Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Accounts doesn't like our jobs site

[Rosalyn Metz]

Created an issue for this in github here:
https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/issues/41

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Hagedon, Mike - (mhagedon) <
mhage...@email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Google tells me this
> when I try to authenticate to jobs.code4lib.org with my Google account:
>
> OpenID 2.0 for Google Accounts has gone away
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6206245?p=openid&rd=1
>
> Just FYI. ;-)
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Hagedon | Web Development (UX-Dev) Work Team Leader | User Experience
> Department | University of Arizona Libraries
>

[CODE4LIB] Job: Senior Web Designer at University of Arizona

[jobs]

Senior Web Designer
University of Arizona
Tucson

We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual who is
passionate about user-centered design and interested in being part of a
dynamic, collaborative environment at a large academic library.

  
The University of Arizona Libraries is a vibrant, forward-looking organization
with a talented staff that has recently taken great strides in moving our web
initiatives forward. We often collaborate with other units on campus, and are
recognized as being innovative in the areas of user-focused design and
development, content strategy, and automated testing. We aim to lead the
library community in groundbreaking, transformative, intuitive design.

  
We are dedicated to supporting the success of our faculty, students and staff.
Our websites also appeal to the broader community, both locally and
internationally, as we share our unique digital collections with the world.

  
As a part of the library's web team, you will design useful, usable and
accessible web products. The team will support you in this by providing an
agile workflow (currently based on Kanban) and foundational tools (Redmine for
issue tracking, Git and Subversion for version control), and you will have the
opportunity to contribute to this framework. You will also be involved in user
research, process development and improvement, and communication with
stakeholders.

  
Along with the foundational tools mentioned above, our team uses a number of
advanced tools, including a CSS preprocessor (Sass), a deployment tool
(Phing), a frontend task runner (Gulp), and a style guide tool (Pattern Lab),
among others. We do not expect you to know these things coming in, but to be
excited to learn about them (we still are!).

  
Applications due May 15th. Apply online for the position of Website
Designer/Developer, Senior:http://www.uacareertrack.com/app
licants/Central?quickFind=216269

  
Find out more about working at the UA Libraries:
http://www.library.arizona.edu/about/employment/why

  
_As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, the University of
Arizona recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages
applications from individuals with varied experiences and
backgrounds. The University of Arizona is an Equal
Employment Opportunity - Affirmative Action Employer-M/W/D/V._



Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/20864/
To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/

[CODE4LIB] Google Accounts doesn't like our jobs site

[Hagedon, Mike - (mhagedon)]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Google tells me this when I 
try to authenticate to jobs.code4lib.org with my Google account:

OpenID 2.0 for Google Accounts has gone away
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6206245?p=openid&rd=1

Just FYI. ;-)

Mike

Mike Hagedon | Web Development (UX-Dev) Work Team Leader | User Experience 
Department | University of Arizona Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

[Cary Gordon]

Repository66.org seems like a great idea, but it seems years out of date.

On Friday, May 8, 2015, scott bacon  wrote:

> I've always found FOSS4LIB (https://foss4lib.org/) and Repository66.org (
> http://maps.repository66.org/) to be a good starting points.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Cooper, Krystal  >
> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or
> > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums?
> >
> > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs
> > paid.
> >
> > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out?
> >
> > KC
> >
>


-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

[CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

[Cary Gordon]

Foss4lib.org, operated by Lyrasis, has an inventory of open source digital
asset management systems.

OCLC's ContentDM is a bit long in the tooth, but is still very widely used.

Islandora and Hydra, both using Fedora Commons as their repository, are
very popular among academic libraries. Islandora has a larger public
library audience, although Hydra has recently received a substantial IMLS
grant for a project to make it easier to work with. Islandora uses The
popular Drupal CMS as its front end, and Hydra uses Ruby on Rails.

MPOW, the Cherry Hill Company provides Islandora services, including
development, training, theming (design) and general consultation. We also
offer a fully managed and hosted Islandora service.

Nothing in the library space ever dies, so folks are still using
Greenstone, and they do have a community.

There are at least 100 systems that are or can serve as repositories. Some,
like the ILS vendor offerings, are lame, others, such as Sharepoint, are
not a good fit with libraries. The rest all have a target audience that
they are trying to please.

As long as the systems you are considering fully meet your requirement, if
you are going to mostly rely on a vendor, then you must feel comfortable
with and confident in that vendor. If you have a programming resources on
staff, and plan to work with an open source system, then the project
community becomes your paramount consideration.

Thanks,

Cary

On Friday, May 8, 2015, Cooper, Krystal > wrote:

> Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or
> digital collection software in use at libraries and museums?
>
> I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs
> paid.
>
> Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out?
>
> KC
>


-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Michael Schofield]

I echo Jason and Eric, and as specifically a front-end developer maybe I can 
offer a little extra insight:

Six to eight hours of instruction and code-review from a developer could be 
enough if there is a fairly involved asynchronous program associated with it. 
E.g., perhaps your staff takes on a more-or-less singular robust project that 
you each individually complete in seven months. Something like this could very 
much lay a framework for basic understanding and implementation as well as give 
your colleagues a jumping-off point for further training. 

That said, you would need such an asynchronous program, which would take longer 
than just the six-hours of in-person coaching if the same expert were to 
develop it. 

As a gauge, a developer from whom you would trust to learn goes for about $100 
/ Hour, but that may be their starting negotiating rate and you might be able 
to knock it down to $60. Who knows what your local affiliates would charge 
based on their demand, but keep this number in your head - anything 
substantially lower should be a red flag, and anything substantially higher is 
probably bullshit. 

What you may be able to do is use a project from www.codecademy.com and invite 
the expert in at intervals to better explain concepts, their application in a 
real--maybe even library-specific--context, and review code. In this way, you 
all are effectively training yourselves with the aid of a mentor who comes in 
from time to time to set the course.

As for the remoteness, I wouldn't do it through Skype, rather I would use 
www.codepen.io, the premium version of which has a "professor" mode that I've 
found super valuable. Basically, you can all land in a single browser-editor, 
and the leader can tweak each of your code live, or pull everyone up to the 
same version, and so on. Codepen is purely HTML, JS, and CSS, and it is a great 
free tool, optimized specifically for your use case.

Feel free to holler off-list if you like for any brain-picking.

Michael 
@schoeyfield / www.libux.co / www.codepen.io/michaelschofield 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric 
Phetteplace
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 1:10 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

My first thought was the same as Jason's—what if you opened up the opportunity 
to remote experts? A lot of web developers are used to working remotely and it 
would greatly widen your potential talent pool. On the other hand, it sounds 
like you'd need to restructure your program too much, as having someone Skype 
into a room of twelve for a workshop sounds like an unideal experience. Maybe 
if it was possible to break the program into smaller one-on-one remote meetings 
this would work.

It sounds like you reached out initially to individual community members, but 
you could also try listing on local job boards or job sites. There are whole 
sites that focus specifically on web or programming professionals that might 
enable you to find someone in your area, e.g. Freelancer.

Aside: really cool that you're doing this! I've thought for a while that 
support to learn coding is sorely lacking at most institutions. Good luck 
finding someone!

Best,
Eric

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Katherine Deibel  wrote:

> Definitely poke local colleges/universities. Although rare, there are 
> often some computing grad students (and maybe a few undergrads) with a 
> passion for teaching that could greatly enjoy such an opportunity. I'd 
> contact student advisors in the relevant departments as they'd 
> probably know which students would have interest.
>
> Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist Information Technology 
> Services University of Washington Libraries 
> http://staff.washington.edu/deibel
>
> --
>
> "When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina."
>
>
> On 2015-05-08 8:25 AM, Chad Nelson wrote:
>
>> Eliza,
>>
>> Looks like Girl Develop It has a Milwaukee outfit, and even looks 
>> like they already run javascript classes.
>> http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Milwaukee
>>
>> I've heard nothing but good things about GDI classes in my neck of 
>> the woods, but obviously can't speak specifically about folks from Milwaukee.
>> But seems like a decent possibility.
>>
>> hth,
>> Chad
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM Eliza Carrie Bettinger 
>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello All,
>>>
>>>
>>> I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program 
>>> for academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all 
>>> the staff who participate will get together 1-2x per month to share 
>>> their progress on individual projects they're developing, and get 
>>> feedback and troubleshooting help from both a peer group AND a paid 
>>> expert I'm calling a "coach." (Full description below.)
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking 
>>> the coaching the job. I h

Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Eric Phetteplace]

My first thought was the same as Jason's—what if you opened up the
opportunity to remote experts? A lot of web developers are used to working
remotely and it would greatly widen your potential talent pool. On the
other hand, it sounds like you'd need to restructure your program too much,
as having someone Skype into a room of twelve for a workshop sounds like an
unideal experience. Maybe if it was possible to break the program into
smaller one-on-one remote meetings this would work.

It sounds like you reached out initially to individual community members,
but you could also try listing on local job boards or job sites. There are
whole sites that focus specifically on web or programming professionals
that might enable you to find someone in your area, e.g. Freelancer.

Aside: really cool that you're doing this! I've thought for a while that
support to learn coding is sorely lacking at most institutions. Good luck
finding someone!

Best,
Eric

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Katherine Deibel  wrote:

> Definitely poke local colleges/universities. Although rare, there are
> often some computing grad students (and maybe a few undergrads) with a
> passion for teaching that could greatly enjoy such an opportunity. I'd
> contact student advisors in the relevant departments as they'd probably
> know which students would have interest.
>
> Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
> Information Technology Services
> University of Washington Libraries
> http://staff.washington.edu/deibel
>
> --
>
> "When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina."
>
>
> On 2015-05-08 8:25 AM, Chad Nelson wrote:
>
>> Eliza,
>>
>> Looks like Girl Develop It has a Milwaukee outfit, and even looks like
>> they
>> already run javascript classes.
>> http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Milwaukee
>>
>> I've heard nothing but good things about GDI classes in my neck of the
>> woods, but obviously can't speak specifically about folks from Milwaukee.
>> But seems like a decent possibility.
>>
>> hth,
>> Chad
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM Eliza Carrie Bettinger 
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello All,
>>>
>>>
>>> I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program for
>>> academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all the
>>> staff
>>> who participate will get together 1-2x per month to share their progress
>>> on
>>> individual projects they're developing, and get feedback and
>>> troubleshooting help from both a peer group AND a paid expert I'm
>>> calling a
>>> "coach." (Full description below.)
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking the
>>> coaching the job. I have not made a public job ad, but I have emailed
>>> about
>>> 10 folks from campus and community, and asked them to notify their
>>> networks
>>> and affiliated lis-servs. For example: the leaders of Milwaukee MeetUp
>>> groups for tech women, for Javascript programmers, and open data; the web
>>> development professor at our iSchool; our campus app development lab; the
>>> leader of a local nonprofit that teaches coding to kids; etc. I've gotten
>>> positive responses form many of these folks, but I haven't received a
>>> nibble of interest from a single person in the job itself. I'm continuing
>>> to identify key people whose networks I can tap, but I'm discouraged by
>>> the
>>> apparent lack of interest I've encountered so far, and scratching my head
>>> over what I'm doing wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> So I'm turning to you for advice -- specifically, two questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Do you know someone who might know someone in the Milwaukee area who
>>> might be interested in a gig like this? If so, please feel free to
>>> circulate this posting
>>>
>>> 2) Can you spot anything in the ad itself that I could improve? Anything
>>> that's a turn-off? Should I include the pay rate in the ad?
>>>
>>> (We have a total of about $1100; I figured I would negotiate the hourly
>>> rate and total number of hours with the person we found. Although I
>>> listed
>>> 6 hours/month, that's only the ideal; we could bring down the total
>>> number
>>> of hours, and pay a higher rate.)
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions or ideas? I'd love to get your feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you!!
>>>
>>> Eliza
>>>
>>>
>>> Javascript Workshop Leader / "Coach"
>>>
>>> 6 hours per month, July - December, 2015
>>>
>>>
>>> This summer, the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM will begin a professional
>>> development series for academic staff from across campus to improve their
>>> skills in coding for front-end Web development -- specifically,
>>> Javascript.
>>> Workshop participants will be professionals from diverse academic
>>> backgrounds who each have a real-life work-related project under
>>> development. They will have completed some basic training in Javascript
>>> (such as the JavaScript course in Codecademy), but are novice-level
>>> developers.  In twice-monthly meetings with peers and an expert coach, up
>>> to 12 participants will meet for co

[CODE4LIB] Extracted Features Dataset Now Available for 4.8 Million Volumes/1.8 Billion Pages

[Dubnicek, Ryan C]

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce the release of its 
Extracted Features Dataset (v.0.2), a dataset derived from 4.8 million public 
domain volumes, totaling over 1.8 billion pages currently available in the 
HathiTrust Digital Library collection. The dataset includes over 734 billion 
words, dozens of languages, and spans multiple centuries. Features are 
informative, quantified characteristics of a text, and include:


  *   Volume-level metadata

  *   Page-level features

 *   Part-of-speech-tagged token counts

 *   Header and footer identification

 *   Sentence and line count

 *   Algorithmic language detection

  *   Line-level features

 *   Beginning and end line character count

 *   Maximum length of the sequence of capital characters starting a line


These features allow for analysis of large worksets of volumes in the 
HathiTrust public domain collection, at scales previously intractable for most 
individual researchers. For example, page-level token (word) counts, can be 
used to help build topic models, classifications and perform other text 
analytics. Similarly, features can be used to evaluate readability of a given 
volume or workset.


How to get the data:

The entire dataset, as well as sample subsets and custom worksets, are 
available at: https://sharc.hathitrust.org/features


How to cite:

Boris Capitanu, Ted Underwood, Peter Organisciak, Sayan Bhattacharyya, Loretta 
Auvil, Colleen Fallaw, J. Stephen Downie (2015). Extracted Feature Dataset from 
4.8 Million HathiTrust Digital Library Public Domain Volumes (v0.2). [Dataset]. 
HathiTrust Research Center, doi:10.13012/j8td9v7m.


This feature dataset is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 
International License.


About the HathiTrust Research Center:

The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana 
University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital 
Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts 
of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools 
and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing 
digital record of human knowledge.


For more information about the HathiTrust Research Center, visit 
http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

[scott bacon]

I've always found FOSS4LIB (https://foss4lib.org/) and Repository66.org (
http://maps.repository66.org/) to be a good starting points.



On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Cooper, Krystal 
wrote:

> Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or
> digital collection software in use at libraries and museums?
>
> I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs
> paid.
>
> Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out?
>
> KC
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

[Bornheimer, Bee]

Marshall Breeding's Library Technology web site has a nice search tool that 
lets you explore what software different libraries are using. Not sure if it 
includes a lot of museums and it may be heavily ILS focused versus other 
content tools.

http://librarytechnology.org/



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt 
Sherman
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 8:54 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

An interesting question. I am not sure if there is one great source for that. 
You can get some idea of open source platforms from FOSS4Lib. I think Wikipedia 
actually has a listing of software, but not 100% sure on that. It is slightly 
more institutional repository focused, but the Directory of Open Access 
Repositories has an interesting statistics section, which I think includes a 
chart of what software is used in each repository. I can't speak to your 
Greenstone question, I'm not aware of many that use it, but there could still 
be a strong user group out there.  Hope that helps a little.

Matt Sherman
On May 8, 2015 10:24 AM, "Cooper, Krystal"  wrote:

> Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library 
> or digital collection software in use at libraries and museums?
>
> I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source 
> vs paid.
>
> Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out?
>
> KC
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

[Matt Sherman]

An interesting question. I am not sure if there is one great source for
that. You can get some idea of open source platforms from FOSS4Lib. I think
Wikipedia actually has a listing of software, but not 100% sure on that. It
is slightly more institutional repository focused, but the Directory of
Open Access Repositories has an interesting statistics section, which I
think includes a chart of what software is used in each repository. I can't
speak to your Greenstone question, I'm not aware of many that use it, but
there could still be a strong user group out there.  Hope that helps a
little.

Matt Sherman
On May 8, 2015 10:24 AM, "Cooper, Krystal"  wrote:

> Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or
> digital collection software in use at libraries and museums?
>
> I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs
> paid.
>
> Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out?
>
> KC
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Katherine Deibel]

Definitely poke local colleges/universities. Although rare, there are 
often some computing grad students (and maybe a few undergrads) with a 
passion for teaching that could greatly enjoy such an opportunity. I'd 
contact student advisors in the relevant departments as they'd probably 
know which students would have interest.


Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services
University of Washington Libraries
http://staff.washington.edu/deibel

--

"When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina."

On 2015-05-08 8:25 AM, Chad Nelson wrote:

Eliza,

Looks like Girl Develop It has a Milwaukee outfit, and even looks like they
already run javascript classes.
http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Milwaukee

I've heard nothing but good things about GDI classes in my neck of the
woods, but obviously can't speak specifically about folks from Milwaukee.
But seems like a decent possibility.

hth,
Chad



On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM Eliza Carrie Bettinger 
wrote:


Hello All,


I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program for
academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all the staff
who participate will get together 1-2x per month to share their progress on
individual projects they're developing, and get feedback and
troubleshooting help from both a peer group AND a paid expert I'm calling a
"coach." (Full description below.)


The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking the
coaching the job. I have not made a public job ad, but I have emailed about
10 folks from campus and community, and asked them to notify their networks
and affiliated lis-servs. For example: the leaders of Milwaukee MeetUp
groups for tech women, for Javascript programmers, and open data; the web
development professor at our iSchool; our campus app development lab; the
leader of a local nonprofit that teaches coding to kids; etc. I've gotten
positive responses form many of these folks, but I haven't received a
nibble of interest from a single person in the job itself. I'm continuing
to identify key people whose networks I can tap, but I'm discouraged by the
apparent lack of interest I've encountered so far, and scratching my head
over what I'm doing wrong.


So I'm turning to you for advice -- specifically, two questions:

1) Do you know someone who might know someone in the Milwaukee area who
might be interested in a gig like this? If so, please feel free to
circulate this posting

2) Can you spot anything in the ad itself that I could improve? Anything
that's a turn-off? Should I include the pay rate in the ad?

(We have a total of about $1100; I figured I would negotiate the hourly
rate and total number of hours with the person we found. Although I listed
6 hours/month, that's only the ideal; we could bring down the total number
of hours, and pay a higher rate.)

Any other suggestions or ideas? I'd love to get your feedback.


Thank you!!

Eliza


Javascript Workshop Leader / "Coach"

6 hours per month, July - December, 2015


This summer, the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM will begin a professional
development series for academic staff from across campus to improve their
skills in coding for front-end Web development -- specifically, Javascript.
Workshop participants will be professionals from diverse academic
backgrounds who each have a real-life work-related project under
development. They will have completed some basic training in Javascript
(such as the JavaScript course in Codecademy), but are novice-level
developers.  In twice-monthly meetings with peers and an expert coach, up
to 12 participants will meet for collaborative workshop sessions in which
they present progress on their projects, get help on overcoming obstacles,
receive short lessons on important topics, and gradually “level up” to
become more proficient programming problem solvers.  Our goal is to support
staff who have already learned some basics of coding, but need help to
start becoming fluent enough to apply those basics in order to design and
build their desired products.


We seek an expert front-end programmer with Javascript expertise who will
act as coach, mentor, and troubleshooter for this group of learners.
Overall, the goal of the workshop sessions will be to build a community of
learners to support one another and provide motivation, camaraderie, and
practical assistance in overcoming roadblocks. The paid expert will act a
coach for the group, providing guidance in matters that are opaque to
novice learners, and sharing strategies from his/her experience. Sessions
may include short lessons prepared and presented by the coach, but we
envision workshop sessions in which the focus of the majority of the
meeting time is on individual participants' projects and questions.
Participants could also take turns researching and presenting on relevant
topics, with guidance from the coach.  The exact format of the sessions
will be designed in part with guidance from the coac

Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Scancella, John]

Hi Eliza,

Although I am not a javascript programmer expert I have used it enough to know 
that 6 hours will not be enough. if you break it down (roughly) 4 weeks a 
month, that is 1.5 hours a week, which is not enough time to help a group. In 
my own opinion the type of expert you are seeking is one who is highly in 
demand and could make much more money doing something else. So unless they 
specifically want to help you train these people it is not worth the time and 
effort they will need to put into in for the money getting paid.

I would instead recommend finding several people willing to volunteer to help 
out when needed. You probably could find these through a local meetup 
(http://javascript.meetup.com/).

John

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eliza Carrie 
Bettinger [betti...@uwm.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 11:14 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

Hello All,


I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program for 
academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all the staff who 
participate will get together 1-2x per month to share their progress on 
individual projects they're developing, and get feedback and troubleshooting 
help from both a peer group AND a paid expert I'm calling a "coach." (Full 
description below.)


The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking the 
coaching the job. I have not made a public job ad, but I have emailed about 10 
folks from campus and community, and asked them to notify their networks and 
affiliated lis-servs. For example: the leaders of Milwaukee MeetUp groups for 
tech women, for Javascript programmers, and open data; the web development 
professor at our iSchool; our campus app development lab; the leader of a local 
nonprofit that teaches coding to kids; etc. I've gotten positive responses form 
many of these folks, but I haven't received a nibble of interest from a single 
person in the job itself. I'm continuing to identify key people whose networks 
I can tap, but I'm discouraged by the apparent lack of interest I've 
encountered so far, and scratching my head over what I'm doing wrong.


So I'm turning to you for advice -- specifically, two questions:

1) Do you know someone who might know someone in the Milwaukee area who might 
be interested in a gig like this? If so, please feel free to circulate this 
posting

2) Can you spot anything in the ad itself that I could improve? Anything that's 
a turn-off? Should I include the pay rate in the ad?

(We have a total of about $1100; I figured I would negotiate the hourly rate 
and total number of hours with the person we found. Although I listed 6 
hours/month, that's only the ideal; we could bring down the total number of 
hours, and pay a higher rate.)

Any other suggestions or ideas? I'd love to get your feedback.


Thank you!!

Eliza


Javascript Workshop Leader / "Coach"

6 hours per month, July - December, 2015


This summer, the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM will begin a professional 
development series for academic staff from across campus to improve their 
skills in coding for front-end Web development -- specifically, Javascript. 
Workshop participants will be professionals from diverse academic backgrounds 
who each have a real-life work-related project under development. They will 
have completed some basic training in Javascript (such as the JavaScript course 
in Codecademy), but are novice-level developers.  In twice-monthly meetings 
with peers and an expert coach, up to 12 participants will meet for 
collaborative workshop sessions in which they present progress on their 
projects, get help on overcoming obstacles, receive short lessons on important 
topics, and gradually “level up” to become more proficient programming problem 
solvers.  Our goal is to support staff who have already learned some basics of 
coding, but need help to start becoming fluent enough to apply those basics in !
 order to design and build their desired products.


We seek an expert front-end programmer with Javascript expertise who will act 
as coach, mentor, and troubleshooter for this group of learners. Overall, the 
goal of the workshop sessions will be to build a community of learners to 
support one another and provide motivation, camaraderie, and practical 
assistance in overcoming roadblocks. The paid expert will act a coach for the 
group, providing guidance in matters that are opaque to novice learners, and 
sharing strategies from his/her experience. Sessions may include short lessons 
prepared and presented by the coach, but we envision workshop sessions in which 
the focus of the majority of the meeting time is on individual participants' 
projects and questions. Participants could also take turns researching and 
presenting on relevant topics, with guidance from the coach.  The exact format 
of the sessions wil

Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Jason Bengtson]

Have you though about opening this up to people outside your area? There's
no reason someone couldn't meet with people via hangouts or skype and
review their code asynchronously. That would significantly increase your
potential applicant pool.

Best regards,
*Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*
Innovation Architect


*Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library*
1133 John Freeman Blvd
Houston, TX   77030
http://library.tmc.edu/
www.jasonbengtson.com

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Eliza Carrie Bettinger 
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>
> I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program for
> academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all the staff
> who participate will get together 1-2x per month to share their progress on
> individual projects they're developing, and get feedback and
> troubleshooting help from both a peer group AND a paid expert I'm calling a
> "coach." (Full description below.)
>
>
> The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking the
> coaching the job. I have not made a public job ad, but I have emailed about
> 10 folks from campus and community, and asked them to notify their networks
> and affiliated lis-servs. For example: the leaders of Milwaukee MeetUp
> groups for tech women, for Javascript programmers, and open data; the web
> development professor at our iSchool; our campus app development lab; the
> leader of a local nonprofit that teaches coding to kids; etc. I've gotten
> positive responses form many of these folks, but I haven't received a
> nibble of interest from a single person in the job itself. I'm continuing
> to identify key people whose networks I can tap, but I'm discouraged by the
> apparent lack of interest I've encountered so far, and scratching my head
> over what I'm doing wrong.
>
>
> So I'm turning to you for advice -- specifically, two questions:
>
> 1) Do you know someone who might know someone in the Milwaukee area who
> might be interested in a gig like this? If so, please feel free to
> circulate this posting
>
> 2) Can you spot anything in the ad itself that I could improve? Anything
> that's a turn-off? Should I include the pay rate in the ad?
>
> (We have a total of about $1100; I figured I would negotiate the hourly
> rate and total number of hours with the person we found. Although I listed
> 6 hours/month, that's only the ideal; we could bring down the total number
> of hours, and pay a higher rate.)
>
> Any other suggestions or ideas? I'd love to get your feedback.
>
>
> Thank you!!
>
> Eliza
>
>
> Javascript Workshop Leader / "Coach"
>
> 6 hours per month, July - December, 2015
>
>
> This summer, the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM will begin a professional
> development series for academic staff from across campus to improve their
> skills in coding for front-end Web development -- specifically, Javascript.
> Workshop participants will be professionals from diverse academic
> backgrounds who each have a real-life work-related project under
> development. They will have completed some basic training in Javascript
> (such as the JavaScript course in Codecademy), but are novice-level
> developers.  In twice-monthly meetings with peers and an expert coach, up
> to 12 participants will meet for collaborative workshop sessions in which
> they present progress on their projects, get help on overcoming obstacles,
> receive short lessons on important topics, and gradually “level up” to
> become more proficient programming problem solvers.  Our goal is to support
> staff who have already learned some basics of coding, but need help to
> start becoming fluent enough to apply those basics in order to design and
> build their desired products.
>
>
> We seek an expert front-end programmer with Javascript expertise who will
> act as coach, mentor, and troubleshooter for this group of learners.
> Overall, the goal of the workshop sessions will be to build a community of
> learners to support one another and provide motivation, camaraderie, and
> practical assistance in overcoming roadblocks. The paid expert will act a
> coach for the group, providing guidance in matters that are opaque to
> novice learners, and sharing strategies from his/her experience. Sessions
> may include short lessons prepared and presented by the coach, but we
> envision workshop sessions in which the focus of the majority of the
> meeting time is on individual participants' projects and questions.
> Participants could also take turns researching and presenting on relevant
> topics, with guidance from the coach.  The exact format of the sessions
> will be designed in part with guidance from the coach, and will be subject
> to revision and changes with input from the group as the project progresses.
>
>
> The person we hire will:
>
> Be an expert developer of front-end interaction applications. Skilled in
> JavaScript, and in adopting specialized JS libraries.
>
> Have some experience (formal or informal) teaching, coaching, or m

Re: [CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Chad Nelson]

Eliza,

Looks like Girl Develop It has a Milwaukee outfit, and even looks like they
already run javascript classes.
http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Milwaukee

I've heard nothing but good things about GDI classes in my neck of the
woods, but obviously can't speak specifically about folks from Milwaukee.
But seems like a decent possibility.

hth,
Chad



On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM Eliza Carrie Bettinger 
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>
> I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program for
> academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all the staff
> who participate will get together 1-2x per month to share their progress on
> individual projects they're developing, and get feedback and
> troubleshooting help from both a peer group AND a paid expert I'm calling a
> "coach." (Full description below.)
>
>
> The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking the
> coaching the job. I have not made a public job ad, but I have emailed about
> 10 folks from campus and community, and asked them to notify their networks
> and affiliated lis-servs. For example: the leaders of Milwaukee MeetUp
> groups for tech women, for Javascript programmers, and open data; the web
> development professor at our iSchool; our campus app development lab; the
> leader of a local nonprofit that teaches coding to kids; etc. I've gotten
> positive responses form many of these folks, but I haven't received a
> nibble of interest from a single person in the job itself. I'm continuing
> to identify key people whose networks I can tap, but I'm discouraged by the
> apparent lack of interest I've encountered so far, and scratching my head
> over what I'm doing wrong.
>
>
> So I'm turning to you for advice -- specifically, two questions:
>
> 1) Do you know someone who might know someone in the Milwaukee area who
> might be interested in a gig like this? If so, please feel free to
> circulate this posting
>
> 2) Can you spot anything in the ad itself that I could improve? Anything
> that's a turn-off? Should I include the pay rate in the ad?
>
> (We have a total of about $1100; I figured I would negotiate the hourly
> rate and total number of hours with the person we found. Although I listed
> 6 hours/month, that's only the ideal; we could bring down the total number
> of hours, and pay a higher rate.)
>
> Any other suggestions or ideas? I'd love to get your feedback.
>
>
> Thank you!!
>
> Eliza
>
>
> Javascript Workshop Leader / "Coach"
>
> 6 hours per month, July - December, 2015
>
>
> This summer, the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM will begin a professional
> development series for academic staff from across campus to improve their
> skills in coding for front-end Web development -- specifically, Javascript.
> Workshop participants will be professionals from diverse academic
> backgrounds who each have a real-life work-related project under
> development. They will have completed some basic training in Javascript
> (such as the JavaScript course in Codecademy), but are novice-level
> developers.  In twice-monthly meetings with peers and an expert coach, up
> to 12 participants will meet for collaborative workshop sessions in which
> they present progress on their projects, get help on overcoming obstacles,
> receive short lessons on important topics, and gradually “level up” to
> become more proficient programming problem solvers.  Our goal is to support
> staff who have already learned some basics of coding, but need help to
> start becoming fluent enough to apply those basics in order to design and
> build their desired products.
>
>
> We seek an expert front-end programmer with Javascript expertise who will
> act as coach, mentor, and troubleshooter for this group of learners.
> Overall, the goal of the workshop sessions will be to build a community of
> learners to support one another and provide motivation, camaraderie, and
> practical assistance in overcoming roadblocks. The paid expert will act a
> coach for the group, providing guidance in matters that are opaque to
> novice learners, and sharing strategies from his/her experience. Sessions
> may include short lessons prepared and presented by the coach, but we
> envision workshop sessions in which the focus of the majority of the
> meeting time is on individual participants' projects and questions.
> Participants could also take turns researching and presenting on relevant
> topics, with guidance from the coach.  The exact format of the sessions
> will be designed in part with guidance from the coach, and will be subject
> to revision and changes with input from the group as the project progresses.
>
>
> The person we hire will:
>
> Be an expert developer of front-end interaction applications. Skilled in
> JavaScript, and in adopting specialized JS libraries.
>
> Have some experience (formal or informal) teaching, coaching, or mentoring
> beginner-level programmers.
>
> Have Interest in and competency with a wide range of subje

[CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software

[Cooper, Krystal]

Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or 
digital collection software in use at libraries and museums?

I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs paid. 

Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out?

KC

[CODE4LIB] Where to look for a JavaScript Code Coach?

[Eliza Carrie Bettinger]

Hello All,


I received a grant from my university to organize a 7-month program for 
academic staff to build their Javascript skills. The idea is all the staff who 
participate will get together 1-2x per month to share their progress on 
individual projects they're developing, and get feedback and troubleshooting 
help from both a peer group AND a paid expert I'm calling a "coach." (Full 
description below.)


The problem I'm having is finding anyone who is interested in taking the 
coaching the job. I have not made a public job ad, but I have emailed about 10 
folks from campus and community, and asked them to notify their networks and 
affiliated lis-servs. For example: the leaders of Milwaukee MeetUp groups for 
tech women, for Javascript programmers, and open data; the web development 
professor at our iSchool; our campus app development lab; the leader of a local 
nonprofit that teaches coding to kids; etc. I've gotten positive responses form 
many of these folks, but I haven't received a nibble of interest from a single 
person in the job itself. I'm continuing to identify key people whose networks 
I can tap, but I'm discouraged by the apparent lack of interest I've 
encountered so far, and scratching my head over what I'm doing wrong.


So I'm turning to you for advice -- specifically, two questions:

1) Do you know someone who might know someone in the Milwaukee area who might 
be interested in a gig like this? If so, please feel free to circulate this 
posting

2) Can you spot anything in the ad itself that I could improve? Anything that's 
a turn-off? Should I include the pay rate in the ad?

(We have a total of about $1100; I figured I would negotiate the hourly rate 
and total number of hours with the person we found. Although I listed 6 
hours/month, that's only the ideal; we could bring down the total number of 
hours, and pay a higher rate.)

Any other suggestions or ideas? I'd love to get your feedback.


Thank you!!

Eliza


Javascript Workshop Leader / "Coach"

6 hours per month, July - December, 2015


This summer, the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM will begin a professional 
development series for academic staff from across campus to improve their 
skills in coding for front-end Web development -- specifically, Javascript. 
Workshop participants will be professionals from diverse academic backgrounds 
who each have a real-life work-related project under development. They will 
have completed some basic training in Javascript (such as the JavaScript course 
in Codecademy), but are novice-level developers.  In twice-monthly meetings 
with peers and an expert coach, up to 12 participants will meet for 
collaborative workshop sessions in which they present progress on their 
projects, get help on overcoming obstacles, receive short lessons on important 
topics, and gradually “level up” to become more proficient programming problem 
solvers.  Our goal is to support staff who have already learned some basics of 
coding, but need help to start becoming fluent enough to apply those basics in 
order to design and build their desired products.


We seek an expert front-end programmer with Javascript expertise who will act 
as coach, mentor, and troubleshooter for this group of learners. Overall, the 
goal of the workshop sessions will be to build a community of learners to 
support one another and provide motivation, camaraderie, and practical 
assistance in overcoming roadblocks. The paid expert will act a coach for the 
group, providing guidance in matters that are opaque to novice learners, and 
sharing strategies from his/her experience. Sessions may include short lessons 
prepared and presented by the coach, but we envision workshop sessions in which 
the focus of the majority of the meeting time is on individual participants' 
projects and questions. Participants could also take turns researching and 
presenting on relevant topics, with guidance from the coach.  The exact format 
of the sessions will be designed in part with guidance from the coach, and will 
be subject to revision and changes with input from the group as the project 
progresses.


The person we hire will:

Be an expert developer of front-end interaction applications. Skilled in 
JavaScript, and in adopting specialized JS libraries.

Have some experience (formal or informal) teaching, coaching, or mentoring 
beginner-level programmers.

Have Interest in and competency with a wide range of subject and content 
applications.

Have comfort with and interest in joining a learning environment that is 
flexible, collaborative, and open.


To express interest in the position, or to learn more, please contact Eliza 
Bettinger, betti...@uwm.edu


--
Eliza Bettinger
Digital Geo-Information Specialist
American Geographical Society Library
UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee WI USA
414-229-6282