On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> I'd add that you should be open to accepting that some of those things STILL
> won't make sense once you know why librarians do things the way they do.
> .. but often where we are is really
> really unfortunate. (And even many of us
I'm especially interested in anything which
>> gave you an "ah-ha!" moment when you were working with library data --
>> the implicit things which didn't make sense until you knew why those
>> crazy librarians did things the way they did.
I'd add that you should be open to accepting that s
Some lessons from my own introduction coming from an IT/Comp-Sci
background years ago.
Focus more on the why and use-cases rather than the technology. From a
programming perspective much of the technology isn't terribly
difficult and is well known at a basic level. How it's used, why
certain choic
Introduction to this community and related conferences really helped my
introduction to libraryland and its vernacular.
Regards,
Tricia
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Laura Smart wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> What do you include in orientation when you hire a programmer
> (excellent, experienced, o
Walter Lewis
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On 22 July 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:
> The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC
systems was always something that
On 22 July 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:
> The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC systems was
> always something that was neglected to get mentioned and not at all obvious.
> Now that more systems are using UNICODE it should be less of a problem, all
> depends
.
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@gmail.com
Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Laura-
Yes, that diagram is awesome! It does a great job of dividing up the standards
by several different axes. I think the Function section in particular is what I
didn't figure out on my own, mostly because I always assumed those functions
were all contained in a single standard instead of s
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On 20 July 2011 22:47, Laura Smart wrote:
> Esme (and all)
>
> Would Jenn Riley & Devin Becker's metadata standards visualization
> have been helpful to you if it had been available back in the day?
> http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
>
> Perhaps a detailed sub-set thereof?
>
> Pe
Esme (and all)
Would Jenn Riley & Devin Becker's metadata standards visualization
have been helpful to you if it had been available back in the day?
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
Perhaps a detailed sub-set thereof?
Perhaps at minimum a glossary of acronyms commonly tossed ab
Hi Laura:
I started working with/for Library stuff in 1994. Been working on it
more or less full-time now for nearly half that time. I moved from the
IT department and became a library employee several years back. So...CS
degree, no library education, but have picked a lot up over the years.
n computer science and work thereafter which turned
into a positive cycle. For me, the one gives a reason to do the other.
Peter Schlumpf
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Hi, Laura.
Great question, and one that I have asked myself many times. It is sparsely
populated, but there is a wiki page about this here:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed
It would be a service to the community if you added any answers you find there.
Bess
On Jul
Somewhat related is the developing Guide for the Perplexed on the code4lib wiki:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed
Feel free to add to it!
-Mike
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:04, Laura Smart wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> What do you include in orientation when you hire
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Hi folks -
What do you include in orientation when you hire a programmer
(excellent, experienced, of course), who isn't familiar with
library-land
Hi folks -
What do you include in orientation when you hire a programmer
(excellent, experienced, of course), who isn't familiar with
library-land? MARC is a given, ditto the ILS, plus e-resource
management back end (OpenURL parsers, proxies and the like). From
those of you who came into librari
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