Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt Design Contest
My apologies to all. I meant to reply to Jean, not to the entire list. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org >>> yitzc...@touro.edu 01/06/09 08:36AM >>> Eek! A humble request that submitters post graphics online rather than attaching, as my box only holds 50M total... -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt Design Contest
Sure. Post it online and I'll link to it. -- Jean On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > Eek! A humble request that submitters post graphics online rather than > attaching, as my box only holds 50M total... > > -- > Yitzchak Schaffer > Systems Librarian > Touro College Libraries > 33 West 23rd Street > New York, NY 10010 > Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 > Fax (212) 627-3197 > yitzc...@touro.edu >
Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt Design Contest
Eek! A humble request that submitters post graphics online rather than attaching, as my box only holds 50M total... -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Linux Public Computers / wish list
Hi Steve -- Thanks for the thoughtful and comprehensive reply. I agree that 'restriction' is usually not in the vocabulary of those who contribute their time and effort to providing open source solutions. As someone who provides computer services to the public however, my focus is on giving fair use of a limited number of workstations to a large number of people in accordance with usage polices set in place by our Trustees. Some type of ticket / reservation / security system is a necessity. I'm very intrigued by the process you mention as your third point. My wish list for the finished application would include: 1) a browser-based administration module that a) lists each available computer with status (in use / available), time remaining, and way to increase that time or send a log-off command or message, b) assigns the total number of computers to user-selected groups or pools -- for example, we provide 20-minute computers for visitors, 60-minute computers for patrons, and a 3 hour computer for genealogists in our Local History room, c) a screen from which to generate passwords and print matching login tickets for each pool -- we print them on different colored paper --, d) full usage statistics for each computer by date range, e) an optional printer-release module that will trap the print output from each workstation, give a page count to the administrator, and release the print job upon appropriate payment, and f) the ability to grab a screen shot from any computer in use in case the user is reported as in violation of our Internet usage policies. The system would automatically delete passwords from the list as soon as that particular log-in session is completed. 2) a client module that a) allows us to list our computer / internet usage policies on the log-in screen, with an "I agree" button next to the field where a patron enters their password to begin a session, b) an on-screen timer with a 'logoff' button that counts down the remaining time, and c) security provisions that prevent users from changing the wallpaper, deleting screen icons, or adding / deleting programs. I'd like the system to be flexible enough to work either in a thin-client environment, or with each computer running as full Linux workstation. Although Debian / Ubuntu / Gnome is my current choice, the system should ideally work under any distro and window manager. Kyle Hall from the Crawford County Federated Library system has written a kiosk management system in php that covers many of these bases. I'm currently in a discussion with him about how his system can be expanded to cover more of the things on my wish list -- http://kylehall.info/index.php/about/ Thanks as well to everyone on this list who has taken an interest in this discussion Cheers, -- Darrell st...@archive.org wrote: hi Darrell, thanks for your intriguing post. a few observations; 1) this is one instance of the use of a GNU/Linux system which may seem to be at odds with the very premise of free (in the GNU sense) software, and that is; to NOT limit the ability of users to do things. so your use cases may seem odd at first, but you have a valid and important case. 2) many open source programmers may not be familiar with commercial software products (and may not want to be), so you might have a better chance of getting an answer if you do the groundwork of listing the features you are in search of yourself, rather than asking the list to go learn them. 3) it seems that a good desktop linux distro would allow an administrator or programmer to create a system (based on the existing pieces you mention) that might consist of a some shell scripts, perhaps a "lite" database, a web server, and client- and server-side scripts to accomplish the features that you list, and then provide hooks for that system to be made into a distributable package (e.g. Ubuntu). i wouldn't be surprised if your listing the desired features explicitly might seed some capable programmer's mind to suggest (or even spend some time coding something up) which may help you right away. or, it may just prompt someone to remember that something _does_ already exist that answers your needs. (i think Francis' LibPrint suggestion seems very helpful) just keep in mind that the very nature of the linux system is organic, and the workforce is distributed and lasseiz-faire. it doesn't seem to be very agile in responding to monolithic deficiencies (just look at how we ended up with the linux kernel vs. hurd :). /st...@archive.org -- - Darrell Eifert Head of Adult Services Lane Memorial Library, Hampton NH "Beware the man of only one book" Old Latin proverb
[CODE4LIB] Version 74, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 74 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Annual PDF Editions The 2006 and 2007 annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (PDF files designed for printing) are also available. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201 Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm
