles Bailey)
6. RULE 2010 - Call For Papers (Mohand-Said Hacid)
7. Re: Link to Library site on College website (Brian Gray)
8. Re: Link to Library site on College website (Robert L. Balliot)
9. Re: question on jsf (Mutch, Andrew)
10. New Report On Library Efforts to Index and Catalog Cyberspace
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:21:37 -0500
From: "Robert L. Balliot" <rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Best of PubLib
To: <publib at webjunction.org>, "'web4lib'" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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This Week in Best of PubLib covering January 10 through January 24, 2010
is
here: Best of PubLib
<http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/publib-4/>
along with our brand new <http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/> poll on
Advertising Ethics <http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/>
The weather closing <http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/> poll resulted in
another tie:
The Director or Person in Charge decides / When hell freezes over
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Robert L. Balliot
Skype: RBalliot
Bristol, Rhode Island
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:28:02 -0600
From: "Christine Peterson" <peterson at amigos.org>
Subject: [Web4lib] Technology Training from Amigos
To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>, <ATRT at txla.org>
Cc: Chris Brown <brown at amigos.org>
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Amigos has scheduled web-based training in our live online classroom.
Available courses include the following titles. All times below are
Central Time.
Digital Imaging for Text-Based Collections
March 23-26, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
http://bit.ly/5UWN8A <http://bit.ly/5UWN8A>
Digital Photography Basics
March 2-5, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
http://bit.ly/38vcNf <http://bit.ly/38vcNf>
FRBR: What is it and how it can help you prepare for RDA
March 9, 11, 2009, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/7EjBh6 <http://bit.ly/7EjBh6>
METS: The Basics
June 23-24, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/7cpW0I <http://bit.ly/7cpW0I>
PHP: Interacting with the World
April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/67QwnF <http://bit.ly/67QwnF>
Project Management for Digital Imaging
May 11-14, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/21mWOc <http://bit.ly/21mWOc>
Tools for the Reference Desk
February 16, 23, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq>
Tools for the Reference Desk
May 10, 17, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq> <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq
<http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq> >
Web Publishing: Introduction to Style Sheets I
March 30-April 3, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/6ob0Kh <http://bit.ly/6ob0Kh>
Virtual Reference Communication
April 5, 12, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/8vhoWZ <http://bit.ly/8vhoWZ>
OCLC-Specific Courses:
Administrator Training for QuestionPoint
March 10, 17, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/2Hkmci <http://bit.ly/2Hkmci>
Authority Files Fundamentals with OCLC Connexion
June 1-3, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/3qZKeq <http://bit.ly/3qZKeq>
Connexion Browser - Advanced Bibliographic Searching
February 17, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
http://bit.ly/7HipiT <http://bit.ly/7HipiT>
Connexion Browser - Advanced Bibliographic Searching
May 13, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/7HipiT <http://bit.ly/7HipiT>
Connexion Browser - Authority Control
April 22, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
http://bit.ly/7rSQo4 <http://bit.ly/7rSQo4>
Connexion Browser - Authority Control
June 10, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/7rSQo4 <http://bit.ly/7rSQo4>
Connexion Browser - Editing, Upgrading, and Enriching Master Records
April 27, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/6ZuXQ1 <http://bit.ly/6ZuXQ1>
Connexion Browser - Original Cataloging
March 24, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
http://bit.ly/8aGdBs <http://bit.ly/8aGdBs>
Connexion Browser - Original Cataloging
June 8, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/8aGdBs <http://bit.ly/8aGdBs>
Connexion Client - Basic Bibliographic Searching
February 3, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/4N7kf5 <http://bit.ly/4N7kf5>
Connexion Client - Basic Bibliographic Searching
May 12, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
http://bit.ly/4N7kf5 <http://bit.ly/4N7kf5>
Connexion Client - Basic Editing and Record Processing
March 10, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/7CuMoC <http://bit.ly/7CuMoC>
Connexion Client - Basic Editing and Record Processing
June 3, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
http://bit.ly/7CuMoC <http://bit.ly/7CuMoC>
Connexion Client - WorldCat, MARC, and Client Basics
April 20, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
http://bit.ly/5oXF5U <http://bit.ly/5oXF5U>
CONTENTdm 5: Adding Textual Materials
March 8-9, 2010, 1:00p - 3:00pm
http://bit.ly/3aECig <http://bit.ly/3aECig>
CONTENTdm 5: Adding Visual Materials
March 4-5, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/2ZudGg <http://bit.ly/2ZudGg>
CONTENTdm: An Amigos Online Conference
February 19, 2010, 9:00am - 4:00pm
http://contentdm.amigos.org/ <http://contentdm.amigos.org/>
CONTENTdm 5: Maintaining Collections
March 11, 12, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/2GQovN <http://bit.ly/2GQovN>
Implementing Odyssey Standalone
February 11, 2010 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/g7aAl <http://bit.ly/g7aAl>
Implementing Unmediated ILL in OCLC
February 9, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/6LIx4m <http://bit.ly/6LIx4m>
OCLC CatExpress
March 23, 25, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
http://bit.ly/1nfq5b <http://bit.ly/1nfq5b>
OCLC Connexion Client - Using the Client interface
June 8-10, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
http://bit.ly/6SuGAT <http://bit.ly/6SuGAT>
OCLC Policies Directory Redesign
March 10, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/5I5b4v <http://bit.ly/5I5b4v>
QuestionPoint Librarian Training
February 5, 12, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/3Gchs9 <http://bit.ly/3Gchs9>
QuestionPoint Librarian Training
April 6, 13, 2010, 8:00am - 10:00am
http://bit.ly/3Gchs9 <http://bit.ly/3Gchs9>
Serials (& other) Local Holdings: Creation and Care with OCLC Connexion
April 28-29, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm
http://bit.ly/5oqJIn <http://bit.ly/5oqJIn>
For the most up-to-date training schedule, a complete list of courses,
descriptions, and a convenient online registration form, visit
http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/
<http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/>
<http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/
<http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/> > or contact Chris Brown at
Amigos, 1-800-843-8482, ext. 2829, or brown at amigos.org
<mailto:brown at amigos.org> <mailto:brown at amigos.org
<mailto:brown at amigos.org> > .
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:51:11 -0500
From: Helen L <celestihel at gmail.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] NETSL Award 2010: 2nd Call for Nominations
To: Web4Lib Listserv <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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Deadline for nominations is Friday, February 5, 2010
Is there a technical services librarian in your life who has inspired you?
Do you have a colleague who has tackled today's challenges in technical
services and triumphed? Do you know a person who leads the way in
innovation, collaboration, or data integration? Is there someone you know
who puts the service in technical services? If you know of a person who
merits any or all of these descriptions, please tell us. We ask you to
include documents of support along with the name of your nominee. The
requirements are outlined below. The successful nominee will be presented
with the Award the NETSL Annual Spring Conference 2010: Crosswalks to the
Future <http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm>,* April 15,
2010*****, at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Eligibility for nomination is as follows:
*Nominees may be NETSL/NELA members, but membership in the Association is
not a requirement.
*A nomination must be accompanied by a written statement that includes the
reasons for nomination and a narrative summary of the nominee's career and
achievements. The person's resume or CV may be used to meet this
requirement.
*You do not have to be a NETSL member to make a nomination.
*Please send you nominations and the above documentation to the NETSL
Vice-President no later than Friday, February 5, 2009. Contact information
for Amy Hart, NETSL Vice President, appears below.
*Current members of the NETSL Executive Board are not eligible for
consideration
Additional details, including past recipients, are available on the NETSL
section of the NELA Web site:
http://nelib.org/netsl/ <http://nelib.org/netsl/award2009call.htm>
award2010call.htm <http://nelib.org/netsl/award2010call.htm>
Please send nominations and inquiries to:
Amira Aaron
NETSL Vice-President/President-Elect
libconsultaa at gmail.com
781-248-1806 (cell)
NETSL is a section of the New England Library Association and is
affiliated
with the ALCTS Council of Regional Groups. For more information on NETSL,
visit our website at: http://nelib.org/netsl/
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:03:24 -0600
From: nancy at thesmudge.com
Subject: [Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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The academic institution where I work is redesigning its website.
Once again I am making the case for a link to the library site on the
College home page.
In part I stated:
"A link to the library website on the home page will greatly increase
students' use of scholarly materials in their research. Without a link to
the library website, many students will rely on materials that are free on
the Internet, and frequently they will be blocked from accessing scholarly
materials to which we subscibe."
I was nicely told that the College website was not for the faculty and
students. It was recruitment tool (and the library is evidently not part
of that agenda).
And yet the company designing the College website states in its Best Web
Practices document being circulated throughout the College:
"......we often describe two modes of communication in Web content:
emotional and transactional. The former is often associated with
'marketing,' and by extension traditional 'external' audiences; the latter
with current students, faculty, etc. It is our belief that too many higher
ed Web sites keep these two types of content separate; sites contain a
'marketing' area (usually the Admission section) and an 'informational'
area (often the rest of the site). We prefer an approach that integrates
the two...."
I've pretty much given up on this, but wondered if those on this list
might have some bits of wisdom on the topic.
Nancy Sosna Bohm
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:20:15 -0600
From: Charles Bailey <digitalscholarship at gmail.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Digital Library/Library IT Jobs at DigitalKoans
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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In January 2009, I began to list digital library and library
IT jobs on the DigitalKoans blog. My motivation for doing
so was simple: times were hard, unemployment was soaring,
and my readers needed help.
I haven't looked for a job in well over a decade. However,
having worked in technology jobs for over thirty years, I
think I can effectively select jobs that might be of
interest. The scope is deliberately wide, ranging from
entry level (or mixed responsibility jobs that may not be
100% IT) to highly specialized jobs requiring fairly
esoteric skills. Wherever possible, my posts are based on
the actual job ad at the employer's website. Jobs are
categorized as either digital library jobs or library IT
jobs based on my perception of the primary focus of the job.
Keep in mind that DigitalKoans is not primary a job site,
and it may not continue to list jobs indefinitely.
Moreover, the number of available jobs ebbs and flows.
However, I hope that in some small way it helps.
Digital Library jobs archive: http://bit.ly/RKaHc
Library IT jobs archive: http://bit.ly/8N9H3v
DigitalKoans blog: http://bit.ly/Pmzdz
DigitalKoans FeedBurner RSS feed: http://bit.ly/60NSvR
Here's a list of jobs that have appeared since 12/1/09:
Digital Library Jobs
* Systems Specialist/Library Systems & Application
Administration at University of Kansas January 24th, 2010
* Project Manager, Digital Asset Management Infrastructure
at Yale January 24th, 2010
* Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago
January 19th, 2010
* Senior Program Officer at Digital Library Federation
January 18th, 2010
* Digital Repository Librarian at Cal Poly January 18th,
2010
* Digital Production Librarian at the Claremont Colleges
January 17th, 2010
* Information Technology Specialist (Systems Analysis) at
the Library of Congress January 17th, 2010
* Librarian, Scholarly Communication at University of
Massachusetts Medical School January 14th, 2010
* Digital Programs Archivist at University of North Carolina
at Charlotte January 12th, 2010
* Project Manager Library Digital Programs at Johns Hopkins
University January 12th, 2010
* Digital Library Software Engineer at Harvard January 11th,
2010
* Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer at Northwestern
University January 11th, 2010
* Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications Librarian
at University of Idaho January 10th, 2010
* Repository Librarian at UNC-CH December 10th, 2009
* Business Systems Analyst 3 at Yale's Office of Digital
Assets and Infrastructure December 10th, 2009
* Director, Library Digital Initiatives at University of
British Columbia December 7th, 2009
* RADAR Repository Services Development Manager at Oxford
Brookes University December 6th, 2009
* Research Program Manager, Sr. at Microsoft Research
December 3rd, 2009
* Head, Library Technology Services at University of
Tennessee December 2nd, 2009
* Project Manager for the OpenAIRE project December 2nd,
2009
* Digitization Project Coordinator at University of
Pennsylvania December 1st, 2009
Library IT Jobs
* Web Services Librarian at Dominican University January
21st, 2010
* Senior Program Developer, Library Technology at Lehigh
University January 21st, 2010
* Systems Librarian at George Washington University Law
School January 20th, 2010
* Metadata and Systems Librarian at Colorado College January
20th, 2010
* Library Systems Manager at the New School January 19th,
2010
* Assistant Dean for Collections and Technology at Western
Washington University January 14th, 2010
* Systems Librarian/Library Technology Manager at Illinois
Institute of Technology January 13th, 2010
* Director, Integrated Library Systems at University of
Southern California January 13th, 2010
* Web Services Librarian at University of Miami January
10th, 2010
* Head of Library Systems at Florida State University
December 13th, 2009
* Web Services Librarian at Georgia State University
December 8th, 2009
* University Library Systems Manager at Tufts December 6th,
2009
* Head, Library Technology Services at University of
Tennessee December 2nd, 2009
--
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital Scholarship
http://bit.ly/Z6HFx
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:59:41 +0100
From: Mohand-Said Hacid <mshacid at bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
Subject: [Web4lib] RULE 2010 - Call For Papers
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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Call for papers
RULE 2010
Eleventh International Workshop on Rule-Based Specification and
Programming
Rule-Based Programming in Industry and the Semantic Web
Edinburgh, UK
July 14, 2010
Workshop affiliated to FLoC 2010 as post-conference event of RTA 2010
http://wiki.di.uminho.pt/twiki/bin/view/Events/RULE2010/WebHome
With the renewed interest in rule-based computing for industrial
applications (e.g., Business Rules) especially
as it relates to the Semantic Web ( e.g., the W3C's Rule Interchange
Format), it is timely to explore the
practical benefits delivered by computing with rules and ontologies in
the large. Thus, this year's theme will
focus on rule-based programming in Industry and the Semantic Web. The
emphasis will be on implemented systems
that have been actually used in pragmatic situations where the
advantages of rule-driven computation and
inference have made all the difference, such advantages being:
* agility
* declarativeness
* maintainability
* documentability
* scalability
* meta-programmability
* reliability
* formal semantics
* etc., ...
In terms of the Semantic Web, we explicitly call for submissions that
probe (in a pragmatic setting) how
rule-based approaches complement ontology-based approaches, which share
some of the characteristics of rule
systems, such as declarativeness and formal semantics.
Paper submission
We are solliciting papers dealing with topics related to this year's
theme discussing any or several of
the itemized facets of the combinations of rules and ontologies, going
beyond academic experiments and
meant for large-scale or industrial applications. Papers should contain
no more than 10 pages, including
figures, and submitted through EasyChair using the standard EPTCS LaTeX
style file.
Program committee
In alphabetical order by last name:
* Hassan A?t-Kaci, IBM, Canada (co-chair)
* Maria Alpuente, Universid?d de Valencia, Spain
* Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada
* Mike Dean, BBN, USA
* Mohand-Sa?d Hacid, Universit? Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
* Gary Hallmark, Oracle, USA
* Pierre-Etienne Moreau, INRIA Nancy, France
* Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
* Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd., United Kingdom (co-chair)
* Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Important dates
Submission opens: Monday, March 1, 2010
Submission ends: Friday, April 16, 2010
Authors notified: Thursday, June 3, 2010
Final copies due: Friday, June 25, 2010
RULE 2010 Workshop: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Workshop venue
RULE 2010 will be a satellite workshop of the conference on Rewriting
Techniques and Applications (RTA 2010)
affiliated to the Federated Logic of Computing conferences (FLoC 2010),
to take place in
Edinburgh, UK, July 9-21, 2010.
RULE 2010 will be the 11th event organized as an International Workshop
on Rule-Based Specification
and Programming.
Workshop date:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 (the day after RTA 2010)
Workshop place:
Edinburgh, United Kingdom (during FLoC 2010)
Proceedings:
The proceedings will be published through Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:11:10 -0500
From: Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website
To: nancy <nancy at thesmudge.com>
Cc: web4lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Message-ID:
<e6abbff41001250311h65f5dd7fo5ef01892c5b5eec3 at mail.gmail.com>
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Most universities also consider the library a "recruitment" tool. There is
a
reason is included on in-person tours and come up in converssation with
potential new students and faculty, people want to know what resources are
provided by their potential new education provider or employer.
Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:03 PM, <nancy at thesmudge.com> wrote:
> The academic institution where I work is redesigning its website.
> Once again I am making the case for a link to the library site on the
> College home page.
> In part I stated:
> "A link to the library website on the home page will greatly increase
> students' use of scholarly materials in their research. Without a link
to
> the library website, many students will rely on materials that are free
on
> the Internet, and frequently they will be blocked from accessing
scholarly
> materials to which we subscibe."
> I was nicely told that the College website was not for the faculty and
> students. It was recruitment tool (and the library is evidently not part
> of that agenda).
> And yet the company designing the College website states in its Best Web
> Practices document being circulated throughout the College:
> "......we often describe two modes of communication in Web content:
> emotional and transactional. The former is often associated with
> 'marketing,' and by extension traditional 'external' audiences; the
latter
> with current students, faculty, etc. It is our belief that too many
higher
> ed Web sites keep these two types of content separate; sites contain a
> 'marketing' area (usually the Admission section) and an 'informational'
> area (often the rest of the site). We prefer an approach that integrates
> the two...."
>
> I've pretty much given up on this, but wondered if those on this list
> might have some bits of wisdom on the topic.
>
> Nancy Sosna Bohm
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
> Web4lib at webjunction.org
> http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:59:09 -0500
From: "Robert L. Balliot" <rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website
To: "'Brian Gray'" <mindspiral at gmail.com>, "'nancy'"
<nancy at thesmudge.com>
Cc: 'web4lib' <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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It is amazing to me that colleges and Universities and libraries contract
out the design of their web sites. Most of the contracted 'designs' I have
seen are simply slightly modified canned CSS formats from commercial
packages. It is almost like saying "We lack the confidence, technical
skills and intellectual ability to describe ourselves, but you should come
to our school / library and learn from us".
*************************************************
Robert L. Balliot
Skype: RBalliot
Bristol, Rhode Island
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Brian Gray
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:11 AM
To: nancy
Cc: web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website
Most universities also consider the library a "recruitment" tool. There is
a
reason is included on in-person tours and come up in converssation with
potential new students and faculty, people want to know what resources are
provided by their potential new education provider or employer.
Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:03 PM, <nancy at thesmudge.com> wrote:
> The academic institution where I work is redesigning its website.
> Once again I am making the case for a link to the library site on the
> College home page.
> In part I stated:
> "A link to the library website on the home page will greatly increase
> students' use of scholarly materials in their research. Without a link
to
> the library website, many students will rely on materials that are free
on
> the Internet, and frequently they will be blocked from accessing
scholarly
> materials to which we subscibe."
> I was nicely told that the College website was not for the faculty and
> students. It was recruitment tool (and the library is evidently not part
> of that agenda).
> And yet the company designing the College website states in its Best Web
> Practices document being circulated throughout the College:
> "......we often describe two modes of communication in Web content:
> emotional and transactional. The former is often associated with
> 'marketing,' and by extension traditional 'external' audiences; the
latter
> with current students, faculty, etc. It is our belief that too many
higher
> ed Web sites keep these two types of content separate; sites contain a
> 'marketing' area (usually the Admission section) and an 'informational'
> area (often the rest of the site). We prefer an approach that integrates
> the two...."
>
> I've pretty much given up on this, but wondered if those on this list
> might have some bits of wisdom on the topic.
>
> Nancy Sosna Bohm
>
>
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:26:42 -0500
From: "Mutch, Andrew" <AMutch at twp.waterford.mi.us>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] question on jsf
To: "Thomas Edelblute" <TEdelblute at anaheim.net>,
<web4lib at webjunction.org>
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I've run into this a few times and in each case, it's actually an issue
with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If I recall correctly, the online application
expects Reader to be integrated with the browser. If you have changed
the settings in Reader to force PDF documents to open in a separate
Reader window, you get the red "X" in the browser. This has mostly
happened with documents related to financial institutions and tax forms
(W-2s). I created a help page for staff explaining how to toggle the
browser integration in Reader so that they can fix this problem.
Generally, we force PDFs to open in Reader as opening in the browser
caused problems with Public Web Browser, which we use instead of IE on
our public computers. Here are the instructions to do that.
1) Open Adobe Reader 9
2) Select Edit - Preferences
3) Select Internet
4) If the box labeled "Display PDF in browser" is unchecked, select it.
Click on OK to save the change.
5) Close Adobe Reader 9 and reload the page in the browser. The PDF will
now appear in the browser window.
Note: Please reset Adobe Reader 9 back to the original setting when the
patron has completed their work or at your earliest convenience.
Good luck!
Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI
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Subject: [Web4lib] question on jsf
Earlier today, a patron came into the public library and was trying to
get a bank statement off one of our Internet computers. However,
nothing was coming up, a red X appearing in place of the document. I
noticed that there was a .jsf at the end of the URL which I had never
seen before. I told the librarian I would have to do some research and
get back to her as I did not know what I was looking at.
I came across this entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Faces
and was about to decide that the problem was not on my end. But Java is
a funny thing to work with, and I am wondering if there is a Java update
that needs to be downloaded to the client PC to make it work.
Any opinions out there? And if I do need to download something, how do
I test it to make sure it is working?
Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:32:44 EST
From: Primarydat at aol.com
Subject: [Web4lib] New Report On Library Efforts to Index and Catalog
Cyberspace
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Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education
Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts to Index, Preserve and Catalog
Blogs,
Websites, Email Archives and other Cyber Resources, ISBN, 1-57440-13X-X.
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts
Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and other
Cyber
Resources, (ISBN 1-57440-13X-X ) presents data on how higher education
faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness and quality
of
academic library efforts to further scholarship based on internet sources
such as
websites, blogs, listervs, social networking sites, online ads and other
internet resources. The report presents highly detailed data on how
faculty use blogs, websites, social networking sites, email archives,
listservs,
webcasts and podcasts, ezines, online ads and other cyber resources in
scholarship. It also highlights how faculty rate the efforts of academic
libraries to index, preserve and catalog these resources. In addition,
the report
discusses other pertinent trends, such as the degree of use of web
archiving software.
The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher
education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in
the
aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college,
type
of college, academic title and other factors.
Just a few of the report?s many finding are that:
? More than 53% of faculty in the sample refer to websites in
scholarly papers. Research university faculty were the most likely among
faculty
at all types of institutions to refer to websites in their scholarly
papers ?
62.5% of them do so.
? 15.34% of faculty sampled refer to listserv or usenet postings in
presentations. 31.25% of faculty in colleges with fewer than 1,000
students
refer to listserv or usenet postings in presentations, the highest among
all types of colleges defined by size range in the sample.
? 14.71% of faculty sampled had ever used a web archive in their
scholarly work. Faculty in psychology/counseling, religion and
philosophy, and
English and other language oriented majors were the most likely to have
used such sites.
? More than 14.5% of scholars in psychology and counseling have used
web archiving software, as have 12.5% in biology and medicine.
? 14% of faculty in the sample thought that it was important or very
important to index and catalog social networking sites. Scholars in art
and the performing arts were the most likely to view these sites as
important to index and catalog.
For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
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