[CODE4LIB] Job: Science Librarian at The Citadel
Science Librarian The Citadel Charleston The Daniel Library at The Citadel invites collaborative, service-focused applicants for the position of Science Librarian. This position will involve course related library instruction and liaison responsibilities with the faculty in the School of Engineering and the School of Science and Mathematics. The successful candidate will participate in library-wide projects and activities, develop research guides and online tools, serve on library and campus committees, and promote information literacy initiatives. Liaison librarians cultivate partnerships with faculty to develop and deliver instructional and collection development services to support the college's research and teaching initiatives. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to work in a complex, changing environment with a resourceful, flexible, and innovative attitude, and he or she will have a proven capacity to work effectively and collegially in teams with staff at all levels as well as with faculty and students. Tenure and promotion are dependent upon continuing library service effectiveness, professional growth and development, scholarship, and service to the college and community. • Serve as the liaison to the School of Engineering, which includes three departments: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; and, Engineering Leadership and Project Management, and to the School of Science and Mathematics which includes five departments: Biology; Chemistry; Health, Exercise and Sport Science; Mathematics and Computer Science; and, Physics. • Collaborate with the Education Liaison Librarian in outreach support for the Citadel STEM Center for Excellence. • Proactively seek partnerships with faculty and students in the School of Engineering and the School of Science and Mathematics to develop, deliver, and assess information literacy and other library based initiatives. • Maintain existing online research guides and develop new innovative online research tools for science, engineering, math and related disciplines. • Provide general and subject-specific reference and research assistance through individual consultations at the Research and Information Desk, through virtual reference services, and during library instruction session. • As a member of the Instruction team, and under the direction of the Instruction Coordinator, the Science Librarian will also contribute to the development and teaching of the freshmen orientation course (Citadel 101) library sessions. • Create value-added services, resources, and programs to liaison departments and users. • Serve as occasional back-up to the Systems Librarian. Training will be provided for this responsibility. **Required Qualifications**: • An ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library/Information Science • Minimum of 1 years of library experience in any science, mathematics, or engineering area providing reference, information literacy, consultation, or liaison services. • An understanding of the current research, information sources, and scholarly trends in any science, mathematics, or engineering discipline. • Knowledge of emerging issues and technologies in science librarianship. • Strong computing, communication, interpersonal, written, and presentation skills. • Enthusiasm for collaboration and ability to work effectively in a collegial team-based environment. • Initiative and innovative problem-solving skills. **Preference will be given to candidates with these preferred qualifications**: • Undergraduate or graduate degree in a science, mathematics or engineering, discipline. • Administrative experience with any of the following technologies: ILLiad, EDS, EZProxy, Millennium, or ContentDM. • Experience coding for web technologies including: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, or JQuery. **Salary and Benefits**: This is a full-time tenure track, twelve month position reporting to the Library Director. Starting academic rank is Assistant Professor. Position features a competitive salary, generous health, dental, and life insurance options, 15 annual leave days and 15 sick leave days per year. **Additional Information**: The Citadel is located in beautiful Charleston, SC - voted #1 City in the U.S. by Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler three years in a row. The Citadel is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer actively committed to ensuring diversity in all campus employment. **To Apply**: Please visit: [http://bit.do/citadel_science_librarian](http://bit.do/citadel_ science_librarian). To be considered, a separate resume and cover letter must be submitted with the application. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/15571/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] [WEB4LIB] Interactive content for digital signage
Does anyone have a working digital signage solution that includes Miracast? The objective being to send a phone/tablet/laptop desktop to the large display. I see ways to cobble it together from AirParrot and whatnot - just curious how well it works. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 11:26 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [WEB4LIB] Interactive content for digital signage I am a big fan of xibo: Xibo.org.uk, we use it for the display in our lobby on a $500 Flat screen, we just hook up a laptop with an HDMI cable and set xibo to run on startup. we just have it running on an apache vhost. Even better: they have a python based client that should work on the pi. Riley Childs Senior Asst. IT Services Director Library Guru Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Tech Cast (http://LibraryTechCast.com) ri...@tfsgeo.com http://RileyChilds.net @RowdyChildren *Please Think before Hitting Reply All* *I Do Web Development, Contact Me at http://RileyChilds.net/work http://RileyChilds.net/work* On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:35 AM, David S Vose dv...@binghamton.edu wrote: We will be installing interactive digital signs in our main library this fall. One sign will be at our entrance and one will be in the lobby. The draft plan is to provide interactivity that will allow patrons to browse to floor plans, hours and schedules, directories, a campus map, and an about the libraries section. I would be interested to learn what type of interactive content others have found to be most popular and useful to students and what interactive content did not turn out to be particularly successful. Thanks, David Vose | Geography, Data, Government Information, Law Binghamton University Libraries, POB 6012, Binghamton, NY 13902-6012 dv...@binghamton.edu | 607.777.4907 | Downtown Center: 607.777.9275 To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2014-07-18
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal issue 25 is now available!
The 25th (wow) issue of the Code4Lib Journal is now available at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue25 Here is what you will find inside: Editorial introduction: On libraries, code, support, inspiration, and collaboration Dan Scott Reflections on the occasion of the 25th issue of the Code4Lib Journal: sustaining a community for support, inspiration, and collaboration at the intersection of libraries and information technology. Getting What We Paid for: a Script to Verify Full Access to E-Resources Kristina M. Spurgin Libraries regularly pay for packages of e-resources containing hundreds to thousands of individual titles. Ideally, library patrons could access the full content of all titles in such packages. In reality, library staff and patrons inevitably stumble across inaccessible titles, but no library has the resources to manually verify full access to all titles, and basic URL checkers cannot check for access. This article describes the E-Resource Access Checker—a script that automates the verification of full access. With the Access Checker, library staff can identify all inaccessible titles in a package and bring these problems to content providers’ attention to ensure we get what we pay for. Opening the Door: A First Look at the OCLC WorldCat Metadata API Terry Reese Libraries have long relied on OCLC’s WorldCat database as a way to cooperatively share bibliographic data and declare library holdings to support interlibrary loan services. As curator, OCLC has traditionally mediated all interactions with the WorldCat database through their various cataloging clients to control access to the information. As more and more libraries look for new ways to interact with their data and streamline metadata operations and workflows, these clients have become bottlenecks and an inhibitor of library innovation. To address some of these concerns, in early 2013 OCLC announced the release of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) supporting read and write access to the WorldCat database. These APIs offer libraries their first opportunity to develop new services and workflows that directly interact with the WorldCat database, and provide opportunities for catalogers to begin redefining how they work with OCLC and their data. Docker: a Software as a Service, Operating System-Level Virtualization Framework John Fink Docker is a relatively new method of virtualization available natively for 64-bit Linux. Compared to more traditional virtualization techniques, Docker is lighter on system resources, offers a git-like system of commits and tags, and can be scaled from your laptop to the cloud. A Metadata Schema for Geospatial Resource Discovery Use Cases Darren Hardy and Kim Durante We introduce a metadata schema that focuses on GIS discovery use cases for patrons in a research library setting. Text search, faceted refinement, and spatial search and relevancy are among GeoBlacklight’s primary use cases for federated geospatial holdings. The schema supports a variety of GIS data types and enables contextual, collection-oriented discovery applications as well as traditional portal applications. One key limitation of GIS resource discovery is the general lack of normative metadata practices, which has led to a proliferation of metadata schemas and duplicate records. The ISO 19115/19139 and FGDC standards specify metadata formats, but are intricate, lengthy, and not focused on discovery. Moreover, they require sophisticated authoring environments and cataloging expertise. Geographic metadata standards target preservation and quality measure use cases, but they do not provide for simple inter-institutional sharing of metadata for discovery use cases. To this end, our schema reuses elements from Dublin Core and GeoRSS to leverage their normative semantics, community best practices, open-source software implementations, and extensive examples already deployed in discovery contexts such as web search and mapping. Finally, we discuss a Solr implementation of the schema using a “geo” extension to MODS. Ebooks without Vendors: Using Open Source Software to Create and Share Meaningful Ebook Collections Matt Weaver The Community Cookbook project began with wondering how to take local cookbooks in the library’s collection and create a recipe database. The final website is both a recipe website and collection of ebook versions of local cookbooks. This article will discuss the use of open source software at every stage in the project, which proves that an open source publishing model is possible for any library. Within Limits: mass-digitization from scratch Pieter De Praetere The provincial library of West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) is digitizing a large part of its iconographic collection. Due to various (technical and financial) reasons no specialist software was used. FastScan is a set of VBS-scripts that was developed by the author using off-the-shelf software that was either included in MS Windows (XP 7)
[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals: Midwinter 2015 Workshops (Chicago, IL January 2015)
**Please excuse crosspostings. Feel free to forward to other lists.** The LITAEducation Committee is now accepting innovative and creative proposals for workshops to be presented at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago in January. We're looking for interactive full day workshops on technology in libraries--use of, new ideas for, and trends. *When/Where is the Conference?* 2015 ALA Midwinter Conference; January 30-February 3, 2015, Chicago, IL Workshops will be presented on Friday, January 30. *What kind of topics are we looking for? * We're looking for workshops that offer a deeper dive into subjects and provide hands on experience with technology currently being used and emerging in libraries. Workshops and Preconferences offered recently included: Strategic Social Media: Creating Library Community Online Level Up Web: Modern Web Development and Management Practices for Libraries Managing Data: Tools for Plans and Data Scrubbing Practical Linked Data with Open Source Web Therapy Building Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript: An Introduction to HTML5 *When are proposalsdue? * August 4, 2014 *How I do submit a proposal? * Fill out this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1azrl9Gm4YzVgHPR3FFKOIJpAj2xduRua27Xq10qfsj0/viewform?usp=send_form Program descriptions should be 75 words or less. *When will I have an answer? * The committee will be reviewing proposalsafter August 4, final decisions will be made before September. *Do I have to be a member of ALA/LITA/an IG/a committee?* No! We welcome proposalsfrom anyone who feels they have something to offer regarding library technology. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide financial support for speakers. If you are submitting a proposal on behalf of an IG, please let us know! *Got another question?* Please feel free to email me (abigailgo...@gmail.com mailto:abigailgo...@gmail.com) and the committee will figure it out. -- Abigail Goben, MLS Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor Library of the Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 1750 W. Polk (MC 763) Chicago, IL 60612 ago...@uic.edu
[CODE4LIB] Drupal 7 Opensearch Client Module
Greetings, We have recently released a Beta version of an Opensearch search client module for Drupal 7. If anyone is interested in it, it is available on Github at https://github.com/unt-libraries/untdl_opensearch. Feel free to send me any feedback. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Damon Kelley | Web Applications Developer University of North Texas Libraries Digital Libraries Division, User Interfaces Unit damon.kel...@unt.edu mailto:dianne.jans...@unt.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 7 Opensearch Client Module
I would like to invite you to post this to drupal4lib and list it on the groups.drupal.org/libraries page. Thanks for sharing! Cary On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Kelley, Damon damon.kel...@unt.edu wrote: Greetings, We have recently released a Beta version of an Opensearch search client module for Drupal 7. If anyone is interested in it, it is available on Github at https://github.com/unt-libraries/untdl_opensearch. Feel free to send me any feedback. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Damon Kelley | Web Applications Developer University of North Texas Libraries Digital Libraries Division, User Interfaces Unit damon.kel...@unt.edu mailto:dianne.jans...@unt.edu -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
