[CODE4LIB] Job Announcement: Systems Librarian, Graduate Center - City Univ of New York
Position: Systems Librarian/Higher Education Associate: The Graduate Center, located in a landmark building in mid-town Manhattan, is the doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) and operates in a unique doctoral consortium with other CUNY colleges. The Mina Rees Library supports the academic programs offered at The Graduate Center by providing access to resources needed for dissertation research, course work and preparation for qualifying exams. For additional information see: http://gc.cuny.edu Under the general supervision of the Chief Librarian the Systems Librarian coordinates the planning, development, implementation and support of electronic library technologies, library systems and web services. Responsibilities: * Coordinates efforts of the Graduate Center Library, the Graduate Center Information Technology department, the CUNY office of Library Services, and Systems staff at other CUNY campuses to support and enhance library services through innovative use of new technology. * Provides internal support for library computer applications including: software support for CUNY+ (ex Libris' Aleph 500 system); OCLC applications; database management systems used for library web services and for internal record-keeping and interface with administrative and academic departments; and other web applications used by library staff and patrons. * In conjunction with Information Technology, manages library server. * Develops and maintains documentation for Graduate Center Library systems and software. * Plans and conducts staff development programs for Library staff in new technologies and in the use of library and other software used for Library applications. * Diagnoses source(s) of electronic database access problems; provides estimates of problem duration to library staff and patrons; coordinates resolutions with Information Technology, with CUNY Office of Library Services or elsewhere. * Receives initial reports from library faculty and staff regarding hardware and library software problems and provides initial diagnosis of problem and troubleshooting. Serves as primary interface with Information Technology Help Desk. * Provides technical support for library web pages and participates in the evaluation and redesign of the Library's web site, including the development of web-based library services. * Participates in the evaluation of library hardware and software; assists with installations, and initial set-ups for library functions and upgrades. * Prepares and delivers proposals and reports on library systems and software. * Keeps abreast of latest developments in library technology, the internet and related areas. * Participates in reference desk services and the library instruction program and performs other library duties as assigned. Qualifications: MLS from an ALA-accredited program and four years experience with library systems and library desktop applications required; second master's degree in relevant area preferred. Demonstrated web design abilities, and web scripting languages. Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, familiarity with a variety of library-specific software and with emerging technologies for synchronous and asynchronous library service delivery. Experience using and troubleshooting software, desktop hardware and peripherals like printers, fax machines and scanners. Good analytical and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to initiate, plan and carrying out projects. Strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills. Ability to work independently and also collegially with all members of the academic community to achieve established goals and priorities. The preferred candidate will have experience with web content management, web server management, scripting, and database management including PHP, Perl, ASP, SQL; Wordpress, Dreamweaver, Wikis; Web Servers; Apache or IIS; Databases; SQL Server, MYSWL, MS Access. Salary Range: $63,064 - $82,870 commensurate with qualifications and experience Send cover letter and resume with the names of 3 professional references by January 12, 2009 to: Systems Librarian Position Attn: Julie Cunningham The Graduate Center Mina Rees Library 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
[CODE4LIB] Last Call Today - code4lib pre-conference proposals
We now have 7 pre-conference proposals. I'm not sure that we have room for any more but If you still want to make a proposal please send it TODAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008, to code4libcon at http://googlegroups.com/ . Please include 1) a description of the pre-conference, 2) whether a full or half day time slot is needed, and 3) minimum and maximum numbers of participants. For the list of pre-conference proposals see: http://code4lib.org/node/266 Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 401.863.9031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Last Call Today - code4lib pre-conference proposals
Jean, I thought I remembered seeing a proposal for a MyLibrary pre-conf, the one mentioned at http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon/browse_thread/thread/d9cf4df16886a817# Was that withdrawn? Have a nice day, Jonathan On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM, jean rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We now have 7 pre-conference proposals. I'm not sure that we have room for any more but If you still want to make a proposal please send it TODAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008, to code4libcon at http://googlegroups.com/ . Please include 1) a description of the pre-conference, 2) whether a full or half day time slot is needed, and 3) minimum and maximum numbers of participants. For the list of pre-conference proposals see: http://code4lib.org/node/266 Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 401.863.9031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jonathan M. Brinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xplus3.net/
[CODE4LIB] c4lc09 presentation voting reminder
This is a reminder that voting on the code4libcon2009 presentation- proposals ends *tonight*, Wednesday December 3 at 11:59PM EST (U.S.). You can vote at: http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/7 ...and see results at: http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/7 -Birkin --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Birkin James Diana wrote: One of the cool things about this conference is that you have a real voice in forming it. Voting is now open to select the presentations for the 2009 Code4Lib conference. http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/7 The vote will remain open through Wednesday December 3 at 11:59PM EST (U.S.). NOTE: Your code4lib username and password are required to vote. Head to the voting site ** as soon as possible ** to ensure that your username and password work as expected. You can take your time voting, but do not take your time ensuring that your username and password work as expected. If they don't work as expected, head to the code4lib.org site and see if they work there. If they do, Ross will help get you straightened out. If they don't work at the code4lib.org site, the maintainers of that site will help you. If you realize late Wednesday December 3 that you have a code4lib.org username and password problem, there is a very real chance that you will not be able to vote. A thank-you to Ross Singer for hosting the voting again, and for setting it up so quickly. Onward! -Birkin --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the abbr. What would be useful? kc I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the abbr tags are used there. Ex: http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications embedded on the page, you'll find things like: abbr class='unapi-id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360' There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as well. Ex, http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are available for a given resource. http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360format=ris - kind of self- explanatory. Hope that helps a little... Cheers, -Chad
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I was a bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten it: I asked about COinS. COinS (drat, hate uplow, from now on just coins) is basically just a formatted string imbedded in the html that will be used by an external program. There is no service that the OL site needs to provide other than popping the context object in there in the right format. Very low effort, from the open library's point of view. unAPI appears to require some lightweight services that would have to be added to the OL site: basically, responding to the three possible unapi requests. So we can't *just* add an unAPI to the html pages -- there's a bit more work that needs to be done. Is this correct? Thanks, kc Chad Fennell wrote: On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the abbr. What would be useful? kc I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the abbr tags are used there. Ex: http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications embedded on the page, you'll find things like: abbr class='unapi-id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360' There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as well. Ex, http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are available for a given resource. http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360format=ris - kind of self-explanatory. Hope that helps a little... Cheers, -Chad -- --- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
Yes, that's correct. However, if you already offer persistent URLs for item data in one or more machine-readable formats (like MARC, or DC in XML), the additional work that needs to be done is likely just a fairly small amount of 'glue' to make those alternate formats discoverable via unAPI. As other machine-readable formats are made available in the future, they can be incorporated into the unAPI glue advertising them as well. unAPI makes no requirements about _which_ machine-readable formats are made available, it's just a way of advertising their association, basically. Jonathan Karen Coyle wrote: Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I was a bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten it: I asked about COinS. COinS (drat, hate uplow, from now on just coins) is basically just a formatted string imbedded in the html that will be used by an external program. There is no service that the OL site needs to provide other than popping the context object in there in the right format. Very low effort, from the open library's point of view. unAPI appears to require some lightweight services that would have to be added to the OL site: basically, responding to the three possible unapi requests. So we can't *just* add an unAPI to the html pages -- there's a bit more work that needs to be done. Is this correct? Thanks, kc Chad Fennell wrote: On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the abbr. What would be useful? kc I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the abbr tags are used there. Ex: http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications embedded on the page, you'll find things like: abbr class='unapi-id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360' There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as well. Ex, http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are available for a given resource. http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360format=ris - kind of self-explanatory. Hope that helps a little... Cheers, -Chad -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
This is correct. I'd bet it'd be like 10 lines of PHP or less, though. -Ross. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Karen Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I was a bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten it: I asked about COinS. COinS (drat, hate uplow, from now on just coins) is basically just a formatted string imbedded in the html that will be used by an external program. There is no service that the OL site needs to provide other than popping the context object in there in the right format. Very low effort, from the open library's point of view. unAPI appears to require some lightweight services that would have to be added to the OL site: basically, responding to the three possible unapi requests. So we can't *just* add an unAPI to the html pages -- there's a bit more work that needs to be done. Is this correct? Thanks, kc Chad Fennell wrote: On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the abbr. What would be useful? kc I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the abbr tags are used there. Ex: http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications embedded on the page, you'll find things like: abbr class='unapi-id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360' There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as well. Ex, http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are available for a given resource. http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360format=ris - kind of self-explanatory. Hope that helps a little... Cheers, -Chad -- --- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: COinS are still needed, in particular in situations in which multiple resources are displayed on a page (like, for instance, in the search results pages of most online systems or on pages such as http://citeulike.org, or in a list of references such as in the references section of many Wikipedia pages.) JSON is perfectly capable of returning a list of things. //Ed
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
One thing to keep in mind when looking at unAPI, COinS and Microformats in general is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml //Ed
