From susan.basye at UNI.EDU Thu May 1 16:11:11 2014 From: susan.basye at UNI.EDU (Susan Basye) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 15:11:11 -0500 Subject: Job Opening: Web Developer at University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library Message-ID: Please excuse the cross postings. We are hiring a full time Web Developer at Rod Library at the University of Northern Iowa. We use Drupal as our content management system. Please see the attached advertisement for more information. I would be happy to answer any questions regarding the position. Happy May Day! Thanks, Susan Basye -- Susan Basye Administrative Operations Coordinator Rod Library University of Northern Iowa 1227 West 27th Street Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613-3675 (319) 273-3638 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM Thu May 1 16:25:37 2014 From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 01:25:37 +0500 Subject: How to change kohaadmin password in koha Message-ID: Have good day to all How to change kohaadmin password in koha 1. change the password in the /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml replace "katikoan" with your "new password" read complete article http://tech-dig.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-change-kohaadmin-password-in-koha.html On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Thomas Hodge wrote: > > Web Services Librarian > > An exceptional international opportunity awaits an innovative > forward-thinking librarian at the American University of Sharjah, United > Arab Emirates (near Dubai). As part of Technology and Technical Services, > the successful candidate will manage web services in collaboration with > other professional staff to achieve the library's mission and goals. > Areas of responsibility include: develops the AUS Library's online > presence, including the library website and mobile applications; > administers LibGuides; works collaboratively with other librarians on best > practices related to web services and emerging technologies; provides > reference and research assistance; provides liaison services (collection > development, instruction, and outreach) to assigned academic departments; > participates in ongoing professional development activities. > > Required Qualifications > > Master's degree in library science from an ALA-accredited school with a > minimum of two years of recent related experience; knowledge and > understanding of best practices, current issues and trends in web services > and emerging library technologies; strong commitment to customer service; > demonstrated experience in library website design and development, > including the building and/or integration of a variety of web applications; > demonstrated knowledge and experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript; > excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication and planning skills > complemented by the ability to take initiative; ability to work > independently and meet deadlines. > > Preferred > > Knowledge and experience with PHP or other scripting language, XML/XSLT > and SQL; familiarity with usability testing and web analytics. > > Salary and Benefits > > The salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience; includes a > 10% of base salary payment in lieu of retirement benefits. Free furnished > accommodation and utilities are provided along with nine weeks' annual > vacation. A self-directed benefit plan provides a variety of choices > including annual air tickets to place of origin for self and family, > healthcare and dependent educational allowance. The UAE levies no income > tax, however, some U.S. Federal taxes may apply to U.S. citizens and > resident aliens. > > Background > > The American University of Sharjah is located in the United Arab Emirates > and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. > Established in 1997, the university consists of four Schools and Colleges: > Architecture, Art and Design, Business and Management, Engineering, and > Arts and Sciences and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees to 5000 > students from 80 different countries. The language of instruction and the > workplace is English. The UAE offers a high standard of living with > abundant cultural, recreational and travel opportunities. The UAE is a > safe, open and friendly environment for individuals and families of all > cultures. The AUS Library serves as a focal point for educational and > social interactions on campus. The library features a large Information > Commons (135 workstations), 20 group study rooms, 2 computer classrooms, > and RFID system. Please see http://library.aus.edu. > Please email a cover letter, r?sum? and the names of three professional > references to:recruitment at aus.edu. Only short-listed candidates will be > contacted. > > > -- > Thomas Hodge > Assistant University Librarian for Technology & Technical Services > American University of Sharjah > University Library > > tel +971 06 515 2260 <+971%2006%20515%202260> > fax +971 06 558 5008 <+971%2006%20558%205008> > > PO Box 26666, Sharjah > United Arab Emirates > http://library.aus.edu/ > thodge at aus.edu > thom at hodgenet.com > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-03-31 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. " Regards *Maqsood Ahmad* Database Administrator / Coordinator* Lincoln Corner Bahawalpur* The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Cell: 0092 333 6359133 http://library.iub.edu.pk , dba at iub.edu.pk , www.facebook.com/maqsood.dba ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From beesleym at JOCOLIBRARY.ORG Sun May 4 15:56:45 2014 From: beesleym at JOCOLIBRARY.ORG (Michelle Beesley) Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 15:56:45 -0400 Subject: Job: Web Content Developer, Johnson County Library, Kan. Message-ID: Do you love writing for elegant, user-friendly websites? Would you jump at the chance to work with a team of clever and talented Web Content Developers and Designers in developing the next generation of fully integrated and engaging online library experiences? Johnson County Library, a vibrant, forward-looking public library, seeks a dynamic, creative, committed individual to serve as Web Content Developer with primary responsibility for writing, creating, repackaging and managing content for the Library?s website; contributing to a lively social media presence; and analyzing Library and community information needs to plan for short and long-term site development. As a member of the Web Content Team, the position reports to the Web Content Manager and works with three other Web Content Developers and the Web Designer as well as other library colleagues, patrons, and community partners to provide access to ideas, information, experiences and materials that support and enrich people?s lives. Qualifications Required: ? Master?s Degree in one of the following disciplines: Library/Information Science (ALA accredited school), Journalism, English, Communication, Information Design or related field. ? 2 years of experience in technical or non-fiction writing, online publishing or information design. ? 1 year experience in meeting facilitation and project management. ? Previous experience in HTML. ? Analytical skills, including research skills, ability to interpret data, conceptualize, analyze information and write formal recommendations based on findings. ? Outstanding interpersonal, communication, organization and leadership skills, plus strong attention to detail. Preferred: ? Experience working in libraries. ? Experience with usability studies and user-centered design practices; working with Drupal and Wordpress. ? Expertise in training, education or library instruction; website and graphic design; Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat; content management; social networking software; web-based applications such as RSS; and CSS. Salary range: $18.54 - 26.38/hr Contact: Please apply online at www.jocolibrary.org/jobs. Applications received by May 15 will receive first consideration. Michelle Beesley Web Content Manager Johnson County Library Office (913) 826-4526 | Mobile (913) 888-8567 beesleym at jocolibrary.org www.jocolibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-04 From maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM Sun May 4 22:30:24 2014 From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 07:30:24 +0500 Subject: How to Enable Unicode / UTF-8 in Koha and Zebra Message-ID: please read below complete guideline "How to Enable Unicode / UTF-8 in Koha and Zebra" step -1 We need icu installed ? libicu-dev ? libicu38 ? yaz-icu Step-2 Copy following files from /usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab/ to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/ ? icu.idx ? phrases-icu.xml ? string.chr ? words-icu.xml Click here to read complete guideline -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. " Regards *Maqsood Ahmad* Database Administrator / Coordinator* Lincoln Corner Bahawalpur* The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Cell: 0092 333 6359133 http://library.iub.edu.pk , dba at iub.edu.pk , www.facebook.com/maqsood.dba ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-04 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rlitwin at GMAIL.COM Mon May 5 10:11:18 2014 From: rlitwin at GMAIL.COM (Rory Litwin) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 07:11:18 -0700 Subject: Library Juice Academy - Courses on Web Development Topics Message-ID: Library Juice Academy Courses on Web Development Topics: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/courses-webdev.php Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. 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You can enter your initials, or a two-word nickname. BUT other people receiving emails from you might not recognize who you are when they receive emails from someone named B S. -- You don't want your email address to be recognizably you. Don't use your name or nickname as all or a portion of your email address. (In other words, do as I say, not as I do.) -- Also, some folks might prefer to "spoof' their birth date, entering an alternate that still represents their age group correctly (they don't want ads for people outside of their age range). Don't forget what you enter here! -- When assisting someone with this task, I recommend sending and receiving a "test" email right then and there. The proof is in the pudding! -- I also recommend signing out and signing back in immediately. It's a good habit to sign out when you're done, and it's good to practice the new password. "Be kind to yourself. Do it again later today." Bob Stromberg Round Lake, NY On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Pruntel,Alison < Alison.Pruntel at fauquiercounty.gov> wrote: > > > > > *Alison Pruntel* > Electronic Resources Librarian > Fauquier County Public Library > 11 Winchester Street > Warrenton, VA 20186 > 540-422-8515 > > Like Us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/fauquierlibrary > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Salazar, Christina [mailto:christina.salazar at CSUCI.EDU] > *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 1:04 PM > > *Subject:* Re: Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone Issue > > > > According to Google, the mobile phone info is ?optional, but strongly > recommended if you have a mobile phone? - > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1733224?hl=en > > > > Are you saying it?s not possible to have a Gmail account without the > mobile phone?*[Pruntel,Alison] * I thought this was the case when he went > to create an account, as it asked for mobile along with name, etc. (none of > the fields said required or not, all appeared to be required). This morning > I tried and was able to just leave that blank and I could create an account. > > > > > > Christina Salazar > > Systems Librarian > > John Spoor Broome Library > > California State University, Channel Islands > > 805/437-3198 > > [image: Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature] > > > > > > > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] > *On Behalf Of *Elaine Anderson > > *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 9:59 AM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone > Issue > > > > We have had a patron with the same problem but at some point > Outlook/Hotmail allowed us to put in an alternate email address instead > which he already had set up. A verification code was supposedly sent to one > of those addresses. When it didn?t come into his Gmail account, we sent > another request to his Yahoo account. He got into Outlook with the access > code. However, I think when he tried to log into Outlook again, he was > asked for a cell number. I wasn?t in front of the computer when he was > trying this, so I?m not sure exactly what happened but he couldn?t access > his account. > > > > Does Gmail require a cell phone number for all new accounts? > > > > If anyone has a solution, I?d be interested in hearing what people have > done to work around the problem. > > > > Thanks, > > Elaine > > > > *Elaine Anderson* > > Public Services Coordinator > > Pelham Public Library > > 43 Pelham Town Square > > Box 830 > > Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0 > > 905.892.6443 > > http://www.pelhamlibrary.on.ca > > http://www.pelhamlibrary.blogspot.com > > > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On > Behalf Of *Pruntel,Alison > *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 11:46 AM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Email 2 Step Authentication - No Mobile Phone Issue > > > > Hi all, > > > > How are you dealing with library patrons who are being required to enter a > mobile number to receive text notifications (receive security code) for > authenticating their email account? I thought there were still a few free > webmail apps out there that didn?t require a mobile phone/text option for a > security code, but did not have luck helping elderly gentleman yesterday > (his Hotmail/Outlook account now requires a mobile; he doesn?t have one and > using his land line did not work). When I tried to help him create a new > account on Yahoo, Aol, etc., they now all ask for a cell phone number when > you sign up. The only one that didn?t was mail.com, but when we tried to > create a new account for him on that service, it kept giving the message to > try again later. > > > > Thanks in advance for any advice/tips? > > > > *Alison Pruntel* > Electronic Resources Librarian > Fauquier County Public Library > 11 Winchester Street > Warrenton, VA 20186 > 540-422-8515 > > Like Us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/fauquierlibrary > > > > > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 9722 (20140425) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-04-25 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-04-25 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-04-25 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-04-28 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU Mon May 5 17:38:06 2014 From: Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU (Wiegand, Laura K.) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 17:38:06 -0400 Subject: Libguides and UX Message-ID: Hi all, I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway. My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles: * Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages * Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place. * Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout * Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface * Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website) * Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. * It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides. * We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 wiegandl at uncw.edu Phone: (910) 962-3680 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dholt at SCU.EDU Mon May 5 18:00:16 2014 From: dholt at SCU.EDU (David Holt) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:00:16 -0700 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: <68ECDB295FC42D4C98B223E75A854025DAA1EE1282@uncwexmb2.dcs.uncw.edu> Message-ID: Interesting question. My opinion is that you may have these same problems using a CMS (such as Drupal) as you would libguides. Both systems need a style guide to ensure consistency and meet patron expectations. I was very reluctant to adopt libguides in my library for the same reasons you are listing here. We were a late adopter. However, after we purchased a subscription I did see the value. For one, the SEO on libguides is quite high so you are going to attract traffic that you would otherwise not get. If your library provides public services, or you simply want to raise the public profile of your library, then this may be valuable. In terms of interface consistency, I think we are going to see a lot of libraries use Libguides 2.0 (which is just now coming out) as their main library interface. There are a number of advantages of doing that (ease in creating search widgets, refreshing the content on the library's landing page, use of Bootstrap for mobile usage, ease in adding dynamic content, etc.). Just my $.02, David On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system > librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented > Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides ( > http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our > site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were > more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 > years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools > who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift > both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing > so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to > Drupal 7 anyway. > > > > My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My > resistance is based on these principles: > > > > ? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages > > ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., > some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a > different place. > > ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) > layout > > ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library > interface > > ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another > eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main > website) > > ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there > tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. > > ? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides. > > ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house > via a CMS > > > > > > I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their > own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template > adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. > > > > Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with > their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an > in-house CMS? > > > > Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Laura K. Wiegand > > Coordinator of Discovery Services > > William M. Randall Library > > University of North Carolina Wilmington > > 601 South College Road > > Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 > > > > wiegandl at uncw.edu > > Phone: (910) 962-3680 > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-05 > -- David Holt, MLIS, JD Electronic Services Law Librarian Heafey Law Library http://law.scu.edu/library (408) 554-5195 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Mon May 5 18:33:11 2014 From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 22:33:11 +0000 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi I wish I could find it...but can't; I saw a great presentation on ux and libguides...the presenter, towards the start, just showed a series of say, 20 slides, that showed random libguides from universities...I don't remember if she included horror music, but watching that slide show was...horrifying to say the least...(this was her point and she was nice enough to mark out the library names, and promised us it was a random sample). She was questioning our reliance on them, and really, I do too...the best use I have seen for them is integration within a discovery tool..so, if someone does a search on an engineering topic, the guide comes up.. Would perhaps other formats be better? An interactive slide deck or presentation? An interactive ebook? There are many new media out there...and maybe we should explore those instead? Michael Cabus ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of David Holt [dholt at SCU.EDU] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 6:00 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX Interesting question. My opinion is that you may have these same problems using a CMS (such as Drupal) as you would libguides. Both systems need a style guide to ensure consistency and meet patron expectations. I was very reluctant to adopt libguides in my library for the same reasons you are listing here. We were a late adopter. However, after we purchased a subscription I did see the value. For one, the SEO on libguides is quite high so you are going to attract traffic that you would otherwise not get. If your library provides public services, or you simply want to raise the public profile of your library, then this may be valuable. In terms of interface consistency, I think we are going to see a lot of libraries use Libguides 2.0 (which is just now coming out) as their main library interface. There are a number of advantages of doing that (ease in creating search widgets, refreshing the content on the library's landing page, use of Bootstrap for mobile usage, ease in adding dynamic content, etc.). Just my $.02, David On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. > wrote: Hi all, I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway. My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles: ? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place. ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website) ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. ? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides. ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 wiegandl at uncw.edu Phone: (910) 962-3680 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 -- David Holt, MLIS, JD Electronic Services Law Librarian Heafey Law Library http://law.scu.edu/library (408) 554-5195 [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8202/8189259244_5650c4db62_o.jpg] [X] ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 From McHale_N at CDE.STATE.CO.US Mon May 5 19:52:19 2014 From: McHale_N at CDE.STATE.CO.US (McHale, Nina) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 23:52:19 +0000 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: <68ECDB295FC42D4C98B223E75A854025DAA1EE1282@uncwexmb2.dcs.uncw.edu> Message-ID: Laura, I agree wholeheartedly with all of your reasons, and I survived (did I?) a fairly traumatic LibGuides experience as a web librarian an a similar sized academic library. A colleague and I were tasked to draw up best practices to ensure consistency and usefulness of guides and content, and I was told that I was impinging on my colleagues' academic freedom for doing so. Because of this, the best practices were never implemented, and two years later, everyone who created content for LibGuides was frustrated with it because everything my colleague and I knew would happen...had happened. Inconsistent navigation, completely different layouts, complaints that so-and-so was using pink for text, no one used the tabs in the same way, the chat widget should always be over here, and it's not, etc. etc. etc. In short: there is NOTHING inherently magical about LibGuides that prevents them from the potential of a UX nightmare. In fact, unchecked, they can enable really poor web development and user experience. It's yet ANOTHER content silo for the content that needs a silo the least. In your situation, I'd start by sitting down with the LibGuides advocates and chatting with them about what they want out of ANY guide creation mechanism, in a conversation that centers on the content rather than the platform. What are the objectives? Why create guides in the first place; what's their value for STUDENTS? Are they truly useful? And PROVE that last point with some usability studies before launching into any new project. Anything that you decide should dovetail into the overall goals of the library's web presence and the institutional strategic plan. One final note: it kills me to say this because I love SpringShare! I got great support from them, and the price is crazy cheap. Those weren't things I was used to. ;) Nina Nina McHale | Digital Experience Consultant | Colorado State Library - Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80203 | tel 303.866.6906 | www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wiegand, Laura K. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 3:38 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX Hi all, I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway. My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles: * Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages * Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place. * Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout * Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface * Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website) * Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. * It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides. * We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 wiegandl at uncw.edu Phone: (910) 962-3680 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.bosman at UU.NL Tue May 6 10:06:22 2014 From: j.bosman at UU.NL (Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)) Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:06:22 +0000 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: <68ECDB295FC42D4C98B223E75A854025DAA1EE1282@uncwexmb2.dcs.uncw.edu> Message-ID: Dear Laura, Please find my reaction between your lines... Although we use LibGuides in a perhaps unusual way (not for course/topic based guides but for information literacy subjects and training sessions) I think we have found a way to avoid most of the pitfalls you mention. You can find them here: http://libguides.library.uu.nl (as yet, not all of them have been translated into English) Best, Jeroen -------------------------EN------------------------ Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University Library email: j.bosman at uu.nl telephone: +31.30.2536613 mail: Postbus 80124, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands visiting address: room 2.50, Heidelberglaan 3. Utrecht web: Jeroen Bosman twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman profiles: : Academia / Google Scholar / ISNI / Mendeley / MicrosoftAcademic / ORCID / ResearcherID / ResearchGate / Scopus / Slideshare / VIAF / Worldcat blogging at: I&M 2.0 / Ref4UU ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trees say printing is a thing of the past From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wiegand, Laura K. Sent: maandag 5 mei 2014 23:38 To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX Hi all, I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway. My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles: ? Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages ? You can make them stand out more prominently, give them colors etc ? In LibGuides2 you can switch to left side navigation if you wish ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place. ? This requires adherence to some basic rules, checking by a moderator/admin ? You can make template guides for everybody to work from, creating a coherent look&feel ? You can prohibit to have more tabs than fit on one line ? In LibGuides2 you can have workflows that involves review by and admin before someone can publish a guide ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout ? As said: basic rules for editors to adhere to + templates ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface ? That is not necessary you can simply have central CSS dictate how a your libguide look like; that way you can give them the same look&feel as you main site if you want that ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website) ? That needs some thinking and planning. Wherever possible it would indeed be preferable to just present information from existing silos in LibGuides boxes using RSS/Widgets etc. ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. ? Again, with a little bit more central planning of content this should be avoidable. ? You can find commitment from your librarians to create a coherent system as a collaborative effort; we use a number of 'rules' that editors need to follow when creating new boxes: o Look if there is something similar already in the system; if so, embed that box in stead of creating your own o Create your content in such a way that each box can stand on its own, so is embeddable (in other libguides or ELO/Blackboard or mail or whatever) ? Have two 'owners' for each LibGuide: that creates discussion on the content and will make editor more cautious before adding too much new stuff ? It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides. ? It would be great if you have something that librarians love to build and that students just find useful. ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS ? True, but the cost is very moderate I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. 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URL: From gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU Tue May 6 16:40:40 2014 From: gerrymck at IASTATE.EDU (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:40:40 +0000 Subject: x-index: A Fantastic New Indicator for Quantifying a Scientist=?Windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=Scientific Impact Message-ID: *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ FYI > x-index: A Fantastic New Indicator for Quantifying a Scientist?s Scientific Impact Xiaojun Wan / (Submitted on 4 May 2014) h-index has become the most popular indicator for quantifying a scientist's scientific impact in various scientific fields. h-index is defined as the largest number of papers with citation number larger than or equal to h and it treats each citation equally. However, different citations usually come from different papers with different influence and quality, and a citation from a highly influential paper is a greater recognition of the target paper than a citation from an ordinary paper. Based on this assumption, we proposed a new indicator named x-index to quantify a scientist's scientific impact by considering only the citations coming from influential papers. x-index is defined as the largest number of papers with influential citation number larger than or equal to x, where each influential citation comes from a paper for which the average ACNPP (Average Citation Number Per Paper) of its authors larger than or equal to x . Through analysis on the APS dataset, we find that the proposed x-index has much better ability to discriminate between Physics Prize Winners and ordinary physicists. Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) Cite as: arXiv:1405.0641 [cs.DL] (or arXiv:1405.0641v1 [cs.DL] for this version) Source and Full Text Links Available Via: http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2014/05/x-index-fantastic-new-indicator-for.html Thanks to my Facebook colleague, Xavier Ajengo, Director de Proyectos at Fundaci?n Ignacio Larramendi, Madrid, Spain /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 150 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 OATs: Open Access Textbooks http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/oats ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-06 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mark ----- Original Message ----- > Hi: > > We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems) to > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to OJS > that we already have in Dspace. > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?. > > Thank you very much, > > David > > > > -- > Documento sin t?tulo > Universidad de Navarra > > > > David Aznar Lafont > Gesti?n y desarrollo web > Bibliotecario tem?tico de Derecho > Servicio Bibliotecas > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a > Tel. 948 425 600 Ext. 2015 > Biblioteca > Unika > @davidaznar Twitter > Perfil en LinkedIn > Mis presentaciones y publicaciones > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-07 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-07 From posixeleni at GMAIL.COM Wed May 7 10:46:07 2014 From: posixeleni at GMAIL.COM (Eleni Castro) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 10:46:07 -0400 Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems) In-Reply-To: <1843870207.75649559.1399459306367.JavaMail.root@sfu.ca> Message-ID: Hi David, Have you looked at SWORD and it's support for Dspace? http://swordapp.org/tag/dspace/ Cheers Eleni On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mark Jordan wrote: > Hi David, > > I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is it > the source or the target? > > Mark > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi: > > > > We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems) to > > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to OJS > > that we already have in Dspace. > > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?. > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > David > > > > > > > > -- > > Documento sin t?tulo > > Universidad de Navarra > > > > > > > > David Aznar Lafont > > Gesti?n y desarrollo web > > Bibliotecario tem?tico de Derecho > > Servicio Bibliotecas > > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a > > Tel. 948 425 600 Ext. 2015 > > Biblioteca > > Unika > > @davidaznar Twitter > > Perfil en LinkedIn > > Mis presentaciones y publicaciones > > ============================ > > > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > > > 2014-05-07 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-07 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-07 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lbell927 at GMAIL.COM Wed May 7 10:51:23 2014 From: lbell927 at GMAIL.COM (Lori Bell) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 09:51:23 -0500 Subject: SJSU SLIS/VCARA invite you to the 5th annual VCARA conference In Second Life Message-ID: *5th Annual VCARA Conference ? May 20, 2014 5:30-8:30 p.m. SLT* *SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/43/73/33 * *ACCESS THROUGH PRESERVATION AND DOCUMENTATION* SJSU SLIS/VCARA is pleased to invite you to the 5th Annual VCARA Conference in the virtual world of Second Life. There are many ways to share wisdom and culture in both the physical and virtual worlds. Attend this conference to learn how those presenting provide access to stories, educational experiences, administrative publications, historical events, and more. At 5:30 pm SLT Geoffrey Giglierano will set the stage for the conference by speaking about Building a Shared Narrative: Living, Learning and Storytelling in Virtual Communities. John Jamison will follow at 6 pm with an example of providing a learning experience in virtual worlds with an overview of the Lincoln Walks Project and a comparison of Second Life and Unity 3D. At 6:30 PM SLT, participants will enter the VCARA Walkway to attend presentations on a number of diverse but related topics, including: ? Reality Reflected: Recreating Public Library YA spaces in Second Life ? Lori Harris ? Preserving Local History in Virtual Worlds: West Fargo ? Erienne Graten ? Preserving Access: Digitization of Tulane University?s School of Medicine Annual Announcements ? Laura Wright ? Educational and Preservation Considerations in VCARA ? Faylene Keep ? Machinima as a Means of Virtual World Event Preservation ? Sarah Fihe ? Archiving an Academic Research Tool: PREMIS and XMP as Tools for the Task ? Larentia Romaniuk ? Preserving Digital Objects ? Marea Daniell Whittington ? Documenting Educational Experiences Using Machinima of Object Displays ? Marie Vans Immediately after the final presentation, you?ll be transported to the SLIS Virtual Training Center created by Snow Scarmon to see what goes into creating environments and course materials for virtual world courses. A brief visit to Renaissance Florence will follow so you can see one of the existing class projects before spaces is made for Pre-revolutionary France. Keep tabs on SLIS virtual world activities through the VCARA Blog at http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/wp/vcara/ For more information on the conference, contact Dr. Patricia Franks, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Master?s degree in Archives and Records Administration for SJSU SLIS at patricia.franks at sjsu.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-07 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daznar at UNAV.ES Thu May 8 02:43:21 2014 From: daznar at UNAV.ES (David Aznar) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 08:43:21 +0200 Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjordan at SFU.CA Thu May 8 06:06:48 2014 From: mjordan at SFU.CA (Mark Jordan) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 03:06:48 -0700 Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems) In-Reply-To: <536B2789.40103@unav.es> Message-ID: Hi David, OJS lets you export issues or articles in a relatively simple XML format. As Journal Manager, go to: http://url.to.your.journa/manager/importexport/plugin/NativeImportExportPlugin and choose which you want. The format is explained here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Importing_and_Exporting_Data . You or someone else will need to write a script to convert from this XML to the format DSpace uses, explained at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Importing+and+Exporting+Items+via+Simple+Archive+Format (exact URL will vary depending on your version of DSpace). Perhaps someone one the OJS forum or DSpace email list already has a script to do this. Mark ----- Original Message ----- > Hi: > > We know that we can export from OJS to Dspace with SWORD. > > But we have a number journals in our Institutional Repository with > Dspace (previous to the installation of OJS in the university), and > we would like to import these journlas with all the issues and years > to Dspace. > > Thank you very much for your help. > > David > > > > > El 07/05/2014 16:46, Eleni Castro escribi?: > > > > Hi David, > > > Have you looked at SWORD and it's support for Dspace? > http://swordapp.org/tag/dspace/ > > > Cheers > Eleni > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mark Jordan < mjordan at sfu.ca > wrote: > > > Hi David, > > I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is > it the source or the target? > > Mark > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi: > > > > We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems) > > to > > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to > > OJS > > that we already have in Dspace. > > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?. > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > David > > > > > > > > -- > > Documento sin t?tulo > > > > Universidad de Navarra > > > > > > > > David Aznar Lafont > > Gesti?n y desarrollo web > > Bibliotecario tem?tico de Derecho > > Servicio Bibliotecas > > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a > > Tel. 948 425 600 Ext. 2015 > > Biblioteca > > Unika > > @davidaznar Twitter > > Perfil en LinkedIn > > Mis presentaciones y publicaciones > > ============================ > > > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > > > 2014-05-07 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-07 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-07 > > -- > Documento sin t?tulo > Universidad de Navarra > > > > David Aznar Lafont > Gesti?n y desarrollo web > Bibliotecario tem?tico de Derecho > Servicio Bibliotecas > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a > Tel. 948 425 600 Ext. 2015 > Biblioteca > Unika > @davidaznar Twitter > Perfil en LinkedIn > Mis presentaciones y publicaciones > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-08 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-08 From lanaamy52 at GMAIL.COM Thu May 8 08:40:53 2014 From: lanaamy52 at GMAIL.COM (Amy Lana) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:40:53 -0500 Subject: Import from Dspace to OJS (Open Journal Systems) In-Reply-To: <536B2789.40103@unav.es> Message-ID: Your best bet is to ask the DSpace Tech list for help; you'll need to sign up first: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech They're good people there--quite willing to help. Amy On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:43 AM, David Aznar wrote: > Hi: > > We know that we can export from OJS to Dspace with SWORD. > > But we have a number journals in our Institutional Repository with Dspace > (previous to the installation of OJS in the university), and we would like > to import these journlas with all the issues and years to Dspace. > > Thank you very much for your help. > > David > > > > El 07/05/2014 16:46, Eleni Castro escribi?: > > Hi David, > > Have you looked at SWORD and it's support for Dspace? > http://swordapp.org/tag/dspace/ > > Cheers > Eleni > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mark Jordan wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> I'm not clear on whether you want to import into OJS or from it - is it >> the source or the target? >> >> Mark >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > Hi: >> > >> > We are working about how to import from OJS (Open Journal Systems) to >> > Dspace. We want to import a number of journals (older issues) to OJS >> > that we already have in Dspace. >> > Does anyone know any initiative about this question?. >> > >> > Thank you very much, >> > >> > David >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Documento sin t?tulo >> > Universidad de Navarra >> > >> > >> > >> > David Aznar Lafont >> > Gesti?n y desarrollo web >> > Bibliotecario tem?tico de Derecho >> > Servicio Bibliotecas >> > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a >> > Tel. 948 425 600 Ext. 2015 >> > Biblioteca >> > Unika >> > @davidaznar Twitter >> > Perfil en LinkedIn >> > Mis presentaciones y publicaciones >> > ============================ >> > >> > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> > >> > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> > >> > 2014-05-07 >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-05-07 >> > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-07 > > > -- > [image: Universidad de Navarra] > > > > * David Aznar Lafont* > Gesti?n y desarrollo web > Bibliotecario tem?tico de Derecho > Servicio Bibliotecas > 31080 Pamplona - Espa?a > Tel. 948 425 600 Ext. 2015 > Biblioteca > Unika > @davidaznar Twitter > Perfil en LinkedIn > Mis presentaciones y > publicaciones > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-08 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG Thu May 8 20:41:06 2014 From: coral at SHELDON-HESS.ORG (Coral Sheldon-Hess) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:41:06 -0800 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: <68ECDB295FC42D4C98B223E75A854025DAA1EE1282@uncwexmb2.dcs.uncw.edu> Message-ID: Hi, Laura! I don't know if this is going to be super helpful to you, but because I've kind of accepted the inevitability of LibGuide creation (I haven't let any of the non-Systems librarians into my main CMS, so I either accept being the bottleneck or I let them make guides), my focus has been on getting people to follow guidelines/rules--which we call "best practices" for palatability. There was a multi-year sales job in there, that I'm kind of glossing over, right now, but setting these rules BEFORE you start should be easier than having to go back and fix things afterward. I think. (I can point you at some usability studies, if you need to make a case.) For now, all we've standardized are the guides for academic subjects/disciplines (which we call "Topic Guides" - don't get me started), not guides for courses or guides for "how to do citations," etc.; those sets of best practices are on hold until after we convert to LibGuides 2. Not everyone is following the guidelines we've created, yet, but enough people are that the peer pressure on the others is growing. Also, one of our Web Team members is gung-ho enough to go out and get permission and convert people's guides FOR them, if they don't want to do the work themselves. :) Here's the template guide I created, based on the findings of the usability studies I read: http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/topic-guides-template And here's the written Best Practices document (which is already out of date and in need of updates): https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/360/sites/default/files/topicguidesbestpractices.pdf Note that this is all for LibGuides v1, and parts of it will have to change drastically for v2. -- Coral Sheldon-Hess http://sheldon-hess.org/coral @web_kunoichi On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system > librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented > Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides ( > http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our > site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were > more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 > years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools > who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift > both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing > so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to > Drupal 7 anyway. > > > > My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My > resistance is based on these principles: > > > > ? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages > > ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., > some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a > different place. > > ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) > layout > > ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library > interface > > ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another > eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main > website) > > ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there > tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. > > ? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides. > > ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house > via a CMS > > > > > > I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their > own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template > adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. > > > > Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with > their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an > in-house CMS? > > > > Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Laura K. Wiegand > > Coordinator of Discovery Services > > William M. Randall Library > > University of North Carolina Wilmington > > 601 South College Road > > Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 > > > > wiegandl at uncw.edu > > Phone: (910) 962-3680 > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-05 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From 23eris at GMAIL.COM Fri May 9 10:50:28 2014 From: 23eris at GMAIL.COM (Heather Rayl) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:50:28 -0400 Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe? Message-ID: Hey all! We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe so people could see if it was busy or slow. Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors are going off the more I think about it. Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed, but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing. Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use this live webcam to stalk someone? I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel... 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We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe so people could see if it was busy or slow. Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors are going off the more I think about it. Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed, but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing. Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use this live webcam to stalk someone? I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel... Thanks for you help and thoughts!! ~heather ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bakerl at ACU.EDU Fri May 9 11:09:08 2014 From: bakerl at ACU.EDU (Laura Baker) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:09:08 -0500 Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: What a timely message! Our library is considering the same thing. There are a number of libraries that do this. Here are some examples: http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/camera/ http://library.wustl.edu/m/webcams.html http://m.lib.ncsu.edu/webcam/ Additionally, there was an excellent presentation a few years ago at ALA from a library who did this (perhaps NCSU?), and they said the webcam was easily one of the most frequently accessed links on their mobile site. I believe there is another publication by ALA on mobile libraries, and it lists webcams as common content for consideration on mobile sites. I asked some libraries with webcams if they encountered a privacy issue. While all had considered it, none said it was a problem. Camera placement is critical. Some suggestions were to keep the camera up high and perhaps use a lower resolution so as not to seem to focus on faces. What you want is just a general sense of space and activity. We ran the idea by our campus police, who felt it was not a privacy issue. They pointed out that a number of restaurants, hotel lobbies, and storefronts have public webcams. The cameras are in public places, and as long as we had a notice on the doors that cameras are in place, then they felt that was good. We informally polled students about the idea, and they were okay with it. Interestingly enough our staff are the ones with concerns. I would be very interested in hearing from others who have webcams and what your experience has been. Laura On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Heather Rayl <23eris at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all! > > We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested > that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe > so people could see if it was busy or slow. > > Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors are > going off the more I think about it. > > Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know > that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed, > but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing. > > Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use > this live webcam to stalk someone? > > I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel... > > Thanks for you help and thoughts!! > > ~heather > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-09 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laura Baker Librarian -- Digital Research and Learning Abilene Christian University Library 221 Brown Library / ACU Box 29208 Abilene, TX 79699-9208 bakerl at acu.edu phone: (325) 674-2477 fax: (325) 674-2202 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From 23eris at GMAIL.COM Fri May 9 11:40:55 2014 From: 23eris at GMAIL.COM (Heather Rayl) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:40:55 -0400 Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Awesome, Laura! Thanks for the links. They were exactly what I was looking for. ~heather On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Laura Baker wrote: > What a timely message! Our library is considering the same thing. There > are a number of libraries that do this. Here are some examples: > > http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/camera/ > http://library.wustl.edu/m/webcams.html > http://m.lib.ncsu.edu/webcam/ > > Additionally, there was an excellent presentation a few years ago at ALA > from a library who did this (perhaps NCSU?), and they said the webcam was > easily one of the most frequently accessed links on their mobile site. I > believe there is another publication by ALA on mobile libraries, and it > lists webcams as common content for consideration on mobile sites. > > I asked some libraries with webcams if they encountered a privacy issue. > While all had considered it, none said it was a problem. Camera placement > is critical. Some suggestions were to keep the camera up high and perhaps > use a lower resolution so as not to seem to focus on faces. What you want > is just a general sense of space and activity. > > We ran the idea by our campus police, who felt it was not a privacy > issue. They pointed out that a number of restaurants, hotel lobbies, and > storefronts have public webcams. The cameras are in public places, and as > long as we had a notice on the doors that cameras are in place, then they > felt that was good. We informally polled students about the idea, and they > were okay with it. Interestingly enough our staff are the ones with > concerns. > > I would be very interested in hearing from others who have webcams and > what your experience has been. > > Laura > > > > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Heather Rayl <23eris at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all! >> >> We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested >> that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe >> so people could see if it was busy or slow. >> >> Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors >> are going off the more I think about it. >> >> Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know >> that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed, >> but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing. >> >> Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use >> this live webcam to stalk someone? >> >> I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel... >> >> Thanks for you help and thoughts!! >> >> ~heather >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-05-09 >> > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Laura Baker > Librarian -- Digital Research and Learning > Abilene Christian University Library > 221 Brown Library / ACU Box 29208 > Abilene, TX 79699-9208 > > bakerl at acu.edu > phone: (325) 674-2477 > fax: (325) 674-2202 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-09 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjturner at GMAIL.COM Fri May 9 11:57:20 2014 From: sjturner at GMAIL.COM (Steven Turner) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:57:20 -0500 Subject: Webcam to broadcast line in library cafe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I agree with Laura - many colleges and universities have been hosting webcams for a very long time without issues - Sewanee, Auburn, etc. we - UA - have even placed them in our Rec center to have realtime access to view current capacity in order to alleviate crowding issues - in fact, if there was ever a place to consider stalking issues, it would be a university rec center. Additionally we are a very conservative (legally) university, so I cannot imagine there are any possible issues in terms of state or federal or even case law with these cameras as our legal counsel would have performed considerable vetting prior to allowing the cameras. I personally think the advantages outweigh any privacy concerns. Additionally, many states have live views of any and all traffic cameras located within that state (Mississippi and Louisiana's are highly accessible and the view of traffic, people, license plates, activities, etc., is highly visible). I find this timely as well as I have been pushing on and off for my institution to implement something similar. We already provide real time mapping of computer usage and campus bus locations, so to me, this would be an extension of those sorts of services, but even more interesting and just as useful Steven. On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Laura Baker wrote: > What a timely message! Our library is considering the same thing. There > are a number of libraries that do this. Here are some examples: > > http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/camera/ > http://library.wustl.edu/m/webcams.html > http://m.lib.ncsu.edu/webcam/ > > Additionally, there was an excellent presentation a few years ago at ALA > from a library who did this (perhaps NCSU?), and they said the webcam was > easily one of the most frequently accessed links on their mobile site. I > believe there is another publication by ALA on mobile libraries, and it > lists webcams as common content for consideration on mobile sites. > > I asked some libraries with webcams if they encountered a privacy issue. > While all had considered it, none said it was a problem. Camera placement > is critical. Some suggestions were to keep the camera up high and perhaps > use a lower resolution so as not to seem to focus on faces. What you want > is just a general sense of space and activity. > > We ran the idea by our campus police, who felt it was not a privacy > issue. They pointed out that a number of restaurants, hotel lobbies, and > storefronts have public webcams. The cameras are in public places, and as > long as we had a notice on the doors that cameras are in place, then they > felt that was good. We informally polled students about the idea, and they > were okay with it. Interestingly enough our staff are the ones with > concerns. > > I would be very interested in hearing from others who have webcams and > what your experience has been. > > Laura > > > > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Heather Rayl <23eris at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all! >> >> We are in the process of re-designing our website, and someone suggested >> that it would be neat to have a live webcam trained on the line in the cafe >> so people could see if it was busy or slow. >> >> Initially I thought this was a great idea, however, my privacy sensors >> are going off the more I think about it. >> >> Does anyone know of a library that's running this sort of set-up? I know >> that the US Fed. Gov't allows you to film public places for a CCTV feed, >> but publishing said feed on the web is a completely different thing. >> >> Also, there are creepy people in the world. Could said creepy people use >> this live webcam to stalk someone? >> >> I don't really want to take this to the university's legal counsel... >> >> Thanks for you help and thoughts!! >> >> ~heather >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-05-09 >> > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Laura Baker > Librarian -- Digital Research and Learning > Abilene Christian University Library > 221 Brown Library / ACU Box 29208 > Abilene, TX 79699-9208 > > bakerl at acu.edu > phone: (325) 674-2477 > fax: (325) 674-2202 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-09 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU Fri May 9 13:09:37 2014 From: MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU (Hess, M. Ryan) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 17:09:37 +0000 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Great topic?really gets to the core issue with online librarianship?librarians are not formally trained (usually) in UX and yet nearly everything we do is online nowadays. We?ve been fortunate at my institution because we had early buy in from the librarians that standards and best practices are important. Rarely have our audits met with resistance as I think we did/do a good job of pointing people to the research on LibGuides and overall usability studies. That all said, we have run into a major problem where we took our initial content management success and let it get ahead of us, moving (currently over 50%) of our website into LibGuides since our current CMS is broken and its replacement has been slow in arriving. So, to others, if you have choices, I don?t recommend LibGuides as a web CMS, even though you can do it, since for the reasons stated below, there are no robust built-in controls for regulating the architecture, no version history and rollbacks and other key things a CMS should give you. We have one particular place in our LibGuides that is used for a section of our website that is a case study in all of these issues, which we?re having to completely overhaul just a few months after publishing it. So things can degrade quickly. Anyway, like I said, my colleagues have a good shared understanding of the value of solid UX and standards, so we do pretty well despite the ?wild west? potential of LibGuides. So it can be done... M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614 office: 773-325-7829 | cell: 650-224-7279 | fax: 773-325-2297 | mhess8 at depaul.edu On May 8, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess > wrote: Hi, Laura! I don't know if this is going to be super helpful to you, but because I've kind of accepted the inevitability of LibGuide creation (I haven't let any of the non-Systems librarians into my main CMS, so I either accept being the bottleneck or I let them make guides), my focus has been on getting people to follow guidelines/rules--which we call "best practices" for palatability. There was a multi-year sales job in there, that I'm kind of glossing over, right now, but setting these rules BEFORE you start should be easier than having to go back and fix things afterward. I think. (I can point you at some usability studies, if you need to make a case.) For now, all we've standardized are the guides for academic subjects/disciplines (which we call "Topic Guides" - don't get me started), not guides for courses or guides for "how to do citations," etc.; those sets of best practices are on hold until after we convert to LibGuides 2. Not everyone is following the guidelines we've created, yet, but enough people are that the peer pressure on the others is growing. Also, one of our Web Team members is gung-ho enough to go out and get permission and convert people's guides FOR them, if they don't want to do the work themselves. :) Here's the template guide I created, based on the findings of the usability studies I read: http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/topic-guides-template And here's the written Best Practices document (which is already out of date and in need of updates): https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/360/sites/default/files/topicguidesbestpractices.pdf Note that this is all for LibGuides v1, and parts of it will have to change drastically for v2. -- Coral Sheldon-Hess http://sheldon-hess.org/coral @web_kunoichi On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. > wrote: Hi all, I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we?ve hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can?t deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway. My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles: ? Students don?t notice the tabbed navigation and subpages ? Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place. ? Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout ? Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface ? Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website) ? Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. ? It?s librarians, not students, that really love libguides. ? We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don?t have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 wiegandl at uncw.edu Phone: (910) 962-3680 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-08 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roytennant at GMAIL.COM Sat May 10 14:48:31 2014 From: roytennant at GMAIL.COM (Roy Tennant) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:48:31 -0700 Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own? Message-ID: The following is posted on behalf of Jorge Biquez . Roy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all. I was wondering how you have your services working? I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited" budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe? Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online? Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information. I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but with some resources shared between them. BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share the link of them. Have a great day. Jorge Biquez ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-10 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but with some resources shared between them. BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share the link of them. Have a great day. Jorge Biquez ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-10 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-10 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From academichussy at GMAIL.COM Sun May 11 00:22:50 2014 From: academichussy at GMAIL.COM (Lisa Rabey) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 00:22:50 -0400 Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own? In-Reply-To: <536eec11.772e8c0a.84ab.ffffbeb2@mx.google.com> Message-ID: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Riley Childs wrote: > DigitalOcean, all the way I second DigitalOcean. We've had them for a year for home projects and they are tops! -- Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://exitpursuedbyabear.net | http://lisa.rabey.net ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-11 From riley at TFSGEO.COM Sun May 11 00:34:57 2014 From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 00:34:57 -0400 Subject: Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Just note: They don't offer managed hosting, it is really AWS but a lot cheaper. Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes -----Original Message----- From: "Lisa Rabey" Sent: ?5/?11/?2014 12:27 AM To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU" Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own? On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Riley Childs wrote: > DigitalOcean, all the way I second DigitalOcean. We've had them for a year for home projects and they are tops! -- Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://exitpursuedbyabear.net | http://lisa.rabey.net ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-11 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Roy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all. I was wondering how you have your services working? I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited" budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe? Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online? Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information. I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but with some resources shared between them. BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share the link of them. Have a great day. 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With AWS, you can get exactly what you need, where you need it. You can try a configuration, and if it is too big or too small, you can resize it with only a few minutes of downtime. Cary On May 11, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Michael J. Paulmeno wrote: > At work our campus IT folks have a set of servers on which they create virtual machines using VMware. These include Active Directory, WordPress, printing, etc. Our catalog server is a separate, physical machine here at the library. > > Where personal projects are concerned, AWS looks interesting, but rather confusing. I?ve heard good things about Linode:https://www.linode.com/. Their pricing seems to be comparable to Digital Ocean although I have no experience with either. > > Cheers, > Mike > > From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:49 PM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own? > > The following is posted on behalf of Jorge Biquez . > Roy > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hello all. > > I was wondering how you have your services working? > I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited" > budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe? > Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online? > > Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information. > > I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or > small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but > with some resources shared between them. > > BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of > your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share > the link of them. > > Have a great day. > > > > Jorge Biquez > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-10 > > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-11 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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City University of London London, UK, September 12th, 2014 Web site: http://lcpd2014.research-infrastructures.eu/ E-mail: lcpd2014 at isti.cnr.it In conjunction with Digital Libraries 2014 (http://www.dl2014.org) ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014) ******************************************************************* ###### Workshop Objectives ###### The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Libraries, e-Science, and e-Research, with a forum where they can constructively explore foundational, organizational and systemic challenges in contexts having publishing, interlinking, preservation, discovery, access, and reuse of publications and datasets as focal points. It expects to contribute to the actual picture of the state of the art approaches and solutions that researchers and practitioners active in these fields have investigated and realized. Inspired by the indications resulting from the plenary discussion of the first edition of the workshop (TPDL 2013, Malta), special attention this year will be drawn towards research activities aimed at consolidating and building a common understanding of ?data publishing?. ###### Workshop topics ###### The workshop welcomes submissions reporting on theoretical, systemic, and foundational work targeting popular topics of linking and contextualizing datasets and publications. The topics of this workshop are of interest to, but not limited to, the following research avenues: [Growing a Global Data Publishing Culture] - Data papers and dataset peer-review: discipline specific or general-purpose approaches, data journals ideas, etc - Data publishing workflows: publishing workflows, data publishing policies, validation steps - Data citation: dataset metadata, dataset granularity, citation for rewards, citation for re-use, interlinking with publications. - Dataset contextualization: data models, tools, semantic enrichment for better discovery, re-use and quality evaluation. [General topics] - Metadata formats for publications and datasets: interlinking or contextualizing research outputs. - Metadata access services: exporting/discovering metadata to facilitate interlinking or contextualizing research outputs. - Data models expressing relationships between publications, datasets and other information apt for re-use, contextualization, etc. - Aggregation services: robust and scalable collection, integration, storage, interlinking, and visualization of heterogeneous objects and metadata from publication, dataset, and contextual content data sources - Linking and contextualization services: processing/mining interlinked objects and metadata relative for enrichment, disambiguation, annotation - Future publication models and services: novel concepts and management of ?enhanced publications?, ?research objects?, ?executable papers?. For more on these topics, please visit the workshop website. ###### Important Dates ###### Research paper submission: June 30th, 2014 - 23:59 CET Notification of acceptance: July 21st, 2014 Camera ready version: August 15th, 2014 ###### Paper Submission ###### Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Submitted manuscripts will have to be limited to 8-12 pages, following the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Submission is on line at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcpd2014 (EasyChair on-line system: you need to register an account to submit). Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a single-blind peer-review process by Program Committee members. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions should be revised according to the reviews and at least one author is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. Proceedings, including abstracts from the invited speakers and the revised papers, will become a publication (publisher to be decided). ###### Workshop Organisers ###### - Lukasz Bolikowski, Centre for Open Science, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland - Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI), National Research Council - (CNR), Pisa, Italy - Nikos Houssos, EKT, National Documentation Centre, Greece - Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany ---- Paolo Manghi Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR Tel: +39 050 315-2038 - Fax: +39 050 315-3464 Web: http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/P.Manghi InfraScience Research Group: http://nemis.isti.cnr.it/groups/infrascience ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 From lhenry at BCGOV.NET Mon May 12 08:32:08 2014 From: lhenry at BCGOV.NET (Henry, Laura) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:32:08 +0000 Subject: Library websites and how they're made Message-ID: Hi, all - What did you use to build your library website (Drupal, WordPress, templates, nothing but your wits)? Do you find it easy to manage, update, and upgrade? If you had to do it again, what would you do differently? Laura C. Henry, MLS Assistant Systems Librarian Beaufort County Library 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902 Phone 843.255.6444 lhenry at bcgov.net www.beaufortcountylibrary.org For Learning ? For Leisure ? For Life ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM Mon May 12 08:45:38 2014 From: paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM (Paul Poulain) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:45:38 +0200 Subject: Library websites and how they're made In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Le 12/05/2014 14:32, Henry, Laura a ?crit : > Hi, all - > What did you use to build your library website (Drupal, WordPress, > templates, nothing but your wits)? Do you find it easy to manage, > update, and upgrade? If you had to do it again, what would you do > differently? Hi Laura, There are so many ways to do it... Imho, you should describe: what kind of content do you want in your website ? If you want just to present your library and opening hours, it's so different than if you want one website for your library, that present the library, the library events, the main catalog (from the ILS), digital resources (locally produced, stored on another software or stored on the main website), external resources (federated search / discovery)... -- Paul Poulain - Associ?-g?rant Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 http://www.biblibre.com Logiciels Libres pour les biblioth?ques et les centres de documentation ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 From 23eris at GMAIL.COM Mon May 12 09:51:52 2014 From: 23eris at GMAIL.COM (Heather Rayl) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:51:52 -0400 Subject: Site Search Tool Message-ID: Since you all were so helpful to me last week, I thought I'd try again! We are in the midst of developing a new site, and we are doing it hand-coded (for a variety of reasons that I will not go into here). Our old site used an apparently antiquated google script that is no longer being used/supported. Google's current free version of its site search leaves something to be desired in the realm of customization, and my workplace does not like the idea of purchasing an enterprise search license from Google, since it's done my number of searches conducted. Does anyone have a favorite stand-alone website search/crawler that they love? It doesn't have to be free. We have some budget to purchase. Many thanks!! ~heather ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vegamf at UCI.EDU Mon May 12 11:56:13 2014 From: vegamf at UCI.EDU (Mark Vega) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:56:13 -0400 Subject: Site Search Tool Message-ID: We are in the process of dropping our Google CSEs and attempting to build our own search tool using the free, open-source Apache Nutch and SOLR modules (Nutch for crawling and SOLR for indexing crawled content) overlayed with a PHP search interface. We are using them to crawl and index all of our websites and databases and provide a unified search across all sources from a single search box. We've only just started our first public BETA and I expect to be making adjustments for at least the next 6 months to a year in order to get the search tool we want, but we we've been dissatisfied with the Google CSE for some time and were not willing to pay for the Google Search Appliance. Once you learn how to configure and use these two modules, they are a powerful combination but be advised that, although the basics are pretty simple, there is an extremely high learning curve to tweak the crawling, indexing and searching to get the results exactly as you want and as your users expect. -- Mark Vega Programmer/Analyst University of California, Irvine Libraries - Web Services -- ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 From Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU Mon May 12 12:11:00 2014 From: Wiegandl at UNCW.EDU (Wiegand, Laura K.) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:11:00 -0400 Subject: Libguides and UX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks to everyone who replied, very helpful stuff, give me a lot of ideas/perspectives to work with. ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 wiegandl at uncw.edu Phone: (910) 962-3680 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 1:10 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Libguides and UX Great topic...really gets to the core issue with online librarianship...librarians are not formally trained (usually) in UX and yet nearly everything we do is online nowadays. We've been fortunate at my institution because we had early buy in from the librarians that standards and best practices are important. Rarely have our audits met with resistance as I think we did/do a good job of pointing people to the research on LibGuides and overall usability studies. That all said, we have run into a major problem where we took our initial content management success and let it get ahead of us, moving (currently over 50%) of our website into LibGuides since our current CMS is broken and its replacement has been slow in arriving. So, to others, if you have choices, I don't recommend LibGuides as a web CMS, even though you can do it, since for the reasons stated below, there are no robust built-in controls for regulating the architecture, no version history and rollbacks and other key things a CMS should give you. We have one particular place in our LibGuides that is used for a section of our website that is a case study in all of these issues, which we're having to completely overhaul just a few months after publishing it. So things can degrade quickly. Anyway, like I said, my colleagues have a good shared understanding of the value of solid UX and standards, so we do pretty well despite the "wild west" potential of LibGuides. So it can be done... M Ryan Hess Web Services Coordinator DePaul University JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614 office: 773-325-7829 | cell: 650-224-7279 | fax: 773-325-2297 | mhess8 at depaul.edu On May 8, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess > wrote: Hi, Laura! I don't know if this is going to be super helpful to you, but because I've kind of accepted the inevitability of LibGuide creation (I haven't let any of the non-Systems librarians into my main CMS, so I either accept being the bottleneck or I let them make guides), my focus has been on getting people to follow guidelines/rules--which we call "best practices" for palatability. There was a multi-year sales job in there, that I'm kind of glossing over, right now, but setting these rules BEFORE you start should be easier than having to go back and fix things afterward. I think. (I can point you at some usability studies, if you need to make a case.) For now, all we've standardized are the guides for academic subjects/disciplines (which we call "Topic Guides" - don't get me started), not guides for courses or guides for "how to do citations," etc.; those sets of best practices are on hold until after we convert to LibGuides 2. Not everyone is following the guidelines we've created, yet, but enough people are that the peer pressure on the others is growing. Also, one of our Web Team members is gung-ho enough to go out and get permission and convert people's guides FOR them, if they don't want to do the work themselves. :) Here's the template guide I created, based on the findings of the usability studies I read: http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/topic-guides-template And here's the written Best Practices document (which is already out of date and in need of updates): https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/360/sites/default/files/topicguidesbestpractices.pdf Note that this is all for LibGuides v1, and parts of it will have to change drastically for v2. -- Coral Sheldon-Hess http://sheldon-hess.org/coral @web_kunoichi On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Wiegand, Laura K. > wrote: Hi all, I am interested in opinions on Libguides from UX, web and system librarians. We are a medium academic library that several years implemented Drupal as our CMS and created custom subject guides (http://library.uncw.edu/guides) that re-used data from other parts of our site, could be integrated with other parts of our site, that I thought were more usable and looked neater (as in clean) than Libguides. Fast forward 5 years later and we've hired some librarians who come from Libguide schools who really want them. I can't deny that the Drupal guides need a facelift both on the front end, but more importantly on the editing side, and doing so can be bumped to the top of my to-do list because we need to migrate to Drupal 7 anyway. My question is, should I give in to the dominance of Libguides? My resistance is based on these principles: * Students don't notice the tabbed navigation and subpages * Students find the inconsistency of libguides confusing, i.e., some librarians put best bet databases in one box, some put them in a different place. * Students want efficiency, and so prefer simple (but not boring) layout * Students are pushed to yet another different looking library interface * Libguides is just another silo of data (i.e., another eResources A-Z, another list of librarians, not integrated with the main website) * Librarians can create new guides extremely easily, so there tends to be a crazy proliferation of one-off guides. * It's librarians, not students, that really love libguides. * We would be paying for a service that we can support in house via a CMS I understand that Libguides are great for libraries that don't have their own CMS, or strong IT support. I also understand that there are template adjustments that can be made and style guides that can be written. Am I right, wrong? Are they really that awesome, or do they come with their own set of UX and data problems that would be better served by an in-house CMS? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Laura ____________________________________________________________________ Laura K. Wiegand Coordinator of Discovery Services William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 wiegandl at uncw.edu Phone: (910) 962-3680 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-05 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-08 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-09 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From listuser at CHILLCO.COM Mon May 12 12:41:52 2014 From: listuser at CHILLCO.COM (Cary Gordon) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:41:52 -0700 Subject: Site Search Tool In-Reply-To: <3098484938470315.WA.vegamfuci.edu@listserv.nd.edu> Message-ID: Good choice. While tuning is non-trivial, it is well-documented and there are many support resources. The pre-release version of David Smiley?s Apache Solr 4 Enterprise Search Server is available from Packt, and might be worth a look. I found his books on 1.4 and 3 helpful. Cary On May 12, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Mark Vega wrote: > We are in the process of dropping our Google CSEs and attempting to build our own search tool using the free, open-source Apache Nutch and SOLR modules (Nutch for crawling and SOLR for indexing crawled content) overlayed with a PHP search interface. We are using them to crawl and index all of our websites and databases and provide a unified search across all sources from a single search box. We've only just started our first public BETA and I expect to be making adjustments for at least the next 6 months to a year in order to get the search tool we want, but we we've been dissatisfied with the Google CSE for some time and were not willing to pay for the Google Search Appliance. Once you learn how to configure and use these two modules, they are a powerful combination but be advised that, although the basics are pretty simple, there is an extremely high learning curve to tweak the crawling, indexing and searching to get the results exactly as you want and as your users expe! > ct. > -- > Mark Vega > Programmer/Analyst > University of California, Irvine Libraries - Web Services > -- > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-12 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 From steffen.schilke at GMAIL.COM Mon May 12 15:26:19 2014 From: steffen.schilke at GMAIL.COM (Steffen Schilke) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 21:26:19 +0200 Subject: Site Search Tool In-Reply-To: <3098484938470315.WA.vegamfuci.edu@listserv.nd.edu> Message-ID: Hallo, I did a similar thing but as we developed our own site we used plain Lucene for the crawling and search buy building scheduled task for indexing and a search interface. If you have an own page editor it makes sense to crawl a page when you publish it (not save the act of setting it free into the wild ;-) If you delete pages you should remove them from the index in the delete function. Once in a while some maintance is necessary and a rebuild of the index is called for. Kind regards sws On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Mark Vega wrote: > We are in the process of dropping our Google CSEs and attempting to build > our own search tool using the free, open-source Apache Nutch and SOLR > modules (Nutch for crawling and SOLR for indexing crawled content) > overlayed with a PHP search interface. We are using them to crawl and > index all of our websites and databases and provide a unified search across > all sources from a single search box. We've only just started our first > public BETA and I expect to be making adjustments for at least the next 6 > months to a year in order to get the search tool we want, but we we've been > dissatisfied with the Google CSE for some time and were not willing to pay > for the Google Search Appliance. Once you learn how to configure and use > these two modules, they are a powerful combination but be advised that, > although the basics are pretty simple, there is an extremely high learning > curve to tweak the crawling, indexing and searching to get the results > exactly as you want and as your users expe! > ct. > -- > Mark Vega > Programmer/Analyst > University of California, Irvine Libraries - Web Services > -- > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-12 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-12 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nls2 at HOTMAIL.COM Tue May 13 12:01:26 2014 From: nls2 at HOTMAIL.COM (Karen Merguerian) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:01:26 -0400 Subject: Job opportunities, Northeastern University In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Please excuse cross-postings. The Northeastern University Libraries are pleased to announce a cluster of new positions as part of our growing research and development activities in the fields of digital humanities and digital libraries. The Libraries are undertaking an ambitious agenda in support of emerging digital humanities and quantitative social sciences research efforts at Northeastern. With the launch of a new digital repository service and an increasing number of major grant-funded projects, the Libraries are deeply engaged with the university?s research mission. These positions will work as part of a team that includes the staff of the Digital Scholarship Group and Library Technical Services to develop and expand support for digital scholarship, digital repository services, discovery tools, and other critical library services. We are looking for technically confident, fast learners who are equally comfortable with collaborative development, thoughtful experimentation, and critical system support. Team members have opportunities to participate in grant-funded research, collaborate on cutting-edge digital scholarship projects, and lead the development of new tools and systems. If you are interested in exploring new ways that technology can support research in the humanities and social sciences, we would like very much to hear from you. Library Web Developer The Library Web Developer has responsibility for designing, programming, and/or adapting existing web tools to enhance the Library?s various web-based systems. This position develops customized and project-specific solutions in JavaScript, PHP/Perl, CSS and other related web technologies, as well as contributing to the development of other core services, such as the Digital Repository Service, faculty online publications, remote service systems, and the online catalog. He or she works collaboratively with library colleagues as well as colleagues in Information Technology Services and across campus, and participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library technologies. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience). Excellent knowledge of database-driven web development using PHP. Significant experience with front-end development (CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc.). Significant experience with Drupal, including customization of Drupal modules preferred. Significant experience with front-end development -- tools, techniques and workflow automation (using CSS and preprocessors, XHTML, JavaScript/JQuery, git/github, bootstrap responsive design framework, etc.). Knowledge of current web development standards and cross platform compatibility and accessibility techniques. Experience with Open Source software. Ability to work in an API environment and experience with SOAP and/or REST desirable. Excellent oral and written skills to communicate with technical and non-technical individuals and prepare project documentation to support training and best practices encoding guidelines Strong interpersonal skill; ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment. Ability to take initiative and meet deadlines. Experience with IT in a library or higher education setting desirable. Web Applications Programmer The Web Applications Programmer has responsibility for designing, programming, and/or adapting existing web tools to augment and enhance the Library?s various web-based systems. This position maintains key digital architecture in Drupal, WordPress, and Omeka, as well as contributing to the development of other core services, such as the Digital Repository Service, remote service systems, and the online catalog. He or she works collaboratively with library colleagues as well as colleagues in ITS and across campus, and participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library technologies. This is a 2-year position with the possibility of extended funding. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience). Excellent knowledge of database-driven web development using PHP. Significant experience with Drupal and WordPress, including customization of associated modules. Experience with Omeka preferred. Experience with front-end development (CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc.). Experience with Git/Github and other web development and testing platforms Knowledge of current web development standards and cross platform compatibility and accessibility techniques. Experience with Open Source software. Ability to work in an API environment and experience with SOAP and/or REST desirable. Excellent oral and written skills to communicate with technical and non-technical individuals and prepare project documentation to support training and best practices encoding guidelines Strong interpersonal skill; ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment. Ability to take initiative and meet deadlines. Experience with IT in a library or higher education setting desirable. XML Applications Developer The XML Applications Developer develops and maintains XML applications in support of the Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) and faculty projects affiliated with the DSG, with major focus on the TEI Archiving, Publishing and Access Service (TAPAS) and the Women Writers Project. He or she provides programming and systems analysis for the design, development and documentation of complex research tools across a wide range of projects. The XML Applications Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, testing and deploying new technologies, tools and resources to extend and enhance digital content and services, developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate multiple submission and access pathways. He or she writes and/or modifies code and conducts quality assurance on code contributed by other developers, and performs related duties as necessary. He or she works collaboratively with library colleagues as well as colleagues in ITS and across campus, and participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library technologies. This is a 2-year position with the possibility of extended funding. Qualifications Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2-3 years of XML development experience. Demonstrably strong working knowledge of XML/XSL and Xquery. Ability to work in an API environment and experience developing REST-based services. Knowledge of RDF and linked data structures and applications. Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to formulate options, develop, and recommend solutions. Creativity in problem solving to independently resolve numerous technical issues arising in a constantly changing work environment, and analytical skills and judgment to extrapolate from one situation to another and to make appropriate decisions in a dynamic work environment Demonstrated experience with Unix, Unix utilities, device handling, data storage, and basic UNIX administration. Strong understanding of information organization and retrieval technologies used to organize, store, and access digital content. Experience with programming best practices, including test-drive development and design patterns. Knowledge of current web development standards and cross platform compatibility and accessibility techniques. Experience with Open Source software. Excellent oral and written skills to communicate with technical and non-technical individuals and prepare project documentation to support training and best practices encoding guidelines Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment. Experience with IT in a higher education setting desirable. Experience working on complex humanities data desirable About Northeastern University Libraries The Northeastern University Library is at the hub of campus intellectual life. Resources include over 900,000 print volumes, 500,000 e-books, and 60,000 electronic journals. The Snell Library building welcomes 1.5 million visitors a year on the Boston campus and the library?s web site serves users around the world. The library provides award-winning research and instructional services, a growing focus on networked information, and extensive special collections that document social justice efforts in the Greater Boston area. The library has an ambitious vision to expand its digital initiatives by developing its digital repository, digitizing unique collections, constructing integrated collaborative spaces, and fostering the adoption of digital media and the creation of new knowledge. The Northeastern University Library leads the way in redefining library service in the 21st century. For more information, please visit www.library.northeastern.edu. About Northeastern Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern is a leader in worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. Our broad mix of experience-based education programs?our signature cooperative education program, as well as student research, service learning, and global learning?build the connections that enable students to transform their lives. The University offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. See http://www.northeastern.edu. Applications will be reviewed as they are received; first consideration will go to those received by May 23, 2014. To apply for this position, and to view job grade and salary information, please visit: http://bit.ly/1ooI3cd Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women and persons with disabilities. Northeastern University is an E-Verify Employer. Karen MerguerianNortheastern UniversityBoston, MA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Elizabeth.Swanson at ARTSTOR.ORG Tue May 13 15:07:12 2014 From: Elizabeth.Swanson at ARTSTOR.ORG (Elizabeth Swanson) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 19:07:12 +0000 Subject: job opening - Junior Interaction Designer - Artstor Message-ID: Junior Interaction Designer New York, NY Overview The Junior Interaction Designer assists in the development and implementation of strategies and creative methods for a range of interactive products that enhance and augment the Artstor platform. Developing design prototypes for new and existing Web and mobile applications, the Junior Interaction Designer is responsible for contributing to exceptional Artstor user experience through Information Architecture, UX Design, and Usability Testing. As a member of the technology team, the Junior Interaction Designer is involved in all aspects of developing documentation, including use cases, site requirements, transaction flows, navigation models, user interface components, and especially wireframes and design comps. Under the direction of the Information Architect, the Junior Interaction Designer aids the development and effective application of high-quality user interfaces and solutions. Responsibilities * Conceptualize solutions in collaboration with user researches, stakeholders, and project development teams * Participate in conceptual development with project teams to generate innovative ideas. * Scope and develop technical requirements with assistance from the Technology department. * Work under the direction of the Information Architect to help develop and execute a consistent, creative vision for all deliverables throughout all production phases. * Develop and implement a consistent and quality visual style guide across software platforms * Illustrate scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, and design comps to communicate design concepts to team members and product groups. * Document feature/software behavior in detail through use cases, user personas, storyboards, wireframes, concise site maps, transaction flows, diagrams, interface schematics, and help manuals. * Represent the interests of the information/interaction design team in company digital initiatives * Ensure that progress is made in a timely and efficient manner. * Contribute to the design culture and process at Artstor Qualifications The Junior Interaction Designer must have a firm grounding in the principles of graphic and interaction design. The candidate will be energetic and flexible, have keen interpersonal and communication skills, have the ability to work closely with a small dedicated team in a fast-paced environment, and will be committed to the delivery of high-quality service to users in the educational and arts community. The ideal candidate will be able to take direction, work independently and in a self-directed manner, and demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with professional staff members in all sectors, internally and externally. Required * 1-3 years creating visual designs for BOTH interactive and non-interactive design work * Visual portfolio demonstrating firm understanding and working knowledge of the principles of graphic and interaction design, including color, composition, and narrative sequence. * Demonstrated ability to work with typography and complex grids to bring clarity to complex systems. * Web design experience along with familiarity with Web standards and accessibility. * Competency in XHTML, CSS, and basic knowledge of JavaScript * Familiarity with client and server side development * Experience working with information architects, programmers, and designers. * Unflinching attention to detail. * Excellent communication skills - oral, written, listening, presentation. * Ability to research, understand, and organize specialized content. * Proven ability to multi-task and to be extremely well organized. * Undergraduate degree in graphic design, interaction design or related fields. Degree holders from other disciplines will also be considered as long as visual competency is demonstrated through a portfolio of works. * Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite, including Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop. Desired * Experience working with controlled vocabularies/authorities. * Understanding of image/multimedia cataloging practices. * Experience working in an agile development process. * Competency in JavaScript Artstor is a nonprofit organization with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and sciences. We bring together 1.8 million high-quality images for education and research and offer the tools to catalog, manage, and distribute digital media collections. Artstor is headquartered in New York, NY. Artstor is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and a collegial working environment. 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More and more documents are being transliterated, digitized, and made available for study with digital tools. Scholarship ranges from translation to interpretation, from syntactic analysis to multi-corpus synthesis of patterns and ideas. Underlying much of humanities scholarship is the activity of annotation. Annotation of the "aboutness" of documents and entities ranges from linguistic markup, to structural and semantic relations, to subjective commentary; annotation of "activity" around documents and entities includes scholarly workflows, analytic processes, and patterns of influence among a community of scholars. Sharable annotations and collaborative environments support scholarly discourse, facilitating traditional practices and enabling new ones. The focus of this workshop is on the tools and environments that support annotation, broadly defined, including modeling, authoring, analysis, publication and sharing. We will explore shared challenges and differing approaches, seeking to identify emerging best practices, as well as those approaches that may have potential for wider application or influence. == Call We invite contributions related to the intersection of theory, design, and implementation, emphasizing a "big-picture" view of architectural, modeling and integration approaches in digital humanities. Submissions are encouraged that discuss data and tool reuse, and that explore what the most successful levels are for reusing the products of a digital humanities project (complete systems? APIs? plugins/modules? data models?). Submissions discussing an individual project should focus on these larger questions, rather than primarily reporting on the project's activities. This workshop is a forum in which to consider the connections and influences between DH annotation tools and environments, and the tools and models used in other domains, that may provide new approaches to the challenges we face. It is also a locus for the discussion of emerging standards and practices such as OAC (Open Annotation Collaboration) and Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LODLAM). See also: http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014/cfp == Submission procedures Papers should be submitted at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcase2014 . An abstract of up to 400 words must be submitted by June 1st, and the deadline for full papers (6 to 8 pages) is June 8, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Papers must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings format. Up to three papers of exceptional quality/impact will be invited to submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) for inclusion in the DocEng 2014 conference proceedings. == Key dates: June 1 Abstracts due (400 words max) June 8 Full workshop papers due June 30 Notification of acceptance to workshop. Up to 3 papers may be invited to submit extended abstracts Sept. 16 Workshop We look forward to seeing you in Ft. Collins! Workshop Organizers: Patrick Schmitz, Laurie Pearce, Quinn Dombrowski ----- Jody Perkins Digital Scholarship Librarian / Metadata Specialist Center for Digital Scholarship Miami University Libraries perkintj at miamioh.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Wed May 14 03:27:36 2014 From: chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Christian Pietsch) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:27:36 +0200 Subject: Site Search Tool In-Reply-To: <3098484938470315.WA.vegamfuci.edu@listserv.nd.edu> Message-ID: Dear Heather, most search solutions are based on Apache Lucene. I agree with Mark that Apache Nutch is an obvious choice for crawling, but you probably do not need it given that all your files are local. These days, most programmers do not use Lucene directly but use Solr or Elasticsearch as an intermediate layer. Wikipedia and its sister projects just switched from pure Lucene to Elasticsearch. Here is a short summary of their reasons to prefer Elasticsearch over Solr: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Solr_vs_Elasticsearch I would add that replication and scaling is easier with Elasticsearch. For your hand-coded website, this could all be overkill. Ease of setup, integration, and maintainance might outweight scalability for you. So in addition to Elasticsearch, I would recommend looking at Omega, which is based on Xapian , Sphider (if you can run PHP and MySQL), or Yacy (if you can run Java). For really small websites there are client-side jQuery search plugins. Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal come with a built-in search facility. Whatever prevented you from using a CMS might also prevent you from setting up your own site search service I'm afraid. I hope this helps. Christian -- Christian Pietsch ? http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec ? Library Technology and Knowledge Management Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 From jkucsma at METRO.ORG Wed May 14 07:57:20 2014 From: jkucsma at METRO.ORG (Jason Kucsma) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:57:20 -0400 Subject: Job Posting: Empire State Digital Network Technology Specialist Message-ID: Located in New York City, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is a nonprofit member services organization serving more than 260 libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage nonprofits in New York City and Westchester County. METRO has an almost 50-year tradition of providing a range of programs and services to its members, including grants, consultative and digital services, collaborative initiatives, and professional development and training. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated individual to manage Empire State Digital Network (ESDN), a statewide initiative to deliver content from New York?s cultural heritage institutions to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). *POSITION OVERVIEW:* The ESDN Technology Specialist is a full-time, newly created position for one year with the possibility of extension. This position is open to early-career and experienced information professionals. Candidates should be enthusiastic about supporting expanded access to digital collections from New York libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions via the DPLA. In coordination with the ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist, the Technology Specialist will participate in the implementation of key technologies to meet ESDN program objectives. This person will focus on developing the technical processes necessary to accomplish required data manipulation and transformations. The Technology Specialist will configure open-source tools and will develop custom programming solutions to streamline project workflows as needed. Creativity, flexibility and the ability to experiment and invent will be essential. *IF YOU FILL THIS POSITION, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO:* - Work as a flexible member of a small, highly-collaborative team. - Configure REPOX and other ingest, harvest, and data normalization tools for ESDN project needs. - Work closely with ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist to write and apply XSLT data transformations according to defined project specifications. - Select, configure and manage technology solutions for data normalization tasks as needed. - Provide programming and technical support for all components of multiple ESDN workflows. - Envision, develop and implement custom programming solutions to streamline data ingest, remediation, and transformation processes as needed. - Work closely with METRO Digital Services Manager to provide technical support for METRO administered collections in Fedora/Islandora as needed. *THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:* - Master?s Degree in Library and Information Science or a related degree. - Experience working in a library, archive or cultural heritage organization, or affiliated educational, non-profit, or professional organization. - Experience with standard software and web application development tools and programming languages and technologies including JavaScript, Python, JSON, and Ruby. - Strong working knowledge of XML, XPath/XQuery, and XSLT required. - Knowledge of library practices and data formats including XML, OAI-PMH, MODS, MARC, and Dublin Core. - Experience installing and configuring open-source software tools relevant to LAMs digital collections and specifically to databases and repositories. - Ability to administer PHP/MySQL applications. - Experience working with version control systems. - Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment. - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. *POSITION DETAILS:* This position will remain open until filled. The ESDN Technology Specialist works in collaboration with the ESDN Manager and Technology Specialist. The salary range is $60,000-70,000, commensurate with skills and experience. METRO provides excellent benefits, pension, and leave package. Position may entail four-day, 35-hour workweek. METRO?s offices are located at 57 E. 11th Street in New York City. Remote employment within the mid-Atlantic region will be considered. *APPLICATION DETAILS:* The application period ends May 30th, 2014. Please send a resume or cv and a cover letter as a PDF attachment to info at metro.org with ?ESDN Technology Specialist? in the subject line. No phone calls please. View the posting on our website: http://metro.org/jobs/empire-state-digital-network-technology-specialist/ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lsergy at THEALBERTALIBRARY.AB.CA Wed May 14 13:52:51 2014 From: lsergy at THEALBERTALIBRARY.AB.CA (Sergy, Lauren) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:52:51 -0600 Subject: Netspeed 2014: Registration now open! Message-ID: The Alberta Library invites you to register for *Netspeed 2014: The Human Side of Technology* *October 16 and 17 at the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree Resort* *Netspeed* is a leading library technology conference that connects librarians, library technicians, and information technology staff from public, academic, government, and special libraries from Western Canada and beyond. Technology is embedded in virtually every aspect of the library experience and the Netspeed conference addresses this convergence of people and technology. We offer learning experiences that include lectures, discussion, technology demonstrations, and forums for conversation. This year?s program is packed with high-quality, timely sessions on topics that include makerspaces, intellectual property, social media, digitization, and more. Presenters are coming from across Canada to present ideas, research, technologies, and innovative projects impacting public, post-secondary, and special libraries. We are excited to introduce *NExpo*, our new exhibitors? showcase. NExpo is a venue to meet with your current service providers and meet new potential partners. Come learn about products, services, and innovations and take the opportunity to have quality meetings with your library?s vendors in one convenient location. The *NExpo Stage *provides an additional learning stream, where exhibitors can educate delegates about improvements, developments, and new offerings. Netspeed delivers a high-impact experience for many levels of library staff, from decision makers to front-line implementers. Register today! 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Barbara Barbara Elish, MSLS, AHIP Director, Hollis Health Sciences Library Winthrop-University Hospital 259 First Street Mineola, NY 11501 P: 516-663-2783 F: 516-663-8171 www.winthrop.org/library From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 1:22 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ----- The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, privileged, or otherwise protected from disclosure. It is intended only for the use of the authorized individual as indicated in the e-mail. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or taking of any action based on the contents of this material is strictly prohibited. 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Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much. What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next). Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results? Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Website Product Manager User Experience and Engagement Librarian University of Arizona Libraries @blakistonr From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michael.BraunHamilton at CCV.EDU Wed May 14 15:42:18 2014 From: Michael.BraunHamilton at CCV.EDU (Braun Hamilton, Michael R) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:42:18 +0000 Subject: Link Resolver icon wording In-Reply-To: <6376E35E880333429733967B1CDBF21E3F2123F0@SAWYERISLAND.catnet.arizona.edu> Message-ID: We have a lot of EBSCO databases, and since the link resolver button displays where EBSCO otherwise displays links to Full Text, I recently replaced our old ?Find it @...? link resolver button in these databases with one that says ?Find Full Text? and is styled to look like EBSCO?s Full Text links. Here?s a screenshot showing 2 results ? one where EBSCO has the full text available and one that links out to the link resolver - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/772340/EBSCO_icons.png With the caveat that I have neither done any usability testing nor gotten any feedback from anyone since I changed it, I hope that at least it looks more obvious to click on now. (Whether students can navigate the link resolver it links out to is another story, of course.) -Michael ___ Michael Braun Hamilton Web Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamilton at ccv.edu **************************** PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited. From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto) Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:33 PM To: WEB4LIB at listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link. Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much. What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next). Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results? Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Website Product Manager User Experience and Engagement Librarian University of Arizona Libraries @blakistonr From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? 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URL: From christina.salazar at CSUCI.EDU Wed May 14 16:47:38 2014 From: christina.salazar at CSUCI.EDU (Salazar, Christina) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:47:38 +0000 Subject: Link Resolver icon wording In-Reply-To: <6376E35E880333429733967B1CDBF21E3F2123F0@SAWYERISLAND.catnet.arizona.edu> Message-ID: I think there?s two problems here really: one is a usability problem and the other is that link resolver/open URL is a somewhat problematic technology ? it?s definitely better than nothing, but it still has lots of hiccups and not a lot of transparency. I was thinking (because I know how tiny that icon is): ?Check for it? ? slightly shorter than ?Check for full text? but probably less clear about what?s going on. Again, this is only based on my knowledge of how problematic labeling this service is, not on any research I?ve done around possible solutions. Christina Salazar Systems Librarian John Spoor Broome Library California State University, Channel Islands 805/437-3198 [Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature] From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto) Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:33 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link. Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much. What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next). Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results? Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Website Product Manager User Experience and Engagement Librarian University of Arizona Libraries @blakistonr From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JPHEINTZ at STTHOMAS.EDU Wed May 14 23:32:50 2014 From: JPHEINTZ at STTHOMAS.EDU (Heintz, John P.) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 03:32:50 +0000 Subject: link resolver wording In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lise, We went from Get It to Find It and back to Get It. We never should have taken journey. To me the key is you want people to click that link. To most students, once they've found an article in a database, it makes no sense to have to "Find It" again. I didn't hear you say that those faculty who mentioned it were confused by the function of the icon/link, just that they disliked that it sometimes didn't produce the full-text. Mitigate that irritation by clear mapping and labeling to request via ILL on your results page, and by educating that handful of faculty (and staff, if that's an issue), that you can't actually afford all published content, and that your ILL is fast, convenient, and cost-effective. Don't chase the mirage of the "perfect" label. John Heintz University of St. Thomas Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID WEB4LIB automatic digest system wrote: There are 8 messages totaling 1658 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Site Search Tool 2. Job Posting: Empire State Digital Network Technology Specialist 3. Link Resolver icon wording (5) 4. Netspeed 2014: Registration now open! ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:27:36 +0200 From: Christian Pietsch Subject: Re: Site Search Tool Dear Heather, most search solutions are based on Apache Lucene. I agree with Mark that Apache Nutch is an obvious choice for crawling, but you probably do not need it given that all your files are local. These days, most programmers do not use Lucene directly but use Solr or Elasticsearch as an intermediate layer. Wikipedia and its sister projects just switched from pure Lucene to Elasticsearch. Here is a short summary of their reasons to prefer Elasticsearch over Solr: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Solr_vs_Elasticsearch I would add that replication and scaling is easier with Elasticsearch. For your hand-coded website, this could all be overkill. Ease of setup, integration, and maintainance might outweight scalability for you. So in addition to Elasticsearch, I would recommend looking at Omega, which is based on Xapian , Sphider (if you can run PHP and MySQL), or Yacy (if you can run Java). For really small websites there are client-side jQuery search plugins. Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal come with a built-in search facility. Whatever prevented you from using a CMS might also prevent you from setting up your own site search service I'm afraid. I hope this helps. Christian -- Christian Pietsch ? http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec ? Library Technology and Knowledge Management Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:57:20 -0400 From: Jason Kucsma Subject: Job Posting: Empire State Digital Network Technology Specialist Located in New York City, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is a nonprofit member services organization serving more than 260 libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage nonprofits in New York City and Westchester County. METRO has an almost 50-year tradition of providing a range of programs and services to its members, including grants, consultative and digital services, collaborative initiatives, and professional development and training. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated individual to manage Empire State Digital Network (ESDN), a statewide initiative to deliver content from New York?s cultural heritage institutions to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). *POSITION OVERVIEW:* The ESDN Technology Specialist is a full-time, newly created position for one year with the possibility of extension. This position is open to early-career and experienced information professionals. Candidates should be enthusiastic about supporting expanded access to digital collections from New York libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions via the DPLA. In coordination with the ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist, the Technology Specialist will participate in the implementation of key technologies to meet ESDN program objectives. This person will focus on developing the technical processes necessary to accomplish required data manipulation and transformations. The Technology Specialist will configure open-source tools and will develop custom programming solutions to streamline project workflows as needed. Creativity, flexibility and the ability to experiment and invent will be essential. *IF YOU FILL THIS POSITION, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO:* - Work as a flexible member of a small, highly-collaborative team. - Configure REPOX and other ingest, harvest, and data normalization tools for ESDN project needs. - Work closely with ESDN Manager and Metadata Specialist to write and apply XSLT data transformations according to defined project specifications. - Select, configure and manage technology solutions for data normalization tasks as needed. - Provide programming and technical support for all components of multiple ESDN workflows. - Envision, develop and implement custom programming solutions to streamline data ingest, remediation, and transformation processes as needed. - Work closely with METRO Digital Services Manager to provide technical support for METRO administered collections in Fedora/Islandora as needed. *THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:* - Master?s Degree in Library and Information Science or a related degree. - Experience working in a library, archive or cultural heritage organization, or affiliated educational, non-profit, or professional organization. - Experience with standard software and web application development tools and programming languages and technologies including JavaScript, Python, JSON, and Ruby. - Strong working knowledge of XML, XPath/XQuery, and XSLT required. - Knowledge of library practices and data formats including XML, OAI-PMH, MODS, MARC, and Dublin Core. - Experience installing and configuring open-source software tools relevant to LAMs digital collections and specifically to databases and repositories. - Ability to administer PHP/MySQL applications. - Experience working with version control systems. - Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment. - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. *POSITION DETAILS:* This position will remain open until filled. The ESDN Technology Specialist works in collaboration with the ESDN Manager and Technology Specialist. The salary range is $60,000-70,000, commensurate with skills and experience. METRO provides excellent benefits, pension, and leave package. Position may entail four-day, 35-hour workweek. METRO?s offices are located at 57 E. 11th Street in New York City. Remote employment within the mid-Atlantic region will be considered. *APPLICATION DETAILS:* The application period ends May 30th, 2014. Please send a resume or cv and a cover letter as a PDF attachment to info at metro.org with ?ESDN Technology Specialist? in the subject line. No phone calls please. View the posting on our website: http://metro.org/jobs/empire-state-digital-network-technology-specialist/ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:21:49 -0300 From: Lise Brin Subject: Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:52:51 -0600 From: "Sergy, Lauren" Subject: Netspeed 2014: Registration now open! The Alberta Library invites you to register for *Netspeed 2014: The Human Side of Technology* *October 16 and 17 at the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree Resort* *Netspeed* is a leading library technology conference that connects librarians, library technicians, and information technology staff from public, academic, government, and special libraries from Western Canada and beyond. Technology is embedded in virtually every aspect of the library experience and the Netspeed conference addresses this convergence of people and technology. We offer learning experiences that include lectures, discussion, technology demonstrations, and forums for conversation. This year?s program is packed with high-quality, timely sessions on topics that include makerspaces, intellectual property, social media, digitization, and more. Presenters are coming from across Canada to present ideas, research, technologies, and innovative projects impacting public, post-secondary, and special libraries. We are excited to introduce *NExpo*, our new exhibitors? showcase. NExpo is a venue to meet with your current service providers and meet new potential partners. Come learn about products, services, and innovations and take the opportunity to have quality meetings with your library?s vendors in one convenient location. The *NExpo Stage *provides an additional learning stream, where exhibitors can educate delegates about improvements, developments, and new offerings. Netspeed delivers a high-impact experience for many levels of library staff, from decision makers to front-line implementers. Register today! Rates: Early Bird (available until September 15): $252 Regular Rate (after September 15): $362 *Register forNetspeed online * *Visit theNetspeed website *to view additional information, including the full program and accommodation details. *Book your room at the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree Resort *at the special Netspeed Conference Rate. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:19:42 +0000 From: "Elish, Barbara" Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording We have only the name of our institution on our button. No one has complained. Barbara Barbara Elish, MSLS, AHIP Director, Hollis Health Sciences Library Winthrop-University Hospital 259 First Street Mineola, NY 11501 P: 516-663-2783 F: 516-663-8171 www.winthrop.org/library> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 1:22 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ----- The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, privileged, or otherwise protected from disclosure. It is intended only for the use of the authorized individual as indicated in the e-mail. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or taking of any action based on the contents of this material is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it immediately. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: ht ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:32:53 +0000 From: "Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto)" Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link. Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much. What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next). Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results? Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Website Product Manager User Experience and Engagement Librarian University of Arizona Libraries @blakistonr From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Sit ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:42:18 +0000 From: "Braun Hamilton, Michael R" Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording We have a lot of EBSCO databases, and since the link resolver button displays where EBSCO otherwise displays links to Full Text, I recently replaced our old ?Find it @...? link resolver button in these databases with one that says ?Find Full Text? and is styled to look like EBSCO?s Full Text links. Here?s a screenshot showing 2 results ? one where EBSCO has the full text available and one that links out to the link resolver - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/772340/EBSCO_icons.png With the caveat that I have neither done any usability testing nor gotten any feedback from anyone since I changed it, I hope that at least it looks more obvious to click on now. (Whether students can navigate the link resolver it links out to is another story, of course.) -Michael ___ Michael Braun Hamilton Web Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamilton at ccv.edu **************************** PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited. From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto) Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:33 PM To: WEB4LIB at listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link. Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much. What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next). Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results? Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Website Product Manager User Experience and Engagement Librarian University of Arizona Libraries @blakistonr From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? All the best, Lise Brin Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS CANADA ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-14 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-0 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:47:38 +0000 From: "Salazar, Christina" Subject: Re: Link Resolver icon wording I think there?s two problems here really: one is a usability problem and the other is that link resolver/open URL is a somewhat problematic technology ? it?s definitely better than nothing, but it still has lots of hiccups and not a lot of transparency. I was thinking (because I know how tiny that icon is): ?Check for it? ? slightly shorter than ?Check for full text? but probably less clear about what?s going on. Again, this is only based on my knowledge of how problematic labeling this service is, not on any research I?ve done around possible solutions. Christina Salazar Systems Librarian John Spoor Broome Library California State University, Channel Islands 805/437-3198 [Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature] From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Blakiston, Rebecca L - (blakisto) Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:33 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording I sympathize with this struggle and hope someone responds with a good answer and some usability testing studies! I have seen in observation of users that it is often unclear where to go to find the full text if there isn?t a direct link. In some cases, users will click on the ?library catalog? link rather than the link resolver, usually because that?s the first link. Here, we used to have an icon that said ?Article Linker? and this didn?t resonate well. Then we changed it to say, ?Get Article,? which is a bit better but still not that intuitive, especially since it doesn?t always get you the article, and because it?s not even always an article! (Ebooks, for example). In both cases we tried to make it look like a button ? a clear call to action. This hasn?t seemed to help much. What we?re going to try next is ?Check for full text,? as mentioned below. From a usability standpoint, I?d venture to guess this is the best option ? it?s much clearer what will actually happen when you select that link. Ideally, your link resolver page then matches the same language so the user knows they are in the right place (this is another usability problem I?ve seen ? some link resolver pages are problematic & once you?re there it?s difficult to know what to do next). Haven?t done any real testing of this, though. Sounds like it would be a great candidate for multivariate testing if someone could figure out how to run that sort of test and get meaningful results? Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston Website Product Manager User Experience and Engagement Librarian University of Arizona Libraries @blakistonr From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:22 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it. I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon. Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful? 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This course can be taken as one of six courses needed to earn our Certificate in User Experience (UX), but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well. Rebecca Blakiston is an Instructional Services Librarian and the Website Product Manager at the University of Arizona Libraries in Tucson, Arizona. She specializes in instructional design, focusing on scenario-based activities and active learning. She also provides oversight, management, and strategic planning for the library website, specializing in guerilla usability testing, writing for the web, and content strategy. She has published and presented nationally on topics including instructional design, e-learning, user experience, and continuous learning. Course structure This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The class does not meet together at any particular times, although the instructor may set up optional sychronous chat sessions. 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The Manager of Information Technology will take a leading role in all aspects of IT operations, from strategic development to hands-on implementation. This position reports to the Director of Digital Strategy. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: ?Directing and managing the efforts of the IT department; ?Creating and implementing the vision for technology, processes, and communication that will lead to improved customer service and departmental efficiency; ?Managing existing technologies; ?Modernizing CLP's website and Intranet; ?Collaborating with eiNetwork and participating as technology representative in system-wide operational projects. Requirements & Qualifications: ?Demonstrated creative thinking and strong problem-solving skills in the areas of project management, budgeting, systems analysis and design, information science, and current technology trends; ?Ability to document and communicate requirements to technical and business audiences; ?Ability to write Web applications using standard object-oriented development languages and methods; ?Working knowledge of Windows server environments, MS SQL Server, and other web related technologies; ?Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Information Science; ?Seven or more years' experience in the technology field; including experience in web applications, n-tier systems analysis & design, management of technical staff, user/customer interfacing and software design, ?Previous experience with project planning and management, budget preparation and oversight, and contract negotiation and oversight; ?PA Criminal Record Check, PA Child Abuse History Clearance, and Credit Check required upon offer of employment. 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We are looking for folks with at least 1 year of experience and skills in the areas outlined below *We need volunteers on site to work with the following collections:* - Periodicals - Books - Prints/Graphics - Video/Film - Ephemera *We are also looking for people to assist remotely with the following:* - Web Development - Data Clean-up - Fundraising We are asking for a minimum commitment of 1 day per month from May through August. Weekend days and some evenings could be arranged. ?You may be working in a team with an intern in addition to one of the LHA coordinators. *How To Sign Up * If you are interested in participating as a volunteer this summer, just send an email to lha_interns at gmail.com?. Please put *Summer 2014 Volunteer Collection Assistant* in the *Subject field*. Indicate your location and affiliation, availability, email and area of interest. ?Thanks in advance for your interest. ? > Peace, > D?sir?e Yael Vester > Caretaker, Librarian, Archivist > ?? > Lesbian Herstory Archives > > > *About The **Lesbian Herstory Archives* > > In operation since 1974, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the > world's oldest and largest collection of archival, bibliographic and > multimedia materials by and about the diverse lesbian experience. LHA is > an all-volunteer run, 501(c)3 , non-profit educational organization. We > offer research assistance, tours, exhibits in-house events and a > semester-long Lesbian Studies course. Our open hours are listed on our > website in the "Calendar" section. 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The call for proposals here once again: Call for Proposals: SWIB14 - Semantic Web in Libraries Conference 1.12. - 3.12.2014, Bonn, Germany The SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries, German: "Semantic Web in Bibliotheken") is an annual conference focusing on Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) in the library world. It is held by turns in the Cologne region and Hamburg. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in applied sciences, industry applications, and LOD activities in other areas. SWIB mainly targets IT staff, developers, librarians and researchers. As in prior years, SWIB14 will be organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz) and the ZBW - German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. The conference language is English. Is there an interesting service, research topic or project that you would like to present at the conference? Or would you like to offer a pre-conference tutorial or workshop on the afternoon of 1 December? We appreciate proposals on the following or related topics: Projects & Applications * integration of LOD into productive library applications * authorities and knowledge organization systems (thesauri, classifications, ontologies) * mash-ups (using data from different sources) * presenting and visualizing LOD * end-user environments for interaction with LOD (e.g. annotation) * crowdsourcing/gamification approaches involving LOD sources Technology (focus on Open Source software) * semantically enhanced data publication * data transformation/integration/enhancement/mapping * searching/information retrieval * linked data in library systems Standards & Best Practices * RDF, JSON-LD, BIBFRAME & other open standards for libraries * application profiles & provenance information * providing updates & syncing data sources * open data licensing We are looking forward to receiving your proposals by *1 June 2014*. Please submit an abstract of 1000-1500 characters using our website at https://www.conftool.net/swib14. For the first time, this year's propsals will be reviewed by an international programme committee: - Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia) - Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands) - Karen Coyle (Consultant, USA) - Sarah Hartmann (German National Library) - Anja Jentzsch (HPI, Germany) - Niklas Lindstr?m (National Library of Sweden) - Joachim Neubert (ZBW, Germany - Chair) - Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany - Chair) - Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA) - MJ Suhonos (Ryerson University, Canada) - Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland) - Jakob Vo? (GBV Common Library Network, Germany) Website: http://swib.org/swib14 Hashtag: #swib14 Twitter: @swibcon If you want to look at previous SWIB conferences: http://swib.org/swib14/history.php Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions: Adrian Pohl hbz Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235 E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de or Joachim Neubert ZBW Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462 E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-16 From rk11 at RICE.EDU Fri May 16 12:38:25 2014 From: rk11 at RICE.EDU (Rafal Kasprowski) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:38:25 -0500 Subject: Electronic Resources Librarian Position, Rice University Message-ID: *Electronic Resources Librarian* Rice University is seeking a dynamic, service-oriented Electronic Resources Librarian. The successful candidate will work in a team environment as the primary resource person for all aspects of electronic resources maintenance. The position reports to the Head of Acquisitions in the Technical Services Department. Specific areas of responsibility include acquisitions, license review, access management, receipt, records maintenance, product trials, management of EZProxy and the OpenURL link resolver (currently SFX) and working with the discovery layer (currently EDS). The Electronic Resources Librarian supervises one FTE and works closely with vendors, IT staff, collection development librarians, cataloging staff, faculty and students. Required Qualifications include: ALA-accredited master?s degree in library or information science (may substitute an advanced degree (Master?s or PhD) and an additional year of library experience above and beyond the requirement for the MLS degree); two years of library experience; excellent communication skills; an understanding of technical standards; strong analytical and problem-solving skills; strong commitment to customer service and thorough understanding of electronic product licensing terms. Salary & benefits: $52,000 minimum, with hiring salary commensurate with experience and qualifications; no state or local income tax; 21 benefit days; 8 study days; a range of retirement options including TIAA/CREF; health and life insurance and tuition waiver. Environment: Rice University provides a stimulating work environment, with opportunities to participate in the delivery of innovative library services supported by leading edge technologies. Fondren Library (http://www.rice.edu/fondren) is a research library with more than 2.8 million volumes and more than 141,000 subscriptions, including titles available through aggregators. The Library has a state-of-the-art off-site shelving facility. An active program of digital resource delivery and development is grounded in successful collaboration among library and University staff from Digital Scholarship Services, other library departments and University information technology staff. The Technical Services Department is committed to using both established and emerging methods to provide access to library materials. Houston is a vibrant, multicultural city, with world-class visual and performing arts ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde. The fourth largest city in the country, Houston enjoys a moderate cost of living and easy proximity to the Gulf Coast. For more information, see: http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/General_Information.asp. Applications received by June 18, 2014 will receive first consideration. Please apply with cover letter, resum?, and the names, titles, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three references at: http://jobs.rice.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=54226. Inquiries: Melinda Reagor Flannery at (713) 348-3773 or reagor at rice.edu. Rice University is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-16 From maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM Fri May 16 17:30:35 2014 From: maqsood.dba at GMAIL.COM (Maqsood Ahmad) Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 02:30:35 +0500 Subject: Top 5 Royalty free images websites for Librarians, bloggers , Designers and students Message-ID: *1. * *http://pixabay.com* *Pixabay* - a repository for stunning public domain pictures. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author. Currently there are 194120 images available: 143992 Photos + 50128 ClipArt's Read Complete article Top 5 Copy Rights free images repositories -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. " Regards *Maqsood Ahmad* Database Administrator / Coordinator* Lincoln Corner Bahawalpur* The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Cell: 0092 333 6359133 http://library.iub.edu.pk , dba at iub.edu.pk , www.facebook.com/maqsood.dba ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-16 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jennifer Maguire-Wright Special Projects Director Information Technology Free Library of Philadelphia 215-686-5353 wrightj at freelibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alan.boyd at OBERLIN.EDU Tue May 20 11:31:44 2014 From: alan.boyd at OBERLIN.EDU (Alan Boyd) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:31:44 -0400 Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs In-Reply-To: <4D3B2BB663604840B22E388FD46E03130121F76EB0@EXCHMB1.private.library.phila.gov> Message-ID: Our campus networking staff block an individual's peer to peer access for the remainder of a given academic year when we receive a proper DMCA notice. This has cut way down on the number of notices we've received over the past 5 years or so. Not necessarily a public library solution though.... -- Alan Boyd Associate Director of Libraries Oberlin College Library 148 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074-1532440-775-5015440-775-6586 (fax)alan.boyd at oberlin.edu On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Wright, Jen wrote: > **apologies for cross posting** > > > > Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to > ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? > > > > Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are > willing to share? > > > > Jennifer Maguire-Wright > > Special Projects Director > > Information Technology > > Free Library of Philadelphia > > 215-686-5353 > > wrightj at freelibrary.org > > > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-20 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Wright, Jen wrote: > **apologies for cross posting** > > > > Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to > ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? > > > > Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are > willing to share? > > > > Jennifer Maguire-Wright > > Special Projects Director > > Information Technology > > Free Library of Philadelphia > > 215-686-5353 > > wrightj at freelibrary.org > > > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-20 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG Tue May 20 12:10:50 2014 From: PWhitford at BRASWELL-LIBRARY.ORG (Phillip Whitford) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:10:50 +0000 Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs In-Reply-To: <4D3B2BB663604840B22E388FD46E03130121F76EB0@EXCHMB1.private.library.phila.gov> Message-ID: We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the compliant for a reply. We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access which reads like this (library name and location redacted): "The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on them or download copyright protected material to them it would be automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them had been used for improper purposes. The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof. Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from occurring." So far this process has served us well. Phillip B. Whitford Associate Director for Support Services Braswell Memorial Library Rocky Mount, NC Opinions expressed are my own. From: Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs *apologies for cross posting* Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share? Jennifer Maguire-Wright Special Projects Director Information Technology Free Library of Philadelphia 215-686-5353 wrightj at freelibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wjohnson at DCPLIBRARY.ORG Tue May 20 12:24:52 2014 From: wjohnson at DCPLIBRARY.ORG (Wesley Johnson) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:24:52 -0500 Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs In-Reply-To: <0E7A8A3C9AB17243A7DB06C7A0105EE160F6AA17@2sparky.braswell-library.org> Message-ID: We are filtered pretty well as far as torrenting. We have more of an issue with illegal streaming sites. Those are difficult to block due to how many there are. Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2014, at 11:13 AM, "Phillip Whitford" > wrote: We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the compliant for a reply. We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access which reads like this (library name and location redacted): ?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on them or download copyright protected material to them it would be automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them had been used for improper purposes. The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof. Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from occurring.? So far this process has served us well. Phillip B. Whitford Associate Director for Support Services Braswell Memorial Library Rocky Mount, NC Opinions expressed are my own. From: Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs *apologies for cross posting* Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share? Jennifer Maguire-Wright Special Projects Director Information Technology Free Library of Philadelphia 215-686-5353 wrightj at freelibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 From joyce.wong at LANGARA.BC.CA Tue May 20 17:59:21 2014 From: joyce.wong at LANGARA.BC.CA (Joyce Wong) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:59:21 -0700 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....for students Message-ID: Hi everyone Apologies for any duplication. Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. Thank you Joyce -- Joyce Wong Coordinator of User Experience Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 T: 604-323-5047 F: 604-323-5512 joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 From william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM Wed May 21 04:10:10 2014 From: william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM (William Gunn) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 01:10:10 -0700 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....for students In-Reply-To: <537BD039.2020808@langara.bc.ca> Message-ID: Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. Did you mean a different kind of programming code? -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong wrote: > Hi everyone > > Apologies for any duplication. > > Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on > programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is > interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. > I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. > > Thank you > Joyce > > -- > Joyce Wong > Coordinator of User Experience > Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 > T: 604-323-5047 > F: 604-323-5512 > joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca > > > Please consider the environment before printing. > CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged > information. If you are > not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this > email from your system. > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-20 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM Wed May 21 04:14:57 2014 From: william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM (William Gunn) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 01:14:57 -0700 Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs In-Reply-To: <0E7A8A3C9AB17243A7DB06C7A0105EE160F6AA17@2sparky.braswell-library.org> Message-ID: I think that's a great response, Phil. You might want to add that there are significant non-infringing uses for the bittorrent protocol, for example Bittorrent Sync , which is a service similar to Dropbox, but more secure in that it syncs directly between computers without cloud storage. Best, -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Phillip Whitford < PWhitford at braswell-library.org> wrote: > We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via > government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent > sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets > thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA > violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups > (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance > request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the > government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we > can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the > compliant for a reply. > > > > We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice > the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending > software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response > back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access > which reads like this (library name and location redacted): > > > > ?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the > Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The > alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright > holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers > computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and > file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition > when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their > approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on > them or download copyright protected material to them it would be > automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, > and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in > this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them > had been used for improper purposes. > > > > The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was > used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. > Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant > to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls > and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but > as you know such measures are not foolproof. > > > > Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not > condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright > infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from > occurring.? > > > > So far this process has served us well. > > > > > > Phillip B. Whitford > > Associate Director for Support Services > > Braswell Memorial Library > > Rocky Mount, NC > > Opinions expressed are my own. > > > > *From:* Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG] > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs > > > > **apologies for cross posting** > > > > Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to > ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? > > > > Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are > willing to share? > > > > Jennifer Maguire-Wright > > Special Projects Director > > Information Technology > > Free Library of Philadelphia > > 215-686-5353 > > wrightj at freelibrary.org > > > > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-20 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-20 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From riley at TFSGEO.COM Wed May 21 06:28:53 2014 From: riley at TFSGEO.COM (Riley Childs) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:28:53 -0400 Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: But unfortunately the risk outweighs the reward, we block torrents, except for IT Staff.... We use a SonicWall appliance, but want to move to Smoothwall, if you are looking for a firewall I highly recommend Smoothwall. Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes -----Original Message----- From: "William Gunn" Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:19 AM To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU" Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs I think that's a great response, Phil. You might want to add that there are significant non-infringing uses for the bittorrent protocol, for example Bittorrent Sync, which is a service similar to Dropbox, but more secure in that it syncs directly between computers without cloud storage. Best, -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Phillip Whitford wrote: We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the compliant for a reply. We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access which reads like this (library name and location redacted): ?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on them or download copyright protected material to them it would be automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them had been used for improper purposes. The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof. Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from occurring.? So far this process has served us well. Phillip B. Whitford Associate Director for Support Services Braswell Memorial Library Rocky Mount, NC Opinions expressed are my own. From: Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs *apologies for cross posting* Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share? 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Do you mean citing your sources per se? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes -----Original Message----- From: "William Gunn" Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU" Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. Did you mean a different kind of programming code? -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong wrote: Hi everyone Apologies for any duplication. Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. Thank you Joyce -- Joyce Wong Coordinator of User Experience Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 T: 604-323-5047 F: 604-323-5512 joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sforrest at BCGOV.NET Wed May 21 07:48:02 2014 From: sforrest at BCGOV.NET (Forrest, Stuart) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:48:02 +0000 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: <537c805b.635f8c0a.a419.0f4b@mx.google.com> Message-ID: Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. Stuart Forrest PhD Beaufort County Library Beaufort South Carolina 843 255 6450 For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > wrote: +1 Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: William Gunn Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. Did you mean a different kind of programming code? -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > wrote: Hi everyone Apologies for any duplication. Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. Thank you Joyce -- Joyce Wong Coordinator of User Experience Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 T: 604-323-5047 F: 604-323-5512 joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 From jmacdonald at AUS.EDU Wed May 21 08:15:26 2014 From: jmacdonald at AUS.EDU (James MacDonald) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:15:26 +0400 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: <3DE65BE4-2D3D-478B-A867-C52A60B47CBA@bcgov.net> Message-ID: I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless). James MacDonald Web Services Librarian University Library Tel +971 6 515 2270 Fax +971 6 558 5008 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu jmacdonald at aus.edu On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote: > Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. > > Stuart Forrest PhD > Beaufort County Library > Beaufort > South Carolina > 843 255 6450 > For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > wrote: > > +1 > Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? > > Riley Childs > Student > Asst. Head of IT Services > Charlotte United Christian Academy > (704) 497-2086 > RileyChilds.net > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > ________________________________ > From: William Gunn > Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents > > Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. > > Did you mean a different kind of programming code? > > -- > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > wrote: > Hi everyone > > Apologies for any duplication. > > Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. > I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. > > Thank you > Joyce > > -- > Joyce Wong > Coordinator of User Experience > Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 > T: 604-323-5047 > F: 604-323-5512 > joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca > > > Please consider the environment before printing. > CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. 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URL: From jmacdonald at AUS.EDU Wed May 21 08:15:26 2014 From: jmacdonald at AUS.EDU (James MacDonald) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:15:26 +0400 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: <3DE65BE4-2D3D-478B-A867-C52A60B47CBA@bcgov.net> Message-ID: I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless). James MacDonald Web Services Librarian University Library Tel +971 6 515 2270 Fax +971 6 558 5008 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu jmacdonald at aus.edu On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote: > Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. > > Stuart Forrest PhD > Beaufort County Library > Beaufort > South Carolina > 843 255 6450 > For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > wrote: > > +1 > Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? > > Riley Childs > Student > Asst. Head of IT Services > Charlotte United Christian Academy > (704) 497-2086 > RileyChilds.net > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > ________________________________ > From: William Gunn > Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents > > Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. > > Did you mean a different kind of programming code? > > -- > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > wrote: > Hi everyone > > Apologies for any duplication. > > Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. > I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. > > Thank you > Joyce > > -- > Joyce Wong > Coordinator of User Experience > Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 > T: 604-323-5047 > F: 604-323-5512 > joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca > > > Please consider the environment before printing. > CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. 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URL: From paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM Wed May 21 08:16:34 2014 From: paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM (Paul Poulain) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:16:34 +0200 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....for students In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Le 21/05/2014 10:10, William Gunn a ?crit : > Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm > aware of. > > Did you mean a different kind of programming code? Right. From a legal point of view (french laws, but US ones are close here afaik), there is no plagiarism: if you copy/paste code, it can be a copyright infringement (except if you use Open Source licenses ;-) ), not a plagiarism. If you rewrite the code, it's not plagiarism. HTH -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 From bhockenberry at SJFC.EDU Wed May 21 08:30:19 2014 From: bhockenberry at SJFC.EDU (Hockenberry, Benjamin) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 12:30:19 +0000 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing Computer Code" you mentioned (http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different. I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for dismissal after only one or two occurrences. Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce? Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James MacDonald Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless). James MacDonald Web Services Librarian University Library [cid:image001.jpg at 01CE464E.49BB2D00] Tel +971 6 515 2270 Fax +971 6 558 5008 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu jmacdonald at aus.edu On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart > wrote: Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. Stuart Forrest PhD Beaufort County Library Beaufort South Carolina 843 255 6450 For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > wrote: +1 Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: William Gunn Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. Did you mean a different kind of programming code? -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > wrote: Hi everyone Apologies for any duplication. Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. Thank you Joyce -- Joyce Wong Coordinator of User Experience Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 T: 604-323-5047 F: 604-323-5512 joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-20 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM Wed May 21 09:07:22 2014 From: william.gunn at MENDELEY.COM (William Gunn) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:07:22 -0700 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to explain about licenses, of course. If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept in this domain. Just my $0.02... William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749 http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" wrote: > The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing > Computer Code" you mentioned ( > http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to > define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable > example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example > in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different. > > > > I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were > implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, > but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a > sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student > responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would > cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic > institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for > dismissal after only one or two occurrences. > > > > Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure > and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this > discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce? > > > > Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian > > Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY > 14618 > > (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu > > > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On > Behalf Of *James MacDonald > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer > Codes....forstudents > > > > I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited > including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: > > > > https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code > > > > There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common > knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you > cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. > > > > Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets > of code (without which your code would be useless). > > > > > > > *James MacDonald *Web Services Librarian > University Library > > > > Tel +971 6 515 2270 > Fax +971 6 558 5008 > > American University of Sharjah > PO Box 26666, Sharjah > United Arab Emirates > http://www.aus.edu > jmacdonald at aus.edu > > > > > > > > On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote: > > > > Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. > > Stuart Forrest PhD > Beaufort County Library > Beaufort > South Carolina > 843 255 6450 > For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM >> wrote: > > +1 > Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire > files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? > > Riley Childs > Student > Asst. Head of IT Services > Charlotte United Christian Academy > (704) 497-2086 > RileyChilds.net > > > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > ________________________________ > From: William Gunn > > > Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer > Codes....forstudents > > Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware > of. > > Did you mean a different kind of programming code? > > -- > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca >> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Apologies for any duplication. > > Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on > programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is > interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. > I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. > > Thank you > Joyce > > -- > Joyce Wong > Coordinator of User Experience > Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 > T: 604-323-5047> > F: 604-323-5512> > joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca > > > > > Please consider the environment before printing. > CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged > information. 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Citing sources in both programing and writing serves a functional purpose; and I think not emphasizing this to students is doing them a huge disservice. Often when you are learning to program (and write) you need to borrow other ideas/code?and, in programming, with GitHub, finding repositories is easy enough; adapting to your context is harder, but, if possible. Having been in a grad program that relies on programming, I have seen all too frequently students who just grab whatever code they get online and, if it works reasonably well, call it a day, without notating in a comment where the code comes from and why they used it. This creates a problem if you ever want to use this code again?as you did not write it, it may be you do not quite understand what it is doing?if it breaks, you have lost your reference to the ?handbook?, which describes what is happening and may even point to why the code has broken (and have an update); if you are working in the real world, where another person will look at this code at some future point, and they just assume you wrote it, then they will spend considerable time interpreting it, when it could have been an easy reference to its source, which would have given them a good overview. Assuming you are using one piece of ?borrowed code?, these would be the issues; if you are using parts and pieces of numerous libraries, your code will be almost undecipherable without commentary and citations?it becomes a monster?I have seen enough ?monster code? from people with good intentions, who want to create something, but as the person who had to rework it, it proved to be a nightmare just understanding the various pieces? It is particularly a disservice to students as many programming departments at companies want to see code samples as part of the hiring process; if the student sends them monster code, and the programmers recognize bits and pieces taken from places with credit (it could even be their code library, or one they contributed to), this will look sloppy and unprofessional?good programmers like order, neatness as much as good librarians do..these things separate talent from ?well, it?s good enough?. Calling it plagiarism may not be quite accurate, but there is still a professional duty here, that, if not done, is not good for the person or their reputation. Michael Cabus Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library Philadelphia University Phone. 215.951.5365 *opinions are my own* From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Gunn Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:07 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to explain about licenses, of course. If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept in this domain. Just my $0.02... William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749 http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" > wrote: The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing Computer Code" you mentioned (http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different. I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for dismissal after only one or two occurrences. Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce? Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James MacDonald Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless). James MacDonald Web Services Librarian University Library Tel +971 6 515 2270 Fax +971 6 558 5008 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu jmacdonald at aus.edu On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart > wrote: Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. Stuart Forrest PhD Beaufort County Library Beaufort South Carolina 843 255 6450 For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > wrote: +1 Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: William Gunn Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. Did you mean a different kind of programming code? -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > wrote: Hi everyone Apologies for any duplication. Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. Thank you Joyce -- Joyce Wong Coordinator of User Experience Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 T: 604-323-5047 F: 604-323-5512 joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. 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When reusing code, comments should include sources for the code just as in text. According to U.S. copyright law, computer code is classified as a literary work, and as such it is covered under all copyright legislation. Actually, that is why companies state that they are only leasing you a copy of their program because that removes some of the rights of the consumer (such as resale and duplication for your own use) of a purchased work. Debby Andreadis -- Assistant Director for Education and Research Services Denison University Libraries Granville OH 43023 andreadisd at denison.edu On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:07 AM, William Gunn wrote: > I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding > they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to > explain about licenses, of course. > > If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, > you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize > those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse > things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept > in this domain. > > Just my $0.02... > > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749 > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn > On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" > wrote: > >> The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing >> Computer Code" you mentioned ( >> http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to >> define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable >> example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example >> in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different. >> >> >> >> I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were >> implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, >> but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a >> sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student >> responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would >> cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic >> institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for >> dismissal after only one or two occurrences. >> >> >> >> Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this >> ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. >> Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce? >> >> >> >> Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian >> >> Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY >> 14618 >> >> (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu >> >> >> >> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On >> Behalf Of *James MacDonald >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM >> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer >> Codes....forstudents >> >> >> >> I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited >> including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: >> >> >> >> https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code >> >> >> >> There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common >> knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you >> cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. >> >> >> >> Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets >> of code (without which your code would be useless). >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *James MacDonald *Web Services Librarian >> University Library >> >> >> >> Tel +971 6 515 2270 >> Fax +971 6 558 5008 >> >> American University of Sharjah >> PO Box 26666, Sharjah >> United Arab Emirates >> http://www.aus.edu >> jmacdonald at aus.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote: >> >> >> >> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. >> >> Stuart Forrest PhD >> Beaufort County Library >> Beaufort >> South Carolina >> 843 255 6450 >> For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM >> wrote: >> >> +1 >> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire >> files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? >> >> Riley Childs >> Student >> Asst. Head of IT Services >> Charlotte United Christian Academy >> (704) 497-2086 >> RileyChilds.net >> > >> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes >> ________________________________ >> From: William Gunn >> > >> Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM >> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> > >> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer >> Codes....forstudents >> >> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm >> aware of. >> >> Did you mean a different kind of programming code? >> >> -- >> William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn >> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 >> >> >> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca >> wrote: >> Hi everyone >> >> Apologies for any duplication. >> >> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on >> programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is >> interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. >> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. >> >> Thank you >> Joyce >> >> -- >> Joyce Wong >> Coordinator of User Experience >> Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 >> T: 604-323-5047> >> F: 604-323-5512> >> joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca >> > >> >> >> Please consider the environment before printing. >> CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged >> information. 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URL: From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Wed May 21 09:46:57 2014 From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:46:57 +0000 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi I re-read my response, and need to revise my ?code?. I meant to say, if students send a code sample without citing it, it will look sloppy. Which shows details are important, but a rare commodity. Writing that was a lesson to me as a programmer?it is easy to get into bad habits, but articulating what you value helps you get out of them (creating and academic writing, and programmer are a great pair, like peanut butter and jelly, but that is a different topic). Hope everyone is well, Michael Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library Philadelphia University Phone. 215.951.5365 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Gunn Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:07 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to explain about licenses, of course. If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept in this domain. Just my $0.02... William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749 http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" > wrote: The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing Computer Code" you mentioned (http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different. I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for dismissal after only one or two occurrences. Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce? Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James MacDonald Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless). James MacDonald Web Services Librarian University Library Tel +971 6 515 2270 Fax +971 6 558 5008 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu jmacdonald at aus.edu On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart > wrote: Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. Stuart Forrest PhD Beaufort County Library Beaufort South Carolina 843 255 6450 For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" > wrote: +1 Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: William Gunn Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of. Did you mean a different kind of programming code? -- William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong > wrote: Hi everyone Apologies for any duplication. Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students? Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania. Thank you Joyce -- Joyce Wong Coordinator of User Experience Langara College Library. 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 T: 604-323-5047 F: 604-323-5512 joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. 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URL: From cmarkman at CLARKU.EDU Wed May 21 10:07:29 2014 From: cmarkman at CLARKU.EDU (Chris Markman) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:07:29 -0400 Subject: FW: Torrents and public PCs In-Reply-To: <537c7ffc.834be00a.2757.1470@mx.google.com> Message-ID: While we're on the subject, just thought I'd share a link to this recent article I co-wrote on D-Lib Magazine: BitTorrent and Libraries: Cooperative Data Publishing, Management and Discovery There's lots of reasons why BitTorrent traffic needs to be *managed* in a public IT setting but please please please do not categorically block the protocol from your computers *or* your mind. There's a long list of opportunities for libraries and librarians to build on or adapt this technology. BitTorrent Sync is a great example and their blog lists a variety of use cases: http://blog.bittorrent.com/tag/sync-hacks/ :-) ?Chris -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chris Markman Resource Library Coordinator Visual & Performing Arts Clark University cmarkman at clarku.edu On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Riley Childs wrote: > But unfortunately the risk outweighs the reward, we block torrents, except > for IT Staff.... We use a SonicWall appliance, but want to move to > Smoothwall, if you are looking for a firewall I highly recommend Smoothwall. > > Riley Childs > Student > Asst. Head of IT Services > Charlotte United Christian Academy > (704) 497-2086 > RileyChilds.net > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > ------------------------------ > From: William Gunn > Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:19 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs > > I think that's a great response, Phil. You might want to add that there > are significant non-infringing uses for the bittorrent protocol, for > example Bittorrent Sync , which is a > service similar to Dropbox, but more secure in that it syncs directly > between computers without cloud storage. > > Best, > > -- > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Phillip Whitford < > PWhitford at braswell-library.org> wrote: > >> We support 15 libraries, some of which get their Internet access via >> government networks and some which use commercial ISPs. We block torrent >> sites and torrent applications at our firewalls but some traffic still gets >> thru and we get to deal with a number of compliance requests or DMCA >> violation notices from movie companies and entertainment industry groups >> (or more accurately their lawyers). We have never gotten a compliance >> request from a commercial ISP but we get them all the time via the >> government networks. The government network folks usually remind us that we >> can lose our Internet access if such behavior continues and forward us the >> compliant for a reply. >> >> >> >> We verify the date/time stamp and IP address the complaint notes (twice >> the complaints did not apply to us) and we verify that no offending >> software is being kept on library owned equipment then we send a response >> back to the complainant and the government agency providing the access >> which reads like this (library name and location redacted): >> >> >> >> ?The IP address in question is assigned to the Whatever Branch of the >> Whatever Library System. This is a public library in Wherever, NC. The >> alleged infringement occurred (according to the timestamp in the copyright >> holder's agent's email) when the library was open. The library offers >> computers to the public, however all such computers are locked down and >> file sharing or other software cannot be installed on them. In addition >> when the computers are rebooted security software restores them to their >> approved configuration so even if someone managed to install software on >> them or download copyright protected material to them it would be >> automatically removed upon shut down or reboot which happens at least once, >> and usually more often, per day. Staff equipment is not locked down in >> this manner but a review of staff computers did not indicate any of them >> had been used for improper purposes. >> >> >> >> The library also offers public wi-fi access and it is most likely this >> was used for the alleged download by someone using a privately owned >> device. Library staff have been briefed on this matter and will try and be >> vigilant to unauthorized use of library networks. The library employees >> firewalls and other technological means to block or filter unauthorized >> traffic but as you know such measures are not foolproof. >> >> >> >> Whatever Library supports the rights of copyright holders and does not >> condone illegal or improper use of its networks or equipment for copyright >> infringement and will take all reasonable steps to prevent such abuse from >> occurring.? >> >> >> >> So far this process has served us well. >> >> >> >> >> >> Phillip B. Whitford >> >> Associate Director for Support Services >> >> Braswell Memorial Library >> >> Rocky Mount, NC >> >> Opinions expressed are my own. >> >> >> >> *From:* Wright, Jen [mailto:WrightJ at FREELIBRARY.ORG] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:25 AM >> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs >> >> >> >> **apologies for cross posting** >> >> >> >> Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due >> to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? >> >> >> >> Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are >> willing to share? >> >> >> >> Jennifer Maguire-Wright >> >> Special Projects Director >> >> Information Technology >> >> Free Library of Philadelphia >> >> 215-686-5353 >> >> wrightj at freelibrary.org >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-05-20 >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2014-05-20 >> > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-21 > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-21 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-21 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lsefton at GMAIL.COM Wed May 21 10:22:48 2014 From: lsefton at GMAIL.COM (Laurie Sefton) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:22:48 -0700 Subject: How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Here's a pointer to Stanford's Computer Science Honor Code, which discusses plagiarism: http://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/ug/HonorCode.shtml I taught and graded for programming courses a while back. I'd have to say the most blatant plagiarism involved taking a card deck (I taught a *long* time ago!), changing the job control cards, and submitting the old set of cards as their own. Given this was for a COBOL class, the people involved forgot that there's what's called the "identification division" where the students placed cards that had their name and what section they were in. The students who were cheating didn't bother to change those. A lot of Computer Science and programming courses will repeat the same homework assignment for years. That makes it awfully tempting for a student to copy and paste in a previous student's code, change the identification, and turn it in as their own. The closest analogy would be a student changing the title page on a paper and turning it in as their work. Then there are students who will program as a group when they shouldn't be doing so, and each turn in the same code. In most cases I've seen, either copying from a previous semester, or sharing code are what's being checked for plagiarism. Some take it further than that, and want to know what parts of the code did you write, what parts did you reuse from a class you previously took, and what you received help on, or used from a book. This is both instilling good programming practices, and making sure that the work turned in is properly cited. Laurie On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Cabus, Michael wrote: > Hi > > I re-read my response, and need to revise my ?code?. > > > > I meant to say, if students send a code sample* without* citing it, it > will look sloppy. Which shows details are important, but a rare commodity. > Writing that was a lesson to me as a programmer?it is easy to get into bad > habits, but articulating what you value helps you get out of them (creating > and academic writing, and programmer are a great pair, like peanut butter > and jelly, but that is a different topic). > > > > Hope everyone is well, > > > > Michael > > > > > > Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library > > Philadelphia University > > Phone. 215.951.5365 > > > > > > > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On > Behalf Of *William Gunn > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:07 AM > > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer > Codes....forstudents > > > > I were teaching the class, I would point out that almost all coding > they'll do professionally with copy liberally from others. You do need to > explain about licenses, of course. > > If you want to make sure they understand how to write a loop or something, > you can ask them to not copy for the purposes of the exercise, and penalize > those who do copy for not following instructions, but please don't confuse > things by bringing plagiarism into it. It really is a meaningless concept > in this domain. > > Just my $0.02... > > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 650 614 1749 > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn > > On May 21, 2014 2:33 PM, "Hockenberry, Benjamin" > wrote: > > The second example given in the UPenn "Avoiding Plagiarism: Writing > Computer Code" you mentioned ( > http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/ai_computercode.html) seems to > define code plagiarism in a disconcerting way. The code in "Unacceptable > example 2" shares *meaning* (does this mean ?function??) with the example > in the textbook, but its structure is significantly different. > > > > I would be very averse to such a plagiarism detection system if it were > implemented programmatically. There are many ways to write a while loop, > but the discussion at the U Penn site says that logical equivalency (in a > sense, ?meaning?) equals plagiarism. The similarity between student > responses to a common assignment (like looping through an array) would > cause every student to fail such a plagiarism test, and under many academic > institutions? academic integrity policies, this could be grounds for > dismissal after only one or two occurrences. > > > > Attribution should be given in code, yes. But I?m wary of this ?structure > and meaning? argument when it comes to functional similarities. Is this > discussion precipitated by the Oracle-Google lawsuits, Joyce? > > > > Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian > > Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY > 14618 > > (585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu > > > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On > Behalf Of *James MacDonald > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:19 AM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer > Codes....forstudents > > > > I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited > including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT: > > > > https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code > > > > There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common > knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you > cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. > > > > Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets > of code (without which your code would be useless). > > > > > > > *James MacDonald *Web Services Librarian > University Library > > > > Tel +971 6 515 2270 > Fax +971 6 558 5008 > > American University of Sharjah > PO Box 26666, Sharjah > United Arab Emirates > http://www.aus.edu > jmacdonald at aus.edu > > > > > > > > On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote: > > > > Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse. > > Stuart Forrest PhD > Beaufort County Library > Beaufort > South Carolina > 843 255 6450 > For Learning, For Liesure, For Life. > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM >> wrote: > > +1 > Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire > files! Do you mean citing your sources per se? > > Riley Childs > Student > Asst. Head of IT Services > Charlotte United Christian Academy > (704) 497-2086 > RileyChilds.net > > > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > ________________________________ > From: William Gunn > > > Sent: ?5/?21/?2014 4:15 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer > Codes....forstudents > > Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware > of. > > Did you mean a different kind of programming code? > > -- > William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | @mrgunn > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn | (650) 614-1749 > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca >> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Apologies for any duplication. > > Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on > programming codes for students? 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Section 3 will cover examples of teaching with technology, and focus on ways e-learning enhances the in-classroom experience. Examples of relevant topics include: Virtual tours Instructional games Geo-spatial applications Virtual reality applications Classroom use of technology For consideration, e-mail a 1-2 page proposal to either of the editors by May 30, 2014, clearly presenting your e-learning innovation and its significance. Proposals should include information about the audience and need for the e-learning tool, the technology used to create it, the length of time it has been used, assessment, and the transferability to other libraries. Final chapters will be 5-7000 words, excluding endnotes and bibliography. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by June 15, 2014. Complete chapters will be due by September 30, 2014, as we anticipate publishing this book in Summer 2015. Margaret Gregor, MALS, Ed.D. 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I will say that we have had issues with the AC adapters sort of falling apart but we use these laptops for student checkout so they are sort of used and abused. We typically use the laptops for just over 3 years. I think we have the 14" size. Thanks Art Gutierrez Head of Systems and Technical Services Assistant Professor Emporia State University Agutierr at emporia dot edu 620-341-6205 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:16 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations *Excuses for cross-posting to multiple lists* I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our summer reader database). Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless. 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Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes -----Original Message----- From: "Art Gutierrez" Sent: ?5/?22/?2014 10:04 AM To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU" Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations Hi Alison, We have had very good luck with the Latitude line of laptops from Dell. I would encourage you to call and talk with a salesperson in order to get a better deal on pricing especially if you are ordering say 6 or more laptops. Also if you cannot get the price down you may be able to get warranty coverage for the battery or something else. I will say that we have had issues with the AC adapters sort of falling apart but we use these laptops for student checkout so they are sort of used and abused. We typically use the laptops for just over 3 years. I think we have the 14? size. Thanks Art Gutierrez Head of Systems and Technical Services Assistant Professor Emporia State University Agutierr at emporia dot edu 620-341-6205 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:16 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations *Excuses for cross-posting to multiple lists* I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our summer reader database). Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless. 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Gutman Library Philadelphia University Phone. 215.951.5365 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:16 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Laptop Recommendations *Excuses for cross-posting to multiple lists* I am looking for recommendations for sturdy laptops we can use for public computer training, staff use offsite and during our summer reading program (we set up stations to specifically allow use for logging books in our summer reader database). Requirements include Win 7+ OS, MS Office, wireless. 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URL: From thayes at CUMBERLAND.LIB.NC.US Fri May 23 10:38:12 2014 From: thayes at CUMBERLAND.LIB.NC.US (Tiffany Hayes) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:38:12 -0400 Subject: mixed-device public computer labs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Does anyone have experience with public computer labs that offer multiple types of devices--not just desktops but also laptops and/or tablets? We're looking at this as an option for our computer labs. We currently have 8 branches, each with a lab of up to 30 desktop computers, which we manage with Envisionware. They get heavy use by patrons! It seems reasonable that some people could do their computing on tablets or something like Chromebooks, if they're doing Facebook, playing games, etc, thus saving money and space. But those who are doing school assignments, resumes, job applications, anything with significant typing or using MS Office would need a computer with a keyboard. Our dilemma is how to manage something like this with a minimum of staff time. Envisionware does not yet offer management for tablets, and also how would we screen customers so they're using the right device for their needs? We currently check out a few laptops for use in the branch, they are on Envisionware, but the checkout process is a huge killer of staff time. Not to mention the dilemma of having to ask customers what they're doing on the computer to determine which device they need! Anyone have a lab like this, or know of one? Thanks! 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I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). 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URL: From gealach at GMAIL.COM Fri May 23 11:19:47 2014 From: gealach at GMAIL.COM (Cindy) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:19:47 -0400 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: <6057DED69540C2469906BBF2B9615C7A0373F04B@VM-Kenya.wellcomeit.com> Message-ID: Hi Jenn, Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons, though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in government. >From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search outside of the traditional "library" setting. Best of luck, Cindy Cynthia Zweier Librarian NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer < J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello all > > It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job > description? > > I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of > 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is > responsible for: > > - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content > with partner platforms, and managing those relationships > - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on > - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to > external stakeholders > - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring > technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) > - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all > the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people > and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. > > Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few > other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have > (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). > > Best wishes > Jenn > > > *Jenn Phillips-Bacher* > Web Editor > Wellcome Library > 183 Euston Road > London NW1 2BE, UK > *T* +44 (0)20 7611 8746 > *F* +44 (0)20 7611 8369 > *E* *j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk* > *http://wellcomelibrary.org* > > *Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as > part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for > business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas > will be temporarily closed.* > > *If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please > check for updates on the* *Library blog** > where the most up-to-date information will be posted.* > > *The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our > opening hours please check our **website* > *.* > > We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary > improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in > biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support > includes public engagement, education and the application of research to > improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial > interests. > > The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. > 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company > registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at > 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). > > > > This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2014-05-23 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From CabusM at PHILAU.EDU Fri May 23 11:41:14 2014 From: CabusM at PHILAU.EDU (Cabus, Michael) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:41:14 +0000 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi I think Jenn is just having fun, making up a pretend library job that would be the ?dream job?? I heard a dream job title on a podcast this week: explorer-in-residence; it satisfies both my desire for adventure and my need to be grounded, all at the same time. Happy Friday everyone, Michael Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library Philadelphia University Phone. 215.951.5365 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 11:20 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hi Jenn, Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons, though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in government. From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search outside of the traditional "library" setting. Best of luck, Cindy Cynthia Zweier Librarian NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer > wrote: Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. 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URL: From randtke at GMAIL.COM Fri May 23 12:20:17 2014 From: randtke at GMAIL.COM (Wilhelmina Randtke) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:20:17 -0500 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Chattanooga Public Library hosts hackathons and has a makerspace. Here's more info on that http://chattlibrary.org/4th-floor UNT's data management ("corral" and other cowboy names) and probably other big university data management initiatives are getting to be closer and closer to taking library services to external stakeholders. Partly, this is because in a huge university, other departments are external stakeholder. Partly, this is because many states have a level of cooperation that's mandated between universities. (Hint, hint, I would be curious to hear what Georgia's doing, because that's a state with a hugely mandated level of cooperation between libraries and more sharing of systems than most state systems.) The DPLA hubs for digitization of materials will also lay a framework for doing more cooperation later. I'm at a tiny private Catholic university, St. Mary's of San Antonio, and all our law school student newspapers are in the process of digitization through the DPLA hub Portal to Texas History at UNT. So, that's a library we've never done business with before, that now we're doing business with. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Cindy wrote: > Hi Jenn, > > Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and > New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons, > though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other > American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There > may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in > government. > > From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search > outside of the traditional "library" setting. > > Best of luck, > Cindy > > Cynthia Zweier > Librarian > NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead > > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer < > J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job >> description? >> >> I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of >> 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is >> responsible for: >> >> - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised >> content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships >> - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on >> - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to >> external stakeholders >> - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring >> technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) >> - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all >> the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people >> and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. >> >> Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few >> other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have >> (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). >> >> Best wishes >> Jenn >> >> >> *Jenn Phillips-Bacher* >> Web Editor >> Wellcome Library >> 183 Euston Road >> London NW1 2BE, UK >> *T* +44 (0)20 7611 8746 >> *F* +44 (0)20 7611 8369 >> *E* *j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk* >> *http://wellcomelibrary.org* >> >> *Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes >> as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for >> business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas >> will be temporarily closed.* >> >> *If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please >> check for updates on the* *Library blog** >> where the most up-to-date information will be posted.* >> >> *The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our >> opening hours please check our **website* >> *.* >> >> We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving >> extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the >> brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our >> breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the >> application of research to improve health. We are independent of both >> political and commercial interests. >> >> The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. >> 210183. 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URL: From TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET Fri May 23 12:31:19 2014 From: TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET (Thomas Edelblute) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:31:19 +0000 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: <6057DED69540C2469906BBF2B9615C7A0373F04B@VM-Kenya.wellcomeit.com> Message-ID: Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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It is my birthday, too. Hah! Sent from my iPad On May 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, "Thomas Edelblute" > wrote: Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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URL: From ray.henry at WSU.EDU Fri May 23 13:23:56 2014 From: ray.henry at WSU.EDU (Henry, Ray) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:23:56 +0000 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: <6057DED69540C2469906BBF2B9615C7A0373F04B@VM-Kenya.wellcomeit.com> Message-ID: Sounds a great deal like a Scholarly Communications Librarian: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/jobScholarlyCommLibrarian.htm --Ray Ray Henry Web Services Librarian Washington State University Libraries - Pullman 509.335.9624 ray.henry at wsu.edu From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU Fri May 23 13:55:10 2014 From: haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU (Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:55:10 +0000 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: <52882995E3FA484FA4FFBF4C2C837CFE6F7E35D4@COAMBOX2.anaheim.intranet> Message-ID: I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran. ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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Stuart Forrest PhD Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library 843 255 6450 sforrest at bcgov.net http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org For Liesure, For Learning, For Life From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran. ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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Stuart Forrest PhD Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library 843 255 6450 sforrest at bcgov.net http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org For Liesure, For Learning, For Life From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran. ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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The ideal candidate understands the needs of the library environment, collaborates enthusiastically with system headquarters staff and various team members, and readily provides support to member library staff. 29 - 30 hours per week. Essential Functions 1. Works in collaboration with the Automated Services Coordinator and System Executive Director to evaluate, develop and maintain the library system's public and intranet web site services, including social media web sites and digital content, such as reference databases, eBooks, eAudios, summer reading program registration software, etc. 2. Collaborates with the Automated Services Coordinator and Training Services Coordinator to implement System-wide Web Advisory Team committee recommendations and to maintain web site standards. 3. Prepares, edits, and posts graphical and narrative materials to the library system websites regularly. 4. Provides help desk support to member library web site editors as needed. 5. Works in collaboration with the Capital Area Library District to develop and maintain digital content resources. 6. Assists the Automated Services Coordinator with various maintenance and statistical routines for currently adopted integrated library system software (Sierra), such as updating annual calendars; verifying and updating web site links and scripted searches; formatting customer notices and staff reports; resolving and distributing failed customer notices to member libraries; compiling user statistics, etc. 7. Assists the Automated Services Coordinator with various maintenance and statistical routines for currently adopted library development software (Raiser's Edge), such as establishing secure library fund accounts; importing integrated library system customer records into the development software; making quarterly National Change of Address directory updates, etc. 8. Assists the Executive Director with formatting and distribution of customer communications in both digital and print formats. Requirements Must have knowledge and working experience with the following: * Microsoft Office 2007 (Word and Excel) * Web site content management systems (Drupal preferred) * cPanel, WHM (Web Host Management), PHPMyAdmin * HTML, CSS, using an editor and coding by hand * Adobe Photoshop Desired: PHP, XML, Java, Javascript and SQL Minimum Training and Experience: * Associates degree in computer science or equivalent. Preference given to those with library science or information science degree. * 2 years working experience in library information technology, especially web site management, software, and databases. How to Apply Please complete the online application at http://www.ccpa.net/index.aspx?NID=2091 (under "Cumberland County Employment Opportunities (Non-Civil Service/Part-time) and upload your cover letter and resume to apply for this position. 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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:58 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about integration.... Stuart Forrest PhD Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library 843 255 6450 sforrest at bcgov.net http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org For Liesure, For Learning, For Life From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran. ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you're planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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Stuart Forrest PhD Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library 843 255 6450 sforrest at bcgov.net http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org For Liesure, For Learning, For Life From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as Bajoran. ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. So here is my first attempt. Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements include: Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language processing. Start with that and feel free to edit. Thomas Edelblute From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator Hello all It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job description? I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is responsible for: - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content with partner platforms, and managing those relationships - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to external stakeholders - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!'). Best wishes Jenn Jenn Phillips-Bacher Web Editor Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8746 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E j.phillips-bacher at wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org Until September 2014 the Wellcome Library is undergoing major changes as part of the Wellcome Collection Development Project. We will be open for business, but there will be disruptions to services and some Library areas will be temporarily closed. If you?re planning to visit the Library over the coming months, please check for updates on the Library blog where the most up-to-date information will be posted. The Library is currently open Tuesday-Saturday. For full details of our opening hours please check our website. We are a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-23 ________________________________ THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS. 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URL: From findharpreet at GMAIL.COM Sat May 24 10:33:04 2014 From: findharpreet at GMAIL.COM (Harpreet Singh) Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:03:04 +0530 Subject: Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I guess I cannot apply because Google Translate does not offer Cardassian and Bajoran services. On 5/24/14, Betsy Aldridge wrote: > Must be enthusiastic about wearing Spider-Man costume and web walking for > promotional activities. > > From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On > Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:58 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content > partnerships coordinator > > Oh and what about the Borg!!! They could teach as thing or two about > integration.... > > > Stuart Forrest PhD > Library Systems Specialist > Beaufort County Library > 843 255 6450 > sforrest at bcgov.net > > http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org > > For Liesure, For Learning, For Life > > > > From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On > Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 1:55 PM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content > partnerships coordinator > > I think you would also need someone who knows Cardassian, as well as > Bajoran. > ________________________________ > From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of > Thomas Edelblute [TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:31 PM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content > partnerships coordinator > Since it is my birthday today, I am going to have some fun with this one. > So here is my first attempt. > > Star Fleet Academy is looking for a developer of an open source library that > can be shared across the starships throughout the galaxy. Job requirements > include: > > Assimilate big data from multiple data sources including, but not limited > to, Federation, Vulcan, Klingon and Romulan sources > Organize hackdays into collecting intelligence from the Romulan empire > Digitizing starship documents for distribution to other starships > Develop a user a user interface with voice recognition and natural language > processing. > > Start with that and feel free to edit. > > Thomas Edelblute > > > From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On > Behalf Of Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:41 AM > To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Fantasy digital library job description: content > partnerships coordinator > > Hello all > > It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job > description? > > I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of > 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is > responsible for: > > - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content > with partner platforms, and managing those relationships > - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on > - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to > external stakeholders > - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring > technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc) > - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all the > digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people and > pushing open data to the broadest possible audience. > > Does this sound like anything that exists? 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Allan Vogelson Regional Branch, Voorhees, NJ Salary: 65,000.00 annually Schedule: Generally Monday through Friday, day hours, *Schedule adjusted based on Library needs Status: Pending Civil Service Procedures Description of Duties The Camden County Library System is seeking a Head of Information Technology who will oversee all aspects of IT for users and staff of our eight branch system and lead a team of six staff members. A successful candidate will be familiar with computer hardware, software, data and voice networks; have knowledge of digital, electronic, mobile and online services and their applications in a public library setting; and demonstrate a knowledge of and enthusiasm for implementation of emerging technologies. Experience maintaining or administering an ILS is a plus. Excellent communication, leadership, teamwork, organizational and management skills are a must. Specific duties of the IT manager include: ? Coordinate, oversee and direct the planning, evaluation and implementation of all aspects of technology in a multi-branch public library setting, including hardware and software, digital, electronic, mobile and online library services and emerging technologies. ? Oversees the library system?s data and voice network, Internet connectivity and wireless access. ? Co-administrator for the Integrated Library System (ILS), primarily bibliographic, authority and item record loading, systems administration, loan rule administration, software upgrades, database maintenance and system back up. ? Work with partner libraries and Camden County College Library regarding shared ILS. ? Supervise IT department staff ? Develop and monitor the IT department budget; facilitates all purchasing for IT ? Coordinate e-rate funding applications ? Serve on Library Management Team ? Involved in creation and implementation of the Library?s strategic plan and technology plan. ? Recommend changes and additions to library policy as relating to technology and IT Education: Graduation from an ALA accredited college or university with a Master's degree in Library or Information Science or from a New Jersey Master's program in Library Science that has been deemed acceptable by Thomas Edison State College. Experience: Three (3) years of professional librarian experience. A valid New Jersey professional librarian?s license is required. The successful candidate will have experience in aspects of IT as outlined above. Employment applications may be obtained at any of our branches or may be printed off our website at www.camdencountylibrary.org/employment-library. *Candidates who previously applied to this opening need not reapply, application will remain active during this process. Completed applications are due by June 17, 2014 at 2pm and should be forwarded to: Camden County Library Department of Human Resources 203 Laurel Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 or Fax: 856-772-2761 or E-mail: jdinich at camdencountylibrary.org . *Please refer to the Job Posting Number on your application; failure to submit a completed application or to indicate job posting number may be reason for your application not to be considered. We meet the learning, recreational and information needs of our customers, providing an open environment for our community. 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URL: From Imma.Subirats at FAO.ORG Tue May 27 12:36:55 2014 From: Imma.Subirats at FAO.ORG (Subirats, Imma (OPCC)) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:36:55 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures at MTSR 2014 Message-ID: ****** I apologize if you receive this message more than once! ****** - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/tracks/2-uncategorised/12-tracks-b - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part of the 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2014) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany, November 27-29, 2014 http://www.mtsr-conf.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AIM AND SCOPE The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly important aspect of scientific activity. Text publications are traditionally the main way of publishing research output and challenges still exist for their optimal recording and dissemination. Scientific communities increasingly recognise the immense significance of storing, discovering, processing, preserving and re-using data sets as well as other types of research objects like workflows and software. Furthermore, Public Sector Information, potentially valuable for research purposes, is provided openly by governments although not always in forms that enable re-use. Metadata is a critical factor in this area, actually providing the means to promote black-box digital files to discoverable and re-usable objects. Rich metadata about research output needs to be recorded and disseminated, including contextual and provenance information (for example, relationships of publications and data sets with people, organisations, funding information, facilities and equipment). For certain use cases, metadata needs to be uniformly accessed across research domains, to foster collaboration and re-use of data sets among different disciplines and vertical communities. However, the recording and utilisation of domain-specific information is also significant in many circumstances. A range of open research and technical issues have to be addressed towards these goals, while it is also recognised that international harmonisation on standards and technologies is of critical importance. The aim of this Special Track is to serve as a forum for experts to present recent results and experiences, establish liaisons with other groups and reflect on the state-of-the-art of metadata and semantic aspects of open repositories, research information systems and data infrastructures. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues: * Metadata, knowledge representation and relevant standards in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures * Semantic interoperability and information integration in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures * Application of semantic web technologies in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures * Data infrastructures (e.g. scientific data, public sector information) * Contextual and provenance metadata in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures * Metadata interoperability for data infrastructures across disciplines * Metadata quality in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures * Mechanisms, tools and infrastructures for shared services in open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures * Digital preservation workflows and mechanisms and impact on metadata * Value-added services based on open access repositories, research information systems and research infrastructures - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IMPORTANT DATES * 13 July 2014: Paper submission (PDF File formatted in Springer LNCS style) * 17 August 2014: Acceptance (or rejection) notification * 31 August 2014: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted paper * 27-29 November 2014: MTSR'14 in Karlsruhe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMISSIONS Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) reporting on either mature or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission will be available through the EasyChair subission System. If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the MTSR'14 page. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PUBLICATION The submissions to the Special Track will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the book of MTSR'12 proceedings by Springer (CCIS Series) . The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in: Scopus, EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Revised and extended versions of best papers will be published in selected international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program: Electronic library and information systems (Emerald) (list incomplete). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SPECIAL TRACK PROGRAM COMMITEE * Sophie Aubin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France * Thomas Baker, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, USA * Hugo Besemer, Wageningen UR Library, The Netherlands * Gordon Dunshire, University of Strathclyde, UK * Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Siddeswara Guru, University of Queensland, Australia * Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK * Keith Jeffery, Keith G Jeffery Consultants, UK * Rebecca Koskela, University of New Mexico, USA * Jessica Lindholm, Malm? University, Sweden * Daniela Luzi, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies - Italian National Research Council (IRPPS-CNR), Italy * Devika P. Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute, India * Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies-Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy * Natalia Manola, University of Athens, Greece * Brian Matthews, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK * Eva Mendez, University Carlos III, Spain * Joachim Sch?pfel, University of Lille, France * Jochen Schirrwagen, University of Bielefeld, Germany * Birgit Schmidt, University of G?ttingen, Germany * Panagiotis Stathopoulos, National Documentation Centre, Greece * Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece * Daniel Vila, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain * Zhong Wang, Sun-Yat-Sen University, China * Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands * Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOUT MTSR'14 The 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference will be hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 27 to 29 November, 2014. MTSR'14 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as well as applications of the semantic web and related technologies. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS * Imma Subirats Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy) * Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre (Greece) For your intention to submit a paper, or any other inquiry, contact the track chairs using or *********************************************** Imma Subirats-Coll Knowledge and Information Management Officer OEKC, FAO of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome (Italy) *********************************************** ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-27 From jtonyan at NWACC.EDU Tue May 27 12:57:44 2014 From: jtonyan at NWACC.EDU (Tonyan, Joel) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:57:44 +0000 Subject: JOB OPENING: Community College Systems Librarian Position Message-ID: Hi all, I wanted to let you know about a systems librarian position that's available at NorthWest Arkansas Community College: https://jobs.nwacc.edu/postings/4697 It's a great job for anyone who want to work with systems, provide reference assistance, and teach information literacy. Recent graduates are encouraged to apply, too. NorthWest Arkansas Community College has an FTE of nearly 5,000 students, and is located in Bentonville, Arkansas, a town that is home to Walmart and the Crystal Bridges Art Museum and within a 25-minute drive of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where the University of Arkansas is located. Northwest Arkansas is a growing area and offers plenty of job opportunities for two-income families. This position is the one I'm currently occupying. I've accepted a job at a university in Colorado, but I can say that I've loved my time here at NWACC and enthusiastically recommend this position to anyone interested in systems, whether you're a recent graduate or simply looking for a new venture. 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Greg Rewis *Other Highlights* *Captain Phonegap and the Web Avengers Cardsorting for Humanities With Drupal, Your Website is an API Design is How it Works, Prototyping UX It?s What?s Inside That Counts: Testing Content Effectiveness Web Components: Back to the Future of UI/UX Making Aural Information Accessible: Captioning as Universal Design * *What is edUi?* edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Our focus is on practical skill building in the areas of user interface and user experience. *The 2014 conference takes place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Richmond, VA.* ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-27 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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James Gilbert, BS, MLIS Systems Librarian Whitehall Township Public Library 3700 Mechanicsville Road Whitehall, PA 18052 610-432-4339 ext: 203 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wright, Jen Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:26 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Torrents and public PCs *apologies for cross posting* Are any libraries blocking access to torrent files or torrent sites due to ISP pressure or compliance requests from movie companies? Is there a standard response to these complaints that other libraries are willing to share? 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This is a great class for anyone who is interested in conducting usability testing on a lean budget and in an ongoing way. It will be useful for those who have experience conducting usability tests and would like to hone their craft, as well as those who are brand new and just want to get their feet wet. Still not convinced? Here is some feedback from students who took the class last August: * "I really enjoyed the lectures! ... was very effective and you provided a lot of information without making them feel overly long or overloaded." * "The templates for different tasks each week were very helpful and I plan to use them again. Also appreciated the focus on active learning." * "This course gave me great ideas on usability testing. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. This short course gives me hope and makes it less scary." 100% of students said they would recommend the course to others. Not too shabby. See the course overview, let me know if you have any questions (I'm happy to share the full syllabus upon request), and help me spread the word! Thanks, Rebecca Rebecca Blakiston User Experience Librarian University of Arizona Libraries blakisto at email.arizona.edu (520) 307-2834 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-05-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From waltcrawford at GMAIL.COM Wed May 28 16:57:05 2014 From: waltcrawford at GMAIL.COM (Walt Crawford) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:57:05 -0700 Subject: Cites & Insights 14:6 (June 2014) available Message-ID: Cites & Insights 14:6 (June 2014) is now available for downloading at http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i6.pdf The print-oriented two-column version is 16 pages long. You may also view or download a 32-page one-column 6x9" ereader-oriented version at http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i6on.pdf This issue includes three sections: The Front: Beyond the Damage (pp. 1-4) Libraries that subscribe to Library Technology Reports should, some time in the next few days or weeks, receive "Big-Deal Serial Purchasing: Tracking the Damage"--and academic libraries that don't subscribe to LTR may want to purchase this edition from ALA Editions. It brings last year's The Big Deal and the Damage Done forward to cover 2002-2012 and offers a tighter and more sophisticated view of the situation. (Spoiler alert: Things got worse from 2010 to 2012) Simultaneously, I'm publishing Beyond the Damage: Circulation, Coverage and Staffing, a book looking at some other aspects of academic libraries and how they changed between 2002 and 2012. It's available in two forms, each $45: a 130-page paperback with color graphs--or a site-licensed PDF ebook with precisely the same content. Easiest way to find it: go to Lulu.com and search "Crawford beyond damage" (no quotes needed)--that currently yields just the two versions. Media: Mystery Collection, part 7 (pp. 4-12) For the first time, most of these movies are in color--which doesn't necessarily mean they're better, as this is also (I believe) the first time I've given up on movies before they're finished in five out of 24 cases. There are some gems, but also some real dross here. The Back (pp. 12-16) Little snarky essays on a variety of things, not all of them entirely humorous. Next time... As previously announced, the next issue (which might be the July issue, the July/August issue, or the Summer 2014 issue) should appear some time in June and will be a single- essay issue delving into the realities behind the Beall list--including not only original research but a control group! 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Take part in our qualitative research and engage with other librarians through one of the most popular means of social communication, Twitter! Your input will help form the basis of our upcoming White Paper. Is this your first Twitter party? Here?s how to take part: Register by June 4th and sign into Twitter on the time and day above, and then search for #tfsocialmedia. You?ll instantly see the discussion and can join in by tweeting @librarylantern, using #tfsocialmedia to share your thoughts on: ? The challenges and opportunities social media presents to the library community ? Social media as a teaching tool - the role social media plays in information literacy ? User engagement & perception of using social media in the library ? Accessibility? how SNS are being promoted in the library ? Measurability - the impact of social media Everyone who registers will receive the discussion guide in advance and a small gift afterwards. 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URL: From zimmel at COLL.MPG.DE Fri May 30 08:14:15 2014 From: zimmel at COLL.MPG.DE (Daniel Zimmel) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:14:15 +0200 Subject: Touchscreen approach to JournalTocs & CrossRef Message-ID: Hi, we just released some early code for a responsive design interface to the JournalTocs and CrossRef APIs, running in our intranet on a huge touchscreen besides the "new journals" shelf. Whenever I peek around the corner, our scholars seem to enjoy it so far. If anyone is interested in contributing better code, feel free to send me a message. If the code base is too messy for you, we might still enjoy seeing forks and re-implementations of the idea. A huge problem is still getting/marking reliable updates from the APIs. Right now, we try some basic checking with the JournalTocs Premium API. Demo:? http://www.coll.mpg.de/bib/jtdemo-public/ http://bibliocoll.github.io/JournalTouch/ Best, Daniel -- Daniel Zimmel????????????????????????????? Tel. +49 228 91416-17 ? 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