[CODE4LIB] UIC -- Data Scientist Job

[Goben, Abigail H]

This is actually in our Academic Campus Computing group but you'd certainly get 
to collaborate with me and others at the Library. It's an interesting and 
growing team; I work with the director regularly.  There's not a salary listed 
on the ad but last person who had the position was at mid 90s.

Happy to answer whatever questions I can.

Data Scientist
https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/job-details?jobID=158318=data-scientist-technology-solutions


The University of Illinois at Chicago is growing (ranked 1st in diversity in 
the Midwest, top 25 public university, top 10 best value and many more). Our 
research portfolio is rapidly expanding and is around $445M annually. Recently, 
UIC played a critical role in the COVID19 vaccine and drug trials. The Advanced 
Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER) is responsible for 
delivering cyberinfrastructure (e.g., HPC, AI, Cloud, Data Lake) and consulting 
services to over 3000 researchers. We are rapidly growing our team of 
engineers, computational scientists, and data scientists to deliver on UIC's 
inspiring 5-year (2021-2025) Research Cyberinfrastructure strategic plan.



ACER seeks a qualified Data Scientist to join our impactful team and advance 
scientific discovery. If you are looking for an inclusive environment that 
provides challenges, learning opportunities, and work-life balance, then this 
opportunity is for you to consider. We also support our staff's pursuit of 
further education through UIC's significant tuition waiver benefit. ACER also 
encourages staff exploration of emerging technologies such as deep learning, 
blockchain, IoT, and quantum computing.


--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor, Data Management & Liaison Librarian, University Library
Data Policy Advisor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu

[CODE4LIB] CORE Call for President-Elect Nominations

[Goben, Abigail H]

The Nominating Committee for the 2021 Core election is soliciting nominees to 
run on the Spring 2021 ballot for the office of Core President-Elect. The Core 
Nominating Committee seeks qualified individuals with strong service and 
leadership records in ALA, ALCTS, LITA, LLAMA, (or equivalent library 
associations) who will successfully advance Core's vision and 
values in close 
collaboration with the Core Board and the rest of the Core leaders. Candidates 
will be expected to describe experience in advancing diversity, equity, and 
inclusion in the library communities. Participation in the transition 
activities in launching the Core division and good project management skills 
will be extremely helpful.


The President-Elect will serve a three-year term: as President-Elect, in 
2021-2022, as President in 2022-2023, and as immediate Past-President in 
2023-2024. Candidates must be current Core members at the time of the election. 
The Nominating Committee will select two candidates to be placed on the ballot 
for a spring election.


If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please submit your 
information through this form below:


NOMINATION FORM: 
https://forms.gle/uGa9J2eE6zEGpzAw9


If you are nominating someone else, they'll be contacted to complete the form. 
If you have any questions, please contact Ted Quiballo, Convener of the Core 
Nominating Committee, at 
tquiba...@northwestern.edu. All nominations 
will be held in confidence.


  *   The last day to accept nominations (or nominate others) will be December 
30, 2020.
  *   The last day for candidates to fill out the nomination form with their 
information is January 3, 2021.


We also encourage you to forward this call for nominations to potential 
nominees.


--

Core Nominating Committee

Ted Quiballo (Convener)

Emily Drabinski

Abigail Goben
Dracine Hodges

Erin Stalberg


--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor
Data Management Librarian
Liaison Librarian

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone attempted to use Raspberry Pi w/camera to monitor building capacity?

[Goben, Abigail H]

I think Griffey did http://jasongriffey.net/mtf/homepage/feed/index.html 


--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
ago...@uic.edu

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Kun Lin
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Anyone attempted to use Raspberry Pi w/camera to monitor 
building capacity?

Anyone attempted to use Raspberry Pi w/camera to monitor building capacity? Any 
good resources on how to do that?
Thanks
Kun

[CODE4LIB] Robert Sandusky

[Goben, Abigail H]

I am sorry to share that Robert Sandusky, the AUL for IT at the University of 
Illinois at Chicago, passed away last Friday from cancer.

I've included some of the note from my Dean, Mary Case, below.  We do not yet 
have a time for a memorial service but if you'd like that information, please 
let me know.
Abigail





Bob was the UIC Library's Associate University Librarian and Associate Dean for 
Information Technology (AULIT). He joined UIC in this capacity in October 2007. 
Bob was an Associate Professor having been granted tenure in 2012. Prior to 
joining UIC, Bob spent from 2005-2007 as an Assistant Professor at the 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the School of Information Sciences. He 
received his PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Prior to his career in academia, Bob 
spent a decade as Systems Officer of the Fednet National Network Management 
Control Center at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago and was a Senior Project 
Manager, Information Architect and Senior Web Developer at ComPsych Corporation 
in Chicago. Bob had a BA in English and an MS in Computer Science from Northern 
Illinois University.



During his 12 years of service as AULIT, Bob built a strong team and introduced 
project management processes for tracking and evaluating systems initiatives. 
He led one and oversaw a second revision of our website, supported the team 
working on the Explore Chicago Collections portal, guided the implementation 
and upgrading of several systems that support Special Collections, Digital 
Scholarship/Scholarly Communications, and Digital Programs & Services to name 
just a few. Bob coordinated the internal Library/IT assessment process for many 
years and met with students as we discussed priorities and projects. In this 
past year, Bob also engaged deeply in the Library's diversity, equity and 
inclusion program serving as a member of the Design Team.



Bob was an active member of the University community. He served on the Faculty 
Senate and the Senate Support Services Committee which he chaired. He was also 
appointed to the Research Committee of the IT Governance Council and served as 
Chair of the Institutional Stewardship of Research Data Subcommittee.



Bob was engaged nationally in the NSF funded DataONE: Observation Network for 
Earth project. He was a co-investigator and member of the Core 
Cyberinfrastructure Team (2007-2014), a member of the Usability and Assessment 
Working Group, and was co-chair of the DataONE Users Group.



Bob was an active scholar, producing many peer-reviewed journal articles, books 
chapters, workshops and conference presentations. His research focused on data 
management and reuse, sociotechnical systems, and most recently on the 
application of notions of computational provenance to libraries, archives and 
museums.



As a member of the senior team in the Library, Bob asked hard questions and 
provided wise advice. He was always a gentle-man and fought cancer with dignity 
and drive. Our hearts ache for this loss for his family and for our community. 
We will miss him deeply.



His family will be planning a memorial service to celebrate Bob's life for 
later in the year, when we will be able to gather together again.

Re: [CODE4LIB] public health or medical research

[Goben, Abigail H]

Eric -- I've pushed this to the Expert Searching medical librarians group. You 
may hear directly from someone that way. 
Abigail 

--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
ago...@uic.edu

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Eric Lease 
Morgan
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 10:41 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] public health or medical research

Do you know of any researcher or scholar in the realm of public health or 
medicine that may need/want to read the flood of scholarship being generated by 
Covid-19?

As you may or may not know, the Distant Reader is designed to read large 
amounts of narrative texts, such as scholarly journal articles. The Gates 
Foundation, the Allen Institute for AI, and their friends have made freely 
available a data set of 13,000 full text scholarly articles on the topic of 
covid-19. [1]

I have downloaded the data set and fed it to the Reader, and the initial 
results are here:

 https://carrels.distantreader.org/library/covid-19/

The results are okay, but they can be improved in a number of ways. For 
example, I can easily create a full text (Solr) index to the data set. I can 
create a network diagram illustrating the relationship of a given word to other 
nearby words. I could apply various types of machine learning to the Reader's 
output, such as topic modeling and classification, to look for patterns and 
anomalies.  

To do some of these things additional resources may be needed, such as data 
processing power, data visualization skills, as well as some cyber 
infrastructure. I have been in touch with my XSEDE colleagues at IU, and they 
seem more than amenable to help, but the whole thing would be GREATLY improved 
and MUCH MORE relevant if we were working with somebody who has specific 
questions to answer -- somebody from the fields of public health, medicine, etc.

Do you know the names of anybody in public health, medicine, or some other 
discipline who might want to read -- use & understand -- the literature being 
generated?

Be safe.

[1] data set - https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research

--
Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for data viz/data science bootcamp or long course

[Goben, Abigail H]

You might reach out to NCSU -- I don't think they are doing their bootcamp this 
summer but it has been offered previously

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data-science-and-visualization-institute 



--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
ago...@uic.edu

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Amy Schuler
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 9:46 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] looking for data viz/data science bootcamp or long course

Hi all,
Does anyone know of upcoming or regularly scheduled data science and 
visualization bootcamps or long courses?  I'm specifically interested in ones 
geared toward earth, environmental science, and ecology -- or life sciences 
generally.
Something that provides in depth training in concepts, techniques and tools 
used in scientific data management and data science.  I'd be interested in 
hearing about data science certificate programs as well, though not full-on 
degree granting programs.
Thanks!

-- 

Amy C. Schuler
Director, Information Services & Library


Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
2801 Sharon Turnpike
Millbrook, NY
845-677-5343 ext 164 <(845)%20677-5343>

www.caryinstitute.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] file sharing/transfer

[Goben, Abigail H]

Could you clarify the level of security you're dealing with?  Is this where you 
need HIPAA compliance? PHI? Sensitive personal information? 

--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
ago...@uic.edu

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Elizabeth 
Leonard
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:03 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] file sharing/transfer

Hi all:

Let say your faculty have research files that they want to securely share with 
researchers at another academic institutions (say, on another continent).

What are secure ways that they can do this? An example I've heard of is 
Cyberduck- anything else?

We are hoping for reasonably priced solutions (I know... secure, reasonably 
priced, and effective... can't have all of them- but hoping anyway).

Thanks!

Elizabeth Leonard
Assistant Dean, Information Technologies and Collections Services Seton Hall 
University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
973-761-9445
Preferred pronouns: She, her, hers

Re: [CODE4LIB] recommendations for/advice re: Wordpress managed hosting

[Goben, Abigail H]

I've been with LISHost (https://lishost.org/) for years.  (I'm pretty sure 
Blake's on here-- hi Blake, good to see you in DC!)  It's always been very 
excellent support and they are used to working with library associations.  Much 
recommended.  



-- 
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor
Data Management Coordinator
Liaison Librarian

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew L 
Hickner
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2019 7:46 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] recommendations for/advice re: Wordpress managed hosting

Dear colleagues,

We are exploring moving the Wordpress website for the local chapter of our 
library association to managed hosting. I'd appreciate any advice and/or 
provider reviews you are willing to share, and would be happy to summarize 
responses for the list if there is interest.

Thanks in advance for your help.



Andy Hickner, MSI
Health Sciences Librarian
Seton Hall University | Interprofessional Health Sciences Campus 
andrew.hick...@shu.edu | 1-973-542-6973 
http://library.shu.edu/ihs

Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

[Goben, Abigail H]

I can't speak to captioning but I use temi.com for my transcription for the 
class that I teach. It's .10 a minute, it's machine-transcription.   Overall it 
does a really decent job and I can't argue with the price.  The transcription 
takes about half the time of the video, I do light editing, and post.  

-- 
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor
Information Services and Liaison Librarian

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Kate 
Deibel
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 1:37 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

I'd love to hear what auto-captioning options you've found to be tolerable?

 What I can say is that this is the informal policy I've been promoting for 
accessibility in our special collections. In general, any accommodation 
requests in special collections will likely be part of a very nuanced, focused 
research agenda. Thus, any remediation will likely not only have to be specific 
to the individual's disability but also the nature of their research. In the 
case of A/V, a rough transcription may be enough if they are focusing more on 
the visual side of it. For others, though, a more thorough transcription may be 
required. 

All in all, your approach sounds wise.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Carol Kassel
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 11:31 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

Hi,

We're working on a roadmap for making A/V content from Special Collections 
accessible. For those of you who have been through this process, you know that 
one of the big-ticket items is captions and transcripts. In our exploration of 
options, we've found a couple of pretty good auto-captioning solutions. Their 
accuracy is about as good as what you'd get from performing OCR on scanned book 
pages, which libraries do all the time. One possibility is to perform 
auto-captioning on all items and then provide hand-captioning upon request for 
the specific items where a patron needs better captions.

This idea will be better supported if we know what our peer institutions are 
doing... so what are you doing? Thanks to those to whom I've reached out 
personally; your information has helped tremendously. Now I'd like to find out 
from others how they've handled this issue.

Thank you,

Carol

--
Carol Kassel
Senior Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure NYU Digital Library Technology 
Services c...@nyu.edu
(212) 992-9246
dlib.nyu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Technology Survey

[Goben, Abigail H]

Appreciate the clarification, though I disagree with that judgement. They 
should have limited to fact based questions for Non-HSR.  


-- 
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor
Information Services and Liaison Librarian

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Rigda, 
Christine
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 11:17 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Technology Survey

Yes, I did go through our IRB and they said this was not considered human 
subject research after they reviewed the questions.


Christine





From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Goben, Abigail 
H 
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 11:42:00 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Technology Survey

Christine,


Has this been reviewed by an IRB? You ask for open ended comments, which makes 
this human subject research.


Abigail



From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Rigda, 
Christine 
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 10:28:05 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Technology Survey

I need your help! Please consider completing a short survey. I am conducting 
research on library technology and designed a short survey which should only 
take 5 minutes of your time. I am looking to see if there is any correlation 
between student retention/success and the resources allocated to libraries for 
technology. Technology is a broad term and can mean everything from iPad 
circulation to discovery layers, to open source room scheduling, to desktop 
computer support and beyond.



Collected responses will remain anonymous, but overall results may be published 
in an academic library journal.



I appreciate your assistance! Feel free to distribute this survey to other 
members of your library's faculty or staff if you feel they would be better 
able to answer the questions.



Thank you!



Survey Link: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.surveymonkey.com_r_RPFKK3M=DwIF-g=heEcP2AsrLOv4XP8e7I9NA=M2wLgscZey3Hm6NNc8ks-Uq3zMcUQfaoI5ztmXe6HWE=saLWmy6Ro3xfkgYcmod77akDkJNSaBW8btcl6kfb9wE=FLozZlmQKn3njbRihwnNo0TrplrrzMT6756yyia71oE=



Christine Rigda
Associate Professor
Systems Librarian
Carlson Library Mail Stop #509
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390
419.530.2333
christine.ri...@utoledo.edu<mailto:christine.ri...@utoledo.edu>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Technology Survey

[Goben, Abigail H]

Christine,


Has this been reviewed by an IRB? You ask for open ended comments, which makes 
this human subject research.


Abigail



From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Rigda, 
Christine 
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 10:28:05 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Technology Survey

I need your help! Please consider completing a short survey. I am conducting 
research on library technology and designed a short survey which should only 
take 5 minutes of your time. I am looking to see if there is any correlation 
between student retention/success and the resources allocated to libraries for 
technology. Technology is a broad term and can mean everything from iPad 
circulation to discovery layers, to open source room scheduling, to desktop 
computer support and beyond.



Collected responses will remain anonymous, but overall results may be published 
in an academic library journal.



I appreciate your assistance! Feel free to distribute this survey to other 
members of your library’s faculty or staff if you feel they would be better 
able to answer the questions.



Thank you!



Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RPFKK3M



Christine Rigda
Associate Professor
Systems Librarian
Carlson Library Mail Stop #509
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390
419.530.2333
christine.ri...@utoledo.edu

[CODE4LIB] Seeking Nominations for LITA 2019 Elections

[Goben, Abigail H]

The Library Information and Technology Association (LITA) is seeking 
nominations from members to run for the position of LITA vice 
president/president elect, director-at-large, and counselor positions for the 
2019 elections. We're looking to develop a diverse and engaged slate of 
candidates to represent all of our LITA members!



LITA is facing a lot of change with the current discussions around combining 
with LLAMA and ALCTS -- so those elected will have an opportunity to greatly 
impact the future of LITA during the transition ahead of us! While elected 
positions have traditionally been for a 3-year term, as these changes move 
forward it is possible that those elected will not be obligated to serve the 
full term.



To nominate a LITA colleague or to self-nominate, please complete the online 
nomination form by December 21. Completion of the nomination form does not 
guarantee a place on the ballot or oblige an individual to run.  The LITA 
Nominating Committee will request a resume and/or a statement of interest from 
selected individuals prior to developing a slate of candidates.



Online nomination form: https://goo.gl/forms/AQZtUtj6SsSUj3Op1



If you have any questions about the nomination or election process, please 
contact Nominating Chair Abigail Goben at ago...@uic.edu . More information 
about the LITA Board is available here!


--
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor
Information Services and Liaison Librarian

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Search Workbench

[Goben, Abigail H]

This does look really neat! Sharing this around here to see what we can do with 
it. 

-- 
Abigail H. Goben, MLS
Associate Professor
Information Services and Liaison Librarian

Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
ago...@uic.edu 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of EDWIN 
VINCENT SPERR
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:02 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Search Workbench

Search Workbench ( https://searchworkbench.info ) is a stab at using 
interactive visualizations to assist in the process of constructing and 
refining a search against a very large citation database.

I hope it's useful for folks who do PubMed searching and think it might also 
serve as a proof-of-concept for using visualizations in other search 
applications...


Edwin V. Sperr, MLIS, AHIP
AU/UGA Medical Partnership
Office of Graduate Medical Education
Clinical Information Librarian

St. Mary's Hospital
1230 Baxter Street
Athens, GA 30606

p: 706-389-3864
e: esp...@uga.edu | 
esp...@augusta.edu
w: medicalpartnership.usg.edu