From daveelvisehlert at GMAIL.COM Tue Sep 1 08:05:21 2015 From: daveelvisehlert at GMAIL.COM (Live Tribute Productions) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 07:05:21 -0500 Subject: Library Programs from the National Association of Library Performers Message-ID: *WE STILL HAVE A FEW OPEN DATES ON OUR 2015/16 BOOK & PROGRAM TOUR* > Author Visits: $250......Live Programs from $ 350 > > > We have enjoyed presenting Mark Twain, Abe Lincoln and even Elvis at over > 300 Libraries in 44 States, We are happy to announce that we have > received sponsors for 2015/2016 for our programs in North Dakota These > sponsors have made it possible to offer very low costs on any of the > following programs: > > Mark Twain, 100 Years Later > > > http://www.libraryperformersassociation.com/nonmusicshows/twainlibraryprogram.htmlAbe > Lincoln and the Civil War > > http:// > > www.libraryperformersassociation.com/nonmusicshows/lincolncivilwarprogram.html > > Music > Americana > > http:// > www.libraryperformersassociation.com/musicshows/elvissuperstars.html, > > > Author Visits: > > www.libraryperformersassociation.com > > Thanks, > Dave Ehlert > > > > National Association of Library Performers > 800-358-4795 > Cell > 417-527-1100 > > daveelvisehlert at gmail.com > www.libraryperformersassociation.com > www.bransonsuperstars.com > www.livetributeproductions.com > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.bosman at UU.NL Tue Sep 1 08:59:13 2015 From: j.bosman at UU.NL (Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:59:13 +0000 Subject: Looking for libraries wanting to help to get to know their patrons research tool usage Message-ID: Dear all, You may have heard of the global survey of scholarly communication tool usage at https://101innovations.wordpress.com/ that we are now running. With that we are charting researchers' tool usage as an expression of practices in scholarly communication. Though it is relatively successful with currently 4,000+ responses and already 40+ institutions (e.g. Cambridge, Johns Hopkins) that partner with us in distributing it in exchange for institutionally tagged data, we still do not have adequate response levels. Those levels are needed to allow for the detailed analyses (by field, country, academic position, career length etc.) we wish to be able to do. I wonder if there are any libraries out there wanting to participate in the distribution of this survey in their institution AND get the resulting tagged data for their constituency? For that we work with institutional custom-URLs: https://101innovations.wordpress.com/custom-url-option/ The results of this survey can be used by libraries to: * Reconsider tools practiced in information literacy classes * Prepare for talks with groups of faculty/PhD-students/postdocs by knowing their actual workflows before you meet them * Support licensing decisions * See how research practices in your institution compare to average country of global levels and use that knowledge in interpreting the importance general trends for your organization * Show that as a library you want to think with researchers, not for them * Find out your patrons' stance towards Open Access, Open Science and developments in scholarly communication in general If you are interested please get in contact. Kind regards, Jeroen Bosman [101-innovations-icon-very-small] 101 innovations: tools database | survey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeroen Bosman, faculty liaison for the Faculty of Geosciences 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 @jeroenbosman/ @geolibrarianUBU 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 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emorgan at ND.EDU Tue Sep 1 09:18:51 2015 From: emorgan at ND.EDU (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:18:51 -0400 Subject: code4lib chicago In-Reply-To: <58269cfa-7b9f-4149-a5a2-15d81af9d240@googlegroups.com> Message-ID: On Aug 28, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Allan Berry wrote: > The UIC Library would be happy to host the Code4Lib event, in November or early December. The folks at University of Illinois-Chicago would like to sponsor a one-day Code4Lib event, and in order to determine the best date, they are asking folks to complete the following Doodle Poll: http://doodle.com/45aukez6z6pyav62 As you may or may not know, Code4Lib is a community approximately 3,500 people strong. [1] Most of the people are from the United States, but all of them are interested in the use of computers in libraries. The community is approximately twelve years old boasting an annual meeting, a robust mailing list, a refereed open access journal, and many of the other accouterments surrounding digital groups. Code4Lib has spawned a number of regional groups. There is Code4Lib Midwest (where ever that is), Code4Lib Northwest (Seattle, etc.), Code4Lib New York City, Code4Lib BC, etc.* These regional groups get together on a periodic basis to keep in touch with each other and to offer a lesser expensive venue than the annual meeting. A Code4Lib Chicago meeting is in the process of being planned. Probably hosted by the good folks at the University of Illinois-Chicago, the event will include lighting talks, maybe a presentation or two, maybe some hack sessions, but most importantly, opportunities to discuss the use of computers in libraries. Everybody is welcome. It is not necessary about PHP, XML, nor Linux. It is about libraries and librarianship. For example, want to learn how various Javascript libraries could enhance your library?s Web presence? Come to Chicago. If you think you may want to attend a one-day event like this in Chicago, then please complete the Doodle Poll so things can be planned accordingly. Consider also joining the ChiCode4Lib mailing list. [2] [1] Code4Lib - http://code4lib.org [2] ChiCode4Lib - https://groups.google.com/d/forum/chicode4lib * There are also Cod4Lib meetings where fish is the main attraction, but that is another story. ? 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Have you studied your statistics, run user or usability studies, tried an assortment of marketing techniques? Have you created partnerships or worked with specific groups? Gone "where no library has gone before?" Your experiences could help other libraries - public, academic, and special libraries. Online conference sessions will run 45 minutes each throughout the day. If you are interested in presenting, complete and submit this call for proposals form. We will contact you soon after the deadline of September 21st. Never presented online before? There is no need to worry. We will help you prepare and support you as you present. If you have questions, contact Christine Peterson at 800-843-8482 ext 2891 or peterson at amigos.org. 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Responsibilities: Reporting to the Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services (CMS), the Humanities Data Curator has primary responsibility for the planning, implementation, and ongoing production of digital collections and scholarly initiatives in support of digital humanities scholarship and artistic production on campus to ensure their high functionality and discoverability through the flow and lifecycle of digital research data. As part of an evolving team of Data Curators, the candidate will be expected to make substantial contributions to his/her primary area of responsibility as well as to collaborate with other members of this team. The Humanities Data Curator is responsible for collecting, managing, curating, preserving, and providing access to digital humanities datasets and other digital collections in the Library. The candidate actively manages data produced by humanities scholars on campus, as well as data acquired by the Library, and ensures ongoing sustainable preservation and access through metadata creation and data discovery tools development. The candidate participates in the development, evaluation, education, and implementation of metadata policies, standards, goals, procedures, and workflows in cooperation with engaged campus stakeholders. The Humanities Data Curator will create and implement the Library?s support plan for digital humanities researchers and provide research data consultation to campus data creators. S/he will understand the ways in which humanities scholars conduct research in this new era of data sharing, including using new computational methods of analysis (for example, text-mining, topic modeling, social network analysis, or mapping and visualization). In collaboration with humanities subject librarians and other data curators in the library, the Humanities Data Curator will provide leadership to define the library's strategy as it transforms research data services. S/he will engage relevant faculty and researchers and will collaboratively provide services that are scalable to each data set, promote the Library?s digital humanities research data services, and educate data users and producers of datasets on campus. The Humanities Data Curator will contribute to local, regional, and national digital humanities discussions and initiatives. Qualifications: Required: - ALA accredited MLS or equivalent experience in one or more fields relevant to library services in data curation. - Significant relevant experience working with digital humanities projects. - Demonstrated knowledge of issues and technical challenges related to data curation, including format migration, preservation, metadata, data access (including open access). - Working Knowledge or advanced training with XML metadata. - Knowledge of metadata standards, such as TEI and EAD, and data management practices in humanities. - Familiarity with common content-management-system platforms used by humanities data creators such as WordPress and Omeka. - An understanding of the humanities research process as demonstrated by academic or work experience. - Ability to work independently and collaboratively, prioritizing work to ensure that departmental and library goals are realized. - Excellent organizational skills, proven problem solving ability, and flexibility. - Demonstrated initiative in fostering new ideas and in implementing change. - xcellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Preferred: - Advanced degree in humanities or related field. - Experience with digital preservation standards and best practices, and digital rights management. - Experience with scholarly repository platforms and relevant data manipulation tools. - Prior experience in data visualization and/or data-mining. - Working knowledge in intellectual property issues (including Creative Commons licensing). - Working knowledge of Linked Data principles and scripting languages, such as Perl, PHP, and XSLT, and APIs. SALARY AND BENEFITS Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Librarians at the University of California, Santa Barbara are professional academic appointees who accrue vacation at the rate of two days per month and sick leave at the rate of one day per month. The University has an excellent retirement system which is coordinated with Social Security. A selection of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans are offered by the University. The incumbent will be a member of the LX Collective Bargaining Unit represented by the American Federation of Teachers. TO APPLY: ? This position will remain open until filled with primary consideration of applications received by October 16, 2015. ? Applications will be accepted online through UC Recruit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00529. ? Public URL ? This URL can be used to link directly to the listing for your recruitment. You can use this URL in job ads, postings, electronic mailings, and links on other websites. ? Help for UC Recruit is available at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/help/applicants. ? For additional assistance, contact Ryan George with Library Human Resources at (805) 893-3841 or rgeorge at library.ucsb.edu. ? Appointment and/or continued employment is contingent on successful completion of a background check. The Library is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through work, research, and service. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities. ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srotenberg at GMAIL.COM Tue Sep 1 20:30:38 2015 From: srotenberg at GMAIL.COM (sandra rotenberg) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:30:38 -0700 Subject: Does anyone else get Salem Press Research Starters as part of their EBSCO packages? Message-ID: I have recently been working with their research starters because they are showing up at the top of our results in our new discovery layer. At first I was having issues because some of their images are broken and one of the people I was working with to troubleshoot the problem pointed me at the Barack Obama entry - and my first thought was that the picture they use for him is super old, and that started me looking into the issue. I think that Salem Press's entry on Barack Obama, when contrasted with their entry on George W. Bush, is problematic. I admit that I haven't searched other topics for similar problems - school just started and I have been busy but I hope others take this up if it seems worth it. Many of our students are told to use our resources as they are better than the open web, but I am wondering about that right now. Here is my letter to Salem Press: Hi, > > I am a librarian at a community college in California and your content is > included in one of our databases. I am including WEB4LIB in this email > because I would like to get a discussion going of this among librarians > who make up your customer base. > > > > I was looking at some of your research starters for a class I am teaching > and looked at the one on Barack Obama. I have to say that having his > picture in the entry be one from 2005, before he was President, and > identifying him as a Senator in the caption ? > > > ? > > when your entry on G.W. Bush is of him as President with a description of > his presidency in a very positive tone, seems racist to me. > > > ? > > Just the caption for his picture contains more positive information than > the whole description of Obama?s first term ? where is a discussion of the > stimulus or saving the automobile industry or even the banking industry?: > > *Obama took office as the United States? first African American president > amid a vast array of economic, social, and international challenges. He was > awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that year in recognition of his ?efforts to > strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.? The > award stirred controversy, since America remained heavily involved in two > wars, and the Nobel committee was criticized by some for acting prematurely > to honor a president mere months into his term. The committee, however, > argued that Obama had ?captured the world?s attention and given its people > hope for a better future.? Obama?s first term as president saw him sign the > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act > > (also known as Obamacare) into law on March 23, 2010, as well.* > > > > Here is your description of Bush?s first term: > > *"Although Bush emphasized cooperation between Democrats and Republicans > and vowed to heal the divisions caused by the controversial election, many > of his critics still doubted the validity of his presidency when he was > inaugurated on January 20, 2001. The occasion marked the first time since > the administrations of John Adams > > (1797?1801) and John Quincy Adams > > (1825?1829) that both a father and son have been elected president.* > > *During his first several months in office, Bush worked with a Democratic > majority in Congress to get his tax cut proposal passed. He was criticized > for his proposal to expand oil exploration in protected nature reserves > > in Alaska, as well as for his decision to withdraw from the 1972 ABM > (antiballistic missile) arms control > > treaty. However, the biggest test of his administration came following the > terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. During the attacks, terrorists > hijacked four commercial jet airliners from US airports, crashing one plane > into each of the two World Trade Center towers in New York City and a third > into the Pentagon building in Washington DC, the headquarters of the US > Department of Defense. A fourth plane, later determined to be headed for > the White House > , > crash landed in Shanksville > , > Pennsylvania. Of the passengers on board the planes, nobody survived. The > two World Trade Center towers collapse within an hour and a half of the > initial impact. In addition, the Pentagon building sustained significant > damage, and the country was gripped with a sense of nationwide panic. 2,998 > people, both Americans and foreign nationals, were killed as a result of > the 9/11 attacks and over six thousand were injured.* > > *President Bush declared the attacks on the United States to be an act of > war, and in response his administration launched the "global war on > terror," which aimed to destroy terrorist enclaves worldwide and declared > as a hostile entity any nation that knowingly harbored terrorist groups. > Investigations and intelligence reviews following the attacks determined > that they were conducted by the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist > organization known as al Qaeda, led by Saudi Arabian exile Osama bin Laden > . > Intelligence reports confirmed that the group had trained in areas of > Afghanistan, under the auspice of that country's Islamic fundamentalist > government, known as the Taliban.* > > *In October 2001, Bush ordered the US military to launch air strikes in > Afghanistan. The military campaign toppled the Taliban regime, removing > them as the country's central governing power. Although the military also > targeted various al Qaeda camps, the US military failed to capture or kill > bin Laden. Nonetheless, the operation received widespread support in the US > and abroad. Additionally, President Bush established the federal Office of > Homeland Security.* > > *As the war in Afghanistan > > progressed, President Bush's approval rating in the US soared. However, > America had entered an economic recession, and critics of the Bush > administration began to accuse the White House of violating civil rights in > implementing certain antiterrorism measures.* > > *Beginning in 2002, the Bush administration began to turn its attention to > the nation of Iraq, led at the time by dictator Saddam Hussein > . > For over a year, President Bush and administration officials presented > pieces of evidence it claimed proved that Hussein was developing and > producing biological and chemical weapons in Iraq, also known as weapons of > mass destruction > > (WMD).* > > *The Bush administration's accusations regarding Iraq's weapons of mass > destruction resulted in a series of United Nations resolutions aimed at > establishing a rigorous schedule of weapons inspections in the country. > However, Saddam Hussein continued to wrangle with inspections, eventually > rejecting their entry into the country, and continued to deny the existence > of WMD.* > > *In February 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the UN > Security Council, presenting the Bush administration's evidence of WMD in > Iraq and urging the organization to support a US-led invasion. Powell's > request was not approved by a majority of the council, and UN Security > approval of military action against Iraq was not granted. The governments > of France and Germany publicly stated their opposition to any unsanctioned > military invasion of Iraq.* > > *Nonetheless, a US-led full-scale military invasion of Iraq began on March > 20, 2003. Hussein was captured by US forces in December of 2003, and > subsequently executed by the newly established Iraq government after being > convicted of war crimes.* > > *Although the Hussein government was swiftly toppled, the invasion of Iraq > resulted in a power vacuum in the country that pitted Sunni Muslim militias > against Shiite militias. In addition, forces loyal to the Hussein > government implemented numerous guerilla warfare tactics against US and > coalition forces. Over four thousand American troops and hundreds of > coalition forces were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012. Military > activity in the country and the subsequent civil strife that followed has > resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and resulted > in the exile of hundreds of thousands of civilians who fled the violence.* > > *President Bush was reelected in 2004, defeating Democratic Party > candidate Senator John Kerry > . > Unlike the 2000 presidential election, Bush won 3.5 million more popular > votes than his opposing candidate."* > > > > And the article in question was written in 2011, long after Obama was > elected President, and the article was obviously updated fairly recently as > it contains the following dismissive description of Obama?s second term, > with no mention of any of his other impressive accomplishments. > > *The first half of Obama's second term focused primarily on US domestic > issues, especially in relation to gun control following the December 2012 > Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting > > in which twenty children and six school employees were fatally shot by one > gunman. Obama also advocated for the US Supreme Court to overturn as > unconstitutional the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act > > and California's 2008 Proposition 8, both of which opposed same-sex > marriage, and he championed equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, > and transgendered (LGBT) communities. In September 2014, Obama announced in > a speech before the United Nations General Assembly that the United States > would be taking the lead in responding to such global crises and conflicts > as the Ebola virus > > outbreak in West Africa and Russian aggression in the Ukraine. He also > stated his administration's intent to dismantle the so-called Islamic State > (a militant extremist group also known as ISIL) and called on the rest of > the world to join America in training and equipping soldiers to fight the > terrorist organization.* > > Your description of Bush?s second term is similarly 4 paragraphs, 3 of > them fairly long. It contains no mention in either section of Hurricane > Katrina and his administration?s bungling of the relief efforts in > Louisiana and New Orleans. And while it says he faced some problems, it > basically leaves a positive impression. I am having a hard time trusting > your content for our students given this example. > The copyright notice for the Obama entry is: "Copyright of *Salem Press > Biographical Encyclopedia* is the property of Salem Press. The copyright > in an individual article may be maintained by the author in certain cases. > Content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a > listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. > However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. > Source: Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, January, 2014, 3p Item: > 86193733" > For Bush it is: "Copyright of *Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia* is > the property of Salem Press. The copyright in an individual article may be > maintained by the author in certain cases. Content may not be copied or > emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright > holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or > email articles for individual use. Source: Salem Press Biographical > Encyclopedia, January, 2013, 4p > Item: 86193751" > Sincerely, *Sandy Rotenberg* *a Librarian * *@ Solano Community College* *4000 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield, CA 94534* *(707)864-7243, sandra.rotenberg at solano.edu * *"**Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.**"* --Pete Seeger -- *Sandy Smith Rotenberg* ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The UA Libraries digitally preserves collections of rare and unique research resources housed in the Libraries? Division of Special Collections. The University of Alabama Libraries is interested in digital preservation of both digitized and born digital special collections, university records, and research data,? explained Jody DeRidder, Head of Metadata and Digital Services, UA Libraries. OPF is a leader in this area and by joining OPF we believe we will be able to leverage the collective wisdom of the OPF community. Additionally, OPF?s stewardship of important digital preservation-related tools such as JHOVE is extremely important for digital preservationists and we wanted to help support these efforts,? said Edward Corrado, Associate Dean, Library Technology Planning and Policy, UA Libraries. We are very pleased to welcome The University of Alabama Libraries to our membership,? comments Ed Fay, Executive Director of OPF. ?They have a unique digital collection and have been developing digital preservation practices for some time. Their knowledge and experience will enhance the shared activities of our members and we look forward to collaborating with them?. UA Libraries joins OPF members from archives, libraries, research institutions, universities, and service providers collaborating on shared solutions for effective and efficient digital preservation. For more information about The University of Alabama Libraries visit: https://www.lib.ua.edu/. To find out more about the benefits of becoming an OPF member and how to join visit: http://openpreservation.org/about/join/. -- Becky McGuinness | Community Manager @openpreserve | Skype: becky.mcguinness1 *Open Preservation Foundation* *http://openpreservation.org/ * ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-02 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From william.helman at GMAIL.COM Wed Sep 2 07:45:48 2015 From: william.helman at GMAIL.COM (William Helman) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 07:45:48 -0400 Subject: Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems In-Reply-To: <305C8C99-D984-467B-AF4E-C5919E84F144@ucmail.uc.edu> Message-ID: Just wanted to thank all of you for reading my director's mind - I just got tasked with answering this very question. I've noted all the suggestions so far in the thread, and look forward to checking them out, but I just wanted to bump this conversation back up to the top and ask if anyone out there has other products not yet mentioned that they really like for room reservations? In particular we're very interested in developing a system that is as un-mediated by staff / self serve as possible. Thanks, -Bill (IT Librarian. Towson University, Towson, MD) open mailbox, take leaflet, read it http://whelman.com | http://about.me/williamhelman | http://twitter.com/thinkpol -- On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) < haitzlm at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > We have used Calcium Calendar from the same company as iCal for several > years. Their support is excellent. > > We use the calendar for our library hours (the system generates and RSS > feed), student scheduling and room scheduling . > > Lisa Haitz > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Mary Carleton wrote: > > Some Libraries get good results with iCal: > https://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalpage.html > > tho mine uses Evanced, very happily. > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Bolek, Sandy < > Sandy.Bolek at cincinnatilibrary.org> wrote: > >> Glad to see this question. Our library system is also interested in >> knowing if there are any viable Evanced alternatives. >> >> >> >> Sandy Bolek >> >> >> >> >> >> ******************************************************* >> >> Sandy Bolek >> >> Digital Development Team Lead, Marketing Department >> >> Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County >> >> 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati OH 45202 >> >> 513-369-3172 >> >> www.cincinnatilibrary.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On >> Behalf Of *Langlois, Rachel >> *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:14 AM >> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems >> >> >> >> Good morning, >> >> >> >> We are currently seeking an alternative to our Meeting Room software. We >> have multiple branches, receive online payments, and require flexibility >> with the system so that we may set up acknowledgement policies etc. >> >> >> >> Do any of your library systems have a web-based solution other than >> Evanced? >> >> >> >> Thank you in advance! >> >> >> >> Respectfully, >> >> >> >> Rachel S. Langlois >> >> >> >> *Rachel* *Langlois* | *Virtual Services Librarian* >> >> Library - Main - Technical Services | New Hanover County >> >> 201 Chestnut Street >> >> Wilmington, NC 28401 >> >> (910) 798-6331 p | (910) 256-1238 f >> >> >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2015-08-27 >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2015-08-27 >> > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-08-27 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-08-27 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-02 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edward.sanchez at MARQUETTE.EDU Wed Sep 2 08:38:30 2015 From: edward.sanchez at MARQUETTE.EDU (Sanchez, Edward) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:38:30 +0000 Subject: Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Bill, LibCal from Springshare works well for unmediated reservation of group study rooms here at Marquette. It integrates well with Active Directory and uses responsive web design so the mobile version is heavily used. Our students make several thousand reservations per semester. Best of luck, Ed Edward Sanchez Head, Library Information Technology Marquette University 1355 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53201 W: 414-288-6043 M: 414-839-9569 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Helman Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:46 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems Just wanted to thank all of you for reading my director's mind - I just got tasked with answering this very question. I've noted all the suggestions so far in the thread, and look forward to checking them out, but I just wanted to bump this conversation back up to the top and ask if anyone out there has other products not yet mentioned that they really like for room reservations? In particular we're very interested in developing a system that is as un-mediated by staff / self serve as possible. Thanks, -Bill (IT Librarian. Towson University, Towson, MD) open mailbox, take leaflet, read it http://whelman.com | http://about.me/williamhelman | http://twitter.com/thinkpol -- On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) > wrote: We have used Calcium Calendar from the same company as iCal for several years. Their support is excellent. We use the calendar for our library hours (the system generates and RSS feed), student scheduling and room scheduling . Lisa Haitz Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Mary Carleton > wrote: Some Libraries get good results with iCal: https://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalpage.html tho mine uses Evanced, very happily. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Bolek, Sandy > wrote: Glad to see this question. Our library system is also interested in knowing if there are any viable Evanced alternatives. Sandy Bolek ******************************************************* Sandy Bolek Digital Development Team Lead, Marketing Department Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati OH 45202 513-369-3172 www.cincinnatilibrary.org From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Langlois, Rachel Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:14 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems Good morning, We are currently seeking an alternative to our Meeting Room software. We have multiple branches, receive online payments, and require flexibility with the system so that we may set up acknowledgement policies etc. Do any of your library systems have a web-based solution other than Evanced? Thank you in advance! Respectfully, Rachel S. 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URL: From alan.cockerill at JCU.EDU.AU Wed Sep 2 09:41:17 2015 From: alan.cockerill at JCU.EDU.AU (Cockerill, Alan) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 13:41:17 +0000 Subject: Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We're using MRBS on a local VM with LDAP auth. Gives me very little grief. Unmediated bookings. Simple rules for booking length and frequency. But no payments. Http://librarybooking-01.jcu.edu.au Sent from my iPad On 2 Sep 2015, at 9:47 pm, William Helman > wrote: Just wanted to thank all of you for reading my director's mind - I just got tasked with answering this very question. I've noted all the suggestions so far in the thread, and look forward to checking them out, but I just wanted to bump this conversation back up to the top and ask if anyone out there has other products not yet mentioned that they really like for room reservations? In particular we're very interested in developing a system that is as un-mediated by staff / self serve as possible. Thanks, -Bill (IT Librarian. Towson University, Towson, MD) open mailbox, take leaflet, read it http://whelman.com | http://about.me/williamhelman | http://twitter.com/thinkpol -- On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) > wrote: We have used Calcium Calendar from the same company as iCal for several years. Their support is excellent. We use the calendar for our library hours (the system generates and RSS feed), student scheduling and room scheduling . Lisa Haitz Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Mary Carleton > wrote: Some Libraries get good results with iCal: https://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalpage.html tho mine uses Evanced, very happily. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Bolek, Sandy > wrote: Glad to see this question. Our library system is also interested in knowing if there are any viable Evanced alternatives. Sandy Bolek ******************************************************* Sandy Bolek Digital Development Team Lead, Marketing Department Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati OH 45202 513-369-3172 www.cincinnatilibrary.org From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Langlois, Rachel Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:14 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems Good morning, We are currently seeking an alternative to our Meeting Room software. We have multiple branches, receive online payments, and require flexibility with the system so that we may set up acknowledgement policies etc. Do any of your library systems have a web-based solution other than Evanced? Thank you in advance! Respectfully, Rachel S. 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URL: From mtdohert at VCU.EDU Wed Sep 2 10:27:27 2015 From: mtdohert at VCU.EDU (Teresa Doherty) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:27:27 -0400 Subject: Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Bill, We've been using OpenRoom , as crafted by Ball State University Libraries and tweaked by our Digital Technologies folks, for almost 5 years now. It's open source and after initial set up, pretty much runs itself. Students (and faculty and staff, if they wish) use the online reservation system (also available on our mobile app) to reserve one of our 30-ish (soon to be 60-ish) study rooms. No public services staff mediation needed, no keys are checked out, patrons self-regulate and seem very happy about it. We set the policies (how many hours per reservation, how many reservations per week, how far into the future can reservations be made, etc.); email notifications are sent, reservations can be cancelled, everyone is happy. Good luck in your search for the system which fits your needs best! Teresa On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:45 AM, William Helman wrote: > Just wanted to thank all of you for reading my director's mind - I just > got tasked with answering this very question. I've noted all the > suggestions so far in the thread, and look forward to checking them out, > but I just wanted to bump this conversation back up to the top and ask if > anyone out there has other products not yet mentioned that they really like > for room reservations? > > In particular we're very interested in developing a system that is as > un-mediated by staff / self serve as possible. > > Thanks, > > -Bill (IT Librarian. Towson University, Towson, MD) > > > open mailbox, take leaflet, read it > http://whelman.com | http://about.me/williamhelman | > http://twitter.com/thinkpol > -- > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) < > haitzlm at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > >> We have used Calcium Calendar from the same company as iCal for several >> years. Their support is excellent. >> >> We use the calendar for our library hours (the system generates and RSS >> feed), student scheduling and room scheduling . >> >> Lisa Haitz >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Mary Carleton wrote: >> >> Some Libraries get good results with iCal: >> https://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalpage.html >> >> tho mine uses Evanced, very happily. >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Bolek, Sandy < >> Sandy.Bolek at cincinnatilibrary.org> wrote: >> >>> Glad to see this question. Our library system is also interested in >>> knowing if there are any viable Evanced alternatives. >>> >>> >>> >>> Sandy Bolek >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ******************************************************* >>> >>> Sandy Bolek >>> >>> Digital Development Team Lead, Marketing Department >>> >>> Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County >>> >>> 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati OH 45202 >>> >>> 513-369-3172 >>> >>> www.cincinnatilibrary.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On >>> Behalf Of *Langlois, Rachel >>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:14 AM >>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU >>> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Event/Meeting Room Booking Software Systems >>> >>> >>> >>> Good morning, >>> >>> >>> >>> We are currently seeking an alternative to our Meeting Room software. We >>> have multiple branches, receive online payments, and require flexibility >>> with the system so that we may set up acknowledgement policies etc. >>> >>> >>> >>> Do any of your library systems have a web-based solution other than >>> Evanced? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you in advance! >>> >>> >>> >>> Respectfully, >>> >>> >>> >>> Rachel S. Langlois >>> >>> >>> >>> *Rachel* *Langlois* | *Virtual Services Librarian* >>> >>> Library - Main - Technical Services | New Hanover County >>> >>> 201 Chestnut Street >>> >>> Wilmington, NC 28401 >>> >>> (910) 798-6331 p | (910) 256-1238 f >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================ >>> >>> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >>> >>> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >>> >>> 2015-08-27 >>> ============================ >>> >>> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >>> >>> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >>> >>> 2015-08-27 >>> >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2015-08-27 >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2015-08-27 >> > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-02 > -- M. 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The session will take place on the 18th of September 2015 - 11:00 Rome Time [3] and will be presented by Effie Tsiflidou, librarian archivist and part of the AGRIS Data Processing Unit of Agro-Know [4]. ABOUT THE WEBINAR The aim of the webinar is to present the new online service desk [5] powered by AKstem service [6] that facilitates the submission of AGRIS data provider's collections to AGRIS, providing an improved interaction with AGRIS data processing unit. Additionally, in this webinar we are presenting the ways and methods that AGRIS data providers can contribute their bibliographic information (metadata) to AGRIS. The webinar is addressing to both new and old AGRIS data providers, as it will be an opportunity to gain a better understanding on the new service and its functionalities. REGISTRATION The session is open to anyone but places are limited. 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We are considering the expansion of our public internet services to include Skype, web cams and a facility to download music. In doing this, are there difficulties or challenges for which we should plan? Generally, is there a demand for these services? I would appreciate any advice. Regards John John Fitzgibbon Executive Librarian w: www.galwaylibrary.ie ##################################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned for content and cleared by MailMarshal Hosted at Galway County Council Is ? MailMarshal, Arna ?st?il ag Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe, a rinne an teachtaireacht r?omhphoist seo a scanadh agus a ghlanadh ? thaobh ?bhair de. Correspondence is welcome in Irish or in English. T? m?le f?ilte roimh chomhfhreagras i nGaeilge n? i mB?arla. T? eolas at? pr?obh?ideach agus r?nda sa r?omhphost seo agus in aon iat?n a ghabhann leis agus is don seola? amh?in ?. 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One student had an assignment what seemed to require Skype, but I don't recall the details. I know we were all surprised at the request. I would imagine students could use Skype for oral presentations if they are unable to get to class and do not have internet access from home. The issue for us in our library is noise. Many of our students require complete silence and any kind of chat would probably draw complaints. However, I was surprised to find that several college libraries have installed cell phone booths. These don't take up much space and are "almost completely sound proof." "The Phone Booth Is Back -- Minus the Phone." *Fox News*. 4 Dec. 2004. Reports "restaurants and libraries across the country are installing cell- phone booths to give Americans peace from annoying chatter ? and the privacy to make a call." Middlebury College Bentley University Library Montclair Art Museum and Bloomfield College Library San Diego Mesa College - there are* 5 booths *with video playback equipment (doesn't say they are repurposed phone booths, but they could be) UMass Amherst Libraries have cell phone booths (see directory of services and floor directory ) Skirboll, Aaron."Enjoy the Silence." *The Morning News *. N.d. - *Love* the graphic. Phone booths could be set up for recording and Skyping. Teresa Ashley --------------------------------------------------------- Teresa K. Ashley, Faculty, Librarian (Professor) Northridge Campus Library Austin Community College 11928 Stonehollow Drive, Austin, TX 78758-3101 512.223.4742 | tashley (at) austincc (dot) edu 2015-09-04 4:35 GMT-05:00 John Fitzgibbon : > Hi, > > > > We are in the process of compiling our development plan. We are > considering the expansion of our public internet services to include Skype, > web cams and a facility to download music. > > > > In doing this, are there difficulties or challenges for which we should > plan? Generally, is there a demand for these services? > > > > I would appreciate any advice. > > > > Regards > > John > > > > John Fitzgibbon > > Executive Librarian > > > > w: www.galwaylibrary.ie > > > > ------------------------------ > > This e-mail message has been scanned for content and cleared by > MailMarshal Hosted at Galway County Council > T? an teachtaireacht r?omhphoist seo scan?ilte d??bhar agus glanta ag > MailMarshal at? ?st?lta i gComhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe. > > Correspondance is welcome in Irish or in English. > > T? m?le f?ilte roimh chomhfhreagras i nGaeilge n? i mB?arla. > > T? eolas at? pr?obh?ideach agus r?nda sa r?omhphost seo agus aon iat?n a > ghabhann leis agus is leis an duine/na daoine sin amh?in a bhfuil siad > seolta chucu a bhaineann siad. 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Since 2014, this priority has gaining momentum with the Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN). However, typical small and medium-size institutions have to deal with constrained resources, which often hamper their possibilities for making their data publicly available. This webinar will be of interest to any institution seeking ways to publish and curate data in the Linked Data World. Keizer and Caracciolo will provide an overview of bottlenecks that institutions typically face when entering the world of open and linked data, and will provide recommendations on how to proceed. They will also discuss the use of standard and linked vocabularies to produce linked data, especially in the area of agriculture. They will describe AGRISAs, a web-based resource linking agricultural datasets as an example of linked data application resulting from the collaboration of small institutions. They will also mention AgriDrupal, a Drupal distribution that supports the production and consumption of linked datasets. *Redux:* *An update of a webinar first presented in 2013*. *ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:* *Johannes Keizer* has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN since 1998, primarily as head of the FAO documentation group. The bibliographic database AGRIS and the multilingual concept scheme AGROVOC were completely remodeled under his leadership. In the Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extensions, he heads a staff of 20?the AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services) team which provides standards, tools, and advice for FAO stakeholders. The AIMS Team provides the technical backbone for the global Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Initiative. 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This book will look at case studies from a variety of libraries focusing on how they make large technology purchases as well as their guiding principles. Certain questions are likely to be focused on. ? Are they only allowed to use certain vendors? ? Is it necessary to go though a formal RFP process? ? How do you build consensus? ? Where does the money come from? ? How will you sustain these purchases? In this way it is hoped that lessons can be learned from institutions that have successfully completed the purchasing of technology as well as those that had challenges. Objective of the Book This book will be a compilation of case studies that will be a resource for libraries as they pursue the purchase of technology as part of their strategic goals. The hope is that this will be a framework of what other libraries have done leading to savings in time and money. Target Audience Librarians and staff involved in the purchase of technology for their libraries. Additionally students in Library School seeking top see what awaits them. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: Contributors are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics relating to Technology Acquisition and Funding - The RFP Process - Budget allocations for technology - Funding technology through grants - Funding non traditional technology projects - Approaches to technology planning Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 15, 2015, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2015 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 28, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference,? ?Business Science Reference,? and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2011. Important Dates October 15, 2015: Proposal Submission Deadline December 15, 2015: Notification of Acceptance February 28, 2016: Full Chapter Submission April 30, 2016: ? ? Review Results Returned May 30, 2016: Final Chapter Submission August 15, 2016: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Edward Iglesias Burritt Library Central Connecticut State University 1615 Stanley Street PO Box 4010, New Britain, CT 06050 Tel.: (860) 832 - 2082 E-mail: ?edwardiglesias at gmail.com ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From artprofessor at GMAIL.COM Fri Sep 11 00:32:28 2015 From: artprofessor at GMAIL.COM (valerie colston) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:32:28 -0700 Subject: Graphic Design for Librarians 12 TLEUs Online Workshop Message-ID: http://www.artmuseums.com/graphicdesign.htm Starts September 14th. Four week online workshop. Access 24/7 Interactive Forums $59 per participant. Library Invoices Accepted. Learn the tips that the professionals do for creating quality looking flyers, announcements, displays, and other tasks that you do as a media specialist, librarian, school librarian, technical staff, library student or volunteer. This class is specifically designed for those working in the public, school or other library setting. No prior experience needed. The class is good for beginners and those with graphic design skills. Enroll at http://www.artmuseums.com/graphicdesign.htm Approved for 12 TLEUs All Librarians, Staff, and Library Students, and Volunteers welcomed in the class. Class starts September 14 Online Format (4 Week workshop) What are librarians who have taken the workshops saying about the class? "I found the section on fonts particularly informative. . .The information on fonts was most helpful." "It really does help to see how others lay things out and what the possibilities are not just for posters, but for calendars, business cards, letters, and brochures. All of these are things that I have been called on to create at some point or another." "The links to the templates and the link to the free graphic design software was particularly helpful" "Overall, the visual examples and the links to resources have been the most helpful to me. The exercise of creating a flyer from scratch was eye-opening and enjoyable. . ." "The video clips were clear and informative." "I have enjoyed the class and have learned quite a bit." "I have already started using what I learned in creating at least a 1/2 doz new flyers for our programs during the last few weeks! What is so satisfying is that people are noticing that the flyers are a lot more interesting to look at and I have gotten several compliments on them (yeah!)" Learn art fundamentals that will help you create effective design projects. Through illustrated lectures, hands-on assignments, and discussion groups you will explore basic principle and design elements, attention grabbers, and tips for creating the layout, font, and content techniques you want to project. Enroll at http://www.artmuseums.com/graphicdesign.htm Library Invoices Accepted ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-11 From mvanhouten at ALBION.EDU Fri Sep 11 09:42:33 2015 From: mvanhouten at ALBION.EDU (Michael VanHouten) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:42:33 -0400 Subject: Job Posting: Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian at Albion College Message-ID: ?Link for full posting: http://tinyurl.com/AlbionWebServicesLibrarian Albion College is seeking a user-oriented, highly skilled professional as its Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian. This librarian has overall responsibility for leading a team effort to provide high quality information discovery systems that support teaching and learning across campus. The Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian will provide leadership and share responsibility for planning, implementing, and maintaining the Library website, and other digital systems and services through which Library patrons locate information. The Librarian will work closely with members of the Library and College staff to plan and support digital records management initiatives and repository systems. This librarian has overall responsibility for the installation, maintenance, and enhancement of the library's integrated library system (currently Innovative Interfaces Sierra), which functions as a shared system with the Albion District Library. Qualifications Include: Masters degree in library or information science from an ALA accredited graduate program Significant knowledge of integrated library systems, with special reference to Innovative Interfaces Sierra system Proficiency in web authoring, information presentation and organization Experience with web technologies to deliver information resources and external content, such as CSS, HTML, PGSQL, WordPress, Islandora, LibGuides, LAMP Stack, Omeka and/or Joomla Knowledge of technologies for digital libraries, such as OpenURL, Dublin Core, MARC, APIs and/or linked data Significant knowledge of library operations, services and emerging technologies and practices Demonstrated problem-solving and creativity in using technology to advance information discovery, teaching, learning, and organizational effectiveness Send cover letter, resume and the names of three references including contact information. Applications received by September 28, 2015 will receive preferred consideration. The position will remain open until filled. Application materials should be submitted electronically to mvanhouten at albion.edu or Michael Van Houten Library Co-Director Albion College Library 602 E. Cass Street Albion, MI 49224 ? -- Michael Van Houten Library Co-Director Albion College Library 602 E. Cass St. Albion, MI 49224 517-629-0293 mvanhouten at albion.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This position works both independently and in a collaborative environment to educate the USU community about the use and creation of digital resources and opportunities with particular emphasis on the IR and USU?s Digital Library. This will include promoting DigitalCommons at USU as a repository and both the IR and Digital Library as integrated tools in the research and teaching activities across the USU campuses. This position also contributes to efforts to raise awareness of related issues such as open access, open educational resources, data management, and copyright. Responsibilities: ? Develop and implement scholarly communication programs and initiatives. ? Build and maintain collaborative partnerships with research and administrative units on campus. ? Promote and support USU?s Open Access Policy and data management efforts across campus. ? Manage the development of and coordinate outreach in support of DigitalCommons at USU. ? Promote the use of library resources as digital scholarship and support library efforts to integrate these resources into the curriculum. ? Work collaboratively across the Library to identify and promote digital tools to enhance research and teaching. ? Serve as a subject librarian to one or more academic disciplines. Required Qualifications: ? ALA-accredited Masters degree (awarded or near complete) ? Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills, including listening, writing and speaking ? Ability to work effectively with various university stakeholders ? Knowledge of current trends and issues in scholarly communication, digital publishing and preservation, and data management ? Demonstrated problem solving skills ? Ability to set and follow through on both individual and team priorities ? Interest in learning new technologies and working in a dynamic environment ? Excellent analytical, organizational, and time management skills ? Ability to meet the university's requirements for promotion and tenure Preferred Qualifications: ? Project management experience ? Experience in an academic library setting ? Familiarity with copyright law, specifically fair use and library exemptions ? Familiarity with repository platforms Salary is $40,000, plus excellent benefits. Utah State University offers a competitive benefits package, to include medical and dental with a 14.2% retirement contribution by the University, and 22 days/year vacation. The Library provides generous support for professional development and travel. Review of applications will begin on October 4, 2015 and the position will remain open until filled. Apply online at: https://usu.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobid=728 _________________ Britt Fagerheim Head of Reference and Instruction Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 435-797-2643 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From artprofessor at GMAIL.COM Sat Sep 12 20:55:59 2015 From: artprofessor at GMAIL.COM (valerie colston) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:55:59 -0700 Subject: Still time to enroll for Monday 12 LEU Maker Spaces Programming for Librarians Online Workshop Message-ID: Join other librarians who have completed this 4 week online workshop that outlines what you need to create a Maker Space and Maker Space Programming for your Library, Programming Ideas, Safety Issues and Funding are discussed. Enroll at http://www.artmuseums.com/makerspace.htm Library Invoices Accepted Making Maker Space Programming is design for Librarians an approved for 12 LEUs (Indiana) This is a highly recommended workshop taught by author/instructor Valerie Colston. For enrollment information and more information http://www.artmuseums.com/makerspace.htm ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-12 From P.Yott at NEU.EDU Mon Sep 14 13:14:49 2015 From: P.Yott at NEU.EDU (Yott, Patrick) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:14:49 +0000 Subject: Digital Scholarship Programmer Position at Northeastern University Message-ID: This is being cross-posted, so all expected apologies for mailbox fatigue? Position posting: Digital Scholarship Programmer/Analyst Northeastern University Libraries are pleased to announce a new position as part of our growing research and development activities in the fields of digital humanities and digital libraries. The Library is undertaking an ambitious agenda in support of emerging digital humanities and quantitative social sciences research efforts at Northeastern. With the launch of an enhanced digital repository service and an increasing number of major grant-funded projects, the Library is deeply engaged with the university?s research mission. This position 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 related 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. Digital Scholarship Programmer/Analyst The Programmer/Analyst designs applications that interact with core components of the Library?s digital repository service (Hydra) and programs in such languages as Ruby, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Reporting to the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, the Programmer/Analyst works collaboratively with colleagues in the Library and across campus, and participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library technologies. The position works closely with the library and faculty colleagues to develop a sustainable software ecology that can be applied to range of scholarly projects in the humanities, social sciences, and related disciplines. Please note: This is a two-year pilot position with opportunity for extension. Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience). * Excellent knowledge of web development using Ruby on Rails required. * Significant experience with Hydra and Fedora, including customization of Hydra gems 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. About Northeastern University Libraries The 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 2 million visits a year on the Boston campus and the Library?s web site serves users around the world. In addition to 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. 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 September 21, 2015. To apply for this position, and to view job grade and salary information, please visit: http://www.northeastern.edu/hrm/careers/index.html 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. Patrick Yott Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Services Northeastern University Libraries 360 Huntington Ave, SL 327 Boston, MA 02115 401.338.3787 p.yott at neu.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The variety of programming will interest staff from all library types. Remember, as a benefit of membership, Amigos members always attend our online conferences free of charge. Visit the conference website for complete registration information, schedules, and session descriptions. Christine Peterson 800-843-8482 x 2891 | 972-340-2891 (direct) peterson at amigos.org [cid:image001.png at 01CF8B09.FDF19BF0] Check out our member benefits [fb][rss] [linkedin] ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From DVinke at TORRANCECA.GOV Tue Sep 15 17:31:34 2015 From: DVinke at TORRANCECA.GOV (Vinke, Dana) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:31:34 +0000 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking Message-ID: Hi, I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage Displays. Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat screens at each. We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? Thank you, Dana Vinke Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.Gov | www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wardgsmith at GMAIL.COM Tue Sep 15 18:25:09 2015 From: wardgsmith at GMAIL.COM (Ward Graderson Smith) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:25:09 -0700 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: You could have all the monitors on the internet with a chromecast or something like it, then: Google Slides Presentation - How to Loop and Autoplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8iYv2ERts Best, Ward Smith | Systems Librarian, Long Beach City College Library On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Vinke, Dana wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage > Displays. > > Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then > loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat > screens at each. > > > > We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone > using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows > via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, > accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Dana Vinke > > Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | > 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 > FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa. Gov | > www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov > > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-15 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET Tue Sep 15 18:38:07 2015 From: TEdelblute at ANAHEIM.NET (Thomas Edelblute) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:38:07 +0000 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I once proposed a server that would have handled all our digital signage needs from JPEG files to RSS feeds and put in new content on the fly. The project died when I showed management the $30,000 price tag for it. Good luck. Thomas Edelblute User Support Services Manager Anaheim Public Library Phone: 714-765-1759 Fax: 714-765-1730 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Vinke, Dana Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 2:32 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking Hi, I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage Displays. Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat screens at each. We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? Thank you, Dana Vinke Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.Gov | www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 ________________________________ 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 hanumay at GMAIL.COM Tue Sep 15 22:27:04 2015 From: hanumay at GMAIL.COM (may) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:27:04 -0400 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: If you only want digital signage management (pushed content), I would recommend Xibo (http://xibo.org.uk) - its open source, standards compliant, and works well. May On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Vinke, Dana wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage > Displays. > > Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then > loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat > screens at each. > > > > We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone > using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows > via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, > accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Dana Vinke > > Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | > 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 > FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa. Gov | > www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov > > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-15 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlolis at WHITEPLAINSNY.GOV Tue Sep 15 23:34:03 2015 From: jlolis at WHITEPLAINSNY.GOV (Lolis, John) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:34:03 -0400 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: In coming up with digital signage for our library, my requirements were: 1) use existing content without requiring any additional entry or design to maintain the signage; 2) at the very least, allow the display of existing WordPress posts of a specific category (featured ones from our website) and an RSS feed (featured events from our Evanced calendar). I ended up settling on the SlideDeck3 slider WordPress plugin (see slidedeck.com) primarily because it could display a variety of sources, but especially those two that I needed most. In addition to that content, it'll display content from Youtube, Vimeo, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest and of course, Facebook among others (btw, I am not affiliated with SlideDeck in any way). I have it set up on a development server on our internal network, otherwise I'd include a link to it; not sure if the listserv allows attachments, but I attached a screenshot of what we have running. Since it's simple digital signage that would provide no interaction, I turned off navigation control through the plugin's settings (but I'd turn those on for an interactive kiosk). I also had to edit CSS to hide empty default theme elements so that the content would be centered properly (that is, not have the content appear too low because of an empty header or other empty divs) ...and edit a wee bit of php in the plugin code so that line breaks weren't stripped from the RSS content. After those tweaks, it's been exactly what I'd been looking for. My only complaint is that after purchase (I believe $119 is the current price for the development version), you're only eligible for a year's worth of support and updates; after that, you have to pony up again, unless of course everything's working to your liking and you find no reason to do so. If I recall correctly, $299 will buy you lifetime support and updates. In any case, if you set up a bare bones WordPress website with that plugin and can pull supported content from your existing website or other appropriate sources, you may find it works for you. pax, John Lolis Coordinator of Computer Systems White Plains Public Library 100 Martine Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 tel: 1.914.422.1497 fax: 1.914.422.1452 http://whiteplainslibrary.org/ *I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.* Groucho Marx On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Vinke, Dana wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage > Displays. > > Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then > loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat > screens at each. > > > > We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone > using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows > via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, > accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Dana Vinke > > Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | > 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 > FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa. 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They also have a wi-fi model if you want to put a display somewhere there is power but not a network connection. In addition to promotional displays we use one at our front door as a digital Open/Closed sign which we can access and change from home in the event of a weather closing. I believe they cost between $220 and $450 depending on the model you choose. Phillip B. Whitford Associate Director for Support Services Braswell Memorial Library Rocky Mount, NC Opinions expressed are my own. From: Vinke, Dana [mailto:DVinke at TORRANCECA.GOV] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 5:32 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking Hi, I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage Displays. Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat screens at each. We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? Thank you, Dana Vinke Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.Gov | www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JTidal at CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU Wed Sep 16 09:53:16 2015 From: JTidal at CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU (Junior Tidal) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:53:16 -0400 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Dana, We use the open source version of Screenly - https://www.screenlyapp.com/ose/ . We have two plasma screens connected to a Raspberry Pi where Screenly is installed. There are on the network, and they use a web interface to drop images into the slide show. Images also can be activated or expired at set dates and time. The interface is pretty easy to use and mobile friendly, so you could theoretically upload pictures from a mobile device. What's also nice is that you can also post URLs and not just images. Hope that helps! Best, Junior Junior Tidal Associate Professor Web Services and Multimedia Librarian New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 Brooklyn, NY 11201 718.260.5481 http://library.citytech.cuny.edu >>> "Vinke, Dana" 9/15/2015 5:31 PM >>> Hi, I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage Displays. Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat screens at each. We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? Thank you, Dana Vinke Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.Gov | www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 From mking9 at IIT.EDU Wed Sep 16 10:32:13 2015 From: mking9 at IIT.EDU (Max King) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:32:13 -0500 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: <55F93C0C0200000C001CD97A@email2.citytech.cuny.edu> Message-ID: Hey Dana, We use something very similar to what Junior described above: A Raspberry Pi hooked up to a monitor, except ours uses a Shell script to grab image files from a folder on our shared drive and cycle through them. If you'd like the script, and how we set it up, feel free to contact me directly. Max On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Junior Tidal wrote: > Hi Dana, > > We use the open source version of Screenly - > https://www.screenlyapp.com/ose/ . > > We have two plasma screens connected to a Raspberry Pi where Screenly is > installed. There are on the network, and they use a web interface to drop > images into the slide show. Images also can be activated or expired at set > dates and time. The interface is pretty easy to use and mobile friendly, so > you could theoretically upload pictures from a mobile device. > > What's also nice is that you can also post URLs and not just images. > > Hope that helps! > > Best, > Junior > > Junior Tidal > Associate Professor > Web Services and Multimedia Librarian > New York City College of Technology, CUNY > 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 > Brooklyn, NY 11201 > 718.260.5481 > > http://library.citytech.cuny.edu > > > >>> "Vinke, Dana" 9/15/2015 5:31 PM >>> > Hi, > > I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage > Displays. > > Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then > loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat > screens at each. > > We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone > using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows > via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, > accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? > > Thank you, > > Dana Vinke > Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | > 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 > FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.Gov | > www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov< > https://wmail.torranceca.gov/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> > > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-15 > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-16 > -- Max King Stuart School of Business Liaison Information Technology Librarian Paul V. Galvin Library Illinois Institute of Technology 35 W 33rd St. Chicago, IL 60616 312.567.8603 *Driving Innovation Through Knowledge and Scholarship* ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dowlintp at WFU.EDU Wed Sep 16 10:42:15 2015 From: dowlintp at WFU.EDU (Thomas Dowling) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:42:15 -0400 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ++Raspberry Pi as the little engine that could. We use RiseVision (risevision.com) as a hosted, web-based signage platform. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Max King wrote: > Hey Dana, > > We use something very similar to what Junior described above: A Raspberry > Pi hooked up to a monitor, except ours uses a Shell script to grab image > files from a folder on our shared drive and cycle through them. > > If you'd like the script, and how we set it up, feel free to contact me > directly. > > Max > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Junior Tidal > wrote: > >> Hi Dana, >> >> We use the open source version of Screenly - >> https://www.screenlyapp.com/ose/ . >> >> We have two plasma screens connected to a Raspberry Pi where Screenly is >> installed. There are on the network, and they use a web interface to drop >> images into the slide show. Images also can be activated or expired at set >> dates and time. The interface is pretty easy to use and mobile friendly, so >> you could theoretically upload pictures from a mobile device. >> >> What's also nice is that you can also post URLs and not just images. >> >> Hope that helps! >> >> Best, >> Junior >> >> Junior Tidal >> Associate Professor >> Web Services and Multimedia Librarian >> New York City College of Technology, CUNY >> 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 >> Brooklyn, NY 11201 >> 718.260.5481 >> >> http://library.citytech.cuny.edu >> >> >> >>> "Vinke, Dana" 9/15/2015 5:31 PM >>> >> Hi, >> >> I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage >> Displays. >> >> Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then >> loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat >> screens at each. >> >> We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone >> using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows >> via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, >> accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Dana Vinke >> Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | >> 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | >> 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.Gov | >> www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov< >> https://wmail.torranceca.gov/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> >> >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2015-09-15 >> >> ============================ >> >> To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib >> >> Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ >> >> 2015-09-16 >> > > > > -- > Max King > Stuart School of Business Liaison > Information Technology Librarian > Paul V. 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Jeff Wisniewski Web Services & Communications Librarian University Library System University of Pittsburgh Jeffw at pitt.edu 412-624-4050 @jeffwisniewski ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5541-1531 ________________________________ From: Web technologies in libraries on behalf of Thomas Dowling Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 10:42 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking ++Raspberry Pi as the little engine that could. We use RiseVision (risevision.com) as a hosted, web-based signage platform. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Max King > wrote: Hey Dana, We use something very similar to what Junior described above: A Raspberry Pi hooked up to a monitor, except ours uses a Shell script to grab image files from a folder on our shared drive and cycle through them. If you'd like the script, and how we set it up, feel free to contact me directly. Max On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Junior Tidal > wrote: Hi Dana, We use the open source version of Screenly - https://www.screenlyapp.com/ose/ . We have two plasma screens connected to a Raspberry Pi where Screenly is installed. There are on the network, and they use a web interface to drop images into the slide show. Images also can be activated or expired at set dates and time. The interface is pretty easy to use and mobile friendly, so you could theoretically upload pictures from a mobile device. What's also nice is that you can also post URLs and not just images. Hope that helps! Best, Junior Junior Tidal Associate Professor Web Services and Multimedia Librarian New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 Brooklyn, NY 11201 718.260.5481 http://library.citytech.cuny.edu >>> "Vinke, Dana" > 9/15/2015 5:31 PM >>> Hi, I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage Displays. Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat screens at each. We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? Thank you, Dana Vinke Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.>Gov | www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 -- Max King Stuart School of Business Liaison Information Technology Librarian Paul V. 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URL: From smcdon at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Wed Sep 16 10:54:23 2015 From: smcdon at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Sam McDonald) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:54:23 -0400 Subject: Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking In-Reply-To: <52882995E3FA484FA4FFBF4C2C837CFE8AA1F5D0@COAMBOX2.anaheim.intranet> Message-ID: Hi, We use Drupal. If you are a Drupal shop it isn't too hard to spin up a site that allows - multiple sites (screens in different locations) - have different people manage each site - they can upload their own images or embed a youtube video - change the duration a slide is shown - they can easily reorder the slide order/queue - they can share a slide across sites (takes a little communication on the display managers part) - they can unpublish a slide ..and keep it for next year (like a spring break message or something) - set up schedules so a given slide goes up or comes down on a given date I think someone around here wrote down the recipe in email that outlines the functionality, modules, and the logic on how they connect together and why..but it would require someone with some Drupal experience. Let me know if you need to know more. -Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Edelblute" To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 6:38:07 PM Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking I once proposed a server that would have handled all our digital signage needs from JPEG files to RSS feeds and put in new content on the fly. The project died when I showed management the $30,000 price tag for it. Good luck. Thomas Edelblute User Support Services Manager Anaheim Public Library Phone: 714-765-1759 Fax: 714-765-1730 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Vinke, Dana Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 2:32 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking Hi, I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage Displays. Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat screens at each. We would like to network our signage to make things easier. Does anyone using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost, accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training? Thank you, Dana Vinke Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library | 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice | 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa. Gov | www.Library.TorranceCa.Gov ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-15 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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John Lolis Coordinator of Computer Systems White Plains Public Library 100 Martine Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 tel: 1.914.422.1497 fax: 1.914.422.1452 http://whiteplainslibrary.org/ *I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.* Groucho Marx ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rw at NCF.CA Wed Sep 16 11:50:49 2015 From: rw at NCF.CA (R. Wood) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:50:49 -0400 Subject: Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Some other possibilities here (and overall, a very interesting site): https://prism-break.org/en/categories/windows/#file-storage-sync HTH, R. From: "Lolis, John" To: "Web technologies in libraries" Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:34:25 AM Subject: [WEB4LIB] Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox In our teen space the librarians have been using DropBox on the service desk computer and the public access computers and laptops. I have nothing against DropBox, but I am against having the network's bandwidth getting eaten up when someone decides to copy a video file to the DropBox folder. So I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to DropBox, one that could be accessed by anyone on the private, wired network as well as by those on our public wireless network (with restricted access, of course). It would also be great if there's iOS and Android support. So far, I found this which seems the most promising: https://owncloud.org/ . Does anyone out there have any experience with it or have other solutions to suggest? Many thanks in advance! John Lolis Coordinator of Computer Systems White Plains Public Library 100 Martine Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 tel: 1.914.422.1497 fax: 1.914.422.1452 http://whiteplainslibrary.org/ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjordan at SFU.CA Wed Sep 16 11:55:00 2015 From: mjordan at SFU.CA (Mark Jordan) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:55:00 -0700 Subject: Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox In-Reply-To: <1977730990.91251.1442418649913.JavaMail.zimbra@ncf.ca> Message-ID: https://pyd.io/ is worth checking out. Mark ----- Original Message ----- > Some other possibilities here (and overall, a very interesting site): > https://prism-break.org/en/categories/windows/#file-storage-sync > HTH, > R. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lolis, John" > To: "Web technologies in libraries" > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:34:25 AM > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox > In our teen space the librarians have been using DropBox on the service desk > computer and the public access computers and laptops. I have nothing against > DropBox, but I am against having the network's bandwidth getting eaten up > when someone decides to copy a video file to the DropBox folder. > So I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to DropBox, one that could be > accessed by anyone on the private, wired network as well as by those on our > public wireless network (with restricted access, of course). It would also > be great if there's iOS and Android support. > So far, I found this which seems the most promising: https://owncloud.org/ . > Does anyone out there have any experience with it or have other solutions to > suggest? > Many thanks in advance! > John Lolis > Coordinator of Computer Systems > White Plains Public Library > 100 Martine Avenue > White Plains, NY 10601 > tel: 1.914.422.1497 > fax: 1.914.422.1452 > http://whiteplainslibrary.org/ > I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go > into the other room and read a book. > Groucho Marx > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > 2015-09-16 > ============================ > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > 2015-09-16 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-16 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Wed Sep 16 14:46:11 2015 From: chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Christian Pietsch) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:46:11 +0200 Subject: Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi John, if you want a straight replacement for Dropbox, go for Seafile: https://www.seafile.com/en/download/ (free download, open source). It looks and feels like Dropbox, and runs smoothly even on a first generation Raspberry Pi. Which cannot be said for OwnCloud which I tried before that. OwnClound suffers from a severe case of featuritis trying to be everything to everyone. Cheers, Christian On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:34:25AM -0400, Lolis, John wrote: > In our teen space the librarians have been using DropBox on the service > desk computer and the public access computers and laptops. I have nothing > against DropBox, but I am against having the network's bandwidth getting > eaten up when someone decides to copy a video file to the DropBox folder. > > So I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to DropBox, one that could be > accessed by anyone on the private, wired network as well as by those on our > public wireless network (with restricted access, of course). It would also > be great if there's iOS and Android support. > > So far, I found this which seems the most promising: https://owncloud.org/. > > Does anyone out there have any experience with it or have other solutions -- 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/ 2015-09-16 From mdehmlow at ND.EDU Wed Sep 16 18:54:06 2015 From: mdehmlow at ND.EDU (Mark Dehmlow) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:54:06 -0400 Subject: Job Opportunity - Director for Resource Acquisitions and Discovery Program at the University of Notre Dame Message-ID: Please excuse any cross-posting. The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame are seeking a creative, forward thinking, user-oriented and collaborative professional for the position of Director, Resource Acquisitions and Discovery Program. The successful candidate must be knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the changing nature of librarianship, the formats of library collections, and particularly the role of cataloging and metadata in extending discovery services. The Program Director leads, shapes, and transforms the vision and practices of integrating collection description and discovery as well as the provision of materials acquired and licensed in all formats by the Libraries. The successful candidate will lead the program to re-envision traditional technical services workflows and functions to enable the program to move forward in a complex environment of evolving collections, systems, and technologies. S/he will direct the operations of the RAD program, including acquisitions and licensing of all formats of collections, interlibrary loan, cataloging and metadata services (total of 39 members), as well as co-direct the operations of a newly formed systems/discovery unit with the Program Director of Information Technology (total of 6 members). We are currently actively reviewing applications for this position. For best consideration, please submit your application by October 4, 2015. 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URL: From paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM Thu Sep 17 04:00:53 2015 From: paul.poulain at BIBLIBRE.COM (Paul Poulain) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:00:53 +0200 Subject: Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox In-Reply-To: <20150916184610.GA22759@localhost> Message-ID: Le 16/09/2015 20:46, Christian Pietsch a ?crit : > Hi John, > > if you want a straight replacement for Dropbox, go for Seafile: > https://www.seafile.com/en/download/ (free download, open source). > It looks and feels like Dropbox, and runs smoothly even on a first > generation Raspberry Pi. Which cannot be said for OwnCloud which I > tried before that. OwnClound suffers from a severe case of featuritis > trying to be everything to everyone. I confirm that seafile is great. You can use it hosted by seafile, or on your own server. Depending on your skills & needs, you can choose what is the best option for you. For biblibre, we have our own seafile server, it's great ! There is a difference between seafile & dropbox : in seafile you can define many "repositories", that you can synchronize (or not) individually. But if you synchronize one, you synchronize it fully. In Dropbox, you have one "repository" and you select the directories you want to synchronize inside this repository. Once you've understood this difference, it's easy to use & powerful. > Cheers, > Christian > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:34:25AM -0400, Lolis, John wrote: >> In our teen space the librarians have been using DropBox on the service >> desk computer and the public access computers and laptops. I have nothing >> against DropBox, but I am against having the network's bandwidth getting >> eaten up when someone decides to copy a video file to the DropBox folder. >> >> So I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to DropBox, one that could be >> accessed by anyone on the private, wired network as well as by those on our >> public wireless network (with restricted access, of course). It would also >> be great if there's iOS and Android support. >> >> So far, I found this which seems the most promising: https://owncloud.org/. >> >> Does anyone out there have any experience with it or have other solutions -- Paul Poulain, Associ?-g?rant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les biblioth?ques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-17 From peterson at AMIGOS.ORG Thu Sep 17 18:40:19 2015 From: peterson at AMIGOS.ORG (Christine Peterson) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 22:40:19 +0000 Subject: One More Week: Ebooks in Libraries - CFP for Online Conference Message-ID: In case you missed this the first time, we are extending the deadline for proposals to Friday, September 25th. ~Christine Peterson Title: Ebooks in Libraries: An Update When: Monday, November 16, 2015 Where: Online Call for proposals deadline: Monday, September 25, 2015 Libraries have been working with ebooks for a number of years now and in a variety of ways. 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RIOXX focuses on applying consistency to the metadata fields used to record research funder and project/grant identifiers and is designed to support the consistent tracking of open-access research publications across scholarly systems. The development of RIOXX has emphasised the importance of implementation, and has therefore involved software developers closely, even borrowing some software development practice such as continuous, automated testing of deployed 'feeds' of RIOXX records. This webinar will briefly examine some of these novel approaches to metadata profile development. REGISTRATION The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested to attend the webinar, send an e-mail to AIMS at fao.org, containing the following information: your name, affiliation, email and country. 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This librarian has overall responsibility for leading a team effort to provide high quality information discovery systems that support teaching and learning across campus. The Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian will provide leadership and share responsibility for planning, implementing, and maintaining the Library website, and other digital systems and services through which Library patrons locate information. The Librarian will work closely with members of the Library and College staff to plan and support digital records management initiatives and repository systems. This librarian has overall responsibility for the installation, maintenance, and enhancement of the library's integrated library system (currently Innovative Interfaces Sierra), which functions as a shared system with the Albion District Library. 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This is an excellent opportunity for a service-oriented individual who possesses creativity, curiosity, a commitment to professional growth and a good foundational web development skill set. If you enjoy working with others as part of a scholarly team just as much as you enjoy burying your head for a few hours in code and design work, this could be the job for you. The Web and Digital Scholarship Unit works as part of a core department to provide a locus of expertise and continuity to the Libraries? cross-functional Digital Scholarship Services program. The successful candidate will be involved in the design, development and maintenance of all aspects of the University Libraries? web presence, web applications and many new and existing digital scholarship services and projects. This position resides within Public Services and reports to the Head of Web and Digital Scholarship. The position is a twelve-month, tenure track appointment. 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Problem description - A senior professor reported to me that Google Scholar had abruptly stopped indexing one of his early career papers from the 1970s (published in a top-ranked peer reviewed journal) - The paper had about 200 citations in GS - But it has suddenly stopped appearing in GS search results despite the GS indexing and returning in results the other (adjacent) papers in the same journal / volume & issue Steps taken - Checked with publisher's production editor. Metadata and DOI all correct on publisher's website - Interestingly, all other articles in the same issue of the journal are being indexed / returned in Scholar results (even the papers published either side of his in the sequence) - Professor and I have separately tried to contact Google about this, to no avail (only automated support responses; no indication of when might be re-crawled) - I even created a free-standing simple web page containing the "missing" article's correct metadata & DOI, formatted exactly per Google Scholar metadata requirements but after 2 months this has not fixed the problem At the moment, we have not yet launched our Open Access repository that might help address this by programmatically exposing the article's metadata for Google and wider OAI-PMH harvest (still 3-plus months away). Any advice would be welcomed as our professor is somewhat mystified (and not a little frustrated) to have seen a career-founding paper suddenly lost from the global "map" along with its Google Scholar citations. Thanks in advance. Regards Jonathan Eaton _________________________________ Jonathan Eaton | Senior Content & Systems Manager | IT-Library London Business School | Regent's Park | London NW1 4SA | United Kingdom Direct line +44 (0)20 7000 7636 | Email jeaton at london.edu | Twitter [cid:image001.jpg at 01CFCE70.ED037700] @LBS_LibraryTeam www.london.edu | London experience. World impact. [cid:image003.jpg at 01CFCE70.ED037700] Please consider the environment before printing this email ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-24 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"Reducing Nightshade Consumption May Improve Arthritic Symptoms." [Oddly, this only seems to exist as a citation in Google Scholar. There's no source or publisher specified and no link to full text anywhere as far as I can tell. It doesn't show up in a normal Google search as an exact title match.] #14: Read, Mark Forums. "Thread: Nightshade Foods." [from the site: anabolicminds.com ] #16: TOP TEN TIPS, "How Deadly Are Nightshades?." [from the website: 50symptomsgone.com ] #18: Jackson, Steven. "Foods to avoid with arthritis." (2014). [from the website: global-partnerships.com < http://bit.ly/1iP6G1Z>] #20: Windley, Steve. "Dr. Tara Skye Goldin's Newsletter, The Joint Issue Natural Medicine That Gets Results!." [from the website: www.taraskyegoldin.com ] The results are a little better if I use the search terms: solanine arthritis but I still get a few of the non-scholarly links. It looks like Google Scholar is including any article that is cited in a scholarly article, including tabloid newspaper articles and some conspiracy websites. There are some hits in that list that are not cited by any scholarly source, and I can't figure out why those were included in the results. I used to recommend Google Scholar to students all the time, and now I'm a little wary of it. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober at manhattan.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-24 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jenne.heise at GMAIL.COM Thu Sep 24 23:14:47 2015 From: jenne.heise at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Heise) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:14:47 -0400 Subject: Google Scholar suddenly no longer indexing a paper - how to fix? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Try setting up a Google Scholar profile for the professor? On Sep 24, 2015 12:20 PM, "Jonathan Eaton" wrote: > Has any list member encountered the following scenario with Google Scholar? > > > > If so, how did they manage to resolve it? > > > > Problem description > > > > - A senior professor reported to me that Google Scholar had > abruptly stopped indexing one of his early career papers from the 1970s > (published in a top-ranked peer reviewed journal) > > > > - The paper had about 200 citations in GS > > > > - But it has suddenly stopped appearing in GS search results > despite the GS indexing and returning in results the other (adjacent) > papers in the same journal / volume & issue > > > > Steps taken > > > > - Checked with publisher?s production editor. Metadata and DOI > all correct on publisher?s website > > > > - Interestingly, all other articles in the same issue of the > journal are being indexed / returned in Scholar results (even the papers > published either side of his in the sequence) > > > > - Professor and I have separately tried to contact Google about > this, to no avail (only automated support responses; no indication of when > might be re-crawled) > > > > - I even created a free-standing simple web page containing the > ?missing? article?s correct metadata & DOI, formatted exactly per Google > Scholar metadata requirements but after 2 months this has not fixed the > problem > > > > > > At the moment, we have not yet launched our Open Access repository that > might help address this by programmatically exposing the article?s metadata > for Google and wider OAI-PMH harvest (still 3-plus months away). > > > > Any advice would be welcomed as our professor is somewhat mystified (and > not a little frustrated) to have seen a career-founding paper suddenly lost > from the global ?map? along with its Google Scholar citations. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards > > > > Jonathan Eaton > > > > > > _________________________________ > > *Jonathan Eaton | Senior Content & Systems Manager | IT-Library* > > London Business School | Regent's Park | London NW1 4SA | United Kingdom > Direct line +44 (0)20 7000 7636 | Email jeaton at london.edu | Twitter [image: > cid:image001.jpg at 01CFCE70.ED037700] > @LBS_LibraryTeam > > > www.london.edu | London experience. 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Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis for the 2015 LITA Forum, a three-day education and networking event featuring 2 preconferences, 3 keynote sessions, more than 55 concurrent sessions and 15 poster presentations. This year including content and planning collaboration with LLAMA. Why attend the LITA Forum Check out the report from Melissa Johnson. It details her experience as an attendee, a volunteer, and a presenter. This year, she's on the planning committee and attending. Melissa says most people don't know is how action-packed and seriously awesome this years LITA Forum is going to be. Register now to receive the LITA and LLAMA members early bird discount: * LITA and LLAMA member early bird rate: $340 * LITA and LLAMA member regular rate: $390 The LITA Forum is a gathering for technology-minded information professionals, where you can meet with your colleagues involved in new and leading edge technologies in the library and information technology field. Attendees can take advantage of the informal Friday evening reception, networking dinners and other social opportunities to get to know colleagues and speakers and experience the important networking advantages of a smaller conference. Keynote Speakers: * Mx A. Matienzo, Director of Technology for the Digital Public Library of America * Carson Block, Carson Block Consulting Inc. * Lisa Welchman, President of Digital Governance Solutions at ActiveStandards. The Preconference Workshops: * So You Want to Make a Makerspace: Strategic Leadership to support the Integration of new and disruptive technologies into Libraries: Practical Tips, Tricks, Strategies, and Solutions for bringing making, fabrication and content creation to your library. * Beyond Web Page Analytics: Using Google tools to assess searcher behavior across web properties. Comments from past attendees: "Best conference I've been to in terms of practical, usable ideas that I can implement at my library." "I get so inspired by the presentations and conversations with colleagues who are dealing with the same sorts of issues that I am." "After LITA I return to my institution excited to implement solutions I find here." "This is always the most informative conference! It inspires me to develop new programs and plan initiatives." Forum Sponsors: EBSCO, Ex Libris, Optimal Workshop, OCLC,Innovative, BiblioCommons, Springshare, A Book Apart, Rosenfeld Media and Double Robotics. Get all the details, register and book a hotel room at the 2015 Forum Web site. See you in Minneapolis! Tammy Allgood Wolf Manager of Discovery Services Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services ASU Libraries Arizona State University 480-965-1797 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sshafer at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU Fri Sep 25 14:21:45 2015 From: sshafer at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU (Shafer, Sharon) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:21:45 +0000 Subject: Recommendations for analytics software? Message-ID: I've noticed a major decrease in my Google Analytics data because of so I'm looking at other web analytics tools. We run the Google Analytics module on a Drupal site. I'm curious what other libraries are doing to capture web site user behavior. Additional GA modules? Combination of tagging and log analysis via a vendor system? Perhaps, using a CRM like SalesForce? I'm trying to address the issue, but I'm also contemplating the pie-in-the-sky analytics wish list. Is there something that provides an archived, comprehensive, one-stop-shopping data source for all the web site user behavior that is accessible by all Library staff and can be used to easily generate data visualization reports for analysis, ROI reports, and making data driven decisions regarding the web site. Perhaps, mixed with system performance reports and alerts for monitoring how systems are performing. Is there something that makes it easy to upload or access enterprise data where the user is guided through statistical analytics and or visualization? Maybe there is a method of obtaining and archiving and strategically scrubbing that ensures user privacy that adheres to ALA's Library Bill of Rights and Core Values of Librarianship? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. --Sharon ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmenk at LL.MIT.EDU Fri Sep 25 15:08:13 2015 From: bmenk at LL.MIT.EDU (Menk, Robert - 1150 - MITLL) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:08:13 +0000 Subject: Recommendations for analytics software? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Sharon I can't compare this with Google Analytics as we can't use it here. But we do use the open source analytics product called Piwik. There's a decent size user community, a fair number of customized plugins etc. You can definitely write custom tools for it pretty easily, and setting up logins for staff is pretty easy too. Don't know if it will meet all your specs, but it has been a very good product for us. We've used it for about 5 years now. See http://piwik.org/ Bobb Menk MIT Lincoln Laboratory Library From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shafer, Sharon Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 2:22 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software? I've noticed a major decrease in my Google Analytics data because of so I'm looking at other web analytics tools. We run the Google Analytics module on a Drupal site. I'm curious what other libraries are doing to capture web site user behavior. Additional GA modules? Combination of tagging and log analysis via a vendor system? Perhaps, using a CRM like SalesForce? I'm trying to address the issue, but I'm also contemplating the pie-in-the-sky analytics wish list. Is there something that provides an archived, comprehensive, one-stop-shopping data source for all the web site user behavior that is accessible by all Library staff and can be used to easily generate data visualization reports for analysis, ROI reports, and making data driven decisions regarding the web site. Perhaps, mixed with system performance reports and alerts for monitoring how systems are performing. Is there something that makes it easy to upload or access enterprise data where the user is guided through statistical analytics and or visualization? Maybe there is a method of obtaining and archiving and strategically scrubbing that ensures user privacy that adheres to ALA's Library Bill of Rights and Core Values of Librarianship? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. --Sharon ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5593 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sshafer at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU Fri Sep 25 15:53:45 2015 From: sshafer at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU (Shafer, Sharon) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:53:45 +0000 Subject: Recommendations for analytics software? In-Reply-To: <79C5CAAA3CD2C64D9B8157CEDA20F88E26FB2714@LLE2K10-MBX01.mitll.ad.local> Message-ID: Bobb, Thanks for the Piwik pointer. I was wondering about that tool when looking at the Wikipedia article, List of web analytics software Now, I'm off to look at those plugins. Thanks again, Sharon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Menk, Robert - 1150 - MITLL Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 12:08 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software? Sharon I can't compare this with Google Analytics as we can't use it here. But we do use the open source analytics product called Piwik. There's a decent size user community, a fair number of customized plugins etc. You can definitely write custom tools for it pretty easily, and setting up logins for staff is pretty easy too. Don't know if it will meet all your specs, but it has been a very good product for us. We've used it for about 5 years now. See http://piwik.org/ Bobb Menk MIT Lincoln Laboratory Library From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shafer, Sharon Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 2:22 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software? I've noticed a major decrease in my Google Analytics data because of so I'm looking at other web analytics tools. We run the Google Analytics module on a Drupal site. I'm curious what other libraries are doing to capture web site user behavior. Additional GA modules? Combination of tagging and log analysis via a vendor system? Perhaps, using a CRM like SalesForce? I'm trying to address the issue, but I'm also contemplating the pie-in-the-sky analytics wish list. Is there something that provides an archived, comprehensive, one-stop-shopping data source for all the web site user behavior that is accessible by all Library staff and can be used to easily generate data visualization reports for analysis, ROI reports, and making data driven decisions regarding the web site. Perhaps, mixed with system performance reports and alerts for monitoring how systems are performing. Is there something that makes it easy to upload or access enterprise data where the user is guided through statistical analytics and or visualization? Maybe there is a method of obtaining and archiving and strategically scrubbing that ensures user privacy that adheres to ALA's Library Bill of Rights and Core Values of Librarianship? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. --Sharon ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stacy.pober at MANHATTAN.EDU Fri Sep 25 16:33:29 2015 From: stacy.pober at MANHATTAN.EDU (Stacy Pober) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:33:29 -0400 Subject: Non-scholarly sites showing up in Google Scholar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I know there have always been a few citations here and there that were not scholarly, but they usually were in Scholar because some scholarly papers had cited them. In this case, most of the non-scholarly hits were not cited in other papers. Someone told me that there are sites that are trying to appear scholarly to get indexed by Google Scholar but that's not the case for most of the hits on the list for my test search. I don't know how they got indexed in Scholar. The one book or article that is a complete dead end is a particular mystery. I thought that Scholar was a subset of the entire Google database but this particular title produces zero hits when searched as a phrase in Google: > [CITATION] Reducing Nightshade Consumption May Improve Arthritic Symptoms > A Johnson I'm not worried that I will mistake a non-scholarly site for a scholarly one, but I'm not going to recommend Google Scholar to undergraduates if this lack of selectivity becomes common. Stacy On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:01 AM, John M Hubbard wrote: > Hi Stacy, I think it's always been a limitation of Google Scholar that > popular items cited in scholarly sources can show up in results: > > https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=pelican+brief > > > > Like not knowing the scope of what exactly is being indexed, it's one of > those imperfections that isn't necessarily a deal-breaker, for > non-librarians at least. > > > > -- > > John Hubbard > Web Services and Electronic Resources Coordinator > UWM Libraries Webmaster > University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee > Golda Meir Library W241 > (414)229-7429 > > > > *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On > Behalf Of *Stacy Pober > *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2015 7:50 PM > *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Non-scholarly sites showing up in Google Scholar > > > > I was looking at Google Scholar search results and noticed some results > that do not normally fit the criteria most people would use for "scholarly > publishing". > > > > The search terms were: nightshade arthritis > > > > 7 hits of the first 20 hits are questionable: > > > > #3: Childers, Norman Franklin. *A Diet to Stop Arthritis: The Nightshades > and Ill Health*. Horticultural Publications, 1981. [Not from a scholarly > press.Author is a PhD who published in peer-reviewed journals, but this is > apparently in the results because it was cited in a scholarly publication.] > > > > #5: Childers, Norman Franklin. *Arthritis, a Diet to Stop it: The > Nightshades, Aging and Ill Health*. Norman F. Childers, 1993. > [Self-published. Cited in a scholarly publication.] > > > > #8: Johnson, Anthony. "Reducing Nightshade Consumption May Improve > Arthritic Symptoms." > > [Oddly, this only seems to exist as a citation in Google Scholar. There's > no source or publisher specified and no link to full text anywhere as far > as I can tell. It doesn't show up in a normal Google search as an exact > title match.] > > > > #14: Read, Mark Forums. "Thread: Nightshade Foods." [from the site: > anabolicminds.com ] > > > > #16: TOP TEN TIPS, "How Deadly Are Nightshades?." [from the website: > 50symptomsgone.com ] > > > > #18: Jackson, Steven. "Foods to avoid with arthritis." (2014). [from the > website: global-partnerships.com < http://bit.ly/1iP6G1Z>] > > > > #20: Windley, Steve. "Dr. Tara Skye Goldin's Newsletter, The Joint Issue > Natural Medicine That Gets Results!." [from the website: > www.taraskyegoldin.com ] > > > > The results are a little better if I use the search terms: solanine > arthritis > > but I still get a few of the non-scholarly links. > > > > It looks like Google Scholar is including any article that is cited in a > scholarly article, including tabloid newspaper articles and some conspiracy > websites. There are some hits in that list that are not cited by any > scholarly source, and I can't figure out why those were included in the > results. I used to recommend Google Scholar to students all the time, and > now I'm a little wary of it. > > > > > > -- > > Stacy Pober > Information Alchemist > Manhattan College Library > Riverdale, NY 10471 > stacy.pober at manhattan.edu > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-24 > -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober at manhattan.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.bosman at UU.NL Fri Sep 25 16:45:33 2015 From: j.bosman at UU.NL (Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:45:33 +0000 Subject: Non-scholarly sites showing up in Google Scholar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear all, The distinction between what is scholarly and non-scholarly has always been blurry if you ask me. The value added of Google Scholar does not lie in being selective, but in being broad, fast, multilingual and good in full text search. For selectivity there are other options. But I opt to train undergraduates to discern between what is relevant and what is irrelevant and what is based on sound research and what not instead of a wholesale advise to use this or that search engine. That is the value added of the librarian ;-) Best, Jeroen [101-innovations-icon-very-small] 101 innovations: tools database | survey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeroen Bosman, faculty liaison for the Faculty of Geosciences 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 @jeroenbosman/ @geolibrarianUBU 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 Stacy Pober Sent: vrijdag 25 september 2015 22:33 To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Non-scholarly sites showing up in Google Scholar I know there have always been a few citations here and there that were not scholarly, but they usually were in Scholar because some scholarly papers had cited them. In this case, most of the non-scholarly hits were not cited in other papers. Someone told me that there are sites that are trying to appear scholarly to get indexed by Google Scholar but that's not the case for most of the hits on the list for my test search. I don't know how they got indexed in Scholar. The one book or article that is a complete dead end is a particular mystery. I thought that Scholar was a subset of the entire Google database but this particular title produces zero hits when searched as a phrase in Google: [CITATION] Reducing Nightshade Consumption May Improve Arthritic Symptoms A Johnson I'm not worried that I will mistake a non-scholarly site for a scholarly one, but I'm not going to recommend Google Scholar to undergraduates if this lack of selectivity becomes common. Stacy On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:01 AM, John M Hubbard > wrote: Hi Stacy, I think it's always been a limitation of Google Scholar that popular items cited in scholarly sources can show up in results: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=pelican+brief Like not knowing the scope of what exactly is being indexed, it's one of those imperfections that isn't necessarily a deal-breaker, for non-librarians at least. -- John Hubbard Web Services and Electronic Resources Coordinator UWM Libraries Webmaster University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee Golda Meir Library W241 (414)229-7429 From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stacy Pober Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 7:50 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] Non-scholarly sites showing up in Google Scholar I was looking at Google Scholar search results and noticed some results that do not normally fit the criteria most people would use for "scholarly publishing". The search terms were: nightshade arthritis 7 hits of the first 20 hits are questionable: #3: Childers, Norman Franklin. A Diet to Stop Arthritis: The Nightshades and Ill Health. Horticultural Publications, 1981. [Not from a scholarly press.Author is a PhD who published in peer-reviewed journals, but this is apparently in the results because it was cited in a scholarly publication.] #5: Childers, Norman Franklin. Arthritis, a Diet to Stop it: The Nightshades, Aging and Ill Health. Norman F. Childers, 1993. [Self-published. Cited in a scholarly publication.] #8: Johnson, Anthony. "Reducing Nightshade Consumption May Improve Arthritic Symptoms." [Oddly, this only seems to exist as a citation in Google Scholar. There's no source or publisher specified and no link to full text anywhere as far as I can tell. It doesn't show up in a normal Google search as an exact title match.] #14: Read, Mark Forums. "Thread: Nightshade Foods." [from the site: anabolicminds.com ] #16: TOP TEN TIPS, "How Deadly Are Nightshades?." [from the website: 50symptomsgone.com ] #18: Jackson, Steven. "Foods to avoid with arthritis." (2014). [from the website: global-partnerships.com < http://bit.ly/1iP6G1Z>] #20: Windley, Steve. "Dr. Tara Skye Goldin's Newsletter, The Joint Issue Natural Medicine That Gets Results!." [from the website: www.taraskyegoldin.com ] The results are a little better if I use the search terms: solanine arthritis but I still get a few of the non-scholarly links. It looks like Google Scholar is including any article that is cited in a scholarly article, including tabloid newspaper articles and some conspiracy websites. There are some hits in that list that are not cited by any scholarly source, and I can't figure out why those were included in the results. I used to recommend Google Scholar to students all the time, and now I'm a little wary of it. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober at manhattan.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-24 -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober at manhattan.edu ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.* Groucho Marx On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Paul Poulain wrote: > Le 16/09/2015 20:46, Christian Pietsch a ?crit : > >> Hi John, >> >> if you want a straight replacement for Dropbox, go for Seafile: >> https://www.seafile.com/en/download/ (free download, open source). >> It looks and feels like Dropbox, and runs smoothly even on a first >> generation Raspberry Pi. Which cannot be said for OwnCloud which I >> tried before that. OwnClound suffers from a severe case of featuritis >> trying to be everything to everyone. >> > I confirm that seafile is great. You can use it hosted by seafile, or on > your own server. > Depending on your skills & needs, you can choose what is the best option > for you. > For biblibre, we have our own seafile server, it's great ! > > There is a difference between seafile & dropbox : in seafile you can > define many "repositories", that you can synchronize (or not) individually. > But if you synchronize one, you synchronize it fully. In Dropbox, you have > one "repository" and you select the directories you want to synchronize > inside this repository. > > Once you've understood this difference, it's easy to use & powerful. > >> Cheers, >> Christian >> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:34:25AM -0400, Lolis, John wrote: >> >>> In our teen space the librarians have been using DropBox on the service >>> desk computer and the public access computers and laptops. I have >>> nothing >>> against DropBox, but I am against having the network's bandwidth getting >>> eaten up when someone decides to copy a video file to the DropBox folder. >>> >>> So I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to DropBox, one that could >>> be >>> accessed by anyone on the private, wired network as well as by those on >>> our >>> public wireless network (with restricted access, of course). It would >>> also >>> be great if there's iOS and Android support. >>> >>> So far, I found this which seems the most promising: >>> https://owncloud.org/. >>> >>> Does anyone out there have any experience with it or have other solutions >>> >> > > -- > Paul Poulain, Associ?-g?rant / co-owner > BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les biblioth?ques > BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-17 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlolis at WHITEPLAINSNY.GOV Fri Sep 25 17:51:12 2015 From: jlolis at WHITEPLAINSNY.GOV (Lolis, John) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:51:12 -0400 Subject: WordPress attacks? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apparently, there's an active WordPress hacking campaign that's been going on... http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/active-malware-campaign-uses-thousands-of-wordpress-sites-to-infect-visitors/ John Lolis Coordinator of Computer Systems White Plains Public Library 100 Martine Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 tel: 1.914.422.1497 fax: 1.914.422.1452 http://whiteplainslibrary.org/ *I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.* Groucho Marx On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:04 AM, DREW, WILFRED E JR CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RIOSI wrote: > I have noticed a big upswing in the last few hours of attempted logins on > the WordPress site I manage for my SLA division. All use "admin" > username. I mentioned it on the Facebook WordPress And Librarians Group ( > https://www.facebook.com/groups/wordpress.librarians/) and J.D. Thomas > noticed it as well. 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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VuFind 2.5 Released Villanova, Pennsylvania - September 28, 2015 - Version 2.5 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This new release adds several new features as well as further improving the stability and flexibility of the software. Some key additions and changes: - Improved internationalization features, including support for right-to-left languages and a new Arabic translation. - New tools and settings for supporting high availability. - An improved interface for tagging records. - New "library card" system to allow a single user to access multiple accounts in a consortial environment. - Updates to newer versions of key dependencies: Solr 4.10.4, Zend Framework 2.4.6 and Bootstrap 3.3.4. Additionally, several bug fixes, new configuration options and minor improvements have been incorporated. 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Jane Frasier Software Support Specialist Jefferson County Public Library 10200 W. 20th Avenue Lakewood, CO 80215 P (303) 403-5296 Jane.Frasier at jeffcolibrary.org Find us on the Web: http://jeffcolibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gilbert.j at WHITEHALLPL.ORG Mon Sep 28 14:27:19 2015 From: gilbert.j at WHITEHALLPL.ORG (Jim Gilbert(WTPL)) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:27:19 +0000 Subject: PC Reservation software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Jane, We have been using Envisionware's PC-RESERVATION software (that is the name in capital letters). It is rather robust and allows a great deal of independence in the setup. 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 Jane Frasier Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 2:15 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] PC Reservation software We have used Library Online (libonline) for many years and it works great. However lately I have not been able to get technical support from them and I fear that that product is going away. What reservation software are you using? Thanks. Jane Frasier Software Support Specialist Jefferson County Public Library 10200 W. 20th Avenue Lakewood, CO 80215 P (303) 403-5296 Jane.Frasier at jeffcolibrary.org Find us on the Web: http://jeffcolibrary.org ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mike.Pullin at UNTHSC.EDU Mon Sep 28 14:27:54 2015 From: Mike.Pullin at UNTHSC.EDU (Pullin, Mike) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:27:54 +0000 Subject: PC Reservation software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We have tried two and are demoing a third. The two we have used are Time Limit Manager by Fortress Grand and PCCop by CMS. The one we are demoing right now is Signup by Pharos. TLM didn't work well for us because you cannot lock the PC (to go to the printer, or wherever) and then unlock it when you get back. Also, we had some trouble with the tickets not being in the database, but that might have been user error. PCCop does not seem to want to always work well on a VM client. Pharos Signup is very customizable and we will see how that goes. It is the most expensive of the three, but we already use their print management system. Mike Values: Service ~ Integrity ~ Respect ~ Collaboration ~ Vision From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jane Frasier Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 1:13 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] PC Reservation software We have used Library Online (libonline) for many years and it works great. However lately I have not been able to get technical support from them and I fear that that product is going away. What reservation software are you using? Thanks. 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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jane Frasier Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:13 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] PC Reservation software We have used Library Online (libonline) for many years and it works great. However lately I have not been able to get technical support from them and I fear that that product is going away. What reservation software are you using? Thanks. 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Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. Shannon Fox-Teichmann Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections Austin College | Abell Library Center 900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L Sherman, TX 75090-4400 Phone 903.813.2559 Cell 903.267.2424 http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell [AusColl_Logo_Email (2)] [Twitter_Icon_blue] ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lrowliso at LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU Mon Sep 28 20:00:59 2015 From: lrowliso at LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU (Lisa Rowlison de Ortiz) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:00:59 -0700 Subject: Position: Metadata Analyst, UC Berkeley, California USA Message-ID: Please see: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LHRD/currentjobs.html#20535 Metadata Analyst #20535 - Job ID: 20535 - Location: Main Campus-Berkeley - Full/Part Time: Full-Time - Regular/Temporary: Regular - Department: Library Administration - *Application Review Date:* The First Review Date for this job is *October 1, 2015.* About Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's most iconic teaching and research institutions. Since 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world. Berkeley's culture of openness, freedom and acceptance-academic and artistic, political and cultural-make it a very special place for students, faculty and staff. Berkeley is committed to hiring and developing staff who want to work in a high performing culture that supports the outstanding work of our faculty and students. In deciding whether to apply for a staff position at Berkeley, candidates are strongly encouraged to consider the alignment of the Berkeley Workplace Culture with their potential for success at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/why-berkeley.html Departmental Overview In addition to maintaining the metadata within the Library?s catalog OskiCat, Catalog & Metadata Services is responsible for the cataloging and physical treatment of all new monographs and serials in all formats and languages (except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) for the UC Berkeley Main and subject specialty libraries. The Department works closely with Library Applications & Publishing to load vendor records, on projects to improve catalog quality, and to identify and create non-MARC metadata for digital library projects. The Library Applications & Publishing Group (LAP) provides technical support for Library, including developing, purchasing and/or supporting all types of hardware platforms and software applications. LAP has primary responsibility for supporting and building UC Berkeley Library?s Integrated Library System (ILS), Digital Library, and web presence. Responsibilities Reporting to the Metadata Management Unit within the Library's Catalog & Metadata Services Department (C&MS), this position works with a workleader in the Library Applications and Publishing (LAP) unit within the Library Systems Office (LSO). The Metadata Analyst position serves as an important bridge between the two Library units. The Metadata Analyst provides metadata analysis, ingest, and management services within the Catalog & Metadata Services Department and Library Applications & Publishing. Resolves structural and content errors, omissions, and ambiguities that may result in problems that affect access to library research resources and broad aspects of user comprehension. Engages in post-ingest metadata cleanup services and projects as needed. Within the Metadata Management Unit, collaborates with others to ensure the creation and management of quality metadata across Library information databases and systems. Liaises with Library staff within and beyond C&MS and LAP to identify and plan metadata service projects. This may include advising Library units on metadata issues and workflows, participating in workflow analysis and optimization, and identifying and advising project or unit leaders on best practices. Works in partnership with Library research resource vendors on issues of metadata availability, delivery, and content. Required Qualifications - Experience with a variety of metadata standards and applications, especially MARC and RDA. - Knowledge of OCLC and integrated library systems, preferably Millennium. - Basic understanding of the MARC formats and standards for both bibliographic and authority data, including specific fields and their function. - Requires knowledge of data management systems, practices and standards. - Must have knowledge relating to logical data design, data warehouse design, data integration or the management of web content or other unstructured data. - Must be able to prepare simple data models under guidance of more senior professionals. - Must be familiar with important types of data models, such as logical/relational models, dimensional models and document models. - Strong analytical and design skills, including the ability to abstract information requirements from real-world processes to understand information flows in computer systems. - Critical thinking skills and attention to detail. - Good interviewing and listening skills. - Written and oral communication skills. Must be able to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner with both technical and non-technical staff. - Requires basic knowledge of data management operations, including data definition, data modeling, data analysis, data base administration & support, data conversion and management of content or unstructured information. - Excellent analytical and problem solving skills together with attention to detail for complex, possibly repetitive, detail-oriented work. - Demonstrated project management skills, understanding of project management approaches and tools. Must be able to clearly define project scope, phases, and schedule, and be able to manage resources and schedules. - Demonstrated ability to use or proven ability to learn basic and advanced tools such as XSLT or scripting, to transform or remediate metadata. - Ability to participate in multiple concurrent projects in a given timeframe, monitor project workflow, provide regular reports or updates as necessary, and meet project deadlines. - Must be self-motivated and be able to work independently or as part of a team.Preferred Qualifications - Demonstrated ability to write technical specifications. - Advanced knowledge of national cataloging standards and tools, especially: OCLC, Anglo American Cataloging Rules, RDA, Library of Congress classification and subject headings. - Detailed understanding of MARC formats and standards for both bibliographic and authority data, including specific fields and their function. Salary & Benefits - The hourly salary is $25.14 - $31.13 For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html How to Apply Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying. Equal Employment Opportunity The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant see: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct -- Lisa Rowlison de Ortiz Head, Catalog & Metadata Services The Library University of California Berkeley 250 Moffitt #6000 Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 lrowliso at library.berkeley.edu phone: (510) 643-2038 fax: (510) 642-4956 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From esandall at MILIBRARY.ORG Mon Sep 28 20:08:37 2015 From: esandall at MILIBRARY.ORG (Erik Sandall) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:08:37 -0700 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <948e909be3304826a43fa565f0cf5f4d@EXCHMBX.admin.austincollege.edu> Message-ID: Hi Shannon, WordPress is based on PHP, so I'm surprised your IT is okay with that for the university website but not with Drupal for your library website. Plus, you don't really need any PHP skills to build a Drupal site using existing modules. Anyway... I've used Bootstrap as a responsive CSS framework. It's versatile, and their documentation is good (http://getbootstrap.com/). For simple HTML and CSS editing, I like the free Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/). For an IDE that is capable of managing all the files of a project, from Javascript and PHP to HTML and CSS, the also free NetBeans is my choice (https://netbeans.org/). I hope this helps. /e -- Erik Sandall, MLIS Electronic Services Librarian & Webmaster Mechanics' Institute 57 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0111 esandall at milibrary.org On 9/28/2015 4:53 PM, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the > next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the > college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we > prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight > budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began > looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that > require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, > ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it > but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open > source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has > anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design > software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have > an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming ?glitchy? and I prefer to > redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. > > *Shannon Fox-Teichmann* > > *Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections* > > *Austin College | Abell Library Center* > > 900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L > > Sherman, TX 75090-4400 > > Phone 903.813.2559 Cell 903.267.2424 > > http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell > > AusColl_Logo_Email (2) > > Twitter_Icon_blue > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-28 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 From jlwalz at ASBURY.EDU Mon Sep 28 20:09:33 2015 From: jlwalz at ASBURY.EDU (Walz, Jennifer) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:09:33 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <948e909be3304826a43fa565f0cf5f4d@EXCHMBX.admin.austincollege.edu> Message-ID: All - I recommend LibGuides from Springshare. There are many libraries that are using it as their entire web site and it works very well. Please see: http://springshare.com/libguides/ Jennifer From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:54 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] website options A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. Shannon Fox-Teichmann Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections Austin College | Abell Library Center 900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L Sherman, TX 75090-4400 Phone 903.813.2559 Cell 903.267.2424 http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell [AusColl_Logo_Email (2)] [Twitter_Icon_blue] ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We?re looking for programs of interest to all library/information agency types that inspire technological change and adoption, or/and generally go above and beyond the everyday. *When are proposals due?* October 23rd, 2015 *How I do submit a proposal?* Fill out this form - http://goo.gl/forms/ufkMfniiu0 Program descriptions should be 75 words or less. *When will I be informed? * The committee will be reviewing proposals after October 23rd; final decisions will be made by October 30th. *Do I have to be a member of ALA/LITA? or a LITA Interest Group (IG) or a committee?* No! We welcome proposals from anyone who feels they have something to offer regarding library technology. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide financial support for speakers. Because of the limited number of programs, LITA IGs and Committees will receive preference where two equally well-written programs are submitted. Presenters may be asked to combine programs or work with an IG/Committee where similar topics have been proposed. *Got another question?* Please feel free to email Evviva Weinraub (PPC chair) ( evviva.weinraub at northwestern.edu) ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU Mon Sep 28 20:32:04 2015 From: sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU (Shannon E. Fox) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:32:04 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <5609D685.1060103@milibrary.org> Message-ID: Hi Erik, That does help, and I like your point about the PHP... we do have a new IT director, perhaps we can broach the subject with him. Thank you, Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Erik Sandall Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:09 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Shannon, WordPress is based on PHP, so I'm surprised your IT is okay with that for the university website but not with Drupal for your library website. Plus, you don't really need any PHP skills to build a Drupal site using existing modules. Anyway... I've used Bootstrap as a responsive CSS framework. It's versatile, and their documentation is good (http://getbootstrap.com/). For simple HTML and CSS editing, I like the free Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/). For an IDE that is capable of managing all the files of a project, from Javascript and PHP to HTML and CSS, the also free NetBeans is my choice (https://netbeans.org/). I hope this helps. /e -- Erik Sandall, MLIS Electronic Services Librarian & Webmaster Mechanics' Institute 57 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0111 esandall at milibrary.org On 9/28/2015 4:53 PM, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for > the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to > the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we > prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight > budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began > looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that > require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, > ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it > but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open > source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. > Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive > design software package to create/maintain an academic library > website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming > "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. > > *Shannon Fox-Teichmann* > > *Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections* > > *Austin College | Abell Library Center* > > 900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L > > Sherman, TX 75090-4400 > > Phone 903.813.2559 Cell 903.267.2424 > > http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell > > AusColl_Logo_Email (2) > > Twitter_Icon_blue > > ============================ > > To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib > > Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ > > 2015-09-28 > ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 From sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU Mon Sep 28 20:34:52 2015 From: sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU (Shannon E. Fox) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:34:52 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <8177efe57cbb4334862159dd6a3478e5@martin.asbury.edu> Message-ID: I love the LibGuides CMS demo, I so hoped we could go with that, but I was unsuccessful in obtaining approval for our quote. However, we are a very small library and college, so for any library with at least a fair budget I would encourage checking out the LibGuides complete CMS. Shannon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Walz, Jennifer Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:10 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options All - I recommend LibGuides from Springshare. There are many libraries that are using it as their entire web site and it works very well. Please see: http://springshare.com/libguides/ Jennifer From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:54 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [WEB4LIB] website options A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. Shannon Fox-Teichmann Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections Austin College | Abell Library Center 900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L Sherman, TX 75090-4400 Phone 903.813.2559 Cell 903.267.2424 http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell [AusColl_Logo_Email (2)] [Twitter_Icon_blue] ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Tue Sep 29 03:30:37 2015 From: chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Christian Pietsch) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:30:37 +0200 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <948e909be3304826a43fa565f0cf5f4d@EXCHMBX.admin.austincollege.edu> Message-ID: Hi Shannon, dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. I would always first try to use a static website generator such as Jekyll , which is free and open source. It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:53:38PM +0000, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. -- 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/ 2015-09-29 From haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU Tue Sep 29 09:39:04 2015 From: haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU (Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:39:04 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <20150929073036.GC2757@localhost> Message-ID: I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. We have our main site on Adobe Experience Manager (university Provided), extensive Guides on Campus Guides CMS, as well as about 25 or so blogs and exhibits on two different installs of Networks of Wordpress (sometimes called Wordpress MU). Why do you not want to use Wordpress that your University supplies? Is it too locked down? Will they give you admin control of the site? We survived for years using Dreamweaver templates and Server Side Includes, so a template based php system might work for you. Though I have used it for years, I too have been reluctant to go to Adobe s cloud services. As someone else pointed out, if you University is supporting Wordpress, then they are supporting PHP! On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: Hi Shannon, dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. I would always first try to use a static website generator such as Jekyll , which is free and open source. It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:53:38PM +0000, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? 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It's an open source alternative to LibGuides that handles course guides, database pages, staff pages, and an FAQ. We're going to move to that very soon. Right now our site is a mix of static pages, database-driven pages, and wiki pages. SubjectsPlus will allow more folks to be involved in maintaining the site. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:39 AM, "Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)" wrote: I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. We have our main site on Adobe Experience Manager (university Provided), extensive Guides on Campus Guides CMS, as well as about 25 or so blogs and exhibits on two different installs of Networks of Wordpress (sometimes called Wordpress MU). Why do you not want to use Wordpress that your University supplies? Is it too locked down? Will they give you admin control of the site? We survived for years using Dreamweaver templates and Server Side Includes, so a template based php system might work for you. Though I have used it for years, I too have been reluctant to go to Adobe s cloud services. As someone else pointed out, if you University is supporting Wordpress, then they are supporting PHP! On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch < chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote: Hi Shannon, dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. I would always first try to use a static website generator such as Jekyll , which is free and open source. It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:53:38PM +0000, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. -- 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/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Tue Sep 29 10:08:06 2015 From: chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Christian Pietsch) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:08:06 +0200 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch ? http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 From vinsonc at CLEMSON.EDU Tue Sep 29 10:43:59 2015 From: vinsonc at CLEMSON.EDU (Christopher Vinson) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:43:59 +0000 Subject: Job Posting: Web Developer at Clemson University Message-ID: Web Developer Clemson University Libraries Clemson, South Carolina Clemson University Libraries seeks a Web Developer to direct the strategic long term goals, policies and procedures for the university libraries website. This position will provide administrative and technical management of all facets of the website. The Web Developer will interact with a wide variety of colleagues to provide web development support and will work closely with content creators to organize their content in a meaningful way into the content management system. Development and implementation of overall policies and procedures for web site structure, format, usage, responsiveness, and accessibility will be included. **Responsibilities:** * Provides day to day oversight and management of web installations, including content creation and addition/removal, performing updates, server and database administration, managing controlled vocabularies for page content classes and types, and scheduling backups. Manages the migration of content from legacy web sites and systems into WordPress. Installs, tests, and implements WordPress plugins and themes. * Performs short and long-term strategic planning. Develops and implements concepts, policies, and standards for top-level website within overall goals and parameters established by senior management. Designs consistent methodologies for development of internet resources. * Performs web server administration tasks at a Unix/Linux shell command line, translates business needs/wants into web system designs, work with others to build integration interfaces between web applications and other university and library systems. * Supervises ongoing evaluation of website software. Creates and maintains documentation. Trains content managers. Meets regularly with content managers. * Develops web applications to streamline or improve online library services. Evaluates, recommends, and administers website programming. * Adheres to and complies with all university policies and procedures. **Required qualifications:** * Bachelor's degree in computer science or related area, and experience. Related experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree on a year-by-year basis. * Experience in the following: development with WordPress multisite environment; development with PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript; responsive user interface design; and cross-browser compatibility. * Background in UNIX/Linux server administration. * Experience working in a team environment. * Excellent communication skills. Works independently. Proactive in seeking solutions and working with clients and constituents. **Preferred qualifications in addition to the minimum qualifications:** * Familiarity with XML and XSLT. * Experience with version control systems, especially Subversion * Web development experience in a library environment * Experience with Sass. * Experience with task runners. **Salary:** $55,000-$60,000 **Work Schedule:** Standard schedule of 37.5 hours per week; Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm. **Location: **Cooper Library on Clemson University campus, Clemson, SC. **Application Process:** * Prepare a resume and cover letter outlining your knowledge, skills and abilities. * Use an internet browser to access the Clemson University Human Resources website at http://www.clemson.edu/employment/prospective/findjobs.html * Select the 'Internal Applicant Job Board' link (if current employee). * Scroll through the available positions and locate position 'Library Web Developer' **Job ID #14480**. * Click to open the application box, fill out the application completely and attach cover letter and resume documents. * This position will close on **Friday, October 9, 2015**. **Jeanne Clery Act:** The Jeanne Clery Disclosure Act requires institutions of higher education to disclose campus security information including crime statistics for the campus and surrounding areas. As a current or prospective Clemson University employee, you have a right to obtain a copy of this information for this institution. For more information regarding our Employment, Campus Safety and Benefits, please visit the Human Resources - Prospective Employees web page shown below: http://www.clemson.edu/cao/humanresources/prospective/ **Closing Statement:** Clemson University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/23330/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 From haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU Tue Sep 29 11:49:18 2015 From: haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU (Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:49:18 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <20150929140805.GJ3906@localhost> Message-ID: Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 From sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU Tue Sep 29 12:23:10 2015 From: sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU (Shannon E. Fox) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:23:10 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <-3663479980917665082@unknownmsgid> Message-ID: Cost is definitely an issue. All requests for hosted options have been rejected. Also, getting IT to support certain software or scripting languages on the library webserver has been unsuccessful so far. IT has said no both to installations of PHP and ASP.net and trials of open source content management systems. Our webserver is separate from the college?s so that is why they do not want to support two separate installations of technologies (beyond HTML) as they fear there will be problems that will later require them to fix. IT has locked down the college WordPress CMS tight, so when I attempted widgets/search boxes or anything we have embedded in current website, WordPress stripped out the coding. Subsequently, I was informed they did not want to turn anything on that would compromise security. I would not be an admin but I can choose from several templates for each page, but basically our pages would consist only of verbiage, links and pictures for content. That is why we held off on migrating to the college CMS. Additionally, there is a new design for the college website and it is responsive design, but they have not applied it to subsites like ours (the one for the library I have not completed) and they do not know yet when they would apply the new design across the board so that all sites look the same. We are a small college library and I am the only webpage creator/editor. (Sorry -- answering previous questions as well. ? ) I appreciate all of the suggestions though, there is much to consider that I definitely will investigate. Current website: http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell/ on our own IT hosted server Current college website: http://www.austincollege.edu/ Subsite on the previous design: http://newlibrary.austincollege.edu/ -- what I started but have not completed Shannon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura Robbins Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:00 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options If cost is an issue, then you could investigate using a wiki, like pmwiki. Pmwiki is php based and you can customize templates for a standard look. We use that for part of our website. You could also look at SubjectsPlus. It's an open source alternative to LibGuides that handles course guides, database pages, staff pages, and an FAQ. We're going to move to that very soon. Right now our site is a mix of static pages, database-driven pages, and wiki pages. SubjectsPlus will allow more folks to be involved in maintaining the site. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:39 AM, "Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)" > wrote: I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. We have our main site on Adobe Experience Manager (university Provided), extensive Guides on Campus Guides CMS, as well as about 25 or so blogs and exhibits on two different installs of Networks of Wordpress (sometimes called Wordpress MU). Why do you not want to use Wordpress that your University supplies? Is it too locked down? Will they give you admin control of the site? We survived for years using Dreamweaver templates and Server Side Includes, so a template based php system might work for you. Though I have used it for years, I too have been reluctant to go to Adobe s cloud services. As someone else pointed out, if you University is supporting Wordpress, then they are supporting PHP! On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch > wrote: Hi Shannon, dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. I would always first try to use a static website generator such as Jekyll , which is free and open source. It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:53:38PM +0000, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. -- 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/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU Tue Sep 29 12:43:05 2015 From: sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU (Shannon E. Fox) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:43:05 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <368C651461AEDA4C9052964EB2C25BE18ECC747E@UCMAILA6.ad.uc.edu> Message-ID: My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that. Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 From Gayle.Bradbeer at UCDENVER.EDU Tue Sep 29 13:29:59 2015 From: Gayle.Bradbeer at UCDENVER.EDU (Bradbeer, Gayle) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:29:59 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Have you looked at LibGuides? Many small libraries use the guides to create a site that is deeper than what their main IT will support. Check out the list at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/academic/website.html. They all do things a little differently. Gayle *** Gayle Bradbeer Collection Development (STEMM) and User Support Librarian Auraria Library serving UCDenver, MSUDenver & CCDenver gayle.bradbeer at auraria.edu -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:43 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that. Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 From m-north at NORTHWESTERN.EDU Tue Sep 29 13:50:01 2015 From: m-north at NORTHWESTERN.EDU (Michael North) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:50:01 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I thought I would mention one thing I like about LibGuides. The content can be exported and then imported into your library Discovery System. Here, our students "discover" our LibGuides while searching in our electronic catalog (discovery system). So, searching for subject material will deliver the associated LibGuide. Nice feature. Michael North Northwestern University -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bradbeer, Gayle Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:30 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Have you looked at LibGuides? Many small libraries use the guides to create a site that is deeper than what their main IT will support. Check out the list at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/academic/website.html. They all do things a little differently. Gayle *** Gayle Bradbeer Collection Development (STEMM) and User Support Librarian Auraria Library serving UCDenver, MSUDenver & CCDenver gayle.bradbeer at auraria.edu -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:43 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that. Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 From rlanglois at NHCGOV.COM Tue Sep 29 13:55:53 2015 From: rlanglois at NHCGOV.COM (Langlois, Rachel) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:55:53 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We love our LibGuides system! Customization is amazing. Price is awesome. Service is stellar. Truly fantastic. From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bradbeer, Gayle Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:30 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Have you looked at LibGuides? Many small libraries use the guides to create a site that is deeper than what their main IT will support. Check out the list at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/academic/website.html. They all do things a little differently. Gayle *** Gayle Bradbeer Collection Development (STEMM) and User Support Librarian Auraria Library serving UCDenver, MSUDenver & CCDenver gayle.bradbeer at auraria.edu Rachel Langlois | Virtual Services Librarian Library - Main - Technical Services | New Hanover County 201 Chestnut Street Wilmington, NC 28401 (910) 798-6331 p | (910) 256-1238 f -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:43 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that. Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ________________________________ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmunson at EWU.EDU Tue Sep 29 14:04:40 2015 From: dmunson at EWU.EDU (Munson, Doris) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:04:40 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <684F91F5853CD8418EA859507501DED5D1D5DA81@SRVEXMBX02R.nhcgov.com> Message-ID: We also moved most of our web pages off the campus web site to LibGuides. LibGuides is easy to use, easy to customize, and very versatile. One of the best features is that you can set up URLs so that they can be used in multiple pages but they only need to be updated in one place. Librarians can maintain their own subject pages. Best, Doris Doris M. Munson Systems Librarian Eastern Washington University (509) 359-6395 dmunson at ewu.edu From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Langlois, Rachel Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:56 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options We love our LibGuides system! Customization is amazing. Price is awesome. Service is stellar. Truly fantastic. From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bradbeer, Gayle Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:30 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Have you looked at LibGuides? Many small libraries use the guides to create a site that is deeper than what their main IT will support. Check out the list at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/academic/website.html. They all do things a little differently. Gayle *** Gayle Bradbeer Collection Development (STEMM) and User Support Librarian Auraria Library serving UCDenver, MSUDenver & CCDenver gayle.bradbeer at auraria.edu Rachel Langlois | Virtual Services Librarian Library - Main - Technical Services | New Hanover County 201 Chestnut Street Wilmington, NC 28401 (910) 798-6331 p | (910) 256-1238 f -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:43 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that. Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roy.degler at OKSTATE.EDU Tue Sep 29 14:42:26 2015 From: roy.degler at OKSTATE.EDU (Degler, Roy) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:42:26 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Shannon, I will second the use of LibGuides CMS for running a website. Springshare offers a very good product with great customer support. You stated your boss would prefer a DB based platform. That will not be possible without server side scripting (php, asp.net, java, etc.) Since your IT dept has ruled that out you will need to look elsewhere. First, have you looked into other services for hosting? With a little effort you will be able to find shared hosting or managed hosting for reasonable prices and reliability. ? Managed hosting for a single CMS ($100-600 /yr) o WordPress.com and Pantheon is available. They manage the WP install and security. o Pantheon and Drupal Gardens etc offer Drupal managed platforms. o Many other CMS?s are offered through managed hosting. ? ModxCloud is a great example. (Modx is my preferred CMS) ? Shared Hosting with auto installation/upgrade tools:Installatron, fantastico, Softaculous ($35-150 /yr) o There are a great many hosting companies to choose from. o They are reasonable, but reliability varies greatly. Make sure you select a reputable hosting service. o I have used Stablehost (currently), HostGater, Dreamhost, NameCheap and others. ? Possibly the state of Texas or the Texas Dept of Libraries will offer a hosting service with all the features of Shared hosting Companies. ($~FREE /yr) ? If you are very tech savvy, cloud services like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and MS Azure are available at good prices and are very reliable. You have to install the all the server software. (There are prebuilt installs for various OS?s and CMS?s for purchase) ($120-1000 /yr) Second, selecting a CMS is very important. You need to find a reliable/secure CMS and one works for you. ? I suggest you go to one of the following sites to give various CMS?s a hands-on trial. These site have installs with admin log in info for you to try the CMS?s. o http://www.opensourcecms.com/ o http://www.softaculous.com/softaculous/apps ? All of us that have replied have a favorite CMS. Here is my spin o Drupal ? ? steeper leaning curve, ? Modules do not always work well with each other ? tool driven- NOT content centered ? Used by many libraries- you can get support from that community ? Php based templates o Wordpress ? Easy to use ? Plug-ins increase security risk ? Hackers target WP installs ? Used by many libraries- you can get support from that community ? Php based templates o Modx- my favorite ? Easy to use for content editors ? admin set up has a learning curve lower than drupal but higher than WP ? Very Content oriented ? All Snippets output content using the same structure- making them work well together ? Templates are HTML and CSS based, very easy to customize ? Open-Source- supported by a for profit company, their income is dependent on it working ? User-Community support is available I hope this helps. Roy Degler roy.degler at okstate.edu 405 744-6541 Digital Library Services Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Democritus Greek philosopher (460 BC - 370 BC) ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU Tue Sep 29 14:44:11 2015 From: sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU (Shannon E. Fox) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:44:11 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I love the LibGuides too, I had a demo of it last year. So far I have not been able to secure permission based on our quotes due to budget reasons; it would be a matter of my continuing to appeal for budget approval. I am given no budget for this and my boss prefers that I find a free/open source solution. Shannon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Munson, Doris Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:05 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options We also moved most of our web pages off the campus web site to LibGuides. LibGuides is easy to use, easy to customize, and very versatile. One of the best features is that you can set up URLs so that they can be used in multiple pages but they only need to be updated in one place. Librarians can maintain their own subject pages. Best, Doris Doris M. Munson Systems Librarian Eastern Washington University (509) 359-6395 dmunson at ewu.edu From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Langlois, Rachel Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:56 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options We love our LibGuides system! Customization is amazing. Price is awesome. Service is stellar. Truly fantastic. From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bradbeer, Gayle Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:30 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Have you looked at LibGuides? Many small libraries use the guides to create a site that is deeper than what their main IT will support. Check out the list at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/academic/website.html. They all do things a little differently. Gayle *** Gayle Bradbeer Collection Development (STEMM) and User Support Librarian Auraria Library serving UCDenver, MSUDenver & CCDenver gayle.bradbeer at auraria.edu Rachel Langlois | Virtual Services Librarian Library - Main - Technical Services | New Hanover County 201 Chestnut Street Wilmington, NC 28401 (910) 798-6331 p | (910) 256-1238 f -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:43 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that. Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi all I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site. My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site . If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill. On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that? Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Hi Lisa, hello list, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote: > I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. > > Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll. GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online. Cheers, Christian > On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > Hi Shannon, > > dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, > slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use > cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. > > I would always first try to use a static website generator such as > Jekyll , which is free and open source. > It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially > plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. > > Cheers, > Christian -- Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany ============================ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU Tue Sep 29 15:12:17 2015 From: haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU (Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:12:17 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Wow- your IT department is really tying both your arms behind your back! What?s the point of having your own web server without any server-side coding language support? You might tell your administration: nothing is free. Open source is free to purchase, but requires your time for setup, updates, upgrades, installs. As others have pointed out, if you want a database driven site, you need server side languages. Personally, I would try to get your administration to consider a Wordpress hosted solution. We have a sandbox on Hostgator that runs us about $100 a year, which hosts many of our development projects, test installs and other also hosts: http://booksbythebanks.org. On that install, we added a few custom tables to a standard Wordpress install. Not hard to do at all. In the long run, hosted Wordpress will be your cheapest option when you take into account your time: learning a new system (you already know Wordpress), design, testing, etc... It could be totally free if your IT department would let you host this on their servers. If all that doesn?t work, I would definitely consider Christian?s suggestion. Good Luck! From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:23 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Cost is definitely an issue. All requests for hosted options have been rejected. Also, getting IT to support certain software or scripting languages on the library webserver has been unsuccessful so far. IT has said no both to installations of PHP and ASP.net and trials of open source content management systems. Our webserver is separate from the college?s so that is why they do not want to support two separate installations of technologies (beyond HTML) as they fear there will be problems that will later require them to fix. IT has locked down the college WordPress CMS tight, so when I attempted widgets/search boxes or anything we have embedded in current website, WordPress stripped out the coding. Subsequently, I was informed they did not want to turn anything on that would compromise security. I would not be an admin but I can choose from several templates for each page, but basically our pages would consist only of verbiage, links and pictures for content. That is why we held off on migrating to the college CMS. Additionally, there is a new design for the college website and it is responsive design, but they have not applied it to subsites like ours (the one for the library I have not completed) and they do not know yet when they would apply the new design across the board so that all sites look the same. We are a small college library and I am the only webpage creator/editor. (Sorry -- answering previous questions as well. ? ) I appreciate all of the suggestions though, there is much to consider that I definitely will investigate. Current website: http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell/ on our own IT hosted server Current college website: http://www.austincollege.edu/ Subsite on the previous design: http://newlibrary.austincollege.edu/ -- what I started but have not completed Shannon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura Robbins Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:00 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options If cost is an issue, then you could investigate using a wiki, like pmwiki. Pmwiki is php based and you can customize templates for a standard look. We use that for part of our website. You could also look at SubjectsPlus. It's an open source alternative to LibGuides that handles course guides, database pages, staff pages, and an FAQ. We're going to move to that very soon. Right now our site is a mix of static pages, database-driven pages, and wiki pages. SubjectsPlus will allow more folks to be involved in maintaining the site. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:39 AM, "Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)" > wrote: I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. We have our main site on Adobe Experience Manager (university Provided), extensive Guides on Campus Guides CMS, as well as about 25 or so blogs and exhibits on two different installs of Networks of Wordpress (sometimes called Wordpress MU). Why do you not want to use Wordpress that your University supplies? Is it too locked down? Will they give you admin control of the site? We survived for years using Dreamweaver templates and Server Side Includes, so a template based php system might work for you. Though I have used it for years, I too have been reluctant to go to Adobe s cloud services. As someone else pointed out, if you University is supporting Wordpress, then they are supporting PHP! On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch > wrote: Hi Shannon, dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. I would always first try to use a static website generator such as Jekyll , which is free and open source. It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:53:38PM +0000, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. -- 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/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2015-09-29 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU Tue Sep 29 16:05:10 2015 From: sfox at AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU (Shannon E. Fox) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:05:10 +0000 Subject: website options In-Reply-To: <368C651461AEDA4C9052964EB2C25BE18ECC7DAA@UCMAILA6.ad.uc.edu> Message-ID: All of this feedback is wonderful, thank you so much Lisa, Laura, Christian, Erik, Michael, Roy, Shelley, Jennifer, Gayle and others. Everyone?s input makes good sense and arms me with more knowledge and options where I will be able to meet further with my boss and key contacts in IT and perhaps be able to persuade purchase of a hosted option, of which I am feeling more encouraged. I think I?m going to have to fight harder for the solution we need. Shannon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 2:12 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Wow- your IT department is really tying both your arms behind your back! What?s the point of having your own web server without any server-side coding language support? You might tell your administration: nothing is free. Open source is free to purchase, but requires your time for setup, updates, upgrades, installs. As others have pointed out, if you want a database driven site, you need server side languages. Personally, I would try to get your administration to consider a Wordpress hosted solution. We have a sandbox on Hostgator that runs us about $100 a year, which hosts many of our development projects, test installs and other also hosts: http://booksbythebanks.org. On that install, we added a few custom tables to a standard Wordpress install. Not hard to do at all. In the long run, hosted Wordpress will be your cheapest option when you take into account your time: learning a new system (you already know Wordpress), design, testing, etc... It could be totally free if your IT department would let you host this on their servers. If all that doesn?t work, I would definitely consider Christian?s suggestion. Good Luck! From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:23 PM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options Cost is definitely an issue. All requests for hosted options have been rejected. Also, getting IT to support certain software or scripting languages on the library webserver has been unsuccessful so far. IT has said no both to installations of PHP and ASP.net and trials of open source content management systems. Our webserver is separate from the college?s so that is why they do not want to support two separate installations of technologies (beyond HTML) as they fear there will be problems that will later require them to fix. IT has locked down the college WordPress CMS tight, so when I attempted widgets/search boxes or anything we have embedded in current website, WordPress stripped out the coding. Subsequently, I was informed they did not want to turn anything on that would compromise security. I would not be an admin but I can choose from several templates for each page, but basically our pages would consist only of verbiage, links and pictures for content. That is why we held off on migrating to the college CMS. Additionally, there is a new design for the college website and it is responsive design, but they have not applied it to subsites like ours (the one for the library I have not completed) and they do not know yet when they would apply the new design across the board so that all sites look the same. We are a small college library and I am the only webpage creator/editor. (Sorry -- answering previous questions as well. ? ) I appreciate all of the suggestions though, there is much to consider that I definitely will investigate. Current website: http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell/ on our own IT hosted server Current college website: http://www.austincollege.edu/ Subsite on the previous design: http://newlibrary.austincollege.edu/ -- what I started but have not completed Shannon From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura Robbins Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:00 AM To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options If cost is an issue, then you could investigate using a wiki, like pmwiki. Pmwiki is php based and you can customize templates for a standard look. We use that for part of our website. You could also look at SubjectsPlus. It's an open source alternative to LibGuides that handles course guides, database pages, staff pages, and an FAQ. We're going to move to that very soon. Right now our site is a mix of static pages, database-driven pages, and wiki pages. SubjectsPlus will allow more folks to be involved in maintaining the site. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:39 AM, "Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)" > wrote: I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site. I alone manage 42 sites by myself. Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS. We have our main site on Adobe Experience Manager (university Provided), extensive Guides on Campus Guides CMS, as well as about 25 or so blogs and exhibits on two different installs of Networks of Wordpress (sometimes called Wordpress MU). Why do you not want to use Wordpress that your University supplies? Is it too locked down? Will they give you admin control of the site? We survived for years using Dreamweaver templates and Server Side Includes, so a template based php system might work for you. Though I have used it for years, I too have been reluctant to go to Adobe s cloud services. As someone else pointed out, if you University is supporting Wordpress, then they are supporting PHP! On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch > wrote: Hi Shannon, dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs. I would always first try to use a static website generator such as Jekyll , which is free and open source. It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:53:38PM +0000, Shannon E. Fox wrote: > A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design. -- Christian Pietsch ? http://purl.org/net/pietsch LibTec ? 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