[CODE4LIB] Job: Electronic Resources Librarian at Louisiana State University

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The Electronic Resources Librarian is responsible for ensuring access to 
commercial and public information resources needed for research and teaching  
at LSU by managing the Libraries' electronic resources and serving as liaison 
to vendors with the Director of Collection Services. This librarian works with 
Director of Collections Services and the Director of Copyright Policy and 
Education on licensing, and will direct a team in collecting usage data for the 
Libraries.

Oversees the process of electronic resources life cycle management including 
activation, maintaining access, and monitoring changes of electronic resources 
for the library; Collaborates with the Director of Collection Services, staff 
in Collection Services and Technology Initiatives in choosing, developing and 
administering an Electronic Resource Management System (ERM) for managing 
electronic resources; With Director of Collection Services, serves as liaison 
to vendors; Maintains awareness of trends and developments in e-resource 
acquisitions and management, and transfers this knowledge to staff across the 
organization; Works with Technology Initiatives staff to ensure that 
e-resources are properly managed through the proxy server for user 
authentication; Fosters a collaborative team-based approach to resolving 
access-related issues submitted through the Library’s Help Ticket system.
Directs a team gathering collection usage data used in annual ARL statistics 
report and IPEDs report; Plays a leadership role in developing tools, measures, 
and techniques to identify, prioritize, design, and implement the assessment of 
 library-wide activities and to communicate this to the Dean, the library and 
the public; Provides assistance in collecting, organizing, and analyzing 
quantitative and qualitative data, including ad hoc analyses and special 
requests; Provides consultation  and technical assistance in using and 
interpreting data; Provides assistance in developing and administering 
assessment surveys and user studies; Provides assistance with developing new 
services and projects.
Assists Copyright Librarian and Director of Collection Services in the license 
review, creation and renewal process for electronic resources by participating 
in vendor negotiations as needed; Applies knowledge of copyright and 
intellectual property principles to ensure that rights of library users are 
protected; Performs other duties as assigned by the Associate Dean for Public 
and Collection Services of LSU Libraries.
Works to meet promotion and tenure requirements for research and service.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s (MLIS, MLS) degree from an ALA-accredited program or a master's degree 
with commensurate experience. 3 years working in a library setting. Familiarity 
with the electronic product market and with electronic resources life cycle; 
knowledge of standards including, but not limited to, COUNTER, SUSHI, MARC, 
ISSN, etc.; Demonstrated experience working with statistical analysis tools and 
usage data to conduct data analysis.



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[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Curation Librarian at University of Utah Marriott Library

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Details

The J. Willard Marriott Library is seeking a Digital Curation Librarian to 
support ongoing and emerging initiatives in the digital library program at the 
University of Utah. The position is located in the Digital Library Services 
department, which provides services for digitization, creation of descriptive 
metadata, preservation, and discovery of digital collections. The Marriott 
Library is home to a large-scale statewide digital newspapers program, Utah 
Digital Newspapers (https://digitalnewspapers.org/), containing over 20 million 
newspaper articles, and Digital Collections (https://collections.lib.utah.edu/) 
with over 700,000 digital items, including collections provided by external 
partners at the University of Utah as well as a variety of state agencies and 
local cultural heritage institutions.

The Marriott Library requires all tenure-track faculty to engage in significant 
research activity that produces scholarship which contributes to the national 
and international conversation in the library field.

The Marriott Library is a member of the ACRL Diversity Alliance, a program 
uniting academic libraries who share a commitment to increase the hiring 
pipeline of qualified, talented individuals from underrepresented racial and 
ethnic groups.

Responsibilities

• Descriptive metadata creation for new collections in the Digital Library, 
creating new metadata records using Dublin Core, the Mountain West Digital 
Library Metadata Application Profile, and/or other metadata standards
• Wrangle existing data, in spreadsheets or EAD Finding Aids to repurpose data 
programmatically, reducing the amount of manual work spent on metadata creation 
and improving efficiencies for metadata creation in Digital Library Services.
• Audit metadata from existing collections to identify clean-up projects and 
improve consistency in the Digital Library
• Supervise part-time metadata staff
• Support new initiatives for digital library work by consulting on a variety 
of projects for different departments, both in the library and on campus
• Engage in scholarship or creative activities consistent with the mission of 
the University and specific position responsibilities
• Serve on library and university committees

All faculty librarians serve the needs of University faculty, staff, and 
students along with members of the local community. Work across organizational 
lines is encouraged to support and strengthen all services in the Marriott 
Library. The Digital Curation Librarian will assist with implementing the 
Marriott Library’s Strategic Directions and will be expected to be 
professionally active through participation in appropriate professional 
societies and through research and publication.

Required Qualifications

• An MSI, MLIS, or MLS from an ALA-accredited institution.
• Commitment to engage in research and scholarship and potential to achieve 
promotion and tenure, as demonstrated by a record of research and scholarship 
and/or an ability to clearly articulate a research agenda.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and responsibilities in a timely and 
efficient manner.
• Knowledge of current and emerging metadata standards and best practices
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience creating descriptive metadata for digital collections

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of metadata formats, standards, and schemas (e.g. 
Dublin Core, METS, MODS, EAD, MARC, etc.)
• Experience using emerging technologies for metadata creation and management
• Experience working with a digital asset management system (e.g. Islandora, 
Samvera, CONTENTdm)
• Knowledge of discovery tools and metadata practices supporting discovery
• Experience working with XML and XSLT metadata transformations
• Experience with scripting languages to manipulate metadata
• Experience with training and supervising student employees
• Knowledge of metadata in the context of the Digital Humanities
• Demonstrated proficiency and capability with information technology systems 
in the context of an academic Library
• Reading, writing, or speaking skills in a second language

Compensation: $53,000 – $58,000 dependent on qualifications, plus excellent 
benefits including a 14.2% retirement contribution to TIAA-CREF/Fidelity, 
outstanding medical and dental coverage, and ample and flexible paid sick and 
vacation time.

Preferred consideration will be given to all applications received by September 
22, 2017.



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[CODE4LIB] HathiTrust Research Center Awards Six ACS Projects

[Dubnicek, Ryan C]

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce the award of its third 
round of Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. This round’s request 
for proposals focused on projects that engage with in-copyright worksets using 
HTRC’s Data Capsule service. Submitted proposals addressed a diverse set of 
topics and research areas and were submitted from a varied pool of institutions 
from around the world. Out of a large body of quality submissions, only six 
projects were awarded.

Awardees will be provided dedicated HTRC staff time to support their research 
using texts in the HathiTrust Digital Library for a period of up to six months. 
New this round, each ACS project team will release its workset (research 
collections of data, or metadata, for analysis) publicly, allowing for other 
researchers to engage with the same workset.

The six awarded projects are:

Computational Support for Reading Chicago Reading
Project team: Robin Burke, John Shanahan, Ana Lucic (DePaul University)

Modeling the History of Book Design
Project team: David Bamman, Bjorn Hartmann (University of California, Berkeley)

The Power of Place: Structure, Culture, and Continuities in U.S. Women’s 
Movements
Project team: Laura Nelson (Northeastern University)

A Computational History of the U.S. Novel, 1950-2000
Project team: Richard Jean So (McGill University)

Measuring Literary Novelty
Project team: Laura McGrath, Devin Higgins, Arend Hintze (Michigan State 
University)

A Writer’s Workshop Workset with the Program Era Project (PEP)
Project team: Nicholas Kelly, Loren Glass, Nikki White (University of Iowa)

For project details, please see the full announcement here: 
https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_sp17acs_awards

HTRC releases ACS program requests for proposal annually, and is funded in part 
by HathiTrust, Indiana University, and University of Illinois. For more 
information about ACS, contact a...@hathitrust.org. 
For general inquiries, contact 
htrc-h...@hathitrust.org.

Re: [CODE4LIB] mr. r

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On Aug 17, 2017, at 3:08 PM, Shirley Zhao  wrote:

>> A man who might be called Mr. R is coming to give a talk here at the 
>> University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana). You are invited.
> 
> Is it being recorded? He's also the creator of ggplot2, an incredibly popular 
> data visualization package. 


  Alas, I don’t know the answers to any the question, sorry, and I doubt it is 
being recorded. Sigh? —Eric M.

Re: [CODE4LIB] mr. r

[Shirley Zhao]

Is it being recorded? He's also the creator of ggplot2, an incredibly popular 
data visualization package. 

Shirley Zhao | Data Science Librarian 
Eccles Health Sciences Library | The University of Utah
801.585.7624 | @zhao_shirley | http://shirl0207.wordpress.com

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Eric 
Lease Morgan
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:58 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] mr. r


A man who might be called Mr. R is coming to give a talk here at the University 
of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana). You are invited.

More specifically, a person named Hadley Wickham will be giving a presentation 
here on campus, August 28 from 5 - 6:30 in Jordon Hall, Room 101. Hadley 
Wickham comes all the way from Australia and has had a more-than-significant 
hand in the development & adoption of the programming language called “R”. 
Please see the attachment.

—
Eric M.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Senior Application Developer at Art Institute of Chicago

[Kevin Ford]

Hi all,

I just wanted to add to this official posting that Sufia [1] and Fedora 
[2] are the two main components in the stack.  That's not clear below, 
but members of this community will likely know those components, or at 
least know of them.  They're fairly well-known projects in library land; 
we're making use of them in museum land.


We don't do books, but it's still a collection (with pictures).  Oh, and 
we have grand plans of linking the references and citations we have in 
our collections database with the records in our ILS, all in a 
linky-linked-data fashion.  It's a Library, Archives, and Museum world.


Contact me off-list if you have any specific questions.

All the best,
Kevin


[1] https://github.com/samvera/sufia
[2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Repository+Home


On 8/16/17 10:00, Code4Lib Jobs wrote:

Job ID: 9829

The Art Institute of Chicago is seeking a Senior Application Developer for a 
full-time, salaried position to support the ongoing development and maintenance 
of a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for the Museum collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is a world-renowned art museum housing one 
of the largest permanent collections in the United States. It is encyclopedic 
in nature with strong holdings across all media, all traditions and all ages. 
The Art Institute is particularly recognized for its extraordinary 
Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary, Asian and American collections, among 
other aspects of its holdings.

The AIC Collections DAMS, named LAKE, was launched in Spring 2017.  LAKE is 
poised to become the Museum’s central repository for preserving, managing, 
accessing and publishing millions of digital assets related to the life cycle 
of all AIC collection items. LAKE will store very diverse kinds of digital 
assets and will be accessed by staff from over 25 departments with widely 
different access levels. LAKE is also meant to integrate with several existing 
applications and data sources as both a data provider and a data consumer.

LAKE is a groundbreaking effort by a major museum to embrace standards-based, 
community-driven open source software to build its core data repository. It is 
an exciting and challenging project requiring skilled, forward-thinking 
individuals with a strong commitment to its core values.

  


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  


Responsible for developing, maintaining, deploying, testing and documenting 
software related to LAKE which consists of a serving as the main data store; an 
based on Hydra; an -based integration framework; triplestore and Solr indexes; 
a Python ETL framework used to migrate and synchronize data from other systems; 
and a set of mirror systems (Fedora, Solr, IIIF server) specifically aimed at 
serving web-published data.
Primarily focused on the Hydra front end and ETL scripts while also providing 
backup support for the other areas of the LAKE architecture.
Prioritize work according to tickets assigned via a bug tracking system 
(Redmine), update these tickets as work progresses, and request feedback via 
the same ticketing system when needed.
Review other developers' code, comment on commits and manage merging of pull 
requests and branches.
Monitor the health and performance of systems on which LAKE runs, help to 
configure new systems, upgrade local software packages and apply security 
patches promptly.Coordinate these activities with the Network Services and 
systems administration staff.
Provide realistic work estimates, deliver in a timely manner, collaborate with 
other team members on overlapping areas, and switch between different projects 
according to priorities.
Dedicate time to researching new technologies and keeping abreast of current 
tools, best practices and patterns used in relevant technologies as well as in 
the Digital Humanities fields. Attendance to conferences and other events 
related to museum and repository technology is expected.
Collaborate and initiate discussion with other team members on issues involving 
multiple areas of LAKE and other applications as needed.  Interaction with 
communities supporting upstream projects is also expected – if necessary, 
participating in interest groups and working groups on topics shared with other 
institutions.
Maintain good working relationships with the Collections development team, 
other departments of the museum in order and occasionally with on or off-site 
contractors to identify and address system requirements.

  


Qualifications

  


Bachelors or Masters degree in a related field is required.

Primary requirements:

Working experience with Ruby on Rails, especially with complex gem stacks; 
previous experience with Hydra is ideal.
Working experience with Python (3.4 or higher).
Proficiency in Solr (5.5 or higher) query and schema language; SolrCloud 
administration a plus.
Thorough understanding of the HTTP protocol and REST API patterns.
Previous experience with large and complex data 

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenRefine Reconciliation - JournalTOC

[Morelock, Kindra]

Thanks Owen. That actually didn't work, but this did: 
http://127.0.0.1:5000/reconcile


Kindra Morelock
Data Services Librarian | DePaul University
kmore...@depaul.edu
(773) 325-4668


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Owen 
Stephens
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:57 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenRefine Reconciliation - JournalTOC

Once you’ve got the python service running on 0.0.0.0:5000, you need to add the 
Reconcile service in OpenRefine using the URL

http://0.0.0.0:5000/reconcile

Using just http://0.0.0.0:5000 gives a 404 - and a timeout from OpenRefine.

Hope this helps

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

> On 16 Aug 2017, at 22:25, Morelock, Kindra  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've spent the better part of today trying to install the JournalTOC 
> Reconciliation service for OpenRefine 
> (https://github.com/lawlesst/journaltocs-reconcile). I seem to be very close 
> to adding the service to OpenRefine, but it keeps timing out when I try to 
> add the service. It is hitting the service, according to the command prompt:
> 
> C:\Users\kmoreloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-p
> ackages\fuzzywuzzy-0.15.1-py3.6.egg\fuzzywuzzy\fuzz.py:35: 
> UserWarning: Using slow pure-python SequenceMatcher. Install 
> python-Levenshtein to remove this warning
> * Restarting with stat
> C:\Users\kmoreloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-p
> ackages\fuzzywuzzy-0.15.1-py3.6.egg\fuzzywuzzy\fuzz.py:35: 
> UserWarning: Using slow pure-python SequenceMatcher. Install 
> python-Levenshtein to remove this warning
> * Debugger is active!
> * Debugger PIN: 731-833-464
> * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
> 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Aug/2017 16:14:56] "GET 
> /?callback=jQuery0765135958595307_1502918074213&_=1502918074214 
> HTTP/1.1" 404 -
> 
> But in OpenRefine it's telling me "Error contacting recon service: timeout: 
> timeout - http://localhost:5000/;
> 
> I've also tried http://0.0.0.0:5000/ and http://127.0.0.1:5000/ -- same error.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
> Thanks,
> Kindra
> 
> Kindra Morelock
> Data Services Librarian | DePaul University 
> kmore...@depaul.edu
> (773) 325-4668

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenRefine Reconciliation - JournalTOC

[Owen Stephens]

Once you’ve got the python service running on 0.0.0.0:5000, you need to add the 
Reconcile service in OpenRefine using the URL

http://0.0.0.0:5000/reconcile

Using just http://0.0.0.0:5000 gives a 404 - and a timeout from OpenRefine.

Hope this helps

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

> On 16 Aug 2017, at 22:25, Morelock, Kindra  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've spent the better part of today trying to install the JournalTOC 
> Reconciliation service for OpenRefine 
> (https://github.com/lawlesst/journaltocs-reconcile). I seem to be very close 
> to adding the service to OpenRefine, but it keeps timing out when I try to 
> add the service. It is hitting the service, according to the command prompt:
> 
> C:\Users\kmoreloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fuzzywuzzy-0.15.1-py3.6.egg\fuzzywuzzy\fuzz.py:35:
>  UserWarning: Using slow pure-python SequenceMatcher. Install 
> python-Levenshtein to remove this warning
> * Restarting with stat
> C:\Users\kmoreloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fuzzywuzzy-0.15.1-py3.6.egg\fuzzywuzzy\fuzz.py:35:
>  UserWarning: Using slow pure-python SequenceMatcher. Install 
> python-Levenshtein to remove this warning
> * Debugger is active!
> * Debugger PIN: 731-833-464
> * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
> 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Aug/2017 16:14:56] "GET 
> /?callback=jQuery0765135958595307_1502918074213&_=1502918074214 HTTP/1.1" 
> 404 -
> 
> But in OpenRefine it's telling me "Error contacting recon service: timeout: 
> timeout - http://localhost:5000/;
> 
> I've also tried http://0.0.0.0:5000/ and http://127.0.0.1:5000/ -- same error.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
> Thanks,
> Kindra
> 
> Kindra Morelock
> Data Services Librarian | DePaul University
> kmore...@depaul.edu
> (773) 325-4668