[CODE4LIB] Projecting one screen to another
Hi Tulie, I don't have personal experience but I found these tools online that might accomplish what you want, esp. if you designate one browser for the catalog. http://dualmonitortool.sourceforge.net/dmt_launcher.html -- Says it can launch an application into a specific monitor http://jgpaiva.dcmembers.com/gridmove.html -- Not sure this can launch into a specific screen but you can assign a hotkey to snap a window to a specific screen. ברכות חמות Susan Kane Harvard Business Publishing Boston, MA
[CODE4LIB] Job: Senior Sales Engineer at Harvard Business Publishing
- Official Job Posting - http://harvardbusiness.force.com/careers/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0xi0047CczAAE= Harvard Business Publishing is an idea-driven company with a commitment to improving the practice of management. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University serving customers across three primary markets: educational institutions, corporations, and individual managers. The Corporate Learning division of Harvard Business Publishing provides blended learning and online performance support solutions that address development for emerging and experienced leaders and managers. Reporting to the Technical Services Manager, the Senior Sales Engineer actively drives and manages the technology evaluation stage of the sales process and is an integral member of the Sales and Information Technology teams. Working as a key technical advisor and advocate for our products, the Senior Sales Engineer closely follows the customer through the entire process of implementation. In order to be successful in this role, the SSE must be able to articulate technology and communicate the value of our products to our buyers, as well as to Business IT Management, developers, architects, and technical prospective users while being flexible in using language and terminology that is appropriate and understandable for the audience. - Unofficial Job Information - This is a role on a small, friendly enterprise support team. The organization is a hybrid of publishing and tech as well as academia and business. Mostly it functions like a small software company, but there are a bunch of writers wandering around making the rest of us look unfashionable. The role is not strictly sales engineering. Yes, there is some of that. There is also SSO and data feed work, security conversations, a bit of project management, a bit of enterprise support. If you are currently working in library systems and you've done some project management, if you've ever helped data go from one system to another, and if you know how to be nice to people who are less (and more) technical -- you might be the right person for our team! Alternatively if you are a tech who has strong people skills and you are ready to get out of the basement, you might also be the right person for our team. Code is helpful (when is code not helpful) but not required. Good benefits, good work/life balance, good manager, 3 weeks vacation, bonus, no travel. Hiring timeline is business standard (not academic). Feel free to contact me directly with questions: suek...@umich.edu.
[CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: Why learn Unix?
-- Because Unix is geeky and fun. -- Because its basic concepts are still visible in GUI computing, like Latin roots. -- Because you can say Well, I could do it in *Unix* when you can't do something, even if it's a complete lie. The illusion of technical competency is important. Just make sure the other person knows less than you do. -- Because Unix is user-friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are (sorry!) -- Because you can delete everything on the system with a very short command. -- Because if Unix were a woman, she would wear black and have funky glasses. She wouldn't talk much but when she did speak, her comments would be sparse, direct, and true. She would be hard to get to know and you would suspect that she had dual loyalties (to what, you would never be sure). When you said the wrong thing, she would just look at you. Just look. Nothing else. Until you said the right thing. Then she would recite obscure poetry at you or turn away and start getting things done. How can you not fall in love? -- Susan
[CODE4LIB] Withdraw my post was: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs
Obviously, we must now task someone in CODE4LIB with writing a Python script to convert New Zealand English to International English. Or, I guess we could solve this on the user side with a sarcasm filter or a humor pipe, but you might lose some data that way. :-) -- Susan Kane Boston(ish), MA
[CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Well, I am (a) female and (b) a survey non-respondent and (c) do not currently consider myself a member of the code4lib community. Am I representative of these groups? I have no idea. But since Rosy is my former colleague and I still miss her, I thought I would chime in. Why do I not consider myself a member of the code4lib community? (And given that, why am I on this list?) At the time that I joined code4lib, I was working for a library vendor. Although I am an everything but code person, I worked regularly with writers of library code. I aspired to write code in the future. I wanted to maintain a vague awareness of library code trends. Many people I admired were members of code4lib. It seemed like a cool place to be. I would say that my choice to follow code4lib was aspirational. I aspire to be more like the people in code4lib ... someday. But I'm not actually a library coder. At the moment, I'm something like a sales engineer. My daily concerns are far from the daily traffic on code4lib. This is why I don't attend the conference and I would never suggest a conference presentation. I'm not sure why more women don't suggest conference presentations. If I had something to contribute, I'd be right up there. I am not the kind of person who worries about whether I have something to say nor do I care if 75% of the people at a conference are men. My guess is that it may be related to a gender gap even within library technology. Lots of women work in library technology -- as project managers, systems librarians, webmasters, support, training, and application analysts. But as the work gets more technical -- meaning -- programming, DBA, system administration, authentication, network engineering -- the workforce gets more male. The folks doing that kind of work in libraries are also the folks who are most likely to (a) have something very technical to present and (b) get funding to attend the conference. My suspicion is that there are many women working in library systems for whom code4lib is relevant but who are not primarily programmers. So, I guess I wonder how much of the code4lib gender gap is a reflection of the coding gender gap. That gap is real and the fact that fewer women have programming skills than men is (to my mind) a real problem. But it is not necessarily a code4lib problem. While I personally have no desire to become a software engineer, there all kinds of incredibly stupid things I can't get done because I lack basic skills. This is inefficient and annoying and yet ... coding leads to jobs where you continue to improve your code skills while non-coding leads to jobs like mine. At some point, you have to make the jump. For me, that point has not yet arrived b/c while I love technology, I do not quite love it enough to spend my extremely limited free time Learning Perl. I am, for better or worse, the kind of person who learns my technical skills *in context**. So far, in my work and personal life, the context for Perl has not yet arrived. (Being close friends with 3 or 4 Perl programmers who happily write me scripts whenever I need them is also not helpful.) That said, I consider myself a technical person. I spend my entire day talking to programmers, network engineers, application analysts, web services folks, LDAP geeks, and CIOs. I explain our technology and they explain their environment and together, we find a way. Then, I explain all of it again to a bunch of people who attended the call but who have no idea what happened. Without people like me, our programmers would have to talk to customers, which would detract from their work. And people like you would be even more annoyed at your vendors. Just think of me an investment in not hating your salesperson quite as much as you would otherwise. :-) So -- the reason I do not attend code4lib conferences is because (a) I do not currently work in libraries and (b) I do not yet code. Others? Why don't you attend the conference or present at the conference or consider yourself part of the code4lib community?
[CODE4LIB] My crazed idea about dealing with registration limitations
I think the repeating morning / afternoon concept has some merit, but people would need to be assigned to the morning slot or the afternoon slot on any given day to keep the room sizes reasonable. Hard to enforce but necessary. Maybe there is a big get-together. Maybe not. Maybe the smaller get-togethers that having so much non-presentation time will create are more worthwhile anyway. If you are giving one presentation, giving it twice either on the same day or on another day that week is not what I would call overtime. Especially if you don't miss any other info. You could repeat the conference at a totally different time of year ... everyone who didn't get in is automatically registered for the second conference later that year ... kinda wacky but ... You could plan for a second conference of the same size in the same city (different hotel). After presentations for C4L1 are finalized, presenters are sought on similar topics for C4L2. Overflow registrations for C4L1 automatically go to C4L2. Similar content means that institutions who paid for you to come to learn about X will hopefully not be upset if you learn about X from a different person across the street. Everyone hangs out informally during off-presentation times. One could call that tracks but I'm trying for more of a mirror download site concept. Or ... you just go Big and you accept it and then you think about how to have other conferences (maybe regional, maybe not) that are Small. -- Susan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Community google custom search
I agree -- my search results were relevant and therefore -- it's useful!
Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 25 Jul 2011 to 26 Jul 2011 (#2011-178)
Along the same lines as a recent comment, I'm thinking of taking a ScrumMaster course -- not because I'm currently managing a team of programmers, but because I may, in the future, need to do such a thing. I recall looking at this a few years ago and the Scrum Alliance was quite adamant that it was not going to do certification. You could prove you were competent at using this approach because you had done it in the field. Now, they have certification, testing, and continuing education for those already certified and it seems to be developing into quite the business (most training runs 2K for a basic two-day course). Anyone have experience with the new certification? Any insight into why they went the certification route?
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle Update
Hi Anj, Nice to see your name again after meeting briefly at UW when you were coming and I was leaving for Boston! I doubt I'll be able to attend the conference this year but I've put the word out to the group of Ex Libris and Endeavor alumni that I manage on LinkedIn. Many people now work for other library technology companies. Will let you know if anything useful comes back. Here's a copy of my promotional message, in case others on the list want to try their own networks. It might help our cause if someone could add a link about sponsorships to the conference section of the website. --- promotional blurb --- c4l -- code4lib is a unique conference that attracts a small but influential group of library technologists each year. Next year's conference is Feb 6-9, 2012 in Seattle, WA. They are still seeking vendor sponsorships -- great visibility with influential folks for a fraction of the cost of ALA! If you can help, please contact me privately through your preferred contact method here. http://code4lib.org/conferencehttp://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcode4lib%2Eorg%2Fconferenceurlhash=-Iyx_t=tracking_anet -- promotional blurb --- Susan Kane Harvard University OIS
Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface
This is not my area of expertise ... but if Work in FRBR doesn't mean any particular manifestation, expression or item ... what does it mean? Do Works live in Plato's world of Ideas where abstracted version of things exist in a more real and more true sense than any shifty mimes in our world of sensation and change? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms Is it a bit like copyright law -- Works (ideas) can't be copyrighted but manifestations, expressions and items can? Or is Work actually an empty container that doesn't really exist -- even in the World of Ideas hovering over the Earth -- until it is filled with at least one (manifestation, expression, item)? And if so, who chose this particular word? Was something wrong with calling it ... Idea? Or even ... Thing? Why work? Work to me in plain English and even librarianese definitely implies a manifested thing, not the idea of thing that transcends any particular and specific expression.
[CODE4LIB] detecting user copying URL?
Absolutely this should be solved by the vendors / content providers but -- just for the sake of argument -- it is a possible extension for LibX? You can't send a standard message everytime a user copies a URL from their address bar -- they would kill you. Is there a way for a browser plugin to know that the user is on a specific website and to warn them for such actions while there? Or would that level of coordination between the website and the address bar be (a) impossible or (b) not really not worth the effort or (c) a serious privacy concern? Susan Kane adarconsult...@gmail.com
[CODE4LIB] Systems Tracker
My only thought is that if you can use some kind of already existing system (ACRL or ARL reporting? Marshall Breeding?) I think you will have better luck than requesting voluntary participation by either libraries or vendors. Certainly, lots of libraries will voluntarily contribute these kind of data to a joint effort, but will they keep it updated? Won't we need to contact that library and make sure they're still using it just in case? (Although a database that tracks use of various systems over time and not just each year would also be tremendously useful.) The problem with vendor reporting is that it will be hard to get full disclosure in a timely way across all vendors. But even with that problem, it still makes more sense to have a limited list of vendors who absolutely know who their customers are doing the reporting than to trying to get every library in the country or the world to report voluntarily. Marshall Breeding uses (AFAIK) press releases from vendors to track system changes and to report losses and wins. So that's vendor reporting, albeit indirect reporting. Maybe he also sends a questionnaire to vendors each year? I think it would be ideal if ALA or ACRL would do this kind of data collection. I know it's hard enough to do your ACRL and ARL stats every year but they are valuable and most institutions do them. A few more questions that are fairly easy to answer would provide a very rich data source, although of course, adding even a single question has significant impact on data processing, survey creation, etc. etc. etc.
