[CODE4LIB] Job opportunity Application Development Team Lead (Closes 3/17/2024)

[Merrill, Alex]

Just boosting this job opportunity at my institution:

Application Development Team Lead at Washington State University Libraries / 
Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation - Code4Lib Job 
Board

Job posting closes this Sunday at Midnight!  If anyone has any questions about 
the position, I would be happy answer them.

Thanks,

AM



Alex Merrill

Head of Library Systems and Technical Operations

Washington State University Libraries -- Pullman

509.335.5426 | alex.merr...@wsu.edu

he, his, him


The Washington State University Pullman campus is located on the homelands of 
the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce )Tribe and the Palus people. We acknowledge their 
presence here since time immemorial and recognize their continuing connection 
to the land, to the water, and to their ancestors.

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Tim McMahon 

Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 1:19 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] QR Code Reader - Android Cell Phones

[EXTERNAL EMAIL]

Most (all?) newer smart phones have a QR reader built into their camera
app.  It might not be enabled by default, so you should be able to go
into the  settings on the camera app and check there.

On 3/12/24 1:13 PM, charles meyer wrote:
> [ External Email ]: This email originated from outside of the organization. 
> Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and 
> know the content is safe.. When in doubt, contact your IT Department
>
>
> My esteemed listmates,
>
> I used a free QR code reader for the past year which worked great but that
> doesn't seem to be listed in Google Play anymore for Androids.
>
> I installed Binary Eye and it took a lot of time to finally scan a QR code
> on a package and then opens a window which doesn't tell me much.
>
> The old QR Reader would tell me all sorts of info quickly.
>
> I'd like a QR Reader which does not attract or come with a lot of tracking.
>
> Are you using a QR Code Reader which doesn't attract a lot of tracking, is
> free and easy to use?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library
--
*Tim McMahon*
West Liberty Public Library

[CODE4LIB] Job Opportunity: Application Development Team Lead

[Merrill, Alex]

Please see full NOV below, this position will be the development lead for 
Mukurtu CMS, a Drupal based open-source content management system. Mukurtu 
(MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, 
share, narrate, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and 
ethically minded ways. We are committed to maintaining an open, 
community-driven approach to Mukurtu’s continued development. For more 
information about Mukurtu please see our website:  https://mukurtu.org

For more technical information about Mukurtu CMS please see our Github 
organization page (MukurtuCMS) and our Drupal 7 
(Mukurtu CMS V3), and Drupal 9/10 
(Mukurtu CMS V4) installation 
profiles.

If you have any questions about the position,  I would be happy to answer them. 
 Come join our distributed development team!

Alex


Notice of Vacancy:  Application Development Team Lead

Full-time, 12-month, permanent, Civil Service staff position located in the 
Library Systems unit of the Washington State University Libraries. This 
position reports to the Head of Systems and Technical Operations and will be 
primarily based at our WSU Pullman Campus, however, remote/hybrid opportunities 
may be available and can be discussed during the interview process.

Summary of Duties:  This position is responsible for design, creation and 
support of software applications that support the mission of the WSU Libraries. 
Responsibilities include evaluating current software applications deployed in 
the Library, work with Library colleagues to deploy new software solutions and 
lead the software development for integration of disparate Library software 
platforms.


Specific Duties Include (but not limited to):


  *   Application development lead for the Center for Digital Scholarship and 
Curation (CDSC)
  *   Application development lead for the Libraries’ web services, digital 
initiatives, and core services
  *   Supervise and lead the development application group within the WSU 
Libraries



Qualifications:

Required:  Requires a Bachelor’s degree and seven (7) years professional 
experience.  Any combination of relevant education and experience may be 
substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.  Five (5) 
years of professional experience developing for complex web applications.

Preferred:  Experience developing software solutions using existing content 
management systems (e.g., Drupal, DSpace, Omeka); experience with Object 
Oriented Programming; experience developing in an agile, distributed 
development team and utilizing version control platforms such as Git; working 
knowledge of digital preservation and stewardship technologies and procedures; 
demonstrated experience with modern web programming languages and web 
application platforms:(e.g., PHP, JavaScript, Python, Symfony, Laravel); 
experience tracking computing problems and problem resolution; professional 
experience in an academic research library.


Job Application Direct Link:

https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/details/Application-Development-Team-Lead_R-11176

Instructions: Applicants must apply online (https://hrs.wsu.edu/jobs/).  A 
resume and a cover letter are required.  Application materials should clearly 
communicate how the applicant meets all required qualifications and additional 
requirements. Contact information for three professional references will be 
requested in the online application.

Monthly Salary: Range #08IT, $7,648 - $10,289, (Step A-M). Successful 
candidates typically begin at the beginning of the salary range and receive 
scheduled salary increment increases in accordance with WAC 357-28.

Benefits:  WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes: paid 
sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability 
insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred 
compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts.  For a more 
detailed summary of benefits offered by WSU for classified staff visit: 
https://hrs.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-Benefit-Overview-for-Civil-Service.pdf


Posting Close Date:

Applicants must submit their completed application by Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 
11:59p.m.

Background Check: This position has been designated by the department to 
require a background check.

Questions:  Contact Bonny Boyan, bo...@wsu.edu, 509-335-1535.

Washington State University:

Washington State University, one of the two research universities in the state, 
was founded in 1890 as the state’s land-grant institution with campuses in 
Pullman, Spokane, Vancouver, Everett, and the Tri-Cities. Due to its strong 
emphasis on excellence in research and education, the Carnegie Classification™ 
has designated WSU as RU/VH: Research Universities (very high research 
activity). The WSU strategic 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Libraries Application Developer at Washington State University Libraries (closes September 6th -- REMOTE WORK is possible)

[Merrill, Alex]

Hey everybody --

Just want to boost the job we have for an application developer here at 
Washington State University that closes September 6th.  If you want to join a 
team of folks working  on Mukurtu CMS (mukurtu.org) || 
(Github) and Mukurtu Mobile 
(Github) (a react iOS and soon to 
be Android app) and work with a number of digital platforms/technologies (some 
open-source || some vended) both with the Center for Digital Scholarship and 
Curation (WSU Libraries & College of Arts and Sciences | 
CDSC)  and the WSU Libraries WSU Libraries | 
Washington State University   and work with a 
distributed development team --  Please check it out.  REMOTE WORK is possible!

Code4lib ad Libraries Application Developer at Washington State University 
Libraries - Code4Lib Job 
Board
Our HRs job board ad:  WSU Libraries application 
developer

Happy to answer any questions y'all might have -

Thanks --

AM


Alex Merrill

Head of Library Systems and Technical Operations

Washington State University Libraries -- Pullman

509.335.5426 | alex.merr...@wsu.edu

he/his


The Washington State University Pullman campus is located on the homelands of 
the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce )Tribe and the Palus people. We acknowledge their 
presence here since time immemorial and recognize their continuing connection 
to the land, to the water, and to their ancestors.


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Code4Lib Jobs 

Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 8:52 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Job: Libraries Application Developer at Washington State 
University Libraries




As part of a larger functional team, comprised of personnel from the Libraries 
Systems Office, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC), this 
position will learn from and participate in all phases of software development 
of Mukurtu, Mukurtu Mobile, and related projects. This includes requirements 
gathering, design, front-end development, back-end development, testing, 
documentation, deployment, support, and community outreach. This position will 
also work as a developer on a variety of WSU Libraries’ projects, including web 
development and back-end processes. The projects in the Libraries and the CDSC 
are constantly evolving and as such, this position will have the opportunity to 
work with a wide variety of technologies including Drupal, React, WordPress, 
numerous scripting languages, and more. This position is part of a growing 
development team at the WSU Libraries and will be able to help shape its 
digital services and make significant contributions to open-source projects. 
This is a full-time, 12-month, classified staff position that reports to the 
Libraries Application Development Team Lead at the Washington State University 
Libraries in Pullman, Washington. Some telework may be considered.



Job Duties and Responsibilities

Application Development for the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation 
(CDSC):​​
• Work with the Mukurtu development team to plan, develop, test, and deploy new 
and/or updated functionality for Mukurtu CMS and Mukurtu Mobile.
• Diagnose and solve highly technical support issues for Mukurtu CMS and 
Mukurtu Mobile.
• Develop, integrate, migrate, and deploy site-specific customizations for WSU 
affiliated Mukurtu CMS sites.
• Maintain an active presence in the Mukurtu open-source community, responding 
to issues, updating documentation, etc.

Application Development for Libraries’ Web Services, Digital Initiatives, and 
Core Services
• Develop new and maintain existing programmatic extensions and integrations of 
Library services (e.g., WordPress customizations, third party API integrations, 
data transformations).
• Analyze and help to maintain integrations between library and campus-based 
systems
• Troubleshoot technical issues, develop modifications needed in existing 
applications, and create new application components to meet changing user 
requirements.

Required Qualifications: Positions require a bachelor’s degree in computer 
science or equivalent. Any combination of relevant education and experience may 
be substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing web applications
• Experience in and understanding of Object-oriented programming
• Experience designing, writing, and running software tests
• Familiarity with operational considerations for running and maintaining 
modern web applications
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, organizational, problem-solving, 
and planning skills
• Ability to work creatively, 

[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Infrastructure and Preservation Librarian at Washington State University Libraries

[Merrill, Alex]

Hello -- just boosting the signal on this job a bit -- we are taking 
applications throughout March (so sorry - you will probably see me email again 
in a few weeks).  We are looking for a technically minded librarian with 
experience with/interested in digital preservation (early career or new grads 
encouraged to apply).  

I will be in Pittsburgh  for the conference next week if anybody wants to ask 
me any questions about the position, libraries, university or Pullman in 
general.

Here is a link to a PDF of the notice of vacancy :  
https://libraries.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/NOV-Digital-Infrastructure-and-Preservation-Librarian.pdf
 

Thanks,

AM


Alex Merrill
Head of Library Systems and Technical Operations
Washington State University Libraries -- Pullman
509.335.5426 | alex.merr...@wsu.edu
he,his,him

Washington State University – Pullman  is located on the ceded lands of the Nez 
Perce Tribe and the traditional homeland of the Palus Band of Indians.  We 
acknowledge their presence here since time immemorial and recognize their 
continuing connection to the land, to the water, and to their ancestors



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Code4Lib 
Jobs
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:16 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Infrastructure and Preservation Librarian at 
Washington State University Libraries




Position Summary: 

As part of a larger functional team, comprised of personnel from the Libraries 
Systems Office, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, and 
Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections at Washington State University, 
this position will be the primary technical advocate for the creation and 
curation of sustainable digital collections.  This position will support 
existing digital repository software solutions including:  CONTENTdm, Omeka, 
Mukurtu, and Scalar.  This position will also take a lead role in crafting the 
overall digital infrastructure and preservation plans at the Washington State 
University Libraries. The WSUL’s current digital preservation strategy is 
executed by a collection of lightweight micro-services written, primarily, in 
Ruby. This full-time, 12-month, tenure-track position reports to the Head of 
Systems and Technical Operations at the Washington State University Libraries 
in Pullman, Washington.

 

The University

Washington State University, one of the two research universities in the state, 
was founded in 1890 as the state’s land-grant institution and is located in 
Pullman with campuses in Spokane, Vancouver, Everett and the Tri-Cities. Due to 
its strong emphasis on excellence in research and education, the Carnegie 
Classification™ has designated WSU as RU/VH: Research Universities (very high 
research activity). Current enrollment is over 30,000 undergraduate, graduate, 
and professional students. The University offers more than 200 fields of study, 
with 90 majors for undergraduates, 76 master’s degree programs, 64 doctoral 
degree programs, and 3 professional degree programs. Academically, the 
University is organized into 11 colleges (Agriculture, Human, and Natural 
Resource Sciences; Arts and Sciences; Business; Communication; Education; 
Engineering and Architecture; Honors; Medical Sciences, Nursing; Pharmacy; 
Veterinary Medicine) and a Graduate School. For more information, please visit 
http://www.wsu.edu.

 

The Libraries

The WSU Libraries (http://libraries.wsu.edu), one of two Association of 
Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington State, houses over two million books and 
over 30,000 journal and magazine subscriptions.  The Libraries are a part of 
the Orbis Cascade Alliance and are deeply invested, along with our partner 
libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, in the activities of the shared 
Unified Resource Management and shared Discovery environment.  The Libraries 
also houses and co-directs the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation 
(http://cdsc.libraries.wsu.edu/), a collaboration with the College of Arts 
 Sciences that fosters digital projects across all disciplines and is home 
to national programs such as the Tribal Stewardship Cohort Program, The 
Sustainable Heritage Network 
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sustainablerheritagenetwork.org=DwIFaQ=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw=wuQLFD81UXBeV07JACRAJA=P3mK5edNGLdU41Z9dz_XKk0A7JnlIMYnVekUQN8Uqzs=j61JbWnVTOoDQxYkHsGW5svigPSs9G8C4rNCfiiK8yE=
  ), the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal (http://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu) 
and Mukurtu CMS 
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mukurtu.org=DwIFaQ=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw=wuQLFD81UXBeV07JACRAJA=P3mK5edNGLdU41Z9dz_XKk0A7JnlIMYnVekUQN8Uqzs=C_oE_8TbpfsXVGsGbDgAgV0E9EBzN32AxFfKoOMyODY=
 ).

 

Job Duties and Responsibilities

 

Digital Infrastructure and Preservation: 

•   Lead the implementation, management, and assessment of 

Re: [CODE4LIB] file sharing/transfer

[Merrill, Alex]

I just want to make sure I am understanding the question.  when you say file 
sharing/transfer do you mean):

1.) File transmission software like cyberduck or (as Mike Kastellec just 
suggested something Like Globus -- which looks pretty awesome!)
2.) Or an electronic lab notebook for shared experimentation and research like  
http://labarchives.com  
3.) Or the storage infrastructure  cyberduck/Globus/FileZilla would connect to?
a.)Backblaze, Onedrive, university hosted SFTP site, etc

(it seems like you mean 1, but I want to be sure and I already wrote out the 
rest of the email so there you go :)


If you are looking for file sharing/transmission software (1)

Cyberduck is great -- we use it to connect to our backblaze b2 accounts and 
manage a decent amount of digital collections data and has a good number of 
integrations that can help to connect to a large number of cloud providers and 
as well

Filezilla and WinSCP are also good and have similar feature sets to Cyberduck.


If you are looking for a an ELN(2) Harvard put together a good resource 
comparing a number of them here:  
https://datamanagement.hms.harvard.edu/electronic-lab-notebooks 

If you mean file storage infrastructure (3)

Your organization probably has pretty strict rules about where your researchers 
can place/share any non-public data (HIPPA, FERPA, PII, etc..) and would have 
guidelines for others types of data --  I know ours does 
(https://its.wsu.edu/documents/2018/06/wsu-cloud-acceptable-use-matrix.pdf/ ).  
I would look to your central IT department to see if they have any agreements 
for cloud providers for the specific type of data you are thinking might be 
included.  In the past, at least from my most recent experience,  most cloud 
providers need a separate agreement above the most basic OneDrive, box.com 
agreement and comes at a higher price.


AM



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of 
Elizabeth Leonard
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:15 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] file sharing/transfer

Possibly both- this is a bit of a thought experiment. I'd like to know what's 
out there to be able to help learn enough to advise and support our faculty.

Elizabeth Leonard
973-761-9445

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Goben, Abigail H
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:06 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] file sharing/transfer

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
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