Re: [CODE4LIB] Geo4LibCamp 2018

That looks fabulous. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend, but I wonder if poster submissions are allowed? I'm working on open linked historical geospatial data. Best wishes, Pat On 28 November 2017 at 21:33, Darren Hardy Ph.D. wrote: > Hello, > > We’re a couple months away from Geo4LibC

[CODE4LIB] Deadline extended for discussion proposals: ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group for Midwinter 2018

**Please excuse cross-posting!** *Deadline extended! Please submit proposals by Friday, December 8th* Call for Proposals - Midwinter 2018 The Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) of ALCTS seeks facilitators for roundtable d

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone web scraping to benefit their library?

Due the absence of APIs, we have to scrape III WebBridge and EBSCO LinkSource link resolver results to determine electronic holdings for things. Neither of them make it particularly easy, since they don't provide many semantic clues in the markup as to what you're looking at and there are all kind

[CODE4LIB] Job Opportunity: Short Term Instructional Designer, Art+Feminism

*~*~ Apologies for cross-posting ~*~The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon seeks an Instructional Designer to support the educational needs of our initiative. * *Art+Feminism (http://www.artandfeminism.org/ ) is an award winning campaign to improve coverage of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone web scraping to benefit their library?

At my previous job, I used webscraping to get most of the vendor stanzas for EZproxy from this page: https://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/db.en.html If only those pages were all consistent. Then I found a github gist that was a bit better than mine: https://gist.github.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone web scraping to benefit their library?

I scrape data from a large book retailer we sometimes order from to make our acquisitions workflow a bit easier. In particular, I ask people to make wishlists and scrape those (I can do individual items too, but the large retailer doesn't like that, even though we're trying to purchase from them),

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone web scraping to benefit their library?

Thanks everyone! This was very interesting (and at various points quite amusing). You know how sometimes you don't know you need something until you learn about the possibilities? Well, I still don't need web scraping lol but I'll definitely be saving this thread for the future because thanks to yo

[CODE4LIB] Job: Librarian at ICI Services

Job Title: Librarian Location: Newport, RI ICI Services is looking for a versatile, service-oriented, self-motivated research professional to support the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, in Newport RI. Applicants must be able to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) secret

[CODE4LIB] Job: Technical Services Librarian at Caldwell County Public Library

The Caldwell County Public Library is a three branch system in the foothills of western North Carolina. Serving a population of 80,000, we are a library committed to public service.  Currently looking for a change agent to help us make an impact in our community,  we are a dynamic organization r