Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

[Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)]

I would agree. They will pick up the tech... why the tech, and the need for the 
workarounds, is another story.


On March 1, 2016, at 9:39 PM, "Fitchett, Deborah" 
 wrote:

I actually feel that the tech side of library things may be less bewildering to 
a non-tech person than the *culture*. Things like:

* the way any progress happens in University Time
* the way we're dependent on vendors in ways that mean that yes, often our 
systems SUCK but we just have to play the hand we're dealt
* the sometimes-fraught relationship between Library IT and University IT
* the customer-focus of the library - including colleagues as customers
* and relatedly, the collaborative nature of so much library work
* depending on where they've come from and how well you're staffed, the very 
"bitsy" nature of Library IT, not just in having to know about lots of things 
but having to jump from one thing to another at a moment's notice to 
troubleshoot instead of being able to get stuck into a project

If someone has no experience in libraries and gets thrust into this culture 
from something quite different, then no matter how quickly they pick up the 
tech they risk feeling very adrift in terms of how Things Are Done Around Here 
and jangling with people because each party is trying to interact in very 
different ways.

Or they may be a perfect fit culturally and that's why they've made the move! 
But it's worth keeping a watch to be sure there aren't any "culture shock" 
incidents, or if there are to deal with them before they cause too much stress.

Deborah

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jenn 
Riley
Sent: Saturday, 27 February 2016 9:42 a.m.
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

Dear Code4Libbers,

We have a new developer starting soon that’s coming from industry with no 
experience in libraries. We're interested in hearing about any strategies or 
training methods you’ve found successful in introducing developers from other 
areas to the quirkiness of library tech – things like MARC, proxy servers, 
Z39.50, catalogue knowledgebases, e-resources access, etc. Do you have any 
successes or advice to share?

For those of you in academic libraries, we also are interested in strategies 
for getting someone new oriented to the academic environment.

Thanks so much!

Jenn

---
Jenn Riley
Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques

McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill
3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | 
Montréal (QC) Canada  H3A 0C9

(514) 398-3642
jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca


P Please consider the environment before you print this email.
"The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential 
and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of 
the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in 
error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete 
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Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

[Fitchett, Deborah]

I actually feel that the tech side of library things may be less bewildering to 
a non-tech person than the *culture*. Things like:

* the way any progress happens in University Time
* the way we're dependent on vendors in ways that mean that yes, often our 
systems SUCK but we just have to play the hand we're dealt
* the sometimes-fraught relationship between Library IT and University IT
* the customer-focus of the library - including colleagues as customers
* and relatedly, the collaborative nature of so much library work
* depending on where they've come from and how well you're staffed, the very 
"bitsy" nature of Library IT, not just in having to know about lots of things 
but having to jump from one thing to another at a moment's notice to 
troubleshoot instead of being able to get stuck into a project

If someone has no experience in libraries and gets thrust into this culture 
from something quite different, then no matter how quickly they pick up the 
tech they risk feeling very adrift in terms of how Things Are Done Around Here 
and jangling with people because each party is trying to interact in very 
different ways.

Or they may be a perfect fit culturally and that's why they've made the move! 
But it's worth keeping a watch to be sure there aren't any "culture shock" 
incidents, or if there are to deal with them before they cause too much stress.

Deborah

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jenn 
Riley
Sent: Saturday, 27 February 2016 9:42 a.m.
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

Dear Code4Libbers,

We have a new developer starting soon that’s coming from industry with no 
experience in libraries. We're interested in hearing about any strategies or 
training methods you’ve found successful in introducing developers from other 
areas to the quirkiness of library tech – things like MARC, proxy servers, 
Z39.50, catalogue knowledgebases, e-resources access, etc. Do you have any 
successes or advice to share?

For those of you in academic libraries, we also are interested in strategies 
for getting someone new oriented to the academic environment.

Thanks so much!

Jenn

---
Jenn Riley
Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques

McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill
3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | 
Montréal (QC) Canada  H3A 0C9

(514) 398-3642
jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca


P Please consider the environment before you print this email.
"The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential 
and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of 
the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in 
error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete 
this e-mail together with all attachments from your system."

Re: [CODE4LIB] next code4lib SoCal meetup 3/22

[Salazar, Christina]

Please note the March 22nd SoCal MeetUp will be rescheduled for some time in 
April. Josh, Gary or myself will be in touch with further details as we er... 
figure them out.

While I've cancelled the meeting in MeetUp, I have not yet rescheduled until we 
have confirmed a date so please stay tuned to update your RSVP.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Gomez [mailto:jgo...@getty.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 9:53 AM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Salazar, Christina; Gary Thompson
Subject: next code4lib SoCal meetup 3/22

Thanks again to the folks at CalTech for hosting the last quarterly meetup of 
Code4lib-SoCal in December.  For our next meetup we will invade the Central 
Coast again. Christina Salazar at Cal State Channel Islands has offered to play 
host. Unfortunately, the campus is not actually on an island. However, somewhat 
more interestingly, it was built from a re-purposed sanatorium, formerly known 
as "the Man Cave", tucked away in the hills of Camarillo [1].

If you're interested in giving a talk about a project or new technology that 
you are working with (or anything else you think other code4libbers would be 
interested in), please send a message to me or Christina.

Details in brief:
Place: CalState Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Date: March 22nd, 2016
Time: 10am-3pmish

Please RSVP on the meetup page: 
http://www.meetup.com/Code4lib-SoCal/events/227916277/

We hope to see you there.

Josh
 
 Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer
 Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA
 (310) 440-7410
  
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarillo_State_Mental_Hospital

Re: [CODE4LIB] php and email

[Kaile Zhu]

Yes, sendgrid-php api finally does the job for me.  There are quite many steps 
to go through to make it work.  If anybody is in the same situation like me, 
contact me off-line; I can help to walk you through.  Thanks for all the help 
received. - Kelly

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kun Lin
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:53 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] php and email

Hi Kaile
If you wasn't able to install Postfix on your server, try a third-party mail 
delivery service.
For example: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mandrill.com_&d=CwIBaQ&c=URKFmO0h1-PpCttSQ3v_bEhalPi_sNmh-_LG0Bso5YA&r=UmjVf-1YCnSJ8ymaevl-35Anh5CG-YF09ZrBGH_xV3U&m=nVNcB0ugd-0DHxOUN2sjEprE9MOoBmPiJL0vZFJW3Fo&s=YeWZ78MoyK1hJHczQzWYMilS_20ekrNa4zWk_OteAMI&e=
   or  
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sendgrid.com_&d=CwIBaQ&c=URKFmO0h1-PpCttSQ3v_bEhalPi_sNmh-_LG0Bso5YA&r=UmjVf-1YCnSJ8ymaevl-35Anh5CG-YF09ZrBGH_xV3U&m=nVNcB0ugd-0DHxOUN2sjEprE9MOoBmPiJL0vZFJW3Fo&s=bDE4ZUTNUXnnqY3p74ZY9pmI_894o8Yz0KM6eDKApA8&e=
 

They have an API for you to send emails.
Kun Lin
Whitman College


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kaile 
Zhu
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 2:23 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] php and email

I tried.  It seems without a mail server, it won't work.  - Kelly

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Erik 
Sandall
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] php and email

Hi Kelly,

PHP has a mail function that you can incorporate into your scripts. The manual 
page is here:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__secure.php.net_manual
_en_function.mail.php&d=CwIC-g&c=URKFmO0h1-PpCttSQ3v_bEhalPi_sNmh-_LG0Bso5
YA&r=UmjVf-1YCnSJ8ymaevl-35Anh5CG-YF09ZrBGH_xV3U&m=Y2klCC-6Dhar7sB9-IRgKrA
mwCBSC5FuSpCTARGME6w&s=wFuddn5VUWc783vIPFXYAN81v0JOn4JHNZZbdlbtwLI&e=

/e

--
Erik Sandall, MLIS
Electronic Services Librarian & Webmaster Mechanics' Institute
57 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-393-0111
esand...@milibrary.org


On 2/26/2016 1:50 PM, Kaile Zhu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our library has a website run on PHP.  The university IT would not 
> help
to set up email capability via Web.  My question is, what are the options there 
that I can add email notification capability to our website, and how?
>
> Our server is Windows 2008r2, PHP5.6, IIS 7.5.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kelly Zhu
>

[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Initiatives Administrator at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne

[jobs]

Digital Initiatives Administrator
Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Walter E. Helmke
Library (library.ipfw.edu) seeks a Digital Initiatives Administrator to
oversee and grow current digital projects under the mDON initiative and to
implement a digital university archives. This 12-month
begins May 2, 2016 (negotiable).

  
IPFW is the largest institution of higher learning in northeast Indiana,
offering about 200 degree and certificate programs. More than 13,000 students
of diverse ages, races, and nationalities pursue their education on our
beautiful 662-acre campus in Fort Wayne, IN. As Indiana's
Multisystem Metropolitan University, we are uniquely positioned to serve the
region as a crossroads of intellectual, social, economic, and cultural
advancement and continue to expand our global reach through research,
scholarship, and creative expression.

  
Employment is contingent on a satisfactory background records check. IPFW is
an EEO/AA employer. All individuals, including minorities,
women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to
apply.

  
Responsibilities: The Digital Initiatives Administrator is responsible for the
planning, administrative management, implementation, creation and maintenance
of access and discovery portals (Web sites), and monitoring of the library's
digital initiatives and university digital archives. Including the development
and implementation of policies and procedures related to the acquisition,
arrangement, description, and processing of materials for digital
preservation. Successful candidate will determine work
priorities in alignment with IPFW strategic vision and goals. Digital curation
and preservation tasks include metadata creation, quality control of
collection description, implementation and documentation of best practices and
standards related to digital collections. The Digital Initiatives
Administrator will work collaboratively across the university on digital
collection and archival infrastructure, actively solicit content from the IPFW
community as well as off-campus partners, and collaborate in local, regional,
and statewide digital library initiatives. In addition, the Digital
Initiatives Administrator is expected to keep abreast of trends in the
creation, maintenance and migration of digital collections, with an emphasis
on improving systems, equipment, procedures, preservation, and access. The
Digital Initiatives Administrator working in a team-based environment, sharing
and dividing duties as assignments and skills indicate, maintains and develops
an effective, collegial, team environment with the department. This position
is responsible for the direction of two staff personnel as well as training
and supervising student workers.

  
Qualifications:

  

  * Bachelor's degree required with an ALA accredited master's degree in 
Library or Information Science preferred
  * Coursework in digital preservation, metadata schema, library science, 
archives or records management required. Digital Archives Specialist coursework 
preferred
  * Three years experience working in digital collection management, content 
management systems or digital preservation required
  * Training in CONTENTdm, Preservica or other content management system 
required
  * Skills in computer file structures, demonstrated knowledge of organization 
schema (e.g., RDA, AACR2, Dublin Core, MARC, LCSH, etc.) working knowledge of 
resource description practices and understanding of controlled vocabularies 
required.
  * Experience working in an academic library with supervisory experience 
preferred
  * Experience harvesting and preserving born-digital materials, including web 
sites, e-mail, and various social media preferred
  * Strong knowledge of copyright, donor restrictions, and permissions issues 
related to processing and preserving digital materials
  * Ability to understand a wide range of topics in order to digitize, describe 
and maintain a variety of collections.
  * Meet, consult and advise content providers on the process for digitizing 
their specific collection, including items to be digitized.
  * Outstanding analytical, organizational, project, and time management skills 
and the ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously
  * Must be able to use discretion in decision-making, be flexible, take a 
proactive approach to problem resolution and work collaboratively with others.
  * Excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills required.
  
  
Application: Send letter of application, curriculum vitae,
and the names and contact information of three current references, to: Cheryl
Truesdell, Walter E. Helmke Library, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne,
IN 46805. Application deadline: March 31, 2016



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[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator. at Pennsylvania State University

[jobs]

Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator.
Pennsylvania State University
University Park

he Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks creative, forward-thinking
individuals to apply for the full-time, three-year appointment as Digital
Scholarship Research Coordinator. This faculty librarian will play a critical
role in project and service development to strengthen digital scholarship at
Penn State. The successful candidate will be conversant with a variety of
pertinent technologies and platforms and have first-hand knowledge of, and
experience in, their applications for research. The Digital Scholarship
Research Coordinator will have a passion for interdisciplinary, collaborative
projects; value education through experimentation and prototyping; and
understand the importance of humanities and social sciences scholarship and
its publics.

  
This is a fixed-term (multi-year), non-tenure track, 3-year appointment based
at the University Park campus in the Paterno and Pattee Libraries. It carries
the rank of Assistant Librarian. The position reports to the Associate
Director for the Center for Humanities and Information in the University
Libraries and is jointly funded by the Libraries and the College of the
Liberal Arts.

  
The Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator will oversee digital scholarship
projects originating in the College of the Liberal Arts, ensuring that
researchers have the technical and intellectual support (from the Libraries or
other relevant campus units) to carry out and complete their work. This
position is expected to raise the profile of digital scholarship in the
humanities and social sciences at Penn State and to sustain the digital
scholarship community through outreach and events such as workshops and
speaker series. The successful candidate will be able to communicate,
translate, and share ideas and concepts effectively across diverse,
interdisciplinary audiences. The Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator will
maintain currency in the field and may pursue their own research to do so. The
person in this role will engage in national and/or international initiatives
or other professional activities promoting the development of a shared
infrastructure.

  
Responsibilities:

* Collaborates within the University Libraries and the College of the Liberal 
Arts to build community and promote digital scholarship across Penn State.  
* Develops and conducts training, group instruction, and workshops, both 
individually and collaboratively, on digital scholarship research methods, 
tools, platforms, and best practices.  
* Evaluates existing and emerging tools and technologies to inform 
decision-making around technology and platform support, and to identify 
potential uses in humanities and/or social science research. Prototypes 
demonstration projects and/or implements tools for use by others.  
* Collaborates with colleagues in the Libraries, Liberal Arts, and Information 
Technology Services to help ensure harmony among various technology 
infrastructures and needs.  
* Provides consultation and, where appropriate, technical support for digital 
scholarship projects, including implementation of tools and/or technology, to 
help researchers achieve their goals.  
  
Required Qualifications:

* Advanced degree in a humanities or social sciences field.  
* Demonstrated proficiency with one or more technologies commonly used in 
digital humanities and/or social science projects, such as database design and 
development, XML-encoding, GIS, data visualization, topic modeling, or social 
network analysis.  
* Experience with development and management of projects, grants, and/or 
budgets.  
* Experience teaching or leading workshops on digital scholarship tools and/or 
methods to faculty and students.  
* Experience working collaboratively with other scholars and/or with IT 
professionals on projects related to digital scholarship.  
* Excellent communication and presentation skills.  
  
Desired Qualifications:

* PhD in a humanities or social sciences field.  
* Demonstrated ability to build and engage an active intellectual community.  
* Personal research experience with tools and approaches in the digital 
humanities or social sciences.  
* Familiarity with research library services and objectives, including 
scholarly communication issues and assessment practices.  
* Familiarity with service and program development and implementation.  
* Record of professional presentations and/or publications.  
  
Environment:

  
Penn State, a land-grant institution, is a member of the Committee on
Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium of the Big Ten universities plus
the University of Chicago. Based on current Association for Research Libraries
investment rankings, Penn State is among the top ten research libraries in
North America. A Penn State student survey completed in
2014 found overall student satisfaction with the Libraries to be at the top of
its category. Collections excee

[CODE4LIB] Job: Visiting Digital Publishing Specialist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[jobs]

Visiting Digital Publishing Specialist
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign

Position Available: The expected start date is as soon as possible after the
closing date. This is a 100%, 3-Year Visiting Academic Professional
appointment, with the potential of becoming permanent.

  
Responsibilities: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an
innovative and motivated professional to serve in the position of Visiting
Digital Publishing Specialist. Reporting to the Head of Scholarly
Communications and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will provide
the Library's Scholarly Communications and Publishing Unit with project
management and production workflow support as part of the Library's effort to
offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign
campus and beyond. The Specialist will also participate in the Andrew W.
Mellon-funded "Publishing Without Walls" initiative
(https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/256174).

  
This position performs document modelling and text-structure cleanup processes
along with administering the day-to-day coordination and completion of digital
publishing projects. The incumbent will interact with other members of the
Scholarly Communication and Publishing team, Library IT, and the Scholarly
Communication and Repository Services team, and will, in collaboration with
the unit head and the research programmer, troubleshoot and streamline digital
publishing production workflows. She or he will also assist in developing new
publishing projects.

  
As a member of the Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit, the Digital
Publishing Specialist will join the broader Library Office of Research, a
highly collaborative program that also includes the Scholarly Commons
(http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/), the Research Data Service unit, and a
growing researcher metrics program.

  
Specific Responsibilities Include:

  
● Assisting in the definition of project scope and
objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical
feasibility.

● Communicating with publishing partners regarding content
and features of online publications.

● Establishing and managing internal communications for the
launch of new digital publications.

● Evaluating feasibility of emerging formats and workflows
for digital publishing to guide integration into the library's evolving
scholarly publishing toolkit.

● Creating and documenting procedures for preparing and
loading content into digital publishing platforms, including conversion of
draft-format publications into final format, to ensure consistent practice
across unit and library.

● Converting and preparing materials for online publication,
including creation of metadata, formatting of text documents, and running
scripts to convert from PDF, InDesign, or Microsoft Word format (among
others).

● Proofreading for obvious structural, grammatical, or
stylistic errors.

● Editing and creating simple web sites for publications
using HTML and CSS templates.

● Assisting in educating authors about the publishing
process.

● Other related duties, as assigned.

  
Academic Professional employees are encouraged to use "investigation time" to
pursue areas of interest, not directly in support of an immediate program
need, in accordance with the University Library's policy on Investigation Time
for Academic Professional Employees . Some investigations originating in this
manner may evolve into regular work assignments or production activities.

  
Environment: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library is
a leader in the delivery of user services, and active programs in information,
instructional, access, and scholarly services that help the Library to
maintain its place at the intellectual heart of the campus. The Library also
holds one of the preeminent research collections in the world, encompassing
more than 13 million volumes and a total of more than 23 million items. The
Library is committed to maintaining the strongest collections and service
programs possible, and to engaging in research, development, and scholarly
practice - all of which support the University's missions of teaching,
research, and public engagement. The Library employs approximately 90 faculty
members, and more than 300 academic professionals, staff, and graduate
assistants. For more information, see: http://www.library.illinois.edu/.

  
The Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit synthesizes a wide range of
expertise in both traditional and non-traditional areas of library practice
associated with every aspect of the scholarly communication cycle, including
consultations in the preparation of scholarly articles and other outputs,
consultations related to intellectual property and copyright, digital
archiving of intermediate-stage scholarly work, compliance with Open Access
mandates and policies, and establishment and maintenance of new publishing
platforms and publication workflow proce

Re: [CODE4LIB] Projecting one screen to a

[Mark Sandford]

It looks like Displayfusion can do that, probably in the paid version.
https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/Functions/ lists "Mirror Window" as
an option, which is probably what you want to do.  I assume you want to
have the OPAC window open on both screens.



---
Mark Sandford
Systems Librarian
Assistant Professor in the Libraries
Colgate University Libraries
315-228-7363


On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Pikas, Christina K. <
christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu> wrote:

> When you hook up the monitor in Windows, at least, you should have the
> option to extend, duplicate... If you duplicate they see the whole thing.
> If you extend you can drag over the window you want to share.
> I'm sure there are also fancier solutions!
>
> Christina
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
> Amichal Tulie
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 10:59 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Projecting one screen to a
>
> Hi,
>
> Does someone have experience with using a tool to project just one window/
> program to a second monitor?
> I want to connect a second monitor to our circulation desk computers that
> will only show the OPAC with location information and prevent it from
> showing all other programs running on the computer.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Tulie
>
> Tulie Amichal | Library Information Technologies Department Lead| College
> Of Management |  Office: +972-3-9634010| Mobile: +972-52-8700781 | Skype:
> tulieami | tuli...@hdq.colman.ac.il
>

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Visiting Digital Publishing Specialist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[Myung-Ja Han]

*Visiting Digital Publishing Specialist*

*University Library*

*Academic Professional*

*University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*



*Position Available*: The expected start date is as soon as possible after
the closing date. This is a 100%, 3-Year Visiting Academic Professional
appointment, with the potential of becoming permanent.



*Responsibilities: *The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an
innovative and motivated professional to serve in the position of Visiting
Digital Publishing Specialist. Reporting to the Head of Scholarly
Communications and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will
provide the Library’s Scholarly Communications and Publishing Unit with
project management and production workflow support as part of the Library’s
effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the
Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond. The Specialist will also participate in
the Andrew W. Mellon-funded “Publishing Without Walls” initiative (
https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/256174).



This position performs document modelling and text-structure cleanup
processes along with administering the day-to-day coordination and
completion of digital publishing projects. The incumbent will interact with
other members of the Scholarly Communication and Publishing team, Library
IT, and the Scholarly Communication and Repository Services team, and will,
in collaboration with the unit head and the research programmer,
troubleshoot and streamline digital publishing production workflows. She or
he will also assist in developing new publishing projects.



As a member of the Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit, the Digital
Publishing Specialist will join the broader Library Office of Research, a
highly collaborative program that also includes the Scholarly Commons (
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/ ),
the Research Data Service unit, and a growing researcher metrics program.



Specific Responsibilities Include:



●  Assisting in the definition of project scope and objectives,
involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

●  Communicating with publishing partners regarding content and
features of online publications.

●  Establishing and managing internal communications for the launch of
new digital publications.

●  Evaluating feasibility of emerging formats and workflows for digital
publishing to guide integration into the library’s evolving scholarly
publishing toolkit.

●  Creating and documenting procedures for preparing and loading
content into digital publishing platforms, including conversion of
draft-format publications into final format, to ensure consistent practice
across unit and library.

●  Converting and preparing materials for online publication, including
creation of metadata, formatting of text documents, and running scripts to
convert from PDF, InDesign, or Microsoft Word format (among others).

●  Proofreading for obvious structural, grammatical, or stylistic
errors.

●  Editing and creating simple web sites for publications using HTML
and CSS templates.

●  Assisting in educating authors about the publishing process.

●  Other related duties, as assigned.



Academic Professional employees are encouraged to use “investigation time”
to pursue areas of interest, not directly in support of an immediate
program need, in accordance with the University Library’s policy on
Investigation Time for Academic Professional Employees <
http://www.library.illinois.edu/administration/human/resources/investigationtime.html>.
Some investigations originating in this manner may evolve into regular work
assignments or production activities.



*Environment*: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Library is a leader in the delivery of user services, and active programs
in information, instructional, access, and scholarly services that help the
Library to maintain its place at the intellectual heart of the campus. The
Library also holds one of the preeminent research collections in the world,
encompassing more than 13 million volumes and a total of more than 23
million items. The Library is committed to maintaining the strongest
collections and service programs possible, and to engaging in research,
development, and scholarly practice - all of which support the University's
missions of teaching, research, and public engagement. The Library employs
approximately 90 faculty members, and more than 300 academic professionals,
staff, and graduate assistants. For more information, see:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/.



The Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit synthesizes a wide range of
expertise in both traditional and non-traditional areas of library practice
associated with every aspect of the scholarly communication cycle,
including consultations in the preparation of scholarly articles and other
outputs, consultations related to intellectual pr

[CODE4LIB] JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian at William Paterson University of New Jersey

[Schwartz, Raymond]

Digital Initiatives Librarian
Job Code 648C4L

William Paterson University invites applications for a twelve month 
tenure-track position as a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

Reporting to the Head of Library Information Systems, the Digital Initiatives 
Librarian will establish a new institutional repository at William Paterson 
University, provide leadership in advancing the infrastructures that support 
digital collections, coordinate the planning, implementation and monitoring of 
digital projects, and collaborate with various Library departments to configure 
and implement systems that contribute to a successful project.  The successful 
candidate will provide outreach and training to various university 
constituents, including faculty and administrators.  The Digital Initiatives 
Librarian will participate in divisional and departmental planning projects, as 
well as the User Education and Liaison programs.  Service on Library, 
University, regional and national committees is expected, as appropriate.

ALA-accredited MLS, or equivalent (by time of appointment) is required. A 
second graduate degree is required for tenure. At least 1 year of professional 
experience in organizing/managing an institutional repository, managing digital 
preservation projects, and metadata creation is required.  Must possess 
knowledge of and experience working with digital image file formats, file 
format conversion and related software, and image editing applications; 
experience developing web applications using programming languages such as PHP, 
Perl, or Python; strong UNIX/Linux skills, experience with SQL and relational 
databases, and computer knowledge necessary to perform technical-support 
related tasks are required. In addition, excellent oral, written communication 
and interpersonal skills; and a strong commitment to service and professional 
development are required. Experience with grant planning, research, and writing 
is preferred.

William Paterson University is a public institution of higher learning. The 
University offers more than 250 undergraduate and graduate academic programs 
which range from liberal arts and sciences to pre-professional and professional 
programs; it enrolls nearly 11,500 students from across the country and from 
over 40 nations. The University is situated on a beautiful, 370 acres suburban 
campus in Wayne, New Jersey, just twenty miles west of New York City.

Candidates should submit a letter of application, CV, and contact information 
for three (3) professional references to Pamela Vovchuk at 
librarysea...@wpunj.edu or via mail to her at 
William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Cheng Library, Wayne, NJ  07470. 
Electronic submission preferred. Must reference Job Code in letter of 
application. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until 
position is filled.  For additional information about the University visit 
www.wpunj.edu.

William Paterson University is an equal opportunity employer that actively 
values and supports diversity among faculty, staff and students. Women, 
minorities, and members of under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.


Rev. 2/23/16

Ray Schwartz
Head of Library Information Systems 
schwart...@wpunj.edumailto:schwart...@wpunj.edu>
David and Lorraine Cheng Library   Tel: +1 973 720-3192
William Paterson University  Fax: +1 973 720-2585
300 Pompton Road Mobile: +1 201 424-4491
Wayne, NJ 07470-2103 USA  
http://nova.wpunj.edu/schwartzr2/

[CODE4LIB] Job: Devops Engineer at Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab

[jobs]

Devops Engineer
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab
Cambridge, MA

**Who we are**  
  
[LIL ](http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/)is a small startup shop embedded in
the world's largest academic law library. We build open-source experiments and
share them with the world. Some grow into high-profile hosted tools that are
depended on by courts, lawyers, professors, publishers, and the public.

  
Among other things, we're curing link rot with Perma.cc, exploring new
publishing models for textbooks with H2O, and scanning 40 million pages of
American caselaw with Free the Law.

  
  
**Who we need**  
  
We need a smart, creative engineer to help our web projects scale from tiny
experiments to high availability public services. We also have lots of
unusual, one-off infrastructure problems that need creative thinking, whether
it's remote processing of terabytes of scanned images, deploying distributed
server appliances to libraries, or extracting IP addresses from petabyte-scale
web snapshots.

  
  
**Responsibilities**  

  * Work with a small, self-directed team to conceive and implement projects to 
explore the future of libraries, law, and the open web.
  * Design and build modern infrastructure for development, testing, 
deployment, scaling, and monitoring of our Linux-based web projects.
  * Migrate our existing projects to consistent, modern infrastructure.
  * Design and manage distributed library networks for storage and encryption.
  * Represent the Lab in communication with Harvard technology services, 
third-party vendors, and collaborators.
  * Build cool stuff that surprises us. (This is a real responsibility, not 
fluff -- we're an academic research lab and are serious about our side 
projects.)
  
  
**Requirements**  
  
We won't reject any applications out of hand -- enthusiasm for our mission is
the top priority. But here's what we're looking for:

  * Professional experience securing and maintaining Linux systems.
  * Experience with modern testing, orchestration, deployment, and monitoring 
tools.
  * Ability to solve challenging and unfamiliar technical problems.
  * Track record of completing self-motivated, community-oriented projects.
  
  
**Lifestyle and Perks**

  * Flexible academic lifestyle.
  * Full Harvard employee benefits, including free or cheap Harvard classes.
  * Access to the Harvard community and events.
  * Collaborate with web luminaries at the Berkman Center for Internet and 
Society, with whom we share a faculty director.
  
  
**To apply, email[ l...@law.harvard.edu ](mailto: l...@law.harvard.edu 
?subject=%5BCode4Lib%5D%20DevOps%20Application)with cover letter and resume.**



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Re: [CODE4LIB] Projecting one screen to a

[Pikas, Christina K.]

When you hook up the monitor in Windows, at least, you should have the option 
to extend, duplicate... If you duplicate they see the whole thing. If you 
extend you can drag over the window you want to share.
I'm sure there are also fancier solutions!

Christina


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Amichal 
Tulie
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 10:59 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Projecting one screen to a

Hi,

Does someone have experience with using a tool to project just one window/ 
program to a second monitor?
I want to connect a second monitor to our circulation desk computers that will 
only show the OPAC with location information and prevent it from showing all 
other programs running on the computer.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Tulie

Tulie Amichal | Library Information Technologies Department Lead| College Of 
Management |  Office: +972-3-9634010| Mobile: +972-52-8700781 | Skype: tulieami 
| tuli...@hdq.colman.ac.il

[CODE4LIB] Projecting one screen to a

[Amichal Tulie]

Hi,

Does someone have experience with using a tool to project just one window/ 
program to a second monitor?
I want to connect a second monitor to our circulation desk computers that will 
only show the OPAC with location information and prevent it from showing all 
other programs running on the computer.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Tulie

Tulie Amichal | Library Information Technologies Department Lead| College Of 
Management |  Office: +972-3-9634010| Mobile: +972-52-8700781 | Skype: tulieami 
| tuli...@hdq.colman.ac.il

Re: [CODE4LIB] OregonDigital's BookReader integration (was: Listserv communication)

[Gum, Josh]

Shaun, 

Thanks, I’m psyched to be at OSU! 

I think you’ve nailed down the process here, and there are a couple concepts 
that I wanted to follow-up on;

1. “Download document from search results list” : This would be a simple 
enhancement to the rendering of each search result and exposing the download 
link.. The software has access to all of the necessary values (document ID, and 
how to generate a “downloads” link for it) at render time, so adding a new link 
should be trivial.. It seems like it would be a good enhancement to me.

2. “Direct-to-page link” : Generating a link to guide a PDF reader to a 
specific page [1] seems easy, although I’m not sure that every reader would 
work the same. So the missing piece is being able to associate a SOLR hit with 
the page it was found in the PDF.. So, I think you’re right about needing to 
index each page individually in order to facilitate rendering a link to a 
specific page related to the search result hit being rendered on the page.

I can’t speak to the history behind implementing the search the way it is right 
now.. But it does seem like both of these concepts would be great additions to 
the next installment of OregonDigital!

[1] http://oregondigital.org/downloads/oregondigital:df66z508t?page=3

———
Josh Gum
Oregon State University Libraries and Press





On 2/29/16, 4:13 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Shaun D. Ellis" 
 wrote:

>Josh,
>Congrats on the new gig, and thank you for this explanation of OregonDigital’s 
>BookReader integration.  I’m sorry I wasn’t more specific about this, but I 
>think the original question had less to do with the BookReader integration, 
>and more to do with a non-frameworky explanation of configuring Solr to return 
>direct links to pages where the keywords appear in a “compound” object, such 
>as a book.  
>
>As the original poster (Laura Buchholz) mentioned, it seems like OregonDigital 
>does not provide direct links until after the BookReader is loaded.  It’s only 
>then that pins are placed on the “slider nav” to indicate where the keyword 
>appears.  So, to answer the original question, it seems like all the full-text 
>may be dumped into a single Solr field that returns the object in the initial 
>search result, and then upon loading the BookReader makes a subsequent query 
>(limited to that one object) retrieve the “data payload” in your example to 
>then locate the exact pages where the terms appear?  Is that what’s going on 
>there?
>
>I suppose if you wanted to return all the page numbers in the original search 
>query, you may have to send each page individually to Solr to be indexed, and 
>if you have a viewer with conventions for "deep linking" (like the BookReader 
>has) you could generate the link for each page and index it to provide this 
>functionality.  
>
>I was curious as folks were posting all the inspiring digital collections 
>sites earlier today, so I looked for this pattern but didn’t see it.  Most of 
>the apps use the same pattern as OregonDigital (although my testing was not 
>particularly thorough, so let me know if I’m wrong, folks!).  On the 
>otherhand, you do see the "direct-to-page link" interface with both Amazon and 
>Google Books search, which takes you directly to the page from the initial 
>search results.
>
>So, I’m not sure if this was a conscious design decision on the part of 
>library digital collections creators, if the pattern is followed because it’s 
>considered a “best practice” or a “convention” in our field, or if it was just 
>simpler to implement.  
>
>Thanks again for the follow up,
>Shaun
>
>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Gum, Josh  wrote:
>> 
>> I’m very new (<1 month) to Oregon State University, library technology, and 
>> Code4Lib. So please bear with me. Also, I’m going to put a disclaimer out 
>> that I may be missing some of the picture here.. I’m willing to lend a hand 
>> digging into more details if needed, so please feel free to ask.
>> 
>> Also.. I’m going to split this part of the discussion into a separate 
>> thread, so we can address the question regarding the OregonDigital 
>> BookReader integration. I’ve done some digging this morning, and spoke to a 
>> colleague who took part in some of the text extraction for PDF assets in 
>> OregonDigital.. I’m hopeful that these details are enough to help connect 
>> the dots regarding our integration. 
>> 
>> 
>> When ingesting a PDF asset [1], we have a shell based processor [2] which 
>> executes “pdftotext” [3] to extract and store the text from a pdf with 
>> bounding boxes around each word in the file. 
>> 
>> The command executed on the server:
>> pdftotext -enc UTF-8 '#{file_path}' '#{output_file}' -bbox
>> 
>> The web UI for viewing a PDF and highlighting results is tied to BookReader 
>> [4], which has a great amount of functionality and is well documented 
>> online! [5]
>> 
>> The BookReader is making calls to a “full_text” action on the 
>> document_controller to find the 

[CODE4LIB] veraPDF 0.10 released

[Becky McGuinness]

The latest version of veraPDF is now available. This marks the end of the
PREFORMA project’s first re-design phase.

Version 0.10 has the following feature enhancements:

Conformance checker:
*new implementation of the XMP validation
*proper CharSet / CIDSet validation

Command line:
*processes stdin if no file paths are supplied for use in *nix pipes;
*directory and recursive sub-directory processing; and
*text mode output with summarised output.

Test corpus:
*initial set of PDF/A-2 test files

There are also a number of bug fixes:
*Conformance checker:
*fixed CMap / WMode validation
*minor fixes in PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b validation profiles

Command line fixes:
*all CLI output for a single file now in one XML document; and
*error output now all goes to stderr, keeping stdout clean.

Download veraPDF 0.10 at:
http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip

Release notes are published at:
https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/tag/v0.10.7


veraPDF is building the definitive, open source PDF/A validator. Please
download and test the software. If you encounter problems, or wish to make
suggestions, please add them to the project’s GitHub issue tracker
https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues.

Your feedback is very important, it helps to improve the software.

Keep up to date with the latest developments of veraPDF by subscribing to
the veraPDF consortium’s newsletter http://verapdf.org/subscribe.

Led by the Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association, the
veraPDF consortium is developing the definitive open source, file-format
validator for all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 (PDF/A). The
software is designed to meet the needs of memory institutions responsible
for preserving digital content for the long term. http://verapdf.org/


The veraPDF consortium is funded by the PREFORMA project. PREFORMA
(PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives) is a
Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project co-funded by the European
Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme. http://www.preforma-project.eu/

-- 
Becky McGuinness | Community Manager
@openpreserve | Skype: becky.mcguinness1

*Open Preservation Foundation*
*http://openpreservation.org/ *

To find out more about becoming an OPF member or software supporter visit:
http://openpreservation.org/about/join/

[CODE4LIB] Job: Systems Programmer/Analyst at University of Maryland, College Park

[jobs]

Systems Programmer/Analyst
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park

**Title**: Systems Programmer/Analyst  
**Category**: Exempt Staff  
**Department**: Digital Systems and Stewardship  
**Benefits**: 22 Days Annual Leave, 15 Days Sick Leave, 3 Days Personal Leave, 
15 Paid Holidays, Tuition Remission, Health, Dental, Vision and Prescription 
coverage  
  
The University of Maryland Libraries serve more than 37,500 students and 4,200
faculty at the University System of Maryland's flagship campus and constitute
the largest university library system in the Washington D.C./Baltimore area.
The University of Maryland Libraries share the teaching, learning and research
goals of the university. Recent membership in the Committee
on Institutional Cooperation, a robust organization of Big Ten member
institutions, is particularly meaningful to the University Libraries and will
further propel the university's ascendancy in academic excellence.

  
The UM Libraries' Digital Systems and Stewardship (DSS) Division supports the
library automation needs of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated
Institutions (USMAI). Working within a team environment,
this position will provide broad programming support to the USMAI Libraries'
integrated library system (currently Aleph) and other commercial, open source,
and locally developed applications. These applications
support management of and access to USMAI Libraries' print and electronic
resources. The Systems Analyst will be actively involved in
the development, implementation, integration and support of USMAI library
application software, including implementing interfaces to other USMAI
applications. The software development activities encompass
all phases of software development lifecycle, including initial configuration
and setup, design, testing, updates, and ongoing support, maintenance, and
troubleshooting.

  
The Systems Analyst will report directly to the Software Systems Development
and Research (SSDR) manager and coordinate with SSDR team members for the
purposes of technology and expertise sharing. However the
analyst will be embedded with the Consortial Library Applications Support
(CLAS) team, receiving work assignments from the CLAS manager.

  
**Responsibilities**:  
  
Work with members of the Consortial Library Applications Support (CLAS) team
to perform maintenance, support, and change management activities of the
various components of the Libraries integrated library system (ILS) and
database applications, including:

  * Monitor ticket-tracking systems and respond to requests.
  * Serve as technical specialist and consultant with particular mastery of ILS 
tools, APIs, and ILS configuration tables.
  * Help determine policy for utilization and configuration of ILS and related 
systems.
  * Design and write custom and complex report generation code in response to 
staff requests.
  
Develop software to extend existing applications and design new systems to
meet the needs of USMAI library users.

  * Identify unmet functional requirements, work with users to develop 
specifications, evaluate available software, develop and document programs and 
scripts that extend system functionality and automate routine tasks.
  * Evaluate new systems, participate in in-house development, and lead 
technical development on some projects.
  * Maintain current awareness of trends and issues relative to library 
information technology and supported applications.
  
**Required Qualifications**:  

  * Minimum of three (3) years of programming experience;
  * Demonstrated experience with command scripting;
  * Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux, SQL and XML/XSL technologies;
  * Strong service orientation; and Ability to work independently and as a 
member of a team;
  * Excellent interpersonal skills; and excellent written and verbal 
communications skills.
To view full position description, please use the following URL:
[http://www.lib.umd.edu/hr/employment-opportunities/staff-faculty-
positions](http://www.lib.umd.edu/hr/employment-opportunities/staff-faculty-
positions).

  
**APPLICATIONS**: Electronic applications required. Please apply online at 
[https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/40859](https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/40859), 
click staff. Local candidates are encouraged to apply; no relocation assistance 
will be provided. The University of Maryland Libraries will not sponsor 
individuals for employment. You must be legally able to work in the United 
States. An application consists of a cover letter that includes the source of 
advertisement, a resume and names/e-mail addresses of three references.  
  
Applications will be reviewed as they are received and accepted until March
21, 2016.

  
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and
regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified
applicants will receive consideration for