From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Wed Jan 1 14:18:24 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:18:24 +0000 Subject: PLoS Medicine > Why Most Published Research Findings Are False In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6B8E7F@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ What's a better way to begin a New Year than with Controversy ... ! [:-) /Gerry Summary There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research. Source and Full Text Available Via: http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2013/12/plos-medicine-why-most-published.html Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From waltcrawford at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 1 15:52:52 2014 From: waltcrawford at GMAIL.COM (Walt Crawford) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:52:52 -0800 Subject: Cites & Insights 14:2 (February 2014) available Message-ID: The February 2014 issue of Cites & Insights (volume 14, number 2) is now available for downloading at http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i2.pdf. The two-column print-oriented (and optimized for printing) PDF is 42 pages long. If you're planning to read it on a tablet or online, you may prefer the 80-page 6" x 9" single-column version (not optimized for printing) at http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i2on.pdf This issue completes the book-length discussion of ebook issues. It contains: Perspective: E and P: What I Ignored pp. 1-2 Possible motivations behind some comments and stances on pbooks and ebooks Intersections: It Seems Like the Obvious Case: Ebooks as Textbooks pp. 2-15 For more than a decade I've assumed that textbooks represented the obvious billion-dollar (well, multi-billion-dollar) market for ebooks. It turns out not to be that easy. Libraries: Ebooks and Libraries pp. 15-42 This discussion leaves out way too much and probably grossly oversimplifies the situation, but I do discuss some items having to do with the philosophical and general issues, problems, publishers and vendors, Kindles and libraries, and Douglas County and friends. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-01 From MJacobsen at SKOKIELIBRARY.INFO Thu Jan 2 17:26:29 2014 From: MJacobsen at SKOKIELIBRARY.INFO (Mikael Jacobsen) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:26:29 +0000 Subject: Virtual Community Engagement Manager at Skokie Public Library Message-ID: Apologies for cross posting. http://skokielibrary.info/s_about/jobs.asp#virtual Virtual Community Engagement Manager Full-time We are seeking an experienced, innovative professional with a strong understanding of online community building to be our new Virtual Community Engagement Manager. Under the direction of the Deputy Director, and in cooperation with members of the Library's senior management team, the Virtual Community Engagement Manager oversees the Library's online presences including the Library website, social media channels, and additional websites managed by the Library. In addition, the Virtual Community Engagement Manager works with others to develop strategies for content, visual design, and user research. Required education/experience: * MLS from an ALA accredited Library school or relevant experience * 3-5 years of experience in designing and managing websites * High-level understanding of social media channels and online community building * Strong project management experience with a proven ability to set clear objectives and measure results * Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, including oral and written communication Preferred education/experience: * Leadership and management experience * Experience with HTML and CSS * Knowledge of Python programming language and Django web framework * Awareness of website user research methods including usability testing * Wireframing and other prototyping approaches for website development * Understanding of responsive web design, cross-browser issues, best practices for user-interface design, and web and accessibility standards Duties and responsibilities include: * Oversees Library's online presences, including design and content strategy of Library websites and social media channels * Ensures that the Library's online presences and virtual resources are integrated and designed to provide an excellent user experience * Hire, manage, and review staff, including Web Developer, Content Strategy Coordinator, and Production Assistants * Defines guidelines for tone and style for online content * Consults with Community Engagement Manager and other members of the senior management team to develop and integrate virtual services strategies into the overall strategic plan of the Library * Analyzes data on social media and website traffic to identify areas of improvement * Contributes content to Library website and social media, as well as encouraging content creation by the public * Trains staff and the public on use of social media and all aspects of the Library website, including online catalog and databases, on variety of devices * Attends and presents at professional meetings and conferences * Stays current on professional industry news and developments Salary range: $59,500-$87,900 Submit cover letter and resume along with examples of websites and social media presences you have designed and/or managed to: Beth Dostert, Manager of Human Resources Skokie Public Library 5215 Oakton Street Skokie, Illinois 60077 847.673.7797 fax Send an email message to Beth Dostert No phone calls, please. Position is open until filled. Thanks, Mick Jacobsen Mikael "Mick" Jacobsen Supervisor of Adult Computer Labs, Librarian Skokie Public Library, IL http://www.skokielibrary.info mjacobsen at skokielibrary.info 847.324.3196 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-02 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lisa.holmberg at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 2 18:12:19 2014 From: lisa.holmberg at GMAIL.COM (Lisa Holmberg) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:12:19 -0700 Subject: web content strategy document for a public library Message-ID: Our web team is about to start writing a content strategy document for our library. We were wondering if anyone had a web content strategy document that they would be able to share with us. As a public library, we're particularly interested in content strategies of public libraries, but I think we're still learning so much that seeing any examples would be helpful! Thank you. Lisa -- ***** Lisa Holmberg Web Services Specialist Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302 303.441.3472 holmbergl at boulderlibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-02 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris.evjy at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 2 18:38:29 2014 From: chris.evjy at GMAIL.COM (Chris Evjy) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:38:29 -0700 Subject: web content strategy document for a public library In-Reply-To: Message-ID: You betcha, Lisa. JCPL Web Strategies, inline below. Tip-of-the-hat to Ryan Hess at DePaul University from which we borrowed the "Principle of..." construction and a few concepts. -Chris *Jefferson County Public Library Web Strategies* Introduction This document is a statement of principles that inform: - the *content *JCPL publishes on jeffcolibrary.org - how the *design *of jeffcolibrary.org ensures the usability and accessibility of that content - what *experience *patrons have using jeffcolibrary.org Content Strategy *Principle of Publishing* - Publish useful content. - Publish content that is aware of audience and context. - Publish content that supports the Library?s mission, strategicobjectives and brand. - Create best practices to deliver effective service to our users. *Principle of Collaboration* - Publish content through collaboration with JCPL stakeholders. - Support collaboration with a shared set of guidelines and communication norms. *Principle of Venues* - Provide channels to distribute dynamic and reusable content. - Host venues that facilitate communication and connection. - Create sustainable venues. *Principle of Selection* - Curate content according to users? needs. - Use concise action-based language. - Make evidence-based decisions about what we say to users and how we say it. *Principle of Expertise* - Publish reliable content that instills confidence in library services. - Inform content with the expertise of staff who best know their content areas and their users. Design Strategy *Principle of Choices* - Keep the number of choices manageable for each page. - Global navigation reflects top user tasks. - Limit sub-menus to five items (including a ?more?? link). *Principle of Convention* - Follow users? expectations in terms of placement, functionality and structure. *Principle of Exemplars* - Use icons to make actionable items visually intuitive. - Use visual examples to communicate what content is. - Use contextual images that compliment, describe or encapsulate content they appear alongside. *Principle of Emphasis* - Make the focus of pages clear. - Limit the number of focal points per page. - Apply a consistent approach to textual emphasis. *Principle of Front Doors* - Make every page, in part, a landing page. - Provide a unified global navigation. *Principle of Simplicity* - Minimize distractions to performing user tasks. - Present information clearly. - Use white space to enhance usability. - Remove barriers and extra steps. User Experience Statement A user finishes using our website and reflects: - I got that done and it was pretty easy. - I feel confident about what I accomplished. - I can do that again when I need to because it just made sense. - I can connect with librarians and get help when I need it. - I found out something new about the library. - I will use this site again to do new things. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Lisa Holmberg wrote: > Our web team is about to start writing a content strategy document for our > library. We were wondering if anyone had a web content strategy document > that they would be able to share with us. As a public library, we're > particularly interested in content strategies of public libraries, but I > think we're still learning so much that seeing any examples would be > helpful! > > Thank you. > > Lisa > > -- > ***** > > Lisa Holmberg > > Web Services Specialist > > Boulder Public Library > > 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302 > > 303.441.3472 > > holmbergl at boulderlibrary.org > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-02 > -- __________________________________ Christopher Evjy Digital Experience Manager Jefferson County Public Library, Colorado ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-02 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Thu Jan 2 19:24:49 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 00:24:49 +0000 Subject: Open Access Articles > Digital Commons > Library and Information Science Commons=?Windows-1252?Q?=99_?=> In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6BA1F1@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Thanks to Michele M. for reminding me that it?s An Open Access Database ? Not Just An Institutional Repository > Doh ... Source and Link Available Via: http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-access-publications-digital.html BTW: I was pleased to discover that I was among the Top Ten authors in the Library and Information Science category of the Digital Commons according to December (and November) 2013 stats !!! (Right side ; Scroll down) > Wow !!! [: -)] Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-02 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blakistonr at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Jan 3 15:08:03 2014 From: blakistonr at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU (Blakiston, Rebecca) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:08:03 +0000 Subject: web content strategy document for a public library In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yay, content strategy! Here is an example of our content strategy analysis document we created a couple years back, this is what Kristina Halverson describes as the foundation for your content strategy: Phase Two: Analysis Purpose statement The goal of this document is to define the objectives, assumptions, risks, and success factors for our website content. We have conducted an analysis of all internal and external circumstances that have impact on our website content. This includes anything that might inform or affect recommendations for content creation, delivery, and governance. This analysis document - also called the strategic foundation - will serve as a reference guide for our content strategy recommendations. This document is not the content strategy and doesn't include any recommendations - it simply summarizes and analyzes the resources, research, and circumstances that inform recommendations. What are we (the University Libraries) trying to achieve with our website content? * Act as a portal to all library services and resources * Direct users to scholarly resources, library hours, services, and more * Promote the library's place on campus, highlighting library services, collections, and events while also supporting fundraising * Meet the needs of our different target audiences. * Entice potential students to come to the University of Arizona * Positively influence o students' opinions about the quality of education they are receiving o students' opinions on the Library as an organization o the opinions of the Library's research partners (i.e. other organizations and academic libraries) o the opinions of grant funding agencies o the opinion of donors and alumni What do our users wants and need from our content? * A place to start to conduct research or find information about the libraries * Information about library resources and services * Ability to find library materials, including books, journals, articles, and DVDs * Ability to access our content from a mobile device What can we do with our available time, talent, and budget resources? We have a lot of challenges due to limited staff time and resources, as well as a lack of knowledge among staff about how to write and organize content for the web. We can come up with a process for maintaining and updating content, but the amount of content (currently) is so overwhelming that it seems unlikely that a process alone can fix it. Project Objectives On the user end: * Users know where to start to conduct research or find information about the libraries * Users can easily find information about library resources and services * Users can easily find library materials, including books, journals, articles, and DVDs * The variety of users all have their specific needs met On the creator/technical end: * Create a content structure that is flexible enough to accommodate ever-expanding services and resources * Establish a maintenance process that will allow us to keep content relevant and up-to-date * Establish a creation process that will ensure our website uses vibrant, compelling web copy with a consistent voice * Address current content issues to ensure that the amount of content is practical to maintain given our staffing and budget constraints. Success Metrics See the Metrics as outlined in the UAL Website Road Map (pages 3-5). Assumptions * The Website Steering Group will develop our content strategy and make the final decisions on our content strategy. WSG will communicate with stakeholders as necessary for input. * Current content creators may or may not remain as content creators. * The current amount of content on our website is unmanageable, frequently duplicative and outdated, and therefore must be reduced in order for us to remain relevant and useful to our users. Risks * Content creators may be upset if their content is edited or deleted * Users that have been using certain pages in the past may be upset if they move, are changed, or get deleted * When content is deleted, users may find links now go to 404 pages * This may take more time than anticipated given the complexity and depth of our content University Libraries Brand Our brand is what users think and feel about our organization. Currently, we have not analyzed our brand. However, we can have a brand to aim towards. How do we want our users to think and feel about us? Welcoming, friendly, and approachable. Knowledgeable, helpful, and timely. Messaging (added to Editorial Guidelines) Messages on our website must support our brand. We are customer-focused organization, so let's use their language. Voice and tone needs to reflect our customer-centered personality. Our web copy needs to be: Knowledgeable, not authoritarian. Helpful, not frustrating. Welcoming, not full of jargon. Professional, not pompous. Conversational, not preachy. Approachable, not intimidating. Direct, not complicated. Less like: The customer should login to their Illiad account to request a document delivery. More like: Login now to request an article. Less like: Library staff will respond to user complaints by enforcing the code of conduct. More like: We want you to feel safe in the library. Please notify desk staff if you have any concerns. Other Channels We have other web presences including a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and a YouTube channel (forthcoming), and other web pages outside the scope of the Website Steering Group. Current Roles * Requesters submit requests for web content to be created, updated, or removed. Anyone in the library and any customer can be a requester. * Providers are subject matter experts who own and manage source content - or who have the necessary information in their heads - that will be used by creators to develop web content. Often, the provider and the creator are the same person. Some teams have their own process that distinguishes these roles; on AIST, the members of the Leadership Group are the providers and their team's webmaster is the creator. * Creators are responsible for actually developing the content. Anyone affiliated with the library, upon request and approval, can be given access to Drupal. This allows them to become a creator; they can create new pages and edit any Drupal page on our website. * Reviewers/approvers must be consulted about some or all of the content prior to its publication online. The UAL currently has no reviewers/approvers in the content creation process. * Publishers get the content online via coding, a content management system, or other technical wizardry. For regular Drupal pages, our creators are also the publishers. For certain type of content, like applications, members of DLIB are the publishers. Current Maintenance and Oversight Teams are assigned certain sections of the website in the Content Owner Guidelines. Some teams, including AIST and IST, have assigned webmasters who are the content creators for their teams. Their job description includes dedicated time to maintaining their web pages. Others, including RST, do not have this type of assigned responsibility. Content creators receive training in Drupal, but no training in writing web copy, information architecture, or website usability. The expectation is that content owners will: * Review content within their areas of responsibility on a regular basis, no less than once every six months. This includes reviewing content for relevance and accuracy. * Add new pages to their areas of responsibility if needed to meet the needs of our users. * Check for broken or outdated links in their area of responsibility at least once every six months and fix or remove them. * Communicate changes to their areas of responsibility, including addition of and deletion of web pages as well as the need to update links, to stakeholders. While this is the expectation, there is no system of accountability. Unfortunately, pages often become outdated. Since the website redesign in 2009, 433 of 1126 (38%) published pages have been modified in some way. 104 new pages have been created in that same time period. I also have a lot more documentation on standards, workflows, etc. if you're interested! Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Instructional Services Librarian Website Product Manager University of Arizona Libraries blakistonr at u.library.arizona.edu (520) 307-2834 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Evjy Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 4:38 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] web content strategy document for a public library You betcha, Lisa. JCPL Web Strategies, inline below. Tip-of-the-hat to Ryan Hess at DePaul University from which we borrowed the "Principle of..." construction and a few concepts. -Chris Jefferson County Public Library Web Strategies Introduction This document is a statement of principles that inform: * the content JCPL publishes on jeffcolibrary.org * how the design of jeffcolibrary.org ensures the usability and accessibility of that content * what experience patrons have using jeffcolibrary.org Content Strategy Principle of Publishing * Publish useful content. * Publish content that is aware of audience and context. * Publish content that supports the Library's mission, strategic objectives and brand. * Create best practices to deliver effective service to our users. Principle of Collaboration * Publish content through collaboration with JCPL stakeholders. * Support collaboration with a shared set of guidelines and communication norms. Principle of Venues * Provide channels to distribute dynamic and reusable content. * Host venues that facilitate communication and connection. * Create sustainable venues. Principle of Selection * Curate content according to users' needs. * Use concise action-based language. * Make evidence-based decisions about what we say to users and how we say it. Principle of Expertise * Publish reliable content that instills confidence in library services. * Inform content with the expertise of staff who best know their content areas and their users. Design Strategy Principle of Choices * Keep the number of choices manageable for each page. * Global navigation reflects top user tasks. * Limit sub-menus to five items (including a "more..." link). Principle of Convention * Follow users' expectations in terms of placement, functionality and structure. Principle of Exemplars * Use icons to make actionable items visually intuitive. * Use visual examples to communicate what content is. * Use contextual images that compliment, describe or encapsulate content they appear alongside. Principle of Emphasis * Make the focus of pages clear. * Limit the number of focal points per page. * Apply a consistent approach to textual emphasis. Principle of Front Doors * Make every page, in part, a landing page. * Provide a unified global navigation. Principle of Simplicity * Minimize distractions to performing user tasks. * Present information clearly. * Use white space to enhance usability. * Remove barriers and extra steps. User Experience Statement A user finishes using our website and reflects: * I got that done and it was pretty easy. * I feel confident about what I accomplished. * I can do that again when I need to because it just made sense. * I can connect with librarians and get help when I need it. * I found out something new about the library. * I will use this site again to do new things. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Lisa Holmberg > wrote: Our web team is about to start writing a content strategy document for our library. We were wondering if anyone had a web content strategy document that they would be able to share with us. As a public library, we're particularly interested in content strategies of public libraries, but I think we're still learning so much that seeing any examples would be helpful! Thank you. 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The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor?s curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution?s learning management system. Table of Contents * Preface: Transforming the Learning Experience through New Forms of Instructional Materials in the Digital Information Age ix * About the Author x * PART ONE Interactive Learning Materials: Setting the Stage 1 * ONE Interactive Learning Materials: Engaging Learners in the Emerging Digital World 3 * TWO Defining an Emergent Class of Educational Resources: Interactive Multimedia Modules, Simulations, and Games 11 * PART TWO Finding ILMs: A Digital Exploration 19 * THREE The Discovery Process: The Art of Discovering ILMs 21 * FOUR The Pioneers: Searching Online Educational Repositories in North America and the United Kingdom 35 * FIVE The Educators: Searching College and University Educational Repositories 61 * SIX The Entrepreneurs: Textbook Publishers, Entertainment Media, and Educational Software Companies 83 * SEVEN The Exhibitors: Museums, Professional Organizations, and Governmental Organizations 95 * PART THREE Choosing and Using ILMs 111 * EIGHT The Selection Process: How to Choose and Evaluate ILMs 113 * NINE The Implementation Process: How to Instruct and Engage Students through ILMs 129 * TEN The Assessment Process: The Impact of ILMs on Student Learning 143 * Epilogue: HowFaculty, Librarians, and Instructional Support Staff Transform Learning with ILMs in the Future 155 * References 163 * Index 169 Author Information John D. Shank is an instructional design librarian for the Information Commons at the Thun Library, Penn State Berks in Reading, Pennsylvania. He has a decade of experience working with instructors and directing the integration of interactive learning resources into web-enhanced, hybrid, and online courses. Source Available Via: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/interactive-open-educational-resources.html Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-04 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The initiative of OER is to provide students with a lower-cost alternative compared to textbooks. Students can use OERs to enhance their learning in the classrooms. OERs will also allow faculty to design specific resources for students to use when away from class, to enhance the traditional lecture experience, and provide materials to students any time of the day. Prior to joining the University Libraries, Zemke was a term instructor for the School of Library and Information Studies and an OU IT faculty liaison and training coordinator. She has been working with OERs since 2004 as an instructor and as an information systems designer. Zemke has also worked with publishers and software developers to create electronic libraries for educational resources, as well as building collections of OERs and creating new shared educational resources. ?We are so pleased to welcome Stacy Zemke as our Open Educational Resources Coordinator,? said Karen Rupp-Serrano, director of collection management and scholarly communication. ?Stacy has significant consulting experience with these resources. The combination of skills and experience she brings to the position will help the University of Oklahoma find and create resources that will be of use in OU classrooms and beyond.? Zemke?s experience is a great asset to the University?s initiative for affordable learning solutions for its students and faculty. Source Available At: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/university-of-oklahoma-university.html Related Welcome to the University Libraries OER Initiative This site is designed to introduce OER initiatives, explain creative commons licensing and OER, and to help you get started searching for Open Educational Resources for teaching and learning. [snip] Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-05 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Webinar: From Device to Device: Adaptive Interfaces for Content Date: January 8, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/device/ ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR Content providers and libraries are struggling with the bests way to make their e-content adapt to the wide diversity of devices-including desktops, laptops, tablets, e-readers, and smartphones. For decades, the PDF document format has been the fallback for digital content display, despite its shortcomings. But new developments and standards from file formats to improved cascading style sheets, adaptive layouts, graphics scaling, and device recognition are encouraging the move away from PDF, but many challenges remain. When is reflowable text or fixed layout the best approach? Can a user have a common experience regardless of device being used or should the goal be to provide the best experience for the particular device? How can authors and publishers ensure that specialized content such as graphics and tables are not lost or garbled when presented to a smaller screen? Is there an efficient way to produce and distribute content without re-creating it for every different potential device and format? Is it possible to create device-agnostic content? Understanding these issues is critical both for publishers who need to efficiently distribute content and for libraries who will be purchasing this content and ensuring their patrons, with their variety of devices, can access the electronic content they need. NISO's January 8 webinar will describe some advances in adaptive publication design and provide a basis for what you can expect for making content device agnostic. SPEAKERS Jean Kaplansky - Digital Content Solutions Architect, Aptara, which provides digital publishing solutions to content providers for capitalizing on new digital and mobile mediums Toby Plewak - Product Strategist for Publishing Technology's pub2web platform, a custom hosting solution that supports and delivers published information REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on January 8, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance ). All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. 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Gutman Library Philadelphia University ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-06 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-06 From Cameron.Kainerstorfer at UTSOUTHWESTERN.EDU Mon Jan 6 12:38:03 2014 From: Cameron.Kainerstorfer at UTSOUTHWESTERN.EDU (Cameron Kainerstorfer) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:38:03 +0000 Subject: REMINDER: Call for Proposals for 2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries Message-ID: [Please pardon any cross-posting] Important dates: January 31: Deadline for proposals for Workshops, Tutorials & Demos, and Birds of a Feather Sessions February 7: Deadline for all other Proposal Submissions The TCDL 2014 planning committee once again invites you to share your proposals for participation at the 2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. TCDL 2014 will take place April 28-29 in Austin, TX. The conference covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion and preservation of research, scholarship and cultural heritage digital materials. This year's conference theme, Engaging Outliers: Context, Collections & Community, will explore the full range of projects, workflows, use cases and ideas-in-the-making related to digital library work with a special emphasis on those projects that lie outside of the ordinary. The conference will address such questions as: How are you using digital collections or materials in ways that are outside of their original context? What are you doing that no one else is doing? What would you like seen done that no one else is doing? Possible topics could include the following: * Transformative ventures beyond library contexts * Use and adaptation of systems in ways not originally intended * Innovative processes that are changing established library workflows * Use and reuse of digital materials in novel ways * Unique collections * Gaps in collecting areas or formats * Demographics not represented in typical digital library projects * Anticipating emerging needs for potential communities Proposals on other topics of interest to a digital libraries audience are welcome. TCDL 2014 has multiple avenues for participation, including individual presentations, panel sessions, posters, workshops and tutorials, "birds of a feather" sessions, and - new for 2014 - a 24x7 lightning round format. All completed presentations will be published on the conference website, and each presenters will have the option to submit a short paper to accompany the published presentation slides. Submission Guidelines Proposals will be accepted in the following categories. Please follow the links for more detailed information about proposal requirements. * Presentations: General presentations on practical work, theoretical or speculative issues, or on-going or completed research. * Panels: Panel sessions should address a single topic from multiple perspectives and should engage the audience for a full 80-minute session. * 24x7 Presentations (24 slides in 7 minutes): 7-minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. * Posters: Posters will be featured at the conference reception and through a "Minute Madness" session, during which presenters will give a 60-second summary of each poster. * Workshops, Tutorials & Demos, Birds of a Feather Sessions: These sessions will take place on April 29th in the afternoon. Proposals of no more than 500 words can be submitted through the "Proposal Submission" link on the conference website. Key Dates * November 14: Call for Proposals * January 31: Deadline for proposals for Workshops, Tutorials & Demos, and Birds of a Feather Sessions * February 7: Deadline for all other Proposal Submissions * March 14: Notification of Acceptance * April 1: Early Bird Conference Registration Deadline * June 2: Deadline for OPTIONAL papers (Presenters and panelists will have the option to produce a short paper to accompany their published presentations. The paper is not a requirement for participation. Papers will be published on the conference website under Presentations, along with the presentation slides.) Note: No individual shall participate as a speaker in more than one presentation/panel session; however, presenters and panel speakers are welcome to participate in the poster sessions. Also note: Accepted presenters, including co-presenters, panelists, and poster presenters, must register for the conference and pay applicable registration fees. Submission Instructions Proposals should be submitted through the "Proposal Submission" link on the conference website. Detailed instructions can be found in the Call for Proposals on the conference website. Need help? If you have questions about using the online submission system, please contact support at tdl.org. ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-06 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As one of the first broadly inclusive efforts at crowdsourcing expertise on the Web, the DCMI community has been a key player in the evolving information environment of the Web of documents and data. *DC-2014 CONFERENCE THEME:* Metadata is fundamental in enabling ubiquitous access to cultural and scientific resources through galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). While fundamental, GLAM traditions in documentation and organization lead to significant differences in both their languages of description and domain practices. And yet, the push is on for "radically open cultural heritage data" that bridges these differences as well as those across the humanities and the sciences. DC-2014 will explore the role of metadata in spanning the archipelago of siloed cultural memory in an emerging context of linked access to data repositories as well as repositories of cultural artifacts. *BEYOND THE THEME:* Submissions of papers, reports, and posters are welcome in all areas of innovative metadata design and best practices. *IMPORTANT DATES:* *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters:* ? Submission Deadline: 3 April 2014 ? Author Notification: 12 July 2014 ? Final Copy: 16 August 2014 *Special & Panel Sessions, Workshops:* ? Submission Deadline: 3 April 2014 ? Author Notification: 1 June 2014 *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations* ? Submission Deadline: 2 June 2014 ? Author Notification: 30 June 2014 (All deadlines: Midnight, Pacific Standard Time) *Program Committee Chairs:* ? William Moen, *School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, United States* ? 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URL: From rlitwin at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 7 13:41:03 2014 From: rlitwin at GMAIL.COM (Rory Litwin) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:41:03 -0800 Subject: Certificate in User Experience (UX) Message-ID: Certificate in User Experience (UX) In this 6-course certificate program from Library Juice Academy, you will learn the fundamentals of user experience (UX) and how to apply user-centered strategies to library websites and beyond. The program begins by teaching you the key concepts of UX design and how to employ them in your website projects. Next, you will learn the ins and outs of information architecture: how to structure and organize your content so that it is both discoverable and navigable in the easiest way possible. Concepts in universal design, to accommodate mobile computing, is the next topic covered, followed by a course designed to give you the tools to continually get feedback on your website through usability testing and other research methods. You will then learn how to better write for the web so that once your users discover your content, they can both understand it and act on it. Finally, you will learn how you can create a website content strategy, so that from that point forward all your content will be useful, usable, and findable. All together, these courses cover a breadth of topics that will equip you with the skills necessary to create, manage, and sustain library websites that provide an excellent user experience. To register, or to get more information about the individual courses and instructors, please go to: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate-ux.php You can view presentations by the instructors on the topics of their courses: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=461 You can also read an interview with Rebecca Blakiston about this program, conducted prior to the previous run of the series: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=270 Courses in the series: Designing a Usable Website (Concepts of User-Centered Design) Instructor: Carolyn Ellis | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 Information Architecture: Designing Navigation for Library Websites Instructor: Susan Teague-Rector | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 Universal Design Instructors: Sonali Mishra and Carolyn Ellis | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing Instructor: Rebecca Blakiston | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 Writing for the Web Instructors: Nicole Capdarest and Rebecca Blakiston | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 Developing a Website Content Strategy Instructor: Rebecca Blakiston | Credits: 1.5 CEUs | Cost: $175 These courses need not be taken in sequence for the purposes of earning the Certificate in User Experience, and none have prerequisites. Contact us for more information. You can register for all six courses in the certificate program, at a 10% discount. In 2014, the sequence will be offered beginning in February and finishing at the end of September (with a summer break). 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-07 From Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US Tue Jan 7 17:53:35 2014 From: Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US (Lawrence, Dan) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:53:35 +0000 Subject: Position Opening: Digital Experience Consultant, (Deadline soon! 1/13/2013) Message-ID: Please excuse the duplication. (Deadline for applications: January 13, 2014) The Colorado State Library is looking for a librarian to help lead the charge in technological areas related to: Experience Design, Drupal Front-End Website Development, Content Strategy, and more. The Digital Experience Consultant is part of the Networking and Resource Sharing team at the Colorado State Library. You would be responsible for crafting an integrated content strategy for our current and future web services. Your results will create important support for improving state-level services for library staff and anyone who uses a library. If you're ready to apply your skills toward shaping current and future online library services into something people want to use, then check out the details and apply by January 13, 2014. Find out more: http://www.libraryjobline.org/job/3543/Digital-Experience-Consultant/ Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-07 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Tue Jan 7 19:42:19 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 00:42:19 +0000 Subject: OERu > Higher Education for Everyone In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6BF358@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ IMHO > A Major Initiative ! /Gerry The OERu makes higher education accessible to everyone. Coordinated by the OER Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit organisation, the OERu network of institutions offers free online courses for students worldwide. The OERu partners also provide affordable ways for learners to gain academic credit towards qualifications from recognised institutions. Goals Through the OER Foundation, the OERu network continually works towards: * Widening access and reducing the cost of tertiary study for learners everywhere, and especially for those who are excluded from the formal education sector * Covering the operational cost of institution-based OERu services on a cost-recovery basis (or alternative revenue sources) * Providing pathways for students to achieve credible credentials for approved courses based solely on open education resources (OER). OER means learning materials that have been released under an intellectual property license, permitting their free use or re-purposing by others * Optimising the visibility and impact of the community service mission required of tertiary education institutions. Source Available Via [ http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/oeru-higher-education-for-everyone.html ] Related * Open Educational Resource University to be Launched Worldwide * Learner FAQs * Organisation FAQs * OERu Partners Note: Thanks to Wayne Mackintosh, founder of WikiEducator, and founding Director of the OER Foundation and the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-07 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Wed Jan 8 20:46:46 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 01:46:46 +0000 Subject: SoftChalk > OER Webinar Series In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6C01ED@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ IMHO > Worthwhile for All ! /Gerry SoftChalk is proud to bring you our pre-recorded webinar series on open educational resources (OER). These informative sessions will explain the different facets of OER including WHAT OER is, WHY it's important, HOW to find the resources and WHERE you can start! The series is sponsored by SoftChalk and its partners including: College Open Textbooks, Connexions, IMS Global and MERLOT. Defining OER: The WHAT and the WHY What is an Open Educational Resource? Why is the OER movement growing in popularity so quickly? Why would you want to use or create OER materials? How do you license OER materials? [snip] Finding and Using OER: The WHERE and the WHEN Where can you find quality OERs? Where are they distributed, and where and when should you use them? Are they easy to find? What kind of standards (quality, accessibility, licensing) are relevant and why are they important? [snip] Creating OER: The WHO and the HOW Who is developing OERs? Who should be? How are they doing it? How can standards allow OER content interoperability? How can standards assure quality? How can you get started? How can you find the tools for creating OER content? [snip] Funding OER: Sustainability How do OER projects and programs get started? How are they maintained? Where are funding resources? Can OER projects work without external funding? [snip] Learn more about SoftChalk and OER [more] Source Available Via: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/softchalk-oer-webinar-series.html Regards. Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From evviva.weinraub at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 9 17:27:59 2014 From: evviva.weinraub at GMAIL.COM (Evviva Weinraub) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:27:59 -0800 Subject: Call for Posters: Library Publishing Forum Message-ID: *Call for Posters: Library Publishing Forum* The 2014 Library Publishing Forum (March 5-6 in Kansas City) is seeking proposals for posters that showcase alignment activities in the library publishing community. The Library Publishing Forum is hosted by the Library Publishing Coalition, an organization with 60-member libraries that promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic and research libraries to support scholars as they create, advance, and disseminate knowledge. This event will bring together representatives from libraries and their collaborative partners to define and address major questions and challenges, to identify and document collaborative opportunities, to strengthen and promote this community of practice, and to advance this vibrant subfield of academic publishing. The Program Subcommittee is requesting proposals for posters that showcase how libraries, presses, and other participants in the scholarly communications sector are aligning their publishing activities with the goals, needs, and practices of their stakeholders and peers. A dedicated poster session and reception will be held from 6 - 8pm on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, providing participants with a chance to share their work and engage with their colleagues. *Proposals: *Colleagues interested in presenting a poster are invited to submit a 200 word abstract in PDF describing the poster content. Original as well as previously presented posters from other conferences are welcome. Please include your affiliation and email contact information. Submit Poster Proposals via email to Sarah Lippincott (sarah at educopia.org ). *Conditions: *Presenter must (1) accompany their posters to the conference (2) have them on display by 12:30 pm, Wednesday, March 5, and (3) leave them on display until 12:30 pm, Thursday, March 6. *Review: *The LPC Program Subcommittee will review and accept poster abstracts based on their connection to the conference theme, clarity of description, interesting or inspiring ideas, and proposed visual appeal. *Submission Deadline: *January 24, 2013 *Acceptance Notification: *February 7, 2013 *Submit **Poster** Proposals via email to: *sarah at educopia.org We welcome proposals from current Library Publishing Coalition members and non-members -- *Sarah Kalikman Lippincott* Program Manager Educopia Institute, Library Publishing Coalition sarah at educopia.org http://www.educopia.org/programs/lpc (919) 533-9814 Skype: sarah.k.lippincott ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Thu Jan 9 21:07:19 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:07:19 +0000 Subject: SPARC > Current Program Plan 2014 > Open Educational Resources In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6C0E1D@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ Please to learn ... /Gerry [snip] Advocacy/Policy Strategy. The top priority for SPARC will be to raise the public policy profile of Open Access to the results of research - including journal articles, data and educational resources. * Leading efforts to advocate for policies that provide for Open Access to journal articles, data and educational resources on the institutional, state, national and international levels * Supporting research on social/economic benefits of Open Access to research outputs * Leading and expanding U.S. National Working Group on Open Access * Working with media outlets to promote public awareness of Open Access * Working with public and private research funders to create and implement Open Access policies * Expanding wholesale communications and outreach efforts to maximize reach of campaigns * Actively participating in coalitions working on our target "Open" issue areas * Participate in and promote productive collective efforts to build scalable capacity to support effective implementations of Open Access policies (i.e., SHARE, OpenAire, etc.) * Hosting Biennial North American Meeting on Open Access to journal articles, data and educational resources [snip] Source Available Via: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/sparc-current-program-plan-2014-open.html Regards, Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The top priority for SPARC will be to raise the public policy profile of Open Access to the results of research - including journal articles, data and educational resources. * Leading efforts to advocate for policies that provide for Open Access to journal articles, data and educational resources on the institutional, state, national and international levels * Supporting research on social/economic benefits of Open Access to research outputs * Leading and expanding U.S. National Working Group on Open Access * Working with media outlets to promote public awareness of Open Access * Working with public and private research funders to create and implement Open Access policies * Expanding wholesale communications and outreach efforts to maximize reach of campaigns * Actively participating in coalitions working on our target "Open" issue areas * Participate in and promote productive collective efforts to build scalable capacity to support effective implementations of Open Access policies (i.e., SHARE, OpenAire, etc.) * Hosting Biennial North American Meeting on Open Access to journal articles, data and educational resources [snip] Source Available Via: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/sparc-current-program-plan-2014-open.html Regards, Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glaroza at ATENEO.EDU Thu Jan 9 22:27:24 2014 From: glaroza at ATENEO.EDU (Gerry O Laroza) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:27:24 +0800 Subject: CALL For Papers : 6th Rizal Library International Conference Message-ID: The Rizal Library seeks papers for its *6th International Conference* to be held on *October 23-24, 2014* at the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines. This year's theme is *"Leadership and Change: Setting Directions, Braving the Odds"*. This conference aims to highlight how leadership and change affect librarians and libraries, from the most mundane to the most complex facets of library and information practice today. We welcome proposals on the following topics: library management and leadership, responsive leadership, mentoring, communicating change, and political, economic, social, technological and environmental changes in libraries. Paper proposals must be submitted on or before *March 31, 2014* using the following format: 1. Title of the paper 2. Topic of the paper (choose one of the topics enumerated above) 3. Paper abstract (should not exceed 250 words) 4. Curriculum vitae with photo (indicate achievements and/or publications for the last five years) Please submit paper proposals to: rl.internationalconference at gmail.com. For more information, please refer to the attached flyer or visit our website at http://rizal2.lib.admu.edu.ph/rlconference/public/submit ---------------------------------------- Gerry O. Laroza Head, Computer Services Rizal Library Ateneo de Manila University ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Sat Jan 11 15:16:34 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:16:34 +0000 Subject: OER MOOC > August 9th =?Windows-1252?Q?=96_?=September 22nd 2013 > Enrollment Closed > But ... In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6C21E4@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning about any/all MOOCs _about_ Open Educational Resources (OERs) /Gerry [snip] Learn about the OER MOOC The Open Education Resources is a 4 week online program designed to enhance knowledge about OERs and to equip for effective use and adopt OERs in ones programs as well as to be able to create your own OERs and contribute to the pool of OER resources. The nominal duration for completing this course is 4 weeks. However, because of the nature of this program which allows flexibility and personalisation, participants may take another 2 weeks if they so wish to complete the course. This MOOC is designed to help impart the knowledge and develop the skills needed to be successful in learning from OERs or teaching the chosen subject to post secondary students and life-long learners using OERs. MOOC after OER include access to colleagues and discussion forums with other MOOC participants centered upon common interests and pursuits. [snip] LO1: Become informed of the various OERs, their different sources and the skills of searching and inclusion of OERs in educational programs. LO2: Able to search for open licensed materials and create OERs. LO3: Appreciate the significance of OERs Open Licenses in the evolution of copyright law and how new licensing regimes such as 'creative commons' become a game changer in education. LO4: Will be able to develop a sample OER related to his/her field of expertise. What do we expect of the learners In order to receive the maximum benefits from this course, participants should.... > dedicate focused time towards learning > participate in discussions > be active learners > share their ideas and experiences Course Overview The OER MOOC? comprises 4 modules. All these modules have a nominal duration of one week, each module being structured as 5 sessions, which may be seen as a daily action plan for systematic and regular participation in learning and have similar components including: ?Introductory Text based materials ?Introductory Video ?Lecture Presentations ?Blog posts for learning materials ?Tweets from time to time ?A resource base of links to relevant resources Each module takes approximately 4-5 hours, depending on ability and engagement with online materials. The indicative themes for the 4 modules is as follows: Module 1 - The OER movement: [snip] Module 2 - Learning from OERs: [snip] Module 3 - Effective Teaching with OERs: [snip] Module 4 - OERs and Education Providers : [snip] Instructors: Prof. Sanjay Jasola, Dr. Ramesh C. Sharma and Dr. Nellie Deutsch > Cost: FREE < This course is closed for further enrollments. Send us an email at ... for notification of when this course will be offered. Source Available At: [ http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/oer-mooc-duration-august-9th-september.html ] Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, because of the nature of this program which allows flexibility and personalisation, participants may take another 2 weeks if they so wish to complete the course. This MOOC is designed to help impart the knowledge and develop the skills needed to be successful in learning from OERs or teaching the chosen subject to post secondary students and life-long learners using OERs. MOOC after OER include access to colleagues and discussion forums with other MOOC participants centered upon common interests and pursuits. [snip] LO1: Become informed of the various OERs, their different sources and the skills of searching and inclusion of OERs in educational programs. LO2: Able to search for open licensed materials and create OERs. LO3: Appreciate the significance of OERs Open Licenses in the evolution of copyright law and how new licensing regimes such as 'creative commons' become a game changer in education. LO4: Will be able to develop a sample OER related to his/her field of expertise. What do we expect of the learners In order to receive the maximum benefits from this course, participants should.... > dedicate focused time towards learning > participate in discussions > be active learners > share their ideas and experiences Course Overview The OER MOOC? comprises 4 modules. All these modules have a nominal duration of one week, each module being structured as 5 sessions, which may be seen as a daily action plan for systematic and regular participation in learning and have similar components including: ?Introductory Text based materials ?Introductory Video ?Lecture Presentations ?Blog posts for learning materials ?Tweets from time to time ?A resource base of links to relevant resources Each module takes approximately 4-5 hours, depending on ability and engagement with online materials. The indicative themes for the 4 modules is as follows: Module 1 - The OER movement: [snip] Module 2 - Learning from OERs: [snip] Module 3 - Effective Teaching with OERs: [snip] Module 4 - OERs and Education Providers : [snip] Instructors: Prof. Sanjay Jasola, Dr. Ramesh C. Sharma and Dr. Nellie Deutsch > Cost: FREE < This course is closed for further enrollments. Send us an email at ... for notification of when this course will be offered. Source Available At: [ http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/oer-mooc-august-9th-september-22nd-2013.html ] Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jill.emery at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 14 02:22:33 2014 From: jill.emery at GMAIL.COM (Jill Emery) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:22:33 -0800 Subject: ER&L 2014 Travel Grants Announcements Message-ID: The Electronic Resources and Libraries is pleased to announce the continuation of two different travel awards supporting 4 attendees to this year's 9th Annual ER&L Conference in Austin, TX March 16-19: 2014 *DLF/CLIR + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards* and 2014 *Taylor & Francis/ ER&L Student Travel Grants* ******2014 DLF/CLIR + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards****** The Digital Library Federation (DLF), a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to support a travel grant for the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference in Austin, March 16-19, 2014. The purpose of this grant is to extend a unique opportunity to attend ER&L to a library professional who would not typically come to the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference but who can identify a connection with their work. The goal of the DLF/CLIR +ER&L TRAVEL AWARD is to bring a cross-pollinator ?a library professional to ER&L who can provide unique perspectives to our work and share a vision of the library world from their perspective ? to the conference. The travel grant includes a conference registration, air travel costs, and housing in Austin. *Application Requirements: *Applicants will be required to supply contact information as well as to indicate to how access to the ER&L conference may assist the applicant in achieving an expansion of their professional horizons. It is important for the applicant to describe what he or she can uniquely bring to the conference. The winning applicant must be able to travel to Austin. *Eligibility:*The applicant should be a practicing library professional seeking more exposure on the trends in e-resources and digital services who has not attended ER&L and is willing to share their perspective to the ER&L community. The winning applicant will receive conference registration, air travel costs, and housing up to $2200 per winner. *Accepting Grant Applications** TODAY ? Friday, February 14, 2014* SUBMIT NOW: http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/presenters/crosspollinator ******2014 TAYLOR & FRANCIS/ ER&L STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT****** Taylor & Francis Group and ER&L are sponsoring travel grants for two students traveling to ER&L in Austin, Texas. The travel grant includes conference registration, air travel costs, and housing totaling $1500 per winner. ?We are pleased to sponsor the library and information science student travel grant award for the second consecutive year to attend the 2014 ER&L Conference. Taylor & Francis Group embraces librarianship, and we want library and information science students to gain further awareness about the important trends and issues which exist in the industry. ER&L opens up a forum for discussion on many scholarly topics by publishers, vendors, and librarians alike. Our hope is that the students awarded the grant will find the Conference to be meaningful and relevant,? states Elyse Profera, Associate Library Marketing Manager, Taylor & Francis Group, Philadelphia. *From ER&L:* We are pleased to offer an opportunity for 2 students to attend ER&L 2014 with support from the Taylor & Francis Group. The goal of the ER&L Conference is to bring together information professionals from libraries and related industries to improve the way we collect, manage, maintain, and make accessible electronic resources in an ever-changing online environment. We do this once a year at an in-person and virtual conference. We encourage library students to join us at the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference in Austin, TX on March 16-19. Good luck, students! *Eligibility: *This grant is open to currently enrolled students wishing to attend ER&L 2014. Student applicants will be required to supply contact information as well as to answer a questions related to how access to ER&L can assist the applicant in achieving professional and academic goals. US and International applicants welcome! *Accepting Grant Applications Now ? January 28, 2014* *SUBMIT NOW: *http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/presenters/tandfstudent +++++ *REGISTER NOW*-- http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/conference-info/2014register *VIEW ACCEPTED SESSIONS by Track -- * http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/2014/erl14-sessions-by-track *ER&L 2014 KEY DATES* January 24 | Full Program w/ Presentations Times Available Jan 28 | T&F Student Travel Award Application Deadline Feb 14 | 2014 DLF/CLIR + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards Feb 20 | Regular Registration Closes Mar 16-19 | ER&L 2014 in Austin, Texas or Online March 19 | ER&L Workshops Mar 20-21 | LTG Summit (Learn more: http://www.ltgsummit.org/) ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU Tue Jan 14 15:19:17 2014 From: MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU (Hess, M. Ryan) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:19:17 +0000 Subject: icons Message-ID: Hi all, I?m wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web content. We?ve got a hodgepodge of icons we?ve pulled from multiple places, but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over these, I?m seeing significant gaps in what we?ll need. For example, there aren?t a lot of library oriented icons?copy machines, group study rooms, e-readers, etc. One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the bees-knees of library icon sets. My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But I?m flexible here. Thanks for any advice! M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 120, 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lweber at LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU Tue Jan 14 15:31:24 2014 From: lweber at LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU (Lisa WEBER) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:31:24 -0800 Subject: Digital Project Manager position - UC Berkeley Library Message-ID: The UC Berkeley Library is hiring a Digital Project Manager. Read all about it at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LHRD/currentjobs.html#17225 Lisa Weber Library Systems Office UC Berkeley Library ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Elizabeth.Swanson at ARTSTOR.ORG Tue Jan 14 15:46:33 2014 From: Elizabeth.Swanson at ARTSTOR.ORG (Elizabeth Swanson) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:46:33 +0000 Subject: job opening - K-12 Library Relations Associate - ARTstor Digital Library - New York, NY Message-ID: Artstor Library Relations Associate (K-12) New York City Artstor is a nonprofit organization that assembles and makes available a Digital Library of images and associated data for noncommercial educational and scholarly uses, and an image management platform called Shared Shelf. The Digital Library and Shared Shelf are made available online through site licenses with educational and other nonprofit institutions. Artstor is headquartered in New York, NY. The Library Relations Associate will share responsibility for expanding and supporting Artstor Digital Library participation, particularly within the K-12 school community in the United States and other countries. Artstor is introducing new resources for the Advanced Placement Art History curriculum and to enhance classroom teaching, and the Associate will collaborate with Artstor's Senior K-12 Relationship Manager to support these initiatives. This position will require some travel (25%), and will demand a self-motivated, flexible, organized team player who thrives in an environment of constant change. The LR Associate will report directly to the Director for Library Relations. Duties and Responsibilities * Working to meet and exceed subscription goals on an annual basis; * Communicating Artstor's mission, messages, and subscription fee rationale to potential K-12 participants; * Identifying and managing new participation opportunities in the K-12 community; * Facilitating subscription at the institution and district levels by demonstrating the Artstor Digital Library, its services and tools, and providing librarians and instructors with useful information and strategies for promoting Artstor as a school-wide resource; * Shepherding potential subscribers through the sales pipeline, including: * Responding, via email and telephone, to subscription inquiries via the Artstor website * Tracking contact information and "pipeline" status in our customer relationship management software * Negotiating basic terms of License Agreements * Working with other units to establish institutional access to the Artstor Digital Library * Giving remote demonstrations of Artstor via GoToMeeting or other live conference software * Setting up trial access for interested institutions * Representing Artstor at conferences and other events deemed appropriate for this community; * Assisting with updating and maintaining the customer relationship management database; * Liaising with User Services to enhance support of current K-12 subscribers; * Contributing to internal reports; * Keeping up-to-date on various Artstor initiatives and developments and being able to communicate these initiatives to potential K-12 participants; * Additional special projects as assigned by the Director, Senior K-12 Relationship Manager, and other senior staff members. Requirements * Excellent communication skills in a variety of settings; * Attention to detail and accuracy; * Ability to work well as a team member; * Strong technology skills, including familiarity with trends in web development as well as project management experience; * Exceptional organizational skills; * Ability to perform independently, be self-motivated, adapt to constant change and able to juggle multiple tasks with a positive attitude; * Strong commitment and interest in the use of images in a K-12 setting; * Bachelor's Degree; * 2-3 years of experience in K-12 educational field. Desirable * Familiarity with the Artstor Digital Library; * Arts and humanities background; * Sales, business development, marketing, and/or academic library experience; * Working knowledge of image database technology; * Experience with customer relationship management software (Talisma, SalesForce or other); * Master's Degree. Artstor offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please submit a cover letter with salary requirements along with a resume to: careers at artstor.org. Artstor is an equal opportunity employer. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US Tue Jan 14 17:20:45 2014 From: Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US (Lawrence, Dan) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:20:45 +0000 Subject: icons In-Reply-To: <5330EBA5-D51D-466A-8DB9-FE2FD011E744@depaul.edu> Message-ID: No bees knees answer here, but I've had success in the past mix and matching icon sets from royalty free sites such as Shutterstock. E.g. http://goo.gl/5qTAyP or http://goo.gl/kggjYF Shutterstock is pretty reasonable you can get licensed use for 2 images for $29, 5 for $49 or go all out and download 25 a day for future use over a month period for $249. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:19 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] icons Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web content. We've got a hodgepodge of icons we've pulled from multiple places, but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over these, I'm seeing significant gaps in what we'll need. For example, there aren't a lot of library oriented icons...copy machines, group study rooms, e-readers, etc. One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the bees-knees of library icon sets. My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But I'm flexible here. Thanks for any advice! M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 120, 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmdeken at SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Tue Jan 14 17:32:09 2014 From: jmdeken at SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Deken, Jean M.) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:09 -0800 Subject: SLAC Research Library Addis Fund Fellow Opportunity Message-ID: SLAC Research Library Addis Fund Fellow Opportunity The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory invites applications from enthusiastic and self-motivated librarians for the second competition of the Addis Fellowship Program. The program will place 1 recent Ph.D. or MLIS from an ALA accredited program into a temporary position at the SLAC Research Library. This assignment will provide an opportunity for a new or early career librarian to gain exposure to a special library environment and to exercise leadership in the development and implementation of policies and practices relating some aspect of the SLAC Research Library?s management and services. Reporting to the Manager, Archives and Research Library, this year?s incumbent will serve as a Technical Services Librarian working on a project to refine and begin implementing a process to incorporate the SLAC Research Library?s analog collection of scientific and technical grey literature into appropriate existing digital indexes and repositories (inSPIRE, SDR, OSTI, Google Scholar, etc.) Deliverables for this year?s assignment will be: A robust workflow for ? Evaluating the digital availability of the SLAC Research Library?s analog grey literature. ? Scanning those papers not currently available electronically ? Creating accurate metadata for scanned papers ? Uploading the digital content into the appropriate repository ? Detailed documentation of the developed workflow ? Successful implementation of the workflow and documentation on a substantial portion of the grey literature holdings. Note: This is an hourly, non-benefits eligible position. Eligible applicants must be at least 18 years of age, currently enrolled in an educational program or recently graduated, and have US work authorization. Qualifications: Required: ? Master's degree in Library or Information Science from an ALA-accredited institution of higher education by the start of employment. ? At least 2 years' experience working with standard web technologies that include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML to develop and integrate web applications. ? Formal coursework in, or experience with, user information?seeking behaviors in an academic environment. ? Knowledge of content, format and search strategies of bibliographic databases and electronic information resources; XML, HTML, Drupal, relational database structures, data taxonomies, digital repositories, emerging web standards and technologies including Open URL and link resolution software. ? Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to multi-task and complete assignments. ? Demonstrated commitment to user?centered library service ? Ability to work in a fast-paced and collaborative work environment. Desired: ? BA/BS in a scientific discipline or computer science ? Ph.D. in Library Science conferred between January 2010 and the application deadline To apply online, go to https://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH12/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=SLAC&cws=1 and search for Job Requisition 1253 Cheers, Jean "Archives offer...a sense of identity, locality, history, culture, and personal and collective memory..." ========================================== Jean Marie Deken C.A., M.A., M.L.I.S. Archivist and Manager Archives and Research Library SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2575 Sand Hill Road MS 97 Menlo Park CA 94025 ph 650.926.3091 fx 650.926.3329 web: www.slac.stanford.edu/history; and http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/library/ ========================================== ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 From Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US Tue Jan 14 17:31:22 2014 From: Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US (Lawrence, Dan) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:31:22 +0000 Subject: icons Message-ID: And I should have said that an icon set is one image. And have had no problem recoloring based on available formats. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Lawrence, Dan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:21 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: RE: icons No bees knees answer here, but I've had success in the past mix and matching icon sets from royalty free sites such as Shutterstock. E.g. http://goo.gl/5qTAyP or http://goo.gl/kggjYF Shutterstock is pretty reasonable you can get licensed use for 2 images for $29, 5 for $49 or go all out and download 25 a day for future use over a month period for $249. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:19 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] icons Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web content. We've got a hodgepodge of icons we've pulled from multiple places, but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over these, I'm seeing significant gaps in what we'll need. For example, there aren't a lot of library oriented icons...copy machines, group study rooms, e-readers, etc. One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the bees-knees of library icon sets. My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But I'm flexible here. Thanks for any advice! M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 120, 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roy.degler at OKSTATE.EDU Tue Jan 14 18:37:15 2014 From: roy.degler at OKSTATE.EDU (Degler, Roy) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:37:15 +0000 Subject: icons In-Reply-To: <13FB296840E6D241BB0E0BAA3532DA8C1BCA5B@esvr01.cde.state.co.us> Message-ID: Yes, there is a site that comes very close to being the bee knees. See http://fontello.com This site lets you build a custom web font from multiple sets including font awesome, typicons, entypo, and many other open source web font icons. For graphic based icons try thenounproject.com. This a combination of free and paid svg files. Roy Degler Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Democritus On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:33 PM, "Lawrence, Dan" > wrote: And I should have said that an icon set is one image. And have had no problem recoloring based on available formats. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Lawrence, Dan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:21 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: RE: icons No bees knees answer here, but I?ve had success in the past mix and matching icon sets from royalty free sites such as Shutterstock. E.g. http://goo.gl/5qTAyP or http://goo.gl/kggjYF Shutterstock is pretty reasonable you can get licensed use for 2 images for $29, 5 for $49 or go all out and download 25 a day for future use over a month period for $249. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:19 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] icons Hi all, I?m wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web content. We?ve got a hodgepodge of icons we?ve pulled from multiple places, but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over these, I?m seeing significant gaps in what we?ll need. For example, there aren?t a lot of library oriented icons?copy machines, group study rooms, e-readers, etc. One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the bees-knees of library icon sets. My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But I?m flexible here. Thanks for any advice! M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 120, 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU Wed Jan 15 10:26:26 2014 From: MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU (Hess, M. Ryan) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:26:26 +0000 Subject: icons In-Reply-To: <19463CEA-04B6-4AFA-A4D9-5030E9ABB9EA@okstate.edu> Message-ID: Thanks Dan and Roy. I think we?ll use Fontello and/or Noun Project to augment Glyphicons and generate a set we can turn to. If we get a good font put together, I?ll share it with the community. Cheers! M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 120, 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 On Jan 14, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Degler, Roy > wrote: Yes, there is a site that comes very close to being the bee knees. See http://fontello.com This site lets you build a custom web font from multiple sets including font awesome, typicons, entypo, and many other open source web font icons. For graphic based icons try thenounproject.com. This a combination of free and paid svg files. Roy Degler Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Democritus On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:33 PM, "Lawrence, Dan" > wrote: And I should have said that an icon set is one image. And have had no problem recoloring based on available formats. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Lawrence, Dan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:21 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: RE: icons No bees knees answer here, but I?ve had success in the past mix and matching icon sets from royalty free sites such as Shutterstock. E.g. http://goo.gl/5qTAyP or http://goo.gl/kggjYF Shutterstock is pretty reasonable you can get licensed use for 2 images for $29, 5 for $49 or go all out and download 25 a day for future use over a month period for $249. Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:19 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] icons Hi all, I?m wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web content. We?ve got a hodgepodge of icons we?ve pulled from multiple places, but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over these, I?m seeing significant gaps in what we?ll need. For example, there aren?t a lot of library oriented icons?copy machines, group study rooms, e-readers, etc. One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the bees-knees of library icon sets. My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But I?m flexible here. Thanks for any advice! M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 120, 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If we get a good font > put together, I?ll share it with the community. > > Cheers! > > M Ryan Hess > Web Services Coordinator > DePaul University > JTR 120, 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 > > On Jan 14, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Degler, Roy wrote: > > Yes, there is a site that comes very close to being the bee knees. > See http://fontello.com > > This site lets you build a custom web font from multiple sets including > font awesome, typicons, entypo, and many other open source web font icons. > > For graphic based icons try thenounproject.com. This a combination of > free and paid svg files. > > > Roy Degler > > Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. > Democritus > > On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:33 PM, "Lawrence, Dan" > wrote: > > And I should have said that an icon set is one image. And have had no > problem recoloring based on available formats. > > *Dan Lawrence* | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State > Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room > 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | > Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org > | > > *From:* Lawrence, Dan > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:21 PM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* RE: icons > > No bees knees answer here, but I?ve had success in the past mix and > matching icon sets from royalty free sites such as Shutterstock. E.g. > > http://goo.gl/5qTAyP or http://goo.gl/kggjYF > > Shutterstock is pretty reasonable you can get licensed use for 2 images > for $29, 5 for $49 or go all out and download 25 a day for future use over > a month period for $249. > > *Dan Lawrence* | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State > Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room > 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | > Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org > | > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > ] *On Behalf Of *Hess, M. Ryan > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:19 PM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] icons > > Hi all, > > I?m wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web > content. We?ve got a hodgepodge of icons we?ve pulled from multiple places, > but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap > made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over > these, I?m seeing significant gaps in what we?ll need. For example, there > aren?t a lot of library oriented icons?copy machines, group study rooms, > e-readers, etc. > > One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, > but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the > bees-knees of library icon sets. > > My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But > I?m flexible here. > > Thanks for any advice! > > M Ryan Hess > Web Services Coordinator > DePaul University > JTR 120, 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 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-14 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-14 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-14 > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU Wed Jan 15 11:27:32 2014 From: TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU (TRISTA NELSON) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:27:32 -0500 Subject: EZProxy Scenario Message-ID: I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server by having every link go through EZProxy. After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to the databases. I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me on either arguments for or against these situations. Thanks, Trista Nelson, Library Clerk Glen Oaks Community College 62249 Shimmel Rd. Centreville, MI 49032 (269) 294-4293 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darby.lists at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 15 11:39:10 2014 From: darby.lists at GMAIL.COM (Andrew Darby) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:39:10 -0500 Subject: icons In-Reply-To: Message-ID: There's also this, which a colleague told me about recently: http://icomoon.io/app/#/select Similar to fontello, but perhaps some different icon sets. If you click the dropdown in the upper left and then "icon library" you can add and remove icon sets. Mind you, I don't know if mixing and matching across icon sets is a great idea, it might make things look a bit "off." On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Inge Kokidko wrote: > I've had good luck with flaticons.net, which lets you customize the size > and color of around 2500 icons. > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Hess, M. Ryan wrote: > >> Thanks Dan and Roy. I think we?ll use Fontello and/or Noun Project to >> augment Glyphicons and generate a set we can turn to. If we get a good font >> put together, I?ll share it with the community. >> >> Cheers! >> >> M Ryan Hess >> Web Services Coordinator >> DePaul University >> JTR 120, 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 >> >> On Jan 14, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Degler, Roy wrote: >> >> Yes, there is a site that comes very close to being the bee knees. >> See http://fontello.com >> >> This site lets you build a custom web font from multiple sets including >> font awesome, typicons, entypo, and many other open source web font icons. >> >> For graphic based icons try thenounproject.com. This a combination of >> free and paid svg files. >> >> >> Roy Degler >> >> Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. >> >> Democritus >> >> On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:33 PM, "Lawrence, Dan" >> wrote: >> >> And I should have said that an icon set is one image. And have had no >> problem recoloring based on available formats. >> >> *Dan Lawrence* | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State >> Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room >> 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | >> Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org >> | >> >> *From:* Lawrence, Dan >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:21 PM >> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> *Subject:* RE: icons >> >> No bees knees answer here, but I?ve had success in the past mix and >> matching icon sets from royalty free sites such as Shutterstock. E.g. >> >> http://goo.gl/5qTAyP or http://goo.gl/kggjYF >> >> Shutterstock is pretty reasonable you can get licensed use for 2 images >> for $29, 5 for $49 or go all out and download 25 a day for future use over >> a month period for $249. >> >> *Dan Lawrence* | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State >> Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room >> 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | >> Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org >> | >> >> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> ] *On Behalf Of *Hess, M. Ryan >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:19 PM >> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] icons >> >> Hi all, >> >> I?m wondering if anyone out there has done any icon work for their web >> content. We?ve got a hodgepodge of icons we?ve pulled from multiple places, >> but no uniform set that clearly enhances the UX. Recent work with Bootstrap >> made me a fan of Glyphicons but looking over >> these, I?m seeing significant gaps in what we?ll need. For example, there >> aren?t a lot of library oriented icons?copy machines, group study rooms, >> e-readers, etc. >> >> One thought was to start with Glyphicons and then add on as we need, >> but before we do that, I wondered if anyone out there has discovered the >> bees-knees of library icon sets. >> >> My preference would be sets that come in either font sets or SVGs. But >> I?m flexible here. >> >> Thanks for any advice! >> >> M Ryan Hess >> Web Services Coordinator >> DePaul University >> JTR 120, 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 >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-01-14 >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-01-14 >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-01-14 >> >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-01-15 >> > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > -- Andrew Darby Head, Web & Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From listuser at CHILLCO.COM Wed Jan 15 11:41:57 2014 From: listuser at CHILLCO.COM (Cary Gordon) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:41:57 -0800 Subject: EZProxy Scenario In-Reply-To: <52D670A4.FC46.006B.1@glenoaks.edu> Message-ID: The VPN approach ? intranet is likely something that you access through a VPN ? should work fine. The reason that it isn't universally adopted is because it requires a lot of overhead. If everyone who needs access to the resources already has VPN access, then it should be simple, and little additional work would be required. Caveat: exceptions can kill you. The reason that EZProxy is beloved and widely adopted is because it is very simple to manage and it has a great community supporting it (in addition, of course, to OCLC's support). Cary On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:27 AM, TRISTA NELSON wrote: > I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: > > A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server by having every link go through EZProxy. > > After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to the databases. > > I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me on either arguments for or against these situations. > > Thanks, > > > Trista Nelson, Library Clerk > Glen Oaks Community College > 62249 Shimmel Rd. > Centreville, MI 49032 > (269) 294-4293 > > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Wed Jan 15 11:44:18 2014 From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:44:18 +0000 Subject: EZProxy Scenario In-Reply-To: <52D670A4.FC46.006B.1@glenoaks.edu> Message-ID: Hi It seems your web technician has something against EZ-Proxy If I am understanding scenario 1 correctly, having links to databases without EZ-Proxy allows those outside to access university resources..which may be in violation of contracts... For me, the importance of EZ-Proxy is: protecting use of resources from those off-campus who should not have access, yet provide access to those who should have access; and providing a better user experience for those on campus (signing on takes time, especially if you have already signed on to a lab computer and have to sign on again). I don't see a difference between the web portal and EZ-Proxy, though, honestly, it does not seem like a good use of the web technician's time...EZ-Proxy does the same thing. Michael Cabus Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library Philadelphia University ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of TRISTA NELSON [TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:27 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] EZProxy Scenario I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server by having every link go through EZProxy. After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to the databases. I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me on either arguments for or against these situations. Thanks, Trista Nelson, Library Clerk Glen Oaks Community College 62249 Shimmel Rd. Centreville, MI 49032 (269) 294-4293 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 From TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU Wed Jan 15 11:56:43 2014 From: TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU (TRISTA NELSON) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:56:43 -0500 Subject: EZProxy Scenario In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Michael, In Scenario 1 when an off-campus user clicks the links for databases without EZ-Proxy, they get an error and are not able to access the database unless they go to the "Off-site database access" webpage.... The main difference that I see with using the web portal instead of EZ-Prozy is that if an off campus user goes to the library website finds a database they want to use they won't be able to unless they go back to the main college webpage and sign on to the web portal and then access the library webpage through the intranet. It seems like a lot of hassle and the users won't tolerate, but I wanted some second opinions from people who aren't as biased as myself. Thanks for all your responses, Trista Nelson >>> "Cabus, Michael" 1/15/2014 11:44 AM >>> Hi It seems your web technician has something against EZ-Proxy If I am understanding scenario 1 correctly, having links to databases without EZ-Proxy allows those outside to access university resources..which may be in violation of contracts... For me, the importance of EZ-Proxy is: protecting use of resources from those off-campus who should not have access, yet provide access to those who should have access; and providing a better user experience for those on campus (signing on takes time, especially if you have already signed on to a lab computer and have to sign on again). I don't see a difference between the web portal and EZ-Proxy, though, honestly, it does not seem like a good use of the web technician's time...EZ-Proxy does the same thing. Michael Cabus Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library Philadelphia University ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of TRISTA NELSON [TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:27 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] EZProxy Scenario I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server by having every link go through EZProxy. After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to the databases. I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me on either arguments for or against these situations. Thanks, Trista Nelson, Library Clerk Glen Oaks Community College 62249 Shimmel Rd. 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For that matter, if you are using an SSO, such as SAML or Shibboleth, your tech should be able to configure EZProxy to use your campus' Intranet with the added benefit of SSO with other campus services. That would certainly relieve your IdP or router some of the burden your tech is proposing. --jimm On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:27 AM, TRISTA NELSON wrote: > I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: > > A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access > databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, > management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database > links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other > references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy > server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server > by having every link go through EZProxy. > > After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can > bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He > will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will > need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the > library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the > students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to > the databases. > > I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. > I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me > on either arguments for or against these situations. > > Thanks, > > > Trista Nelson, *Library Clerk* > Glen Oaks Community College > 62249 Shimmel Rd. > Centreville, MI 49032 > (269) 294-4293 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > -- ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, the journal is interested in articles of varying lengths, opinion pieces and case studies. The editor will work with authors that are new to LIS publishing, and those who are seeking outlets for reporting on practical uses of budgets and finances in libraries. Submissions particularly welcome in the following areas (for example): ? Library changes and challenges from recent economic turmoil ? Case studies on library budgeting and finances ? Case studies on library development activities ? Downsizing and reorganization of libraries ? Library budgets and finances from an administrator?s perspective (high-level or middle management) ? Library budgets and finances from a staff perspective ? Innovative ways to raise money and awareness of library activities and mission ? Thought-provoking opinions related to library budgets and finances Go to www.emeraldinsight.com/bl.htm to see past tables of contents and sample articles. 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This is not identical but somewhat similar to something we've been talking about here--in our case, we're a consortium, and it has to do with how our libraries' users access our stuff (through a variety of ways!). For at least one of them, students need to follow a link from their library site to our site so that they arrive already authenticated. If they type our URL directly into their browsers instead, they end up on our login page, which has no idea what to do with their campus credentials. But of course that's what happens not infrequently, and the library gets questions every day about how to log in, which is why we've been talking about ways to handle this kind of scenario better--because it's not that great for the students or the librarians. So yeah, not totally the same... but I'd say if you can offer the option to have people go to point A and it works, instead of going to point B then point A or else point A doesn't work--do that. Or just to say it one more time, if logging in can be a natural part of what people need to accomplish, instead of the thing they have to think about before doing what they actually want to accomplish... eh, you know what I'm saying. -Sarah On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:56 AM, TRISTA NELSON wrote: > Michael, > In Scenario 1 when an off-campus user clicks the links for databases > without EZ-Proxy, they get an error and are not able to access the database > unless they go to the "Off-site database access" webpage.... > > The main difference that I see with using the web portal instead of > EZ-Prozy is that if an off campus user goes to the library website finds a > database they want to use they won't be able to unless they go back to the > main college webpage and sign on to the web portal and then access the > library webpage through the intranet. It seems like a lot of hassle and > the users won't tolerate, but I wanted some second opinions from people who > aren't as biased as myself. > > Thanks for all your responses, > Trista Nelson > > >>> "Cabus, Michael" 1/15/2014 11:44 AM >>> > > Hi > It seems your web technician has something against EZ-Proxy > > If I am understanding scenario 1 correctly, having links to databases > without EZ-Proxy allows those outside to access university resources..which > may be in violation of contracts... > > For me, the importance of EZ-Proxy is: protecting use of resources from > those off-campus who should not have access, yet provide access to those > who should have access; and providing a better user experience for those on > campus (signing on takes time, especially if you have already signed on to > a lab computer and have to sign on again). > > I don't see a difference between the web portal and EZ-Proxy, though, > honestly, it does not seem like a good use of the web technician's > time...EZ-Proxy does the same thing. > > Michael Cabus > Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library > Philadelphia University > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf > of TRISTA NELSON [TNELSON at GLENOAKS.EDU] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:27 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [WEB4LIB] EZProxy Scenario > > I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: > > A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access > databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, > management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database > links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other > references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy > server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server > by having every link go through EZProxy. > > After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can > bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He > will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will > need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the > library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the > students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to > the databases. > > I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. > I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me > on either arguments for or against these situations. > > Thanks, > > > Trista Nelson, Library Clerk > Glen Oaks Community College > 62249 Shimmel Rd. > Centreville, MI 49032 > (269) 294-4293 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From richardjam at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 17 08:21:46 2014 From: richardjam at GMAIL.COM (Richard James) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:21:46 -0500 Subject: EZProxy Scenario Message-ID: I've worked in places that do it either of these two ways, as well as my current location where we use hosted EZproxy. I don't know as one or another has substantial implicit advantages- a lot depends on the competencies of IT staff, librarians, and students. Hosted EZproxy works well for us, because there's no IT involvement, updates and additional resources are implemented quickly, and we don't have to worry about it overmuch- and hosting isn't expensive. We have the EZproxy prefix on all of our links wherever we can find them, as well as configured in EBSCO etc. for permalinking. Either with hosted, where it's definitely not a concern, or with a local EZproxy, I wonder if the concept of 'overloading' is all that likely. So many of your users trying to access high-quality resources simultaneously? What an amazing problem! If that was the case I would think it is incontrovertible evidence that a more robust server is needed. In my last job, access went via your alternative hypothetical. While it did add the factor of having to log in to do anything, even to see the page with the links, students were well used to doing that anyway so I don't really believe it added any hurdles for access. I do, however, think that it added some complexity to ours and faculty's ability to provide deep links to articles etc in subscription resources. This may just have been a peculiarity of our setup though, but it's so much easier to slap the EZproxy prefix on a permalink so faculty can add it to blackboard or email it to students, etc. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-17 From mviana at PUCRS.BR Fri Jan 17 09:04:31 2014 From: mviana at PUCRS.BR (Michelangelo M M Viana) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:04:31 +0000 Subject: Report of electronic resources accessed though EZ Proxy Message-ID: Dear friends, My University would like to know if we can adopt EZ Proxy to generate accesses reports (native/customized) of electronic (web) resources, besides users authentication as web proxy. What we need, in fact, is to know how many times each database (or vendor website, at least) was accessed during a given period, by a given category of user. Eg: Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest - 3,500 accesses Or: Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest - Teachers : 1,000 accesses Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest - Students: 2,500 accesses Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest ?Central - Students: 2,500 accesses Or: Jan-Mar/2014 - ACM Digital Library - Students: 2,500 accesses Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest Account & Tax - Teachers: 2,500 accesses So, can we use EZ Proxy for that goal? If you already use it to generate this kind of reports, can you share your experiences and screenshots of the reports? We still knew MetriDoc (https://metridoc.library.upenn.edu/), but as we noted, it uses COUNTER reports, and we decided do not adopt it, considering that not all subscribed vendors/databases offers this type of reports. Thanks in advance, Michel?ngelo Michel?ngelo Mazzardo Marques Viana | Setor de Suporte e Desenvolvimento Coordenador de Sistemas da Biblioteca Central | Bibliotec?rio CRB-10/1306 Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS Biblioteca Central Ir. Jos? 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We haven't explored log file analysis yet, but I assumed it was the only option (http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/loganalysis.en.html). Would love to hear what others think. -Dan Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us | ColoradoStateLibrary.org | From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michelangelo M M Viana Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:05 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Report of electronic resources accessed though EZ Proxy Dear friends, My University would like to know if we can adopt EZ Proxy to generate accesses reports (native/customized) of electronic (web) resources, besides users authentication as web proxy. What we need, in fact, is to know how many times each database (or vendor website, at least) was accessed during a given period, by a given category of user. Eg: Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest - 3,500 accesses Or: Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest - Teachers : 1,000 accesses Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest - Students: 2,500 accesses Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest ?Central - Students: 2,500 accesses Or: Jan-Mar/2014 - ACM Digital Library - Students: 2,500 accesses Jan-Mar/2014 - Proquest Account & Tax - Teachers: 2,500 accesses So, can we use EZ Proxy for that goal? If you already use it to generate this kind of reports, can you share your experiences and screenshots of the reports? We still knew MetriDoc (https://metridoc.library.upenn.edu/), but as we noted, it uses COUNTER reports, and we decided do not adopt it, considering that not all subscribed vendors/databases offers this type of reports. Thanks in advance, Michel?ngelo Michel?ngelo Mazzardo Marques Viana | Setor de Suporte e Desenvolvimento Coordenador de Sistemas da Biblioteca Central | Bibliotec?rio CRB-10/1306 Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS Biblioteca Central Ir. Jos? Ot?o | Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil (51) 3353.4371 | mviana at pucrs.br | http://www.pucrs.br/biblioteca ____________________________________________________________________ Acesse nossa p?gina no Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bibliotecapucrs Siga-nos no Twitter: https://twitter.com/bibliotecapucrs Conhe?a nossos espa?os no Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/bibliotecapucrs ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-17 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-17 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From listuser at CHILLCO.COM Fri Jan 17 17:09:59 2014 From: listuser at CHILLCO.COM (Cary Gordon) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:09:59 -0800 Subject: Report of electronic resources accessed though EZ Proxy In-Reply-To: <13FB296840E6D241BB0E0BAA3532DA8C1BDB2C@esvr01.cde.state.co.us> Message-ID: AFAIK, log file analysis is the option. EZProxy is a light-weight program that is very good at what it does, and makes no attempt at doing anything else. From my perspective, as long as you don?t need these numbers in real time, log analysis should be cheap, and easy to do. Cary On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Lawrence, Dan wrote: > I am very interested in this as well. We are proxying for multiple organizations and this could be of benefit. We haven?t explored log file analysis yet, but I assumed it was the only option (http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/loganalysis.en.html). Would love to hear what others think. > > -Dan > > Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing | State Library | Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO 80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org | > > From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michelangelo M M Viana > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:05 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Report of electronic resources accessed though EZ Proxy > > Dear friends, > > My University would like to know if we can adopt EZ Proxy to generate accesses reports (native/customized) of electronic (web) resources, besides users authentication as web proxy. > What we need, in fact, is to know how many times each database (or vendor website, at least) was accessed during a given period, by a given category of user. > Eg: > Jan-Mar/2014 ? Proquest ? 3,500 accesses > Or: > Jan-Mar/2014 ? Proquest ? Teachers : 1,000 accesses > Jan-Mar/2014 ? Proquest ? Students: 2,500 accesses > Jan-Mar/2014 ? Proquest ?Central ? Students: 2,500 accesses > Or: > Jan-Mar/2014 ? ACM Digital Library ? Students: 2,500 accesses > Jan-Mar/2014 ? Proquest Account & Tax ? Teachers: 2,500 accesses > > So, can we use EZ Proxy for that goal? > If you already use it to generate this kind of reports, can you share your experiences and screenshots of the reports? > We still knew MetriDoc (https://metridoc.library.upenn.edu/), but as we noted, it uses COUNTER reports, and we decided do not adopt it, considering that not all subscribed vendors/databases offers this type of reports. > > Thanks in advance, > Michel?ngelo > Michel?ngelo Mazzardo Marques Viana | Setor de Suporte e Desenvolvimento > Coordenador de Sistemas da Biblioteca Central | Bibliotec?rio CRB-10/1306 > Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS > Biblioteca Central Ir. Jos? 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URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Sat Jan 18 16:06:49 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:06:49 +0000 Subject: OASIS > Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6C9F5E@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Alert *** Colleagues/ New To Me ... /Gerry OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ?sourcebook? on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and we invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement. Resources > Briefing Papers / Guides and Overviews / Video / Presentations / The Open Access Map / Open Access Tracking Project / News From The Community Source and Links Available Via: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/oasis-open-access-scholarly-information.html Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours. http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-18 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at DUBLINCORE.NET Sat Jan 18 21:46:59 2014 From: announce at DUBLINCORE.NET (DCMI Announce) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:46:59 -0800 Subject: Call for speakers (deadline March 20): Taxonomy Boot Camp 2014, Washington DC, November 4-5 Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** ????????????????????????? *10th annual Taxonomy Boot Camp* November 4-5 as part of KMWorld Washington, DC *Website:* http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/ *Call for Speakers:* http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/CallForSpeakers.asp *Deadline:* March 20, 2014 ????????????????????????? The 10th annual Taxonomy Boot Camp will be held again in Washington DC from November 4-5 as part of KMWorld. The call for speakers is now open, deadline for proposals is March 20. Proposals for individual sessions, panels and workshops are all welcome, covering any aspect of taxonomy/ontology/vocabulary design, management, integration and use. See full details at http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/, or submit your proposal online at http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/CallForSpeakers.aspx . Taxonomy Boot Camp brings together practitioners and experts in taxonomy, vendors who have created tools to help manage your taxonomies, and novices who are starting out in the world of information management. Two parallel tracks on the first day provide those new to the field with the nuts and bolts they need to get up to speed, and expert practitioners with insights into how other professionals have made their organizations more successful through better use of taxonomies. On the second day of the Boot Camp, everyone shares in case studies, practical sessions on taxonomy tools and their use, and cutting edge developments in the field. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn about tools and techniques you can use to bring your information clouds together, and meet the people who can help you be successful in your efforts. Michael Crandall, Conference Chair Senior Lecturer and Director, iAffiliates Program and Chair, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) The Information School Box 352840 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98105-2840 (206) 897-1798 mikecran at uw.edu http://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/mikecran http://ischool.uw.edu/iaffiliates ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-18 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Mon Jan 20 17:09:15 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:09:15 +0000 Subject: Open Educational Resources And Libraries Activities ? In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CAE28@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ I am the process of conducting a literature (and web) review of research / scholarship relating to Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Libraries for an updated and expanded version of my presentation _Open Sesame: Strategies for Promoting Open Educational Resources for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)_ http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/11/open-sesame-strategies-for-promoting.html for an invited manuscript. While I'll found a number of articles / blogs / conferences / guides / presentations / reports / seminars / webiinars / white papers / etc. on OERs in general, I have found relatively few relating to OERs and Libraries (except for blogs and guides) notably: Creative Commons: Open Education, Open Access, and Librarians > January 22, 2014 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/12/free-webinar-creative-commons-open.html Exploring the E-Resources for Educational Use http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/exploring-e-resources-for-educational.html Finding Free and Open Access Resources: A Value-Added Service for Patrons http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/finding-free-and-open-access-resources.html Libraries Lead the Way: Open Courses, Open Educational Resources, and Open Policies > October 2 2013 > 3:00 PM Making Higher Education More Affordable, One Course Reading at a Time: Academic Libraries as Key Advocates for Open Access Textbooks and Educational Resources http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/making-higher-education-more-affordable.html OER and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/oer-and-solving-textbook-cost-crisis.html Open Education And Libraries http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-education-and-libraries.html Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/10/open-educational-resources-as-learning.html The Roles of Libraries and Information Professionals In Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiatives http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-roles-of-libraries-and-information.html SPARC-ACRL Forum June 29 at ALA Annual Conference 2013 > Understanding the Implications of Open Education: MOOCs and More http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/04/sparc-acrl-forum-june-29-at-ala-annual.html I am greatly interested in learning of any/all additional OERs & Libraries resources for consideration. Thanks for your assistance ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darby.lists at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 21 11:22:56 2014 From: darby.lists at GMAIL.COM (Andrew Darby) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:22:56 -0500 Subject: Code4Lib Issue 23 Available Message-ID: The Code4Lib Journal editors are pleased to bring you this latest issue. You can find it at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue23; titles and abstracts below. ======================= Editorial Introduction: Conscious Resolutions by Shawn Averkamp URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9389 Hack your life with 10 New Year?s resolutions from Code4Lib Journal. ======================= The Road to Responsive: University of Toronto Libraries? Journey to a New Library Catalogue Interface By Lisa Gayhart, Bilal Khalid, Gordon Belray URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9195 With the recent surge in the mobile device market and an ever expanding patron base with increasingly divergent levels of technical ability, the University of Toronto Libraries embarked on the development of a new catalogue discovery layer to fit the needs of its diverse users. The result: a mobile-friendly, flexible and intuitive web application that brings the full power of a faceted library catalogue to users without compromising quality or performance, employing Responsive Web Design principles. ======================= Recipes for Enhancing Digital Collections with Linked Data by Thomas Johnson and Karen Estlund URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9214 Standards-based metadata in digital library collections are commonly less than standard. Limitations brought on by routine cataloging errors, sporadic use of authority and controlled vocabularies, and systems that cannot effectively handle text encoding lead to pervasive quality issues. This paper describes the use of Linked Data for enhancement and quality control of existing digital collections metadata. We provide practical recipes for transforming uncontrolled text values into semantically rich data, performing automated cleanup on hand-entered fields, and discovering new information from links between legacy metadata and external datasets. ======================= Implementing a Collaborative Workflow for Metadata Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Mapping by Mark Phillips, Hannah Tarver, and Stacy Frakes URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9199 The University of North Texas (UNT) and the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) are collaborating to digitize, process, and make publicly available more than one million photographs from the Oklahoma Publishing Company?s historic photo archive. The project, started in 2013, is expected to span a year an a half and will result in digitized photographs and metadata available through The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The project team developed the workflow described in this article to meet the specific criterion that all of the metadata work occurs in two locations simultaneously. ======================= How the WSLS-TV News Digitization Project Helped to Launch a Project Management Office by Ivey Glendon and Melinda Baumann URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8652 This article discusses how the WSLS-TV News Digitization Project at the University of Virginia Libraries was the catalyst for creating a more formalized project workflow and the eventual creation of a Project Management Office. The project revealed the need for better coordination between various groups in the library and more transparent processes. By creating well documented policies and processes, the new project workflow clarified roles, improved communication, and created greater transparency. The new processes enabled staff to understand how decisions are made and resources allocated which allowed them to work more efficiently. ======================= Use of Cue Sheets in Audio Digitization by Austin Dixon URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9314 Audio digitization is becoming essential to many libraries. As more and more audio files are being digitally preserved, the workflows for handling those digital objects need to be examined to ensure efficiency. In some instances, files are being manually manipulated when it would be more efficient to manipulate them programmatically. This article describes a time-saving solution to the problem of how to split master audio files into sub-item tracks. ======================= A Video Digital Library to Support Physicians? Decision-making About Autism by Matthew A. Griffin, MLIS, Dan Albertson, Ph.D., and Angela B. Barber, Ph.D. URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9281 A prototype Digital Video Library was developed as part of a project to assist rural primary care clinics with diagnosis of autism, funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The Digital Video Library takes play sample videos generated by a rural clinic and makes it available to experts at the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Clinic at The University of Alabama. The experts are able to annotate segments of the video using an integrated version of the Childhood Autism Ratings Scale-Second Edition Standard Version (CARS2). The Digital Video Library then extracts the annotated segments, and provides a robust search and browse feature. The videos can then be accessed by the subject?s primary care physician. This article summarizes the development and features of the Digital Video Library. ======================= Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist by Anthony Cocciolo URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9158 The Unix environment offers librarians and archivists high-quality tools for quickly transforming born-digital and digitized assets, such as resizing videos, creating access copies of digitized photos, and making fair-use reproductions of audio recordings. These tools, such as ffmpeg, lame, sox, and ImageMagick, can apply one or more manipulations to digital assets without the need to manually process individual items, which can be error prone, time consuming, and tedious. This article will provide information on getting started in using the Unix environment to take advantage of these tools for batch processing. ======================= Automated Processing of Massive Audio/Video Content Using FFmpeg by Kia Siang Hock, Li Lingxia URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9128 Audio and video content forms an integral, important and expanding part of the digital collections in libraries and archives world-wide. While these memory institutions are familiar and well-versed in the management of more conventional materials such as books, periodicals, ephemera and images, the handling of audio (e.g., oral history recordings) and video content (e.g., audio-visual recordings, broadcast content) requires additional toolkits. In particular, a robust and comprehensive tool that provides a programmable interface is indispensable when dealing with tens of thousands of hours of audio and video content. FFmpeg is comprehensive and well-established open source software that is capable of the full-range of audio/video processing tasks (such as encode, decode, transcode, mux, demux, stream and filter). It is also capable of handling a wide-range of audio and video formats, a unique challenge in memory institutions. It comes with a command line interface, as well as a set of developer libraries that can be incorporated into applications. ======================= -- Andrew Darby Head, Web & Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You will learn how to prepare packages for submission into the very heart of many digital environments; the operating system and directly associated ?app-stores?. Attendees will be given hands-on experience with developing and maintaining packages rather than software and key differences will be discussed and evaluated. Better preservation of preservation tools, means better preservation our digital history. *Learning Outcomes* (by the end of the training event the attendees will be able to): 1. Understand the complexities of package management and distinguish between the different practices relating to both package objectives and chosen programming language. 2. Be able to carry out advanced package management operations in order to critically appraise current packages and propose changes. 3. Understand the importance of clearly defined versioning and licenses and the role of clear documentation and examples. 4. Apply best practice techniques in order to create a simple package suitable for long term maintenance. 5. Evaluate a number of options for managing package configuration and behaviour relating to package installation, removal, upgrade and re-installation. 6. Analyse opportunities for automating package management and releases, maintaining a clear focus on the user and not the developer. 7. Critically evaluate opportunities to generalise package management to allow the easy building and maintenance of packages on multiple platforms. 8. Assess the potential to apply package management techniques in your own environment. *Agenda* The agenda is available here: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Agenda+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools The event will be conducted in English. *Who should attend?* Software and tool developers, system administrators - No digital preservation knowledge required - Learn how to make your software sustainable so it is easily distributed, installed, and used *Further information* Travel and accommodation advice can be found on the event wiki page: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/SCAPE+Training+Event+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools. *Please note there is another major conference taking place in The Hague at the same time - we advise booking accommodation ASAP.* To find out more about the SCAPE Project visit: http://www.scape-project.eu/ . *Save the date! SCAPE & OPF Executive Seminar: Managing Digital Preservation, 25 March, The Hague. Registration opening soon.* Kind Regards, -- Rebecca McGuinness Membership and Communications Manager *Open Planets Foundation* c/o The British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ +44 (0)1937 546013 | @openplanets http://openplanetsfoundation.org/ | http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Home/ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lori.A.DuBois at WILLIAMS.EDU Wed Jan 22 09:42:23 2014 From: Lori.A.DuBois at WILLIAMS.EDU (Lori DuBois) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:42:23 -0500 Subject: Web Design Firm Recommendation Needed Message-ID: ***Cross-posted to Code4Lib apologies in advance if you have to read this more than once!*** Williams College Libraries may have the opportunity to hire a web design firm to design and possibly implement in Drupal the front page and template pages for the user interface of our new institutional repository. Has anyone outsourced such design work for their institutional repository or other web projects and have recommendations for good firms? Thanks for any recommendations! Lori ------- Lori DuBois Reference and Instruction Librarian Williams College Libraries Williamstown, MA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 From emcaulay at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU Wed Jan 22 10:54:10 2014 From: emcaulay at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU (McAulay, Elizabeth) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:54:10 +0000 Subject: Web Design Firm Recommendation Needed In-Reply-To: <0429758147405850.WA.Lori.A.DuBoiswilliams.edu@listserv.nd.edu> Message-ID: I can highly recommend Bluespark in North Carolina. Let me know if you'd like any specific information. They are doing our Library homepage in Drupal. It isn't implemented. Best, Lisa On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:44 AM, "Lori DuBois" wrote: > ***Cross-posted to Code4Lib apologies in advance if you have to read this more than once!*** > > Williams College Libraries may have the opportunity to hire a web design firm to design and possibly implement in Drupal the front page and template pages for the user interface of our new institutional repository. Has anyone outsourced such design work for their institutional repository or other web projects and have recommendations for good firms? > > Thanks for any recommendations! > > Lori > > ------- > Lori DuBois > Reference and Instruction Librarian > Williams College Libraries > Williamstown, MA > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-22 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 From mschofield at NOVA.EDU Wed Jan 22 12:21:55 2014 From: mschofield at NOVA.EDU (Michael Schofield) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:21:55 +0000 Subject: Web Design Firm Recommendation Needed In-Reply-To: <0429758147405850.WA.Lori.A.DuBoiswilliams.edu@listserv.nd.edu> Message-ID: I recommend Influx: Library User Experience. http://weareinflux.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lori DuBois Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:42 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Web Design Firm Recommendation Needed ***Cross-posted to Code4Lib apologies in advance if you have to read this more than once!*** Williams College Libraries may have the opportunity to hire a web design firm to design and possibly implement in Drupal the front page and template pages for the user interface of our new institutional repository. Has anyone outsourced such design work for their institutional repository or other web projects and have recommendations for good firms? Thanks for any recommendations! Lori ------- Lori DuBois Reference and Instruction Librarian Williams College Libraries Williamstown, MA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 From Lola.Francis at GTA.GA.GOV Wed Jan 22 15:06:30 2014 From: Lola.Francis at GTA.GA.GOV (Francis, Lola) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:06:30 -0500 Subject: Cloud-based Directory or Database Message-ID: Hello, One of our clients is looking for a cloud-based directory or database that we configure into a directory. Any suggestions? Here are their requirements: EPD requires a publicly available, searchable Staff Directory on their new Drupal website. It's a high priority for them, and they're willing to pay for it. Basic Requirements: * A display page that would provide a long list of Names and Units (Departments) * Ability to search or filter through the list (by name or department) * Click a name to see their full Profile, which includes: * Name * Title * Location * Telephone * Email Address * Program * Unit EPD has approx. 800 people who need to be in this directory. Initially, we would need to bulk import the content, which can be made available as an Excel spreadsheet. But it should also be easy to update on the fly - add or remove employees as needed. Address, Program, and Unit should be linked relationally, so if a Program changes its name, or a Unit relocates to another location, it should be easy to update across the list. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Lola F. Francis || Platform Support Specialist Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) lola.francis at gta.ga.gov 678.365.6435 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From martendh at WHITMAN.EDU Wed Jan 22 18:33:49 2014 From: martendh at WHITMAN.EDU (Dan Martensen) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:33:49 -0800 Subject: Position Opening: Instructional & Data Services Librarian at Whitman College In-Reply-To: <478865668.3830076.1390432790809.JavaMail.root@whitman.edu> Message-ID: Here's a new job opening for an Instructional & Data Services Librarian position at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Kind Regards, Dan Whitman College - Penrose Library - Systems and Applications Librarian WHITMAN COLLEGE INSTRUCTIONAL & DATA SERVICES LIBRARIAN Penrose Library seeks an innovative librarian to provide instructional and research assistance to students, faculty, and staff of Whitman College. Primary responsibilities include designing, delivering, and assessing information literacy instruction; providing reference and research assistance; serving as a liaison to academic departments or programs; and participating in library planning and policy-making in a shared decision-making environment. Additionally, this librarian will perform outreach and instruction for spatial and numeric data services, primarily in support of the natural sciences and other data-driven disciplines. As a member of the Instructional and Research Services (IRS) team, the successful candidate will have knowledge of information literacy pedagogy, instructional design, and current digital learning technologies. Applicants must be able to apply this knowledge while working with faculty in multiple areas of the liberal arts curriculum. While the primary area of responsibility is instruction, all IRS librarians have additional responsibilities to other areas of library services. This position will be responsible for assessing campus needs regarding data services, and developing and expanding the library?s ability to support the management and use of data on campus. Candidates are sought with experience or significant coursework in the use of geospatial and statistical tools and who have the ability to find, use, analyze, and provide instruction with data. Because this area of responsibility will evolve in response to campus need and candidate interests, enthusiasm, vision, and instructional ability are vital to this position. Experience providing academic library instruction or post-secondary instruction and experience or significant coursework in data services are desired, however early career librarians are encouraged to apply. Background or experience within a liberal arts college environment and an undergraduate major in a data-driven discipline are preferred. Required Qualifications o MLS or comparable degree from an ALA-accredited program; o Ability to develop research guides and appropriate pedagogical materials in order to effectively deliver instruction at different achievement levels; o Ability to exploit digital learning technologies and geospatial and statistical tools in order to further instructional programs and initiatives; o Strong interpersonal and communication skills in order to effectively collaborate with other library units, campus departments, individuals, and outside constituencies. o Experience with and/or knowledge of best practices for the acquisition, storage, and use of numeric and geospatial data, and the desire to develop further competency in this area. Penrose Library has a strong service orientation, a team-oriented approach to decision making, and provides excellent opportunities for professional development. Penrose Library consistently ranks highly in Princeton Review?s ?Best College Library? category and Whitman College is ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the country. Whitman College is located in the historic community of Walla Walla in the scenic wine country of southeastern Washington State. Whitman?s beautiful tree-lined campus is home to an intellectually dynamic and diverse community of some 500 staff and faculty and 1,500 students. The area allows one to experience a wide variety of recreational opportunities, provides access to more than a dozen art galleries, three theatres, and the oldest continuous symphony west of the Mississippi River. Whitman has vibrant theatre and music programs and routinely invites renowned speakers and performers to campus. Application Procedure Please submit application letter, vita, and contact information for three references through the College Employment Opportunities form at https://whitmanhr.simplehire.com Application review will begin February 17, 2014 and will continue until filled. For more information about Whitman College see www.whitman.edu . Successful candidates must be able to pass a background check. Whitman is building a diverse academic community and encourages minorities, women and persons with disabilities to apply. Experience that contributes to the diversity of the College is appreciated. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From listuser at CHILLCO.COM Wed Jan 22 18:55:03 2014 From: listuser at CHILLCO.COM (Cary Gordon) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:55:03 -0800 Subject: Cloud-based Directory or Database In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This is straightforward to do in Drupal. Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Francis, Lola wrote: > Hello, > > One of our clients is looking for a cloud-based directory or database that we configure into a directory. Any suggestions? Here are their requirements: > > EPD requires a publicly available, searchable Staff Directory on their new Drupal website. It's a high priority for them, and they're willing to pay for it. > > Basic Requirements: > > * A display page that would provide a long list of Names and Units (Departments) > * Ability to search or filter through the list (by name or department) > * Click a name to see their full Profile, which includes: > * Name > * Title > * Location > * Telephone > * Email Address > * Program > * Unit > > EPD has approx. 800 people who need to be in this directory. > > Initially, we would need to bulk import the content, which can be made available as an Excel spreadsheet. But it should also be easy to update on the fly - add or remove employees as needed. Address, Program, and Unit should be linked relationally, so if a Program changes its name, or a Unit relocates to another location, it should be easy to update across the list. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Lola F. Francis || Platform Support Specialist > Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) > lola.francis at gta.ga.gov > 678.365.6435 > > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-22 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-22 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rossfsinger at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 23 08:51:31 2014 From: rossfsinger at GMAIL.COM (Ross Singer) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:51:31 -0500 Subject: EZProxy Scenario In-Reply-To: <52D670A4.FC46.006B.1@glenoaks.edu> Message-ID: Do you evidence of EZProxy getting overloaded? I have implemented it at multiple large university libraries on very minimal hardware with absolutely no adverse effects. I would to use EZProxy for all of this and scale back *if* it gets overwhelmed (it won't). -Ross. On Jan 15, 2014 11:28 AM, "TRISTA NELSON" wrote: > I could use some sage advice on how to respond to the following scenario: > > A small community college purchases EZProxy to enable users to access > databases outside of the library. Once paid for and available for use, > management decides that the EZProxy server url will be added to database > links on a single webpage called "Offsite database access". Any other > references to databases on the library webpages will not have the EZProxy > server url because management does not want to overload the EZProxy server > by having every link go through EZProxy. > > After a year, the college web technician tells management that he can > bypass EZProxy all together and the library can discontinue its use. He > will provide authentication through the college intranet. Students will > need to sign in to the college "portal" (or intranet) then access the > library website. The technician explains that the sign in will cause the > students IP address to show up as the college thereby allowing access to > the databases. > > I'm in a precarious position and need some advice on the above scenarios. > I'm hoping that you have run into a situations like these and can advise me > on either arguments for or against these situations. > > Thanks, > > > Trista Nelson, *Library Clerk* > Glen Oaks Community College > 62249 Shimmel Rd. > Centreville, MI 49032 > (269) 294-4293 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-15 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Aalia.Oosman at TANDF.CO.UK Thu Jan 23 09:01:26 2014 From: Aalia.Oosman at TANDF.CO.UK (Oosman, Aalia) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:01:26 +0000 Subject: Taylor & Francis events schedule at ALA MW Message-ID: Taylor & Francis will be hosting a suite of informative presentations in Booth #1007 during the ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia. During these interactive sessions, librarians will learn more about updates to product functionality, content models and offerings, and further understand how we are responding to the needs of librarians to offer a sustainable publishing model for our Library and Information Science journals. Library professionals who are able to attend will receive a complimentary library-themed shirt (*limited quantities available) featuring the slogan, "Silence is Golden." Please see our presentation schedule below: Taylor & Francis Library Packages Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 10:00 am Monday, January 27: 9:30 am This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of the range of content offerings which Taylor & Francis offers for academic and special libraries. Find out what's new for 2014 across the Social Science & Humanities Library and the Science & Technology Library. English Historical Documents Online Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 11:30 am Attend this session to learn more about English Historical Documents Online, a digital collection of more than 5,500 indexed and fully searchable primary source documents in British history, from 500-1914, and U.S. history to 1776. CRCnetBASES and netBASE Select Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 1 pm Attendees will receive an overview of the depth and breadth of information and subject areas available in the 12,000+ eBook titles and collections within the many CRCnetBASEs.U South Asia Archive Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 2 pm Monday, January 27: 10:30 am Explore and learn more about the South Asia Archive, a comprehensive digital Archive which contains more than 5 million pages of rare primary and secondary sources spanning the Indian sub-continent. Taylor & Francis Open Access Friday, January 24: 6 pm Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 3 pm Monday, January 27: 11:30 am This presentation will take a look at Open Access incorporating: LIS author rights pilot initiative and Taylor & Francis OA membership options. Taylor & Francis Online Mobile Saturday, January 25 & Sunday, January 26: 4 pm Monday, January 27: 12:30 pm Taylor & Francis Online (TFO) Mobile facilitates knowledge on the move for academics, professors, and researchers alike. Find out how you can benefit from new features and functionality of TFO Mobile. We hope you will be able to join us. Kind regards, Taylor & Francis Group Library Marketing team email: elyse.profera at taylorandfrancis.com Taylor & Francis is a trading name of Informa UK Limited, registered in England under no. 1072954 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Thu Jan 23 09:35:41 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:35:41 +0000 Subject: A/V Now Available > FREE Webinar > Creative Commons: Open Education, Open Access, and Librarians > January 22, 2014 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CC80C@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ IMHO: A Great Introduction and Overview /Gerry Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Its free, easy-to-use open copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give public permission to share and use creative works ? with conditions or copyright terms which the author specifies. Dr. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, will discuss how the Internet, increasingly affordable computing, open licensing, open access journals and open educational resources provide the foundation for a world in which a quality education can be a basic human right. He will also explore how to build effective teams for institution / system-wide OER projects in a way that both builds high quality OER and OA and takes your institutions through the cultural shift to open. A/V Available At: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/12/free-webinar-creative-commons-open.html /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Aalia.Oosman at TANDF.CO.UK Thu Jan 23 10:53:38 2014 From: Aalia.Oosman at TANDF.CO.UK (Oosman, Aalia) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:53:38 +0000 Subject: Taylor & Francis extend green Open access zero embargo pilot scheme for Library & Information science authors until end 2014 Message-ID: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year pilot scheme, first introduced in 2011, has now been extended for at least a further year to enable Routledge to consider alternative approaches to copyright and to find sustainable ways of extending author rights. As part of the pilot, a survey was conducted by Routledge to canvas opinions on the Library & Information Science Author Rights initiative and also investigated author and researcher behaviour and views on author rights policies, embargos and posting work to repositories. The survey, eliciting over 500 responses, offers a fascinating insight into the current thinking of authors & researchers globally across the discipline of Library & Information Science. Having the option to upload their work to a repository directly after publication is very important to these authors: more than 2/3 of respondents rated the ability to upload their work to repositories at 8, 9, or 10 out of 10, with the vast majority saying they feel strongly that authors should have this right. The implementation of the author rights pilot saw the number of respondents who would recommend Routledge as a publishing outlet increase by 34% while the average willingness to publish with Routledge on a scale of 1 to 10 increased from 6.6 to 8.3. The shift in response from Library and Information Science professionals towards Routledge's publishing program before and after the launch of this initiative practically demonstrates the enthusiasm for immediate upload of non-embargoed content within the library community. Routledge is dedicated to developing publishing models that suit the needs of the Library & Information Science community. Tracy Roberts, Editorial Director comments "It is clear that the ability to upload articles to a repository directly after publication is a key concern for LIS authors. We are delighted to announce that we have now extended this pilot to the end of 2014 supporting research within this discipline, as well as affording us additional time to monitor the effects of this pilot study." For further details on the pilot program, visit: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp For more information, please contact: Stacy Sieck, Associate Editor, Taylor & Francis Group email: stacy.sieck at taylorandfrancisgroup.com ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Thu Jan 23 11:48:26 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:48:26 +0000 Subject: Librarians & Altmetrics: Tools, Tips and Use Cases > February 20, 2013 > 11:00-11:50 AM (EST) In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CDD8B@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ Altmetrics are becoming an integral part of looking at the impact and reach of research. Tracking social and online outlets, altmetrics provide quick feedback from a wide range of sources. In this webinar, library experts will discuss how altmetrics work, tools available, and the application of altmetrics in a range of institutions and for various user groups. What steps should librarians be taking to incorporate altmetrics into their workflows and reports? Find out in this information-packed free webinar on altmetrics. Speakers: Kristi Holmes, Bioinformaticist, Washington University in St. Louis Kristi's professional interests include open science, support and training in genomic medicine, and understanding the impact of research efforts. She serves as the outreach lead for the research discovery platform VIVO and is a member of the ORCID Outreach Steering Group. Jenny Delasalle, Freelance Consultant/Librarian Jenny's interests include bibliometrics and altmetrics, the changing landscape of scholarly communication, and how researchers can and do share and promote their research while also protecting their professional image. Jenny has worked in a number of academic library roles at various UK higher education institutions, including most recently at the University of Warwick, managing the library's support of researchers. Mike Taylor, Research Specialist, Elsevier Labs Mike's current areas of work include altmetrics, contributorship, research networks, the future of scholarly communications and other identity issues. He has worked in various capacities within the ORCID initiative. Registration Link Available Via: http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2014/01/librarians-altmetrics-tools-tips-and.html /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Thu Jan 23 14:49:20 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:49:20 +0000 Subject: ALA > MW > 2014 > MOOC Events In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CDFDB@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Postings *** Colleagues/ For Those Who Are Attending ALA > MW > 2014 ... /Gerry ALA > MW > 2014 > OCLC Enhance Sharing Session> January 25 2014 > 10:30 AM - Noon Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center / 104 B Description: The importance, accessibility and cost of education is on the minds of everyone today--administrators, faculty, librarians, politicians and parents. In this environment, MOOCs seem to offer a lifeline to schools and communities seeking to reinvent education and lifelong learning in the Internet Age. But the conversation about MOOCs is complex and evolving. New partnerships are being formed to deliver tools and curriculum. New business models are emerging. Questions about accreditation and measurement abound. Do MOOCs represent a sea-change for both public and academic libraries? Or just a new twist on distance learning? Join OCLC at the ALA Midwinter symposium for a lively debate among MOOC practitioners, promoters? and skeptics. Source Available At: http://moocsandlibraries.blogspot.com/2014/01/ala-mw-2014-oclc-enhance-sharing.html ALA > MW > AASL > 2014 > Is There a MOOC in Your Future? > January 26 2014 > 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center / 102 A Description: MOOCs, Massive Online Open Courses, are often offered free or nominal cost and allow hundred, even thousands, of students easy access to lectures from faculty without registering with the university. What do these mean for the future of education and what should the role of librarians/library educators be in their implementation? A panel and discussion about the many issues surrounding MOOCs in terms of librarian?s support for patrons, support for implementation of MOOCs through resources, technology, and local support groups, the possibilities for offering our content through a MOOC, and opportunities for our own continuing education. Source Available Via: http://moocsandlibraries.blogspot.com/2014/01/ala-mw-aasl-is-there-mooc-in-your.html /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tim at LIBRARYTHING.COM Thu Jan 23 16:23:28 2014 From: tim at LIBRARYTHING.COM (Tim Spalding) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:23:28 -0500 Subject: Job: LibraryThing for Libraries (with bounty!) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] LibraryThing is expanding, and looking for an all-around great PHP programmer to work on LibraryThing.com. The focus is on PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but library-specific technologies and formats are also valuable, as well as library experience or an MLS. You can work where you are, or come into the office in Portland, Maine. Rather than repeat it all here, the job is listed at: http://www.librarything.com/blogs/librarything/2014/01/find-librarything-a-programmer-win-1000-in-books/ In addition, we're offering a $1,000 bounty, paid in books, to anyone who finds us that programmer. You can self-find, and get it yourself, or refer a friend. Best, Tim -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 From baiget at SARENET.ES Thu Jan 23 16:38:20 2014 From: baiget at SARENET.ES (Tomas Baiget) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:38:20 +0100 Subject: EPI journal - CfP on Information visualization (May 2014) and Almetrics (July 2014) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I inform you that the Spanish journal "El profesional de la informaci?n" (EPI) has changed its policy, removing its restrictions on languages: now it accepts articles also in English, French and Portuguese. http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com EPI is a bimonthly, print + online, peer reviewed journal, indexed by the main databases: WoS-SSCI (2012 IF = 0,439), Scopus (SJR 2012 = 0,279), Inspec, Lista, Lisa, Isoc/Csic, Francis, Pascal, Econom?a y negocios, Dialnet, Academic Search, etc. Accredited by French Hceres (former Aeres), and ranked first on the Spanish LIS journals list of EC3 Metrics (University of Granada): http://ec3.ugr.es/ec3/Documentacion.html Next central themes Please note that we try to concentrate some topics in specific issues, but we accept articles on any subject along all the year. Vol. 23, issue 3, May-June 2014 INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, deadline February 10th 2014 (sorry for the short notice) Take advantage of having published your article illustrations in full colour! In this issue we still don't charge any fee for publishing (unless you choose our OA choice, @ Euro 400). Vol. 23, issue 4, July-August 2014 ALTMETRICS, deadline March 10th 2014 Important notice: The general economic crisis has affected the number of institutional subscribers to EPI ?libraries have no money for subscriptions-. This situation is beginning to threaten the viability of EPI as an independent journal that is self-financed based on its market value. So before it's too late, we decided to change our funding strategy from a model that only lies in subscriptions to another where the costs are shared between subscribers and authors. As a consequence, from this issue v. 23, n. 4 on, we are going to charge Euro 200 per published article. We remind you that in case you prefer to pay for freeing your article, you still have available our OA choice at only Euro 400 per article. How to submit manuscripts Information for authors -In Spanish: http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com/autores.html -In Google's English translation (proper translation coming soon) http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Felprofesionaldelainformacion.com Best regards, Tomas Baiget, EPI Director, Barcelona, Spain. http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.com http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com baiget at gmail.com Phone: +34 639 878 489 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Rosie.Croft at ROYALROADS.CA Thu Jan 23 17:17:21 2014 From: Rosie.Croft at ROYALROADS.CA (Rosie Croft) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:17:21 +0000 Subject: ebook overlap Message-ID: Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has a light touch way of doing overlap analysis of their existing ebook collections and prospective large scale backfile purchases. Our ILS is not particularly forgiving on this (or many other) point(s), and we're feeling a little daunted by trying to sort this out with many merged spreadsheets of vendor data. This is something we can accomplish fairly easily on the journal side with the help of serials solutions 360, but we're struggling with it on the ebooks side. I'll add that we do not work with a big jobber (I think that you could do some of that kind of analysis with GOBI) that could do it for us. Best regards, Rosie Rosie Croft, MLIS, University Librarian | Royal Roads University T 250.391.2699 | F 250.391.2594 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC Canada V9B 5Y2 | http://library.royalroads.ca LIFE.CHANGING ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From darby.lists at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 24 11:49:28 2014 From: darby.lists at GMAIL.COM (Andrew Darby) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:49:28 -0500 Subject: Web Designer, University of Miami Libraries Message-ID: Hello. Are you a web designer looking for a job in Miami? Excellent, we've got one: http://um.hodesiq.com/job_detail.asp?JobID=4177364&user_id=&ViewAll This position doesn't require an MLS. We're looking for someone especially strong on the design side, although there will be plenty of HTML and CSS and so on to keep you busy. If you have any questions, drop me a line off-list. -- Andrew Darby Head, Web & Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-24 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Fri Jan 24 17:44:10 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:44:10 +0000 Subject: _Open Librarian_ Blog > Recent Postings > January 24 2014 In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CED68@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Postings *** Colleagues/ Online Schools > Guide to Open Access Journals http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/online-schools-guide-to-open-access.html SURF > Open Educational Resources Access to High-Quality Education for All > October 2011 http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/surf-open-educational-resources-access.html SURF > Trend Report on Open Educational Resources > 2012 http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/surf-trend-report-on-open-educational.html SURF > Trend Report: Open Educational Resources > 2013 http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/surf-trend-report-open-educational.html UNESCO/COL OER Knowledge Cloud http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/unescocol-oer-knowledge-cloud.html /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-24 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Sat Jan 25 17:44:08 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:44:08 +0000 Subject: _Open Librarian_ Blog > Recent Postings > January 25 2014 In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CF217@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting Colleagues/ The Future of Open Libraries: Open Educational Resources and the Universal Library Initiative http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-future-of-open-libraries-open.html Libraries, Institutions, and Open Educational Resources: Possible Connections? http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/libraries-institutions-and-open.html Open Educational Resources and Libraries: A Proposal http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-educational-resources-and.html OER 10 > What Do Academic Libraries Have to Do with Open Educational Resources? Theme: Long Term Sustainability of Open Education Projects First Steps to Start Up http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-do-academic-libraries-have-to-do.html Open Educational Resources (OER): Neue Herausforderungen f?r Bibliotheken = Open Educational Resources (OER): New Challenges for Libraries http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-educational-resources-oer-neue.html /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From primarydat at AOL.COM Mon Jan 27 09:24:06 2014 From: primarydat at AOL.COM (James Moses) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:24:06 -0500 Subject: Primary Research Group has published Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2014 Edition, ISBN: 978-1-57440-273-5 Message-ID: Primary Research Group has published Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2014 Edition, ISBN: 978-1-57440-273-5 This 135-page international study of the digital repositories of universities and other research oriented organizations presents data from 35 digital repositories from the USA, Canada, Europe and Latin America. The report presents detailed information on downloads, source of downloads, repository website activity, publishing activities, repository marketing, budgets and funding, staffing, fees and revenues, outreach to faculty, content holdings, and many other facets of institutional digital repository management and development. The report provides trend data on the inclusion of various types of intellectual property including journal articles, books, classroom video and lectures and other materials. The study pinpoints how repositories are being used and by whom, defining for repository policy planners growth areas in the type of intellectual property being downloaded by repository end users. Data is broken out for US and non-US institutions, by public or private status of the institution, and by Carnegie class, Full time enrollment, and years in operation for the digital repository. Just a few of the study?s many findings are that: ? 12.12 percent of survey participants have established any form of peer review network. ? 18.18 percent of repositories in the sample have their own blogs. These are more common among repositories in the United States (21.05 percent) than they are among all other repositories (14.29 percent). ? 71.43% of downloads from the US-based repositories in the sample came from institutions in the United States, including the same institution that sponsors the repository. ? Research universities in the sample had mean annual repository budgets of $200,000. ? A median of 5% of journal articles published by the faculties of the organizations in the sample have been archived in the institutional repositories of those organizations. ? Survey participants estimate that a mean of 62.19 percent of the books in their digital repository are full open access prior to or upon publication. For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-27 From demian.katz at VILLANOVA.EDU Mon Jan 27 10:55:21 2014 From: demian.katz at VILLANOVA.EDU (Demian Katz) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:55:21 +0000 Subject: Press Release: VuFind 2.2 Released Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting.... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VuFind 2.2 Released Villanova, Pennsylvania - January 27, 2014 - Version 2.2 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This new release adds several new features as well as further improving the stability and flexibility of the software. Some key additions: - New themes using the Bootstrap framework to add responsive design features. - Expanded faceting functionality, which allows users to filter data in more complex ways. - Incorporation of schema.org microdata to improve search engine optimization. - A tag management module for administrators. - Improved authentication options, including CAS support and the ability to allow users to choose from multiple authentication systems. Additionally, several bug fixes and minor improvements have been incorporated. Questions about the new release or VuFind in general can be directed to Demian Katz, the lead developer of the project at Villanova University. The software and its documentation may be found at http://vufind.org. 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This position at Alfred University is a 10-month position with excellent benefits. We are looking for someone who loves collaboration, is a leader, a teacher, and has some experience (or significant aptitude) for both science librarianship and computing. Again, this is a terrific opportunity and Alfred is a great place to work. If you are interested, please see the full job description at: http://scholes.alfred.edu/index.php/eng-tech-librarian Best, Mark --------------------------------------------------- Mark A. Smith Director - Scholes Library Assoc. Dean of Libraries NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University msmith at alfred.edu 607.871.2942 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-27 From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Mon Jan 27 13:32:56 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:32:56 +0000 Subject: Free Webinar > Open Textbook Publishing and Adoptions > February 5 2014 > 2:00 pm (ET) In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6CFF3D@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ Recent research conducted by the OER Research Hub indicates that nearly 60% of community college faculty choose OER and open textbooks based on the reputation of the institution or recommendations from trusted colleagues. Join us on Wed, February 5, at 11:00 am (PT), 2:00 pm (ET) to hear about two high-quality open textbook publishing initiatives, one through the State University of New York (SUNY) and the other through OpenStax College at Rice University. Our featured speakers will share their experiences with publishing open textbooks for use by both faculty and students and share their open textbook adoption strategies. Cyril Oberlander, Director of Library Services at SUNY Geneseo heads up the SUNY Open Textbook initiative which publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as a publishing service and infrastructure. They have released three open textbooks this last fall in their planned series of fifteen open textbooks in various disciplines. David Harris, Editor-in-chief OpenStax College at Rice University?s Connexions project. OpenStax College is a nonprofit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Their free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of college courses. Their first six books released over the last two years are focused on general education courses and are gaining adoptions. [snip] No pre-registration is necessary. Click on [Webinar] link on the day of the webinar to login and listen. Source and Link Available Via: http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/free-webinar-open-textbook-publishing.html Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 150 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-27 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are interested in a fun and creative position in a warm climate close to the ocean and the mountains, apply at: https://irecruitportal.ucr.edu/irecruit/!Controller?action=jobs_webui.show_page&page=jobs_detail&requisition_id=201311272806&profile_id=&module=jobs Ann Frenkel Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services University of California, Riverside PO Box 5900 Riverside, CA 92517-5900 Phone: (951) 827-4824 FAX: (951) 827-2255 afrenkel at ucr.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-27 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at NFAIS.ORG Tue Jan 28 09:56:17 2014 From: jilloneill at NFAIS.ORG (jilloneill at NFAIS.ORG) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:56:17 -0500 Subject: Discounted Rates for Information Professionals at NFAIS 2014 Message-ID: Register Now for Giving Voice to Content: Re-envisioning the Business of Information Dates: February 23 - 25, 2014 Venue: Hyatt at the Bellevue, Philadelphia, PA 19102 [http://nfais.org/register-for-2014-NFAIS-annual-conference] Register Online [https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=20587275] Reserve A Room At The Conference Hotel The [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530] 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference A new information mindset has emerged - forever changing the business of information! How are content providers and librarians re-envisioning their content, its use, and even their businesses in order to remain relevant and what are the economic implications of these changes? Is the ability to give voice to content changing the future of information creation and discovery? And if so, what does it mean for publishers, database producers, aggregators, distributers, librarians and users? What if you were freed from the constraints of the past - free to re-envision your products, services, and business models? Where would you begin, what would you do, and what would those products, policies and business models look like? The 56th NFAIS Annual Conference will help you answer those questions. It will provide you with an ideal opportunity to interact with peers who are adopting the new information mindset and embracing technology to move forward, transform, and ultimately allow content to unveil its secrets! Confirmed speakers on the [http://nfais.org/event?eventID=537] program include the following: Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel and Scientist Emeritus at bit.ly Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, IBM SOA Center of Excellence Mitchell Davis, Chief Business Officer, BiblioLabs Bradley Allen, Chief Architect, Elsevier Toby Green, Head of Publishing, OECD Mahendra Mahey, Project Manager, British Library Labs Nader Qaimari, Senior Vice President Marketing, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Maryann Martone, Executive Director, Force 11 Jignesh Bhate, CEO, Molecular Connections Britt Mueller, Senior Director, Library Services, Qualcomm, Inc. John Blossom, President, Shore Communications Peter Marney, Advisory Board Member to CrowdComputing Systems and Global Head of Content Management, John Wiley and Sons Ijsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Vice President, Content Innovation, Elsevier Evan Sandhaus, The New York Times Mike Teets, Vice President, Innovation, OCLC Richard Leadbeater, ESRI To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at: http://nfais.org/. National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From develand at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 28 09:59:47 2014 From: develand at GMAIL.COM (Dan Eveland) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:59:47 -0500 Subject: Cloud-based Directory or Database In-Reply-To: <3C655398-D823-47D7-AFC1-CFB4473C71A1@chillco.com> Message-ID: This would be very easy to do in Drupal, as Cary mentioned. Add profile fields for everything you need. Build a view to allow searching and display. On the scale of Drupal complexity, it's near the bottom, right above "blog". There are a variety of modules to import CSV files. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: > This is straightforward to do in Drupal. > > Cary Gordon > The Cherry Hill Company > > On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Francis, Lola > wrote: > > Hello, > > One of our clients is looking for a cloud-based directory or database that > we configure into a directory. Any suggestions? Here are their > requirements: > > EPD requires a publicly available, searchable Staff Directory on their new > Drupal website. It's a high priority for them, and they're willing to pay > for it. > > Basic Requirements: > > * A display page that would provide a long list of Names and Units > (Departments) > * Ability to search or filter through the list (by name or department) > * Click a name to see their full Profile, which includes: > * Name > * Title > * Location > * Telephone > * Email Address > * Program > * Unit > > EPD has approx. 800 people who need to be in this directory. > > Initially, we would need to bulk import the content, which can be made > available as an Excel spreadsheet. But it should also be easy to update on > the fly - add or remove employees as needed. Address, Program, and Unit > should be linked relationally, so if a Program changes its name, or a Unit > relocates to another location, it should be easy to update across the list. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Lola F. Francis || *Platform Support Specialist* > Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) > lola.francis at gta.ga.gov > 678.365.6435 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-22 > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-22 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lbell927 at YAHOO.COM Tue Jan 28 10:42:33 2014 From: lbell927 at YAHOO.COM (Lori Bell) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:42:33 -0800 Subject: SJSU SLIS presents Evaluating Library Spaces Through Simulation in Second Life Message-ID: Dr. Jeremy Kemp at San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science will speak on Evaluating Library Spaces through Simulation, a report on work-in-progress gathering video walkthroughs of exemplary young adult library spaces from across the US and Canada and recreating them in Second Life for further study as part of a larger three-year grant project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for $335,000 (Dr. Anthony Bernier, PI). ?The presentation will be in Second Life on?Wed. Feb 5 at 6 pm?pacific. Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact?Dr. Sue Alman?as soon as possible. Jeremy Kemp's work explores the intersection of digital and physical learning spaces and the emerging tools and techniques supporting innovation within them. More specifically, his interests follow teachers, learners and information professionals using communication technologies for education. The session will be held in the virtual world of Second Life. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/39/74/33 For more information please contact Dr. Pat Franks at?patricia.franks at sjsu.edu. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Tue Jan 28 10:52:02 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:52:02 +0000 Subject: CHE > Open Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and Academically In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C6D07EC@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ As the price of college textbooks continues to increase, more students are opting to skip the books even if their grades suffer, a survey conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group has found. In a report released on Monday, the group said open textbooks?written by faculty members, peer-reviewed, and available free online?could help make textbooks affordable again. For the report, ?Fixing the Broken Textbook Market,? more than 2,000 students at 156 college campuses in 33 states were surveyed during the fall of 2013. Sixty-five percent of the students said they were not buying all of their required textbooks because of the books? cost, and 94 percent of those who didn?t buy the books reported being concerned about how that would affect their grades. About 48 percent said that the cost of textbooks had influenced their decisions about which and how many classes to take. The research group estimates that each student could save about $100 per class by using open textbooks. Those are textbooks with open copyright licenses that are available free online, although students who want printed versions would pay modest fees. [more] Source, Full Text, and Report Link Available Via: [ http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-textbooks-could-help-students.html ] BTW: I will be updating my _OATs: Open Access Textbooks_ LibGuide over the coming months. While I will be conducting my own literature and web reviews, I would appreciate any/all relevant post-January 2013 articles / presentations / webinars / etc. for possible inclusion. __OATS_ is located at: http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/oats Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 150 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ann.frenkel at UCR.EDU Tue Jan 28 16:32:17 2014 From: ann.frenkel at UCR.EDU (Ann Frenkel) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:32:17 +0000 Subject: Software Developer at UC Riverside Libraries Message-ID: Usual apologies for cross-posting... The University of California, Riverside (UCR) Libraries is seeking nominations and applications for an experienced, energetic, and innovative professional to fill the position of Software Developer in the Information Technology and Systems Division. If you are interested in a fun and creative position in a warm climate close to the ocean and the mountains, apply at: https://irecruitportal.ucr.edu/irecruit/!Controller?action=jobs_webui.show_page&page=jobs_detail&requisition_id=201311272805&profile_id=&module=jobs Ann Frenkel Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services University of California, Riverside PO Box 5900 Riverside, CA 92517-5900 Phone: (951) 827-4824 FAX: (951) 827-2255 afrenkel at ucr.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From primarydat at AOL.COM Wed Jan 29 09:22:53 2014 From: primarydat at AOL.COM (James Moses) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:22:53 -0500 Subject: Primary Research Group has published Virtual Reference Benchmarks, ISBN 978-157440- 274-2 Message-ID: Primary Research Group has published Virtual Reference Benchmarks, ISBN 978-157440- 274-2 The 189-page study presents results of an exhaustive questionnaire about virtual reference services answered by more than 50 academic, public and special libraries covering issues such as budgets, software and services use, consortia membership, partnerships, library staff time consumed, number of reference questions answered, time taken to provide responses, and the tracking of reference answers and the development of a reference database. The study also looks at reference question & answer delivery vehicles such as web forms, instant messaging, email, phone, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and more. The report also looks at the various costs of virtual reference ? telecommunications, manpower, technology and equipment and at how libraries are using and safeguarding their reference response databases. The study presents data from more than 50 academic, public and special libraries about their virtual reference systems. Data is broken out separately for these types of libraries, as well as by other criteria, such as the number of years that virtual reference has been in use, type of virtual reference service offered, and library size. Just a few of the report?s many findings are that: ? Nearly a third (31.37 percent) of all libraries in the survey participate in a virtual reference consortium, including 40 percent of academic libraries. ? A third of all participants with 150 or more library employees use text messaging facilitator LibraryH3lp. ? Special librarians in the sample provided the quickest response times to real time reference questions, a mean of 7 minutes. ? Academic libraries in the sample that use web forms to receive virtual reference questions received a mean of 1,587 through this venue in the past year. ? Just 7.84 percent of survey participants offer virtual reference through Skype. ? More than 57% of public libraries in the sample accept virtual reference questions through Facebook but just 10% of academic libraries sampled did the same. ? 40% of libraries with less than 5 employees strip identifying information from virtual reference transcripts. ? 30% of academic libraries in the sample had a line item in the library budget for virtual reference services. For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 From Beth.Avery at UNT.EDU Wed Jan 29 14:11:26 2014 From: Beth.Avery at UNT.EDU (Avery, Beth) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:11:26 +0000 Subject: Handheld Librarian Conference: Registration is Open! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Join us for another great online conference! HHLib9 is February 26th and 27th! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. [HHLib9 Header Image] Registration is Open On February 26th and 27th, 2014, join us for the 9th Handheld Librarian Online Conference (HHLib9) where librarians on the leading edge of our profession share their latest ideas, tools, and strategies. HHLib9: Encouraging Innovation and Technology, the top online tech conference for librarians, will feature inspiration and how to's. Take part in sessions that share the wide range of insights and experiences that come with implementing technologies and programs to meet the needs of library users. Drink up the inspiration and information on Wednesday, February 26th and Thursday, February 27th, 2014. In addition to a featured keynote presentation on meaningful gamification by Scott Nicholson of Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and the Because Play Matters Game Lab, the HHLib9 conference will offer presentations on the following range of topics: * Try Before You Buy: Beta Technology in Public Libraries * Using Augmented Reality in Information Retrieval * Social Georeferencing - A Model for Libraries * Creating An Infographic Contest at Your Library * Put a Badge on it! Badging and Professional Development We look forward to your participation. Register today! Warm regards, LearningTimes and The HHLib9 Team http://nine.handheldlibrarian.org/ @HHLib9 forward to a friend Copyright (c) 2014 LearningTimes LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you participated in a Handheld Librarian Online Conference, produced by LearningTimes. Our mailing address is: LearningTimes. LLC 450 Seventh Avenue Suite 1106 New York, New York 10123 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chodgson at NISO.ORG Wed Jan 29 14:49:50 2014 From: chodgson at NISO.ORG (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:49:50 -0500 Subject: NISO February 12 Webinar: We Know it When We See It: Managing "Works" Metadata Message-ID: Register now for NISO's February educational webinar. Webinar: We Know it When We See It: Managing "Works" Metadata Date: February 12, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/ ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR In the new models for describing information resources (FRBR, RDA, BIBFRAME), the conceptual essence of an item-referred to as a "Work"-is separated from the specific manifestations of the item-referred to as "Instances" or "Expressions". The work "Macbeth by Shakespeare" could have multiple forms or versions and exist in a variety of media, from a print copy of the play to a DVD of a live performance. Of equal importance in the new models is describing the relationship between a Work and its various Instances/Expressions. This represents an entirely different way of thinking about resource description for libraries and users. While the new models are still in the early days of implementation, a number of efforts are already underway to describe resources using these new concepts and relationships. This webinar will explore how metadata descriptive systems are developing around the new notion of "Works". TOPICS & SPEAKERS . The Use and Designation of "Works" in GOKb - Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University . RDA's Impact on Library Technical and Public Services - Magda El-Sherbini, Associate Professor and Head, Collection Description and Access Department, Ohio State University Libraries . Works as a Collection of "Rights" about a Content Object - Godfrey Rust, Principal Data Architect for Ontologyx, Rightscom REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on February 12, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance . If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year's webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From knowledge_globe at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 29 15:02:24 2014 From: knowledge_globe at YAHOO.COM (Maryam Safari) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:02:24 -0800 Subject: best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation Message-ID: Dear all, What are best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation? I presenting a model for information retrieval. So I should evaluate users satisfaction for this model. I need help identifying the top & best questionnaires to evaluate user satisfaction of the user interface (usability, ...). Thanks ?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -? Maryam Safari MS in Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences School of Health Management and Medical Informatics Sciences Tabriz University of? Medical Sciences Tabriz , Iran ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c2perry at NYC.RR.COM Wed Jan 29 15:13:29 2014 From: c2perry at NYC.RR.COM (Claudia Perry) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:13:29 -0500 Subject: best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation In-Reply-To: <1391025744.57611.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Oh, please do share with the list! I teach a course in Digital Libraries, and would love to have my students fill out a usability questionnaire as a class activity! Many thanks to all, Claudia Perry Claudia A. Perry, MLS, Ph.D Associate Professor Graduate Advisor for Admissions Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Queens College, CUNY Flushing, NY 11367 claudia.perry at qc.cuny.edu 718-997-3790 On Jan 29, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Maryam Safari wrote: > Dear all, > What are best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation? > I presenting a model for information retrieval. So I should evaluate users satisfaction for this model. I need help identifying the top & best questionnaires to evaluate user satisfaction of the user interface (usability, ...). > Thanks > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Maryam Safari > MS in Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences > School of Health Management and Medical Informatics Sciences > Tabriz University of Medical Sciences > Tabriz , Iran > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-29 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Rosie.Croft at ROYALROADS.CA Wed Jan 29 17:18:26 2014 From: Rosie.Croft at ROYALROADS.CA (Rosie Croft) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:18:26 +0000 Subject: best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation In-Reply-To: <1391025744.57611.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: With credit for this link going to OCLC's Above the Fold newsletter, the following site has some really good articles/tips about various things university website related, including user testing: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/university-sites/ Rosie From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Maryam Safari Sent: January-29-14 12:02 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation Dear all, What are best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation? I presenting a model for information retrieval. So I should evaluate users satisfaction for this model. I need help identifying the top & best questionnaires to evaluate user satisfaction of the user interface (usability, ...). Thanks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Maryam Safari MS in Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences School of Health Management and Medical Informatics Sciences Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz , Iran ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alan.cockerill at JCU.EDU.AU Wed Jan 29 18:56:49 2014 From: alan.cockerill at JCU.EDU.AU (Cockerill, Alan) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:56:49 +0000 Subject: best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation In-Reply-To: <1391025744.57611.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I'm a fan of Steve Krug's approach http://www.sensible.com/ and his two books Don't Make Me Think & Rocket Surgery Made Easy He doesn't have a default set of questions but builds them after site owners 'distill' exactly what it is they think are the most important things a user should be able to do. From these he sets ups some scenarios to see how easily users can do them. The sessions are recorded and/or narrowcasted live to business owners so they can see what it's actually like using the site through a user's eyes. His methodology removes the blinkers of the experts who work constantly with the site - and removes personal biases and neverending arguments in the design team because the users' voice (through their actual experience) is the deciding vote. The process is iterative, so you can keep refining certain key user experiences, or work your way down the list of priorities. Alan Cockerill Library Technologies Coordinator James Cook University PO Box 6811 CAIRNS QLD 4870 Phone:+61 7 4232 1737 Fax: +61 7 4232 1516 Email: Alan.Cockerill at jcu.edu.au Skype: alan.cockerill.jcu Web: http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/libcomp/library/contacts/staff/JCUPRD_017401 Blog: http://jculibrarytechnology.blogspot.com/ Tweet: http://twitter.com/cockerilla CRICOS Provider Code: 00117J (QLD) From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Maryam Safari Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2014 6:02 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation Dear all, What are best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation? I presenting a model for information retrieval. So I should evaluate users satisfaction for this model. I need help identifying the top & best questionnaires to evaluate user satisfaction of the user interface (usability, ...). Thanks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Maryam Safari MS in Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences School of Health Management and Medical Informatics Sciences Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz , Iran ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brittfagerheim at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 30 12:13:20 2014 From: brittfagerheim at GMAIL.COM (Britt Fagerheim) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:13:20 -0700 Subject: Job posting: Web Services Librarian Message-ID: *Web Services Librarian* Utah State University Libraries seek an innovative, collaborative, and customer-oriented librarian to fill the newly created position of Web Services Librarian. This 12-month, tenure-track, entry-level faculty position with rank of Assistant Librarian reports to the Director of Library Digital and Information Technology Services and is responsible for a broad range of services and duties related to the libraries' web presence and digital content and services. In addition to providing leadership and managing the content and design of the libraries' web services, this person will take a user-centered approach to guide the library in implementing new technologies to enhance our patrons' experiences. Responsibilities: -Oversee the content and collaborative design of the libraries' web services. -Facilitate assessment, usability, and use of analytic tools to gather, report and evaluate web statistics and user experience data. -Interact with all areas of the library to develop innovative library technology services and systems. -Work collaboratively across all USU campuses to integrate library and campus technology. -Develop workflows and strategies to adapt and respond quickly to the changing technological environment. -Prioritize, develop, and integrate user-friendly, user-centered websites and interfaces. -Serve as a subject librarian to one or more academic disciplines. -Facilitate the discovery and integration of open resources for research and teaching within the library and campuses. Required Qualifications: -MLS from an ALA-accredited program. -Experience with website design and information architecture. -Demonstrated knowledge of current trends and issues in user experience design, and library technologies. -Strong interest in emerging technologies and using technology to serve library constituents. -Highly effective communication skills, including listening, writing and speaking. -Demonstrated problem solving skills. -Ability to set and follow through on both individual and team priorities. -Aptitude for learning new technologies and working in a dynamic environment. -Ability to meet the university's requirements for promotion and tenure. Preferred Qualifications: -Project management experience and demonstrated success in working collaboratively with a variety of constituencies. -Experience with web site administration, accessibility, and usability. -Knowledge of web accessibility standards. -Familiar with HTML, CSS, XML, Java, PHP Salary is commensurate with education and experience, plus excellent benefits. Review of applications will begin on February 28, 2014 and it will remain open until filled. This position is available on July 1, 2014. Apply online at: http://jobs.usu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=59790 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-30 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lbray at OMAHALIBRARY.ORG Thu Jan 30 15:58:20 2014 From: lbray at OMAHALIBRARY.ORG (Lindsey Bray (LIB)) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:58:20 -0600 Subject: Virtual Reference Services Message-ID: Hi everyone, We're looking at overhauling how we organize our virtual reference service. Currently, we use LibAnswers and have a small team of librarians answering the questions. If you currently use a virtual reference service, could you answer the following questions? What service do you use and why? Is your service asynchronous (delayed response) or synchronous (chat)? How do you monitor answer quality? How do you schedule staff time on the virtual reference service? How many staff do you have answering questions? Thanks! Lindsey Lindsey Bray | Digital Services Specialist W. 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If you currently use a virtual reference service, > could you answer the following questions? > > What service do you use and why? > We use LibraryH3lp as our platform for chat and text reference services at Virginia Commonwealth University. This was chosen by the team drafted to look at options (I wasn't on that team, but could probably get some info from them...) > > Is your service asynchronous (delayed response) or synchronous (chat)? > We staff chat and text during many day/evening hours, and then switch to text only for our overnight and early morning hours. > > How do you monitor answer quality? > That's a question we've been thinking more and more about recently. We do not have a staffer assigned to regularly reviewing the transcriptions, but we do feel a need in order to maintain quality. > > How do you schedule staff time on the virtual reference service? > During the day, librarians are scheduled to cover chat and text, and paraprofessionals in our Information Services department (which provides circulation as well as research assistance) handle evenings, overnights and weekends. > > How many staff do you have answering questions? > There are 14 librarians and 11 paraprofessionals who provide this service. We staff chat and/or text during all building open hours; we are a 24x5 library, so that's a lot of hours. > > Thanks! > Lindsey > > > > Lindsey Bray | Digital Services Specialist > > W. Dale Clark > *Main Library *215 S. 15th St. | Omaha, NE 68102 > lbray at omahalibrary.org | 402.444.4843 > omahalibrary.org > > Follow OPL on Twitter & Facebook > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-01-30 > -- M. Teresa Doherty Head, Information Services VCU Libraries 804 828-8658 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-30 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwiseman at CI.WACO.TX.US Thu Jan 30 17:54:49 2014 From: gwiseman at CI.WACO.TX.US (Gillian Wiseman) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:54:49 -0600 Subject: Virtual Reference Services In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: I'm in a medium-sized public library with 4 locations. Take that into account - we have 5 professional reference librarians, and 3 branch managers. From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lindsey Bray (LIB) Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:58 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Virtual Reference Services Hi everyone, We're looking at overhauling how we organize our virtual reference service. Currently, we use LibAnswers and have a small team of librarians answering the questions. If you currently use a virtual reference service, could you answer the following questions? What service do you use and why? We use "Mosio Text a Librarian". It has a chat module that can be set up if you wish, but does not have to be. Alerts for message notification can be set to arrive as IM, Email or SMS. Each person who is set up to monitor the service can set their own preferences. Chat is enabled any time a librarian is logged into the message board. Is your service asynchronous (delayed response) or synchronous (chat)? Either or both. How do you monitor answer quality? Our supervisor (reference manager) monitors the answers we give. How do you schedule staff time on the virtual reference service? Whoever is on the reference desk is expected to keep an eye out for incoming text messages. We are also all supposed to login to accept chat reference whenever possible, but I find that this doesn't happen as often as I'd like it to, and these questions frequently (the one or two a week we get!) go unanswered. How many staff do you have answering questions? 5 Reference librarians, 2 Branch Managers and our Circulation Manager are all set up to monitor the service. In reality, three of us do 90% of it. We receive a total of 10-15 questions per week on the service, so it is not burdensome. Thanks! Lindsey You're welcome! Gillian Wiseman Teen Services Librarian Waco-McLennan County Library Waco TX, 76701 254-750-5944 gwiseman at ci.waco.tx.us Lindsey Bray | Digital Services Specialist W. 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If you currently use a virtual reference service, could you answer the following questions? What service do you use and why? We use libraryh3lp. Good service and tons of help. Is your service asynchronous (delayed response) or synchronous (chat)? We offer chat and text messaging during open hours and email after hours. How do you monitor answer quality? The librarian over reference services, me, goes through all the transcripts once a semester to review the service. This leads to a general review of what was missed in answers, new questions to add to our FAQ, and a minor headache for me. :) How do you schedule staff time on the virtual reference service? Chat is scheduled as part of reference desk hours. There's usually one librarian scheduled for reference every hour we're open. We do close chat 1/2 before closing. And, I work chat backup whenever I can. How many staff do you have answering questions? We have 4 ft reference librarians and 3 part-time. We are all scheduled for separate shifts, so only one at a time. Thanks! Lindsey Lindsey Bray | Digital Services Specialist W. Dale Clark *Main Library *215 S. 15th St. | Omaha, NE 68102 lbray at omahalibrary.org | 402.444.4843 omahalibrary.org Follow OPL on Twitter & Facebook ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-30 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-30 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alan.cockerill at JCU.EDU.AU Thu Jan 30 18:41:42 2014 From: alan.cockerill at JCU.EDU.AU (Cockerill, Alan) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:41:42 +0000 Subject: Virtual Reference Services In-Reply-To: Message-ID: What service do you use and why? Inhouse Openfire installation using Spark client to answer queries via the FastPath/Webchat plugins. We also offer form based email submission, and include this on our link resolver pages. Facebook and twitter are also options for clients. Is your service asynchronous (delayed response) or synchronous (chat)? Both How do you monitor answer quality? Transcripts are logged by FastPath, emails are sent from the generic email account. How do you schedule staff time on the virtual reference service? All staff who 'person' the reference desk are expected to login to Spark (changing their status to available/not available depending on their current circumstance) when 'off desk' but one person is rostered to be logged on/available all the time (90 minute shifts) to ensure there is at least one person available. This is split between two campus libraries 350km apart. How many staff do you have answering questions? 17 Alan Cockerill Library Technologies Coordinator James Cook University PO Box 6811 CAIRNS QLD 4870 Phone:+61 7 4232 1737 Fax: +61 7 4232 1516 Email: Alan.Cockerill at jcu.edu.au Skype: alan.cockerill.jcu Web: http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/libcomp/library/contacts/staff/JCUPRD_017401 Blog: http://jculibrarytechnology.blogspot.com/ Tweet: http://twitter.com/cockerilla CRICOS Provider Code: 00117J (QLD) ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-30 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richardjam at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 31 08:36:17 2014 From: richardjam at GMAIL.COM (Richard James) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:36:17 -0500 Subject: Virtual Reference Services Message-ID: We're looking at overhauling how we organize our virtual reference service. Currently, we use LibAnswers and have a small team of librarians answering the questions. If you currently use a virtual reference service, could you answer the following questions? What service do you use and why? OCLC's Questionpoint, by way of the Ask-Here-PA statewide reference collaborative. QP access is provided via plug-ins in libguides, EBSCO databases, and by links and forms on the library website. Because we provide a few hours of statewide coverage, there's no cost to us other than a small amount to support a configuration that allows us to only monitor our own student queue. Is your service asynchronous (delayed response) or synchronous (chat)? Both. How do you monitor answer quality? As the administrator I review transcripts frequently and follow up on quality issues. Usually these are occasions where responding librarians from outside our institution have not paid sufficient attention to our specific library services. How do you schedule staff time on the virtual reference service? The reference librarian 'on duty' at the desk monitors the service, and all professional staff are assigned coverage hours outside of this to satisfy our participation requirement for the statewide service. How many staff do you have answering questions? 5, although 24/7 coverage is available through QuestionPoint. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-31 From ruth.connell at VALPO.EDU Fri Jan 31 10:46:13 2014 From: ruth.connell at VALPO.EDU (Ruth Connell) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:46:13 -0600 Subject: Position Announcement: Lecturer in Library Services: Library Fellow (Valparaiso, Indiana) Message-ID: *Lecturer in Library Services: Library Fellow* Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana *Status*: Lecturer, Non-Tenure Track; two-year full-time appointment, full benefits *Deadline*: March 3, 2014 (for full consideration) Christopher Center Library Services, and Valparaiso University, are committed to fostering a diverse student body and faculty. We are pleased to announce a new Library Fellow position with an archival focus. This two year (July 2014 - June 2016) faculty position provides the opportunity for an entry-level librarian, with a demonstrated commitment to diverse and historically underrepresented groups, to gain professional experience as an academic librarian. The detailed position description, application procedure, and position benefits can be found at http://library.valpo.edu/jobs.html. _________________________________________________________ Ruth S. Connell Associate Professor of Library Services/ Electronic Services Librarian Christopher Center for Library & Information Resources 263 Valparaiso University Phone: 219.464.5360 http://library.valpo.edu/faculty/connell.html ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The criteria for evaluation are: ??? ??? ??? -Inlink (frequencies the website is linked by others) ??? ??? ??? - Size (number of internal pages/links within the website ) ??? ??? ??? -Outlink (frequencies the website links to other websites) ??? ??? ??? - Error checking (Internal & External errors) Best regards, Maryam ? ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -? Maryam Safari MS in Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences School of Health Management and Medical Informatics Sciences Tabriz University of? Medical Sciences Tabriz , Iran ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-01-31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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