from:"Kate Deibel"

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Kate Deibel

The UW Libraries does a similar thing. We have a service called the Guide 
Linking App that connects library guides our librarians make for subjects or 
specific courses. The linking app maps a guide's URL to either a curriculum 
code (for subject guides) or a course number (for course guides). A REST API is 
then available for various campus services to use. 

In our Canvas course pages, the REST API provides JSON that is used to fill in 
a page on how to use library resources for research. The content of the page 
depends if there's a course guide for that course. If not, a subject guide is 
provided. If there is no subject guide (usually due to a new curriculum code 
having been introduced), a default guide for that campus is listed. 

The API is also used by a service called MyUW, which is a portal to various UW 
resources. On a student's schedule page, each course gets a library link to the 
most appropriate guide.

All of this is managed through a Django app. Each university service is 
responsible for caching the data as to not overload it.

-- 

Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies
University of Washington Libraries
--

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

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Gary 
Thompson
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:38 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

UCLA uses Moodle, branded as the Common Coollaboration & Learning Environment 
(CCLE). Eight years ago, Library IT tried to develop a Moodle block for 
courses, but that didn't work out -- we didn't have time to become effective 
Moodle developers.

After that failure, we took an approach of cooperating with the campus CCLE 
development team, providing resources and letting them expose course-specific 
resources in the Moodle user interface.

Library currently has three ways to support the CCLE:

 1. A link to library-managed electronic reserves for each course.
 2. A referral link between a course and the best LibGuide. The link
simply send the registrar's course ID to our Drupal site, which then
resolves and redirects to the most specific guide according to these
priorities:
  * A course-specific guide if one exists.
  * Else if the department can be identified, a subject/department
guide.
  * Otherwise a generic guide about conducting research.
 3. A web service exposes data about streaming audio and video, mostly
for music reserves. The CCLE shows the titles and composers for the
tracks that have been assigned to the course, along with a link to
the library's streaming server. The CCLE uses JWPlayer to stream the
resource within the Moodle course.

So after a false start, we focus on what we know (resources, data, web
services) and collaborate with the CCLE team so they can integrate the 
resources in the most effective way.

Gary

On 1/23/2017 5:38 AM, Kyle Breneman wrote:
> Does your library have some kind of presence within your campus' 
> learning management system (LMS)?  If so, what does that presence look like?
>
> Here at the University of Baltimore, we use Sakai and all users have 
> access to a tab, within Sakai, for the library.  The tab leads to a 
> page that is like an alternate portal to library services; very 
> stripped down from what you would get on our website, and in need of 
> rethinking.
>
> Kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Websites Examples

2017-01-27 Thread Kate Deibel

UW Libraries has this below the fold with collapsible menus for various 
audiences:
http://lib.washington.edu/

-- 

Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies
University of Washington Libraries
--

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


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Rosalyn 
Metz
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 12:31 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Library Websites Examples

Hi All,

I'm looking for an example of a library website that employs audience based 
navigation.  Right now I'm literally looking at a map trying to think of all 
the college and universities I can in the US, and then going to their websites.

Help?
Rosalyn

[CODE4LIB] OCLC's EZproxy stanzas collected anywhere?

2016-11-15 Thread Kate Deibel

Has anyone collected all of the EZProxy stanzas that OCLC has listed on their 
site? 
https://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/db.en.html



-- 

Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies
University of Washington Libraries
--

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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Post-election statement affirming diversity from Code4Lib?

2016-11-14 Thread Kate Deibel

Unfortunately, consider yourself lucky in this regard.

-- 

Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies
University of Washington Libraries 
--

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

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Michelle 
Lubatti
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 1:13 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Post-election statement affirming diversity from 
Code4Lib?

Is it really necessary for this list to affirm that it stands by diversity?  I 
have not encountered any negativity on this email list myself.  Are others 
experiencing this?  I am saddened to think that others are experiencing hurtful 
or bullying comments on this email list. :(

Michelle


On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Junior Tidal <jti...@citytech.cuny.edu>
wrote:

> I think that's a great idea.
>
> Best,
> Junior
>
> >>> "Kim, Bohyun" <b...@hshsl.umaryland.edu> 11/14/16 4:05 PM >>>
> Hi Code4Libbers,
>
> What do you think about issuing a post-election statement on diversity 
> basically affirming that we stand by it?
>
> If that _IS_ the majority opinion in Code4Lib which I am _POSITIVE_ 
> that it is, then I want to hear it and I think others may well!
>
> I just drafted one for LITA (to be out tomorrow hopefully). So I have 
> some wordings that I can offer as a starting point.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Bohyun
>

[CODE4LIB] C4L17 Web Accessibility Workshop materials now online

2017-03-14 Thread Kate Deibel

Jenn Dandle and I have made our Code4Lib 2017 workshop materials on "Web 
Accessibility: Becoming a Stronger Advocate" available online:
http://tiny.cc/c4l17-webaxs

-- 

Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies
University of Washington Libraries
--

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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with Primo API

2017-12-18 Thread Kate Deibel

I'm no longer working at a Primo institution (yay!) but I did write this little 
tool when I was at UW that uses the PNX api to do an exact query search for MMS 
IDs. That might give you some insights to working with the API.
https://bitbucket.org/uwlib/mms_to_primo_permalink

My memory suggests that to work with the PNX api and others, you  had to file a 
support request to activate them. I'd recommend doing that anyhow just in case 
you have any legacy hosted installation that never got shifted over. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian 
Meuse
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with Primo API

Hi,

I have limited Primo knowledge, but I shared your post with a colleague who 
does and he suggested checking this:

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Knowledge_Articles/Must_Workstation_IP_be_Added_to_WS_and_XS_IP_Mapping_Table_in_Order_to_Test_Primo_Web_Services%3F



On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Kluck, Chad L. 
wrote:

> We're wondering if anyone has experience, and documentation, with the 
> Primo API. We have so far developed with the Alma API and other APIs 
> so I'm not asking about API GET/POST/PUT requests or CURL. However, 
> since the Primo API for some of the search is listed as "Under 
> Construction" it is harder to work our way around what we should expect for 
> received data.
>
>
> We submitted a support case for some help from Ex Libris, but if 
> anyone has a repository, or some docs that would help. We're basically 
> trying to do regular search queries, like feed 
> q=any,contains,immortality%20kundera
> (see below)
>
>
> We saw in the Code4Lib archive that the Primo API was IP restricted 
> back in 2014, but was wondering if that is still the case.
>
>
> Submitted to Ex Libris Sales Force
>
> Case Title: API for Primo - known item searches
> Description:
> We need help getting a functioning query with the Primo API. Our use 
> case is that we are working with a company to develop a chatbot which 
> can take a natural language query, get a list of results from Primo 
> via API (using author or title search), and check our holdings and 
> availability and let the user know if it is available and make a 
> request. The second part seems to be accomplished via the Bibs API, 
> but getting the MMS IDs of a set of results from a Primo search seems 
> to require the Primo API. We have not been able to get results from our test 
> queries.
>
> We have the API key set up for our API application StthomasAI with 
> permissions to use the Primo Search (under const.) API. We have tried 
> using both Brief Search and Delivery Service Search but are not having luck.
>
> For example:
> https://api-eu.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/v1/search?vid=STTHOMAS
> ab= default_tab=stthomas=any%2Ccontains%2Cimmortality%
> 20kundera=eng=0=10=rank=true
> Voc=
> true=[*]
>
>
> Thanks! com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi-eu.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com%
> 2Fprimo%2Fv1%2Fsearch%3Fvid%3DSTTHOMAS%26tab%3Ddefault_
> tab%26scope%3Dstthomas%26q%3Dany%252Ccontains%252Cimmortality%2520kund
> era% 26lang%3Deng%26offset%3D0%26limit%3D10%26sort%3Drank%
> 26pcAvailability%3Dtrue%26conVoc%3Dtrue%26apikey%
> 3Dl7xx95e1392be88248b4938710ae279a414d=02%7C01%
> 7Cclkluck%40stthomas.edu%7C515ce934bafa40bfbef608d543104819%
> 7Ca081ff79318c45ec95f338ebc2801472%7C1%7C0%7C636488659564215396=
> 9hPnbkelNXwLgH7ASASrCbItNzWx%2F2cK3Hml0J9LjwI%3D=0>
>
>
> -Chad
>
> Chad L. Kluck
> Web Developer
> University of St. Thomas Libraries
> (651) 962-5416
>
> Sent from Outlook Web Access
> [University of St. Thomas : All for the Common Good]< 
> http://www.stthomas.edu/e>
>



--
Brian Meuse
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Brandeis University

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems Librarian / software developer

2017-12-07 Thread Kate Deibel

Honestly, this is one of the reasons I decided last year to apply to online MLS 
programs despite having a PhD in computer science. While I love doing library 
technology work, I didn't want to be stuck doing just development or have to go 
the ITS manager route. Some positions do list "or equivalent" but it's always a 
crapshoot. 

Of course, I somehow managed to find this sweet librarian gig involving my 
accessibility tech skills without the MLS. I'm still going to do it, though, 
since I now work for the school whose online MLS program I signed up for. 
Tuition remission benefits rock!

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Haitz, 
Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:33 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems Librarian / software developer

Interesting… I too have worked on web dev for years. Have been thinking of 
doing an MS; our university does not have an MLS. But to move into faculty 
here, I would need the MLS, and pay somewhere else, the MS doesn’t do me any 
good here.

On 12/7/17, 2:27 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Jason Bengtson" 
 wrote:

If you want to go that route, I'd be prepared to worry less about education
and more about experience. Using myself as an example, I have no CS degree.
In fact, two of my degrees are in English. But I've been doing complex,
full stack web development for years. I'm glad you're broaching this . . .
IMHO, many libraries are still doing a very poor job of adapting to a
modern footing. Where I'm at now, because I manage IT, I'm basically locked
out of faculty, despite my record of scholarship.

Best regards,

*Jason Bengtson*

*http://www.jasonbengtson.com/ *

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Samson, Bob  wrote:

> I have a question regarding staff development and I am hoping someone can
> provide some advice.  I have two vacant librarian positions in my Library
> Systems department.  I need to fill those vacancies with software/systems
> developers in order to move our initiatives forward.  We have encountered
> reluctance on the part of our human resources to repurpose those librarian
> positions into developer positions.
>
> Has anyone had success in posting Systems Librarian positions using
> education and experience requirements consistent with software developers?
> We have sufficient flexibility in hiring librarians, but the skill sets
> differ significantly between librarians and developers.  Ideally, we would
> want someone with backgrounds in computer science rather than library
> science, for example.  I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this and
> been successful.
>
> Bob Samson
> Head of Library Systems & Technology
> University of Texas at Arlington
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems Librarian / software developer

2017-12-07 Thread Kate Deibel

Another hope is to get a person with developer skills who want to do work that 
matters/has positive impact. That's what got me into the work. Having once been 
very active in diversity efforts to recruit more students into computer 
science, it is established that there are misconceptions about computer science 
and software development as being about big industry. Even at job fairs, 
academic service positions, public sector jobs, etc. are in the strikingly 
small minority. 

Still, the comfort of the giant salary can mean a lot to people. It's nice to 
have that safety net. It can be a hard choice between doing work you have a 
passion for and work that makes you not worry every month about paying the 
bills.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Sarah 
Weissman
Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:49 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems Librarian / software developer

As one of these rare weirdos who is a software developer with an MLS, my 
opinion from looking at jobs in the field is that one major barrier to hiring 
developers into librarian positions is salary. I got my MLS after having worked 
as a developer for a while, and after I finished my degree, the amount of money 
I could make as a developer even in a non-profit library/archives setting was 
significantly more than I could make in an entry level librarian position. (For 
example, Glassdoor lists average base pay for a software developer as $81,994 
while average base pay for a systems librarian is $55,664.) So, while I would 
have loved to be an official “librarian,” I wound up not applying for any 
positions with that title. 

It may be possible to find someone right out of school with a CS degree and an 
MLS who has no work experience and is looking for an entry level developer or 
librarian position, although I have never met anyone who took this academic 
path. Also, this person would probably not thrive as a software developer 
unless they were part of a larger team with more experienced developers.

-Sarah

On 12/7/17, 2:02 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Edward Iglesias" 
 wrote:

Sometimes you get lucky as I did when I got two developers as
interns/student workers.  If you need someone in that position I would say
put it in the job requirements.  There are MLS librarians with CS
undergrads or developer experience.  They are just few and far between.
I've also seen Systems postions that work with or supervise developer
positions.  Sometimes you can get away with outsourcing the development and
having the internal Systems person act as a liaison/PM.

Edward Iglesias

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Samson, Bob  wrote:

> I have a question regarding staff development and I am hoping someone can
> provide some advice.  I have two vacant librarian positions in my Library
> Systems department.  I need to fill those vacancies with software/systems
> developers in order to move our initiatives forward.  We have encountered
> reluctance on the part of our human resources to repurpose those librarian
> positions into developer positions.
>
> Has anyone had success in posting Systems Librarian positions using
> education and experience requirements consistent with software developers?
> We have sufficient flexibility in hiring librarians, but the skill sets
> differ significantly between librarians and developers.  Ideally, we would
> want someone with backgrounds in computer science rather than library
> science, for example.  I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this and
> been successful.
>
> Bob Samson
> Head of Library Systems & Technology
> University of Texas at Arlington
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

2018-10-15 Thread Kate Deibel

I can say that from the web accessibility perspective, the recommended testing 
suite is Firefox for the browser and NVDA as the screen reader (plus keyboard 
navigation testing in general). This is due to FF and NVDA sticking the closest 
generally to the W3C specifications. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Pikas, 
Christina K.
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 11:00 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

Hi All,
In the olden days, my IT department more or less mandated IE as the only 
supported browser. Everything had to work on IE and you could install others 
but you were on your own. So then more and more people wanted Macs and they 
weren't super supported until the director said he wanted a Mac.

Anyway, years later, some of our tools work best on FF.  Full SharePoint 
functionality requires a browser that is essentially dead. We have an 
enterprise video streaming tool that keeps promising to offer something other 
than Flash... sigh.

Do you all support the major browsers equally? FF, Chrome, Edge, Safari? Do you 
primarily support one browser but allow others?

If you are in an environment that has some tools that need one browser and 
other tools that need another browser, how do you communicate that? Do you 
alter the environment such that links open in the appropriate browser (can be 
done in Chrome, I think?)

Thanks in advance for any assistance,

Christina

--
Christina K. Pikas, BS, MLS, PhD
Librarian
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Baltimore: 443.778.4812
D.C.: 240.228.4812
christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

2018-10-17 Thread Kate Deibel

I get the ideas being proffered here, but a lot of what's being said when 
talking about "elegance" or "clean" or "pure" websites are from ideal scenarios 
that frankly don't happen much or at all. Just within library web technology, 
we often don't get to completely own a site. We're using vendor software that 
allows customizations---that ability to customize beyond just colors and such 
requires some complexity. Even if we are working at the source level, we're 
often placed in content management systems that structure how we do thing on a 
more global structure. CMS systems allow more people to generate pages, which I 
view as good. I don't view it as realistic to expect everyone to write pages at 
the source level. Browser nuances alone are bad enough, but I don't even trust 
the "experts." I have run out of fingers to count the times I've had this 
conversation about web accessibility:

"Accessibility guidelines are ridiculous. They make you use headings. They look 
ugly and are huge and have weird spacing!"

The solution is simply to apply CSS styling, but I hear this from web 
administrators. I've had this conversation THREE times in Code4Lib spaces, even 
in public on the Slack channel.

But then there's the comments about too much text on websites and not using 
JavaScript to have dynamic showing/hiding. First, some pages will have a lot of 
text. Search result pages will have lots of text by their very nature. 
Wikipedia pages are full of text. Instructions will have lots of text and 
pictures. 

So your suggestion is to move content across multiple pages. It's both a good 
and horrible idea. Early hypermedia studies showed that providing any sort of 
distinct structural separation aided the reader's memory and recall. The same 
studies also provide evidence that pagination is more cognitively supportive 
than infinite scrolling. However, if you're talking about a website where a 
person has to do work and carry information across multiple pages, you've 
actually introduced more of a cognitive load on the user to carry information 
over from page to page. This is further complicated in that page loads take 
time. So it's sometimes good to have a long page with multiple dynamic 
elements. But oops... that hurts cognitive accessibility due to information 
overload. Neither extreme works.

Overall, good web design requires you to find that balance between overwhelming 
the user with information while not overstressing the memory of said user. And 
recognizing that people's individual definitions of "too much" and "too little" 
differ. What might be pure to you in a website is lacking or overwhelming to 
someone else.

Of course, we should push back on flair for flair's sake. Say no to shiny 
monkey tech. Just don't go too far in that extreme. Do you really want online 
maps to require a page load for every zoom or pan again? Do you want forms to 
only do error detection on the server side only? 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Amy Drayer
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 10:51 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

Dear Eric and Code4Libbers:

I completely agree! Too much javascript, and used with critical information 
that HTML can easily do for a fraction of the (resource) cost. When I get a 
chance to really "own" the website I work on (right now it's been a series of 
UI bandaids on siloed content), I'm going to look at the 10k website challenge 
(https://a-k-apart.com) for inspiration. (I'd be happy if we could stay under 
100k...)

Honestly, I find this challenge intriguing because if done right it addresses 
several inclusive design concerns including performance and accessibility. 
While I don't agree with every reason in this ID24 presentation, I found 
Elegant Accessibility (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlMfynLKGXA=15=PLn7dsvRdQEfEnBxpVztmJ8KCKNJ_P-hR6)
to be inspirational.

In peace,

Amy M. Drayer, MLIS
User Interface Developer
amost...@gmail.com
http://www.puzumaki.com

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:58 AM Eric Lease Morgan  wrote:

> Personally, I think Web/HTML pages are much too complicated these 
> days. I suppose it goes with the evolution of the medium, but at the 
> same time, I think the same information can be communicated much more 
> easily and effectively if it were made available sans too much Javascript, 
> etc.
> Javascript is not necessary. --Eric Morgan
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2019 Program Voting Open!

2018-10-13 Thread Kate Deibel

If you want to follow the rankings for the talk voting, I put together a script 
+ sheet that automatically recalculates the ranking. Assuming my cat doesn't 
eat the squirrel, it should update every 10 minutes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7sN0vNjT91EV4AbWNH0Ndf-upFfuXdz9rlsqxLekcQ/edit?usp=sharing


Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Matt Sherman
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 12:52 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2019 Program Voting Open!

The Code4Lib 2019 Program Committee is happy to announce that voting is now 
open for prepared talks.

To vote, visit goo.gl/xvQXyu, review the proposals, and assign points to those 
presentations you would like to see on the program this year.

* Voting will end on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 11:59:59 PM PT (GMT-8) *

Every year, the Code4Lib community votes on proposals that they would like to 
see included in the program. The top 10 proposals will be guaranteed a slot at 
the conference. For all other slots, the Program Committee will curate the 
remainder of presentations in an effort to ensure diversity and quality using 
the following criteria (in no particular order):


   -

   Favor first time presenters
   -

   No duplicate presenters
   -

   Presentations generally well voted/received by community
   -

   Diversity of presenters by gender, ethnicity, institution, type of
   institution
   -

   Diversity of topics/content


Those who proposed a talk but are not selected are highly encouraged to do a 
lightning talk during the conference. Lightning talks are first come first 
serve sign up during the conference.

Selected presenters will be contacted directly once the program committee has 
deliberated.

The complete program will be announced in November. Please check the Code4lib 
mailing list or the conference website for the news.

For more information about Code4Lib 2019, visit https://2019.code4lib.org

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2019 Accessibility Committee

2018-11-08 Thread Kate Deibel

Hello all!

Are you interested in helping ensure that the 2019 conference will be an 
accessible and inclusive space as it has been in previous years? The 2019 
conference accessibility is looking for volunteers. You will help set policies 
and best practices for the accessibility of various events, having labels on 
food at meals, the live captioning service, and more. We're looking for 
volunteers both local to San Jose and those scattered elsewhere around the 
globe.

If you are interested, please contact me (this year's accessibility chair) and 
I'll add you to the list on the C4L wiki:
https://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4Lib_2019_Conference_Committees#Accessibility_Committee

Thank you!

Cheers,
Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

Re: [CODE4LIB] ADA access

2018-12-04 Thread Kate Deibel

I'm honestly not seeing the problem here needing a solution. You cannot force 
any user---disabled or not---to use specific technologies even if you think 
they are better for that user. This patron's magnifying glass is working for 
him apparently. Let him use computers as he pleases.

What is a problem is LOLing at that patron's decision and emotional reaction to 
your efforts to push him to use something he doesn't want to use. You imply the 
problem is with him and do not consider that your approach or the proffered ADA 
machine is the problem. How was the recommendation phrased? Was it a suggestion 
or was it more of a directive that disabled patrons should use that computer? 
Disability is stigmatized and not everyone acknowledges having one. That 
decision is an individual freedom.

Dedicated machine approaches are also inherently problematic for disability 
access. In your case, your library has ONE such machine, meaning that only ONE 
disabled patron can ever be accommodated. For your patron in question, his 
solution lets him use any machine. Additionally, dedicated machines are also a 
means of othering and marking a person as disabled. That's why the recommended 
best practice is to make assistive software available on all machines via 
looking at site licenses, free software, or floating license systems. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of John Klima
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 10:10 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ADA access

We are investigating options for ADA access public computers. We have one 
wheelchair-accessible machine set up with Zoom Text on a large monitor which 
works ok but doesn't get a lot of use. We don't have any options on our OPACs. 
We have one gentleman who uses a large magnifying glass to use our OPACs and he 
gets irate if you try to suggest he use the ADA machine. LOL

What sort of creative solutions do you all use?

John Klima
Assistant Director
Waukesha Public Library
262-524-3688

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Survey in LIbrary Technology Departments

2018-12-07 Thread Kate Deibel

I admit I was about got a bit of irritated subtweeting on this, but I'll move 
it into the mailing list. 

It is good and all that you responded to feedback, but I'd like to talk more 
about how to ask a survey question on gender. 

First, I'd like to point everyone to the great resource that the Human Right 
Campaign has put together on this topic:
https://www.hrc.org/resources/collecting-transgender-inclusive-gender-data-in-workplace-and-other-surveys

It's not perfect. For example, I disagree with their use of female/male instead 
of woman/man because that opens up a giant can of worms as to whether some 
terms are strictly biological versus social. It's a critical studies minefield 
pit at times. However, their approach and options are worth pointing out. 

Note that their recommended language is to use two questions. The first is 
similar to the one used in Rowan survey. It has five options: 
Woman
Man
Non-binary/third gender
Prefer to self-describe 
Prefer not to say

(I changed the language for the first two)

Note several important differences. First, the third option is not "Other" but 
specifically states "Non-binary/third gender." Other is not a great term to use 
when asking about someone's identity. It's problematic. It focuses on a person 
being so different you can't find the words. It's... um... OTHERING... 
literally. To help you understand why this is hurtful, take any diversity 
question (race, religion, gender, etc.) and take the entry you would select and 
change the text to Other. It casts you as so unimportant to not specify it. 
Your identity belongs in a junk drawer.

Also note that the question includes an option self-describe. Language is 
fluid, and identity language doubly-so. No fixed answer survey question for 
identity will ever be perfect. Let there be a self-description field. All good 
survey software allows such an option. And yes, this does make data analysis 
more complex, but that's the price in wanting to do research in human 
diversity. 

The HRC's second question asks if a person identifies as transgender? This is 
important as it complements the previous question. I'll use myself as an 
example. I am a trans woman. I identify as a woman and would answer such on the 
first question since it makes no distinction as to trans or cis status. I also 
identify as transgender as I see it as a different perspective on a being a 
woman than if I were cisgender. I would answer yes to the second question as I 
see it providing more info to the survey that may be relevant. But my answers 
alone would not be the only groupings you may see. This added question allows 
for more coverage of respondent answers.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Sharon Whitfield
Sent: Friday, December 7, 2018 10:23 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Survey 
in LIbrary Technology Departments

Good morning,
Based on survey feedback about gender being non-binary, I have added "Other" as 
an option to the question about gender identification. This feedback was 
greatly appreciated it. My apologies that the research survey was not as 
inconclusive as it should have been.

If you wish to participate in the survey, please click the following link:
https://rowan.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4GcTfQY07e6Wisl

Thanks,
Sharon Whitfield

Ed. D. Candidate

Rowan University
College of Education

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:11 AM Sharon Whitfield 
wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
>
>
> You are invited to participate in an online research survey titled 
> Gender and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Library Technology 
> Departments.
> You have received this email to participate because you are a member 
> of the Code4lib distribution list.
>
>
>
> The survey may take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete. Your 
> participation is voluntary.
>
>
>
> The purpose of this study is to address issues of organizational 
> justice for women technology librarians who experience the 
> gendered-nature of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). Organ 
> (1988) identified five specific OCB categories:
>
> -Altruism: Helps enhance an individual's performance
>
> -Conscientiousness: Consideration of others
>
> -Sportsmanship: Consideration of the organization as a team
>
> -Courtesy: prevents problems and maximizes time
>
> -Civic virtue: Serve the interests of the organization
>
>
>
> The goal of this study is to bring to light issues of organizational 
> justice for women technology librarians because of the gendered nature 
> of organizational citizenship behaviors and explore how change agents 
> may use this study to promote organizational justice for women 
> technology librarians. This research study focuses particularly on

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

2019-02-13 Thread Kate Deibel

While this is true in the general case, we're again talking about Special 
Collections and the needs of the requester. Audio descriptions are extremely 
difficult to do as the ideal is to never interrupt other relevant sounds in the 
media, especially dialogue. That's a unique challenge of being precise and 
fast. My recommendation would be to make audio descriptions available upon 
request just as with more quality captioning. There is currently no means of 
automating audio descriptions even of low quality. AI tools just aren't there 
yet, and frankly, I'm a little scared of the idea of a world where AI can view 
a random scene and describe what is happening. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

2019-02-13 Thread Kate Deibel

I 100% agree. Just for clarity, by requester in my previous email, I meant a 
person requesting accommodations for the video and not the original persons 
pushing for the digital collection. 

The fact is that accessibility remediation is a translation, and different 
types of remediation can result in information loss just like other 
translations. Captioning may make the spoken words accessible but may not 
capture the intonations and other nuances of the dialogue. Transcribing a 
handwritten letter into electronic text may skip over edit marks and other 
aspects of handwriting that a researcher may be interested in. Heck, 
translating handwriting is rarely obvious and can be quite debated.

This is why I view special collections and what libraries call archives to be 
in a different vein than other aspects of accessibility remediation. Making a 
journal article PDF accessible is mostly about proper markup and reading order 
(although exceptions and complexities do exist). The main goal is for anyone to 
be able to read it. But for someone diving into a special collection or 
archive, their inquiry is different. I've seen historians go on and on about 
edit marks in letters and marginal notes in books. Each scholar in such works 
have nuanced inquiries with elements they wish to focus on. To me, making the 
content accessible to them is about also understanding what they want to 
access. Most of the time, we think of accessibility as addressing the 
intersection (dis)ability issues with the content format. However, sometimes we 
need to add in the further complexity of an individual's actual goals. 
Personalized accommodations are likely needed.

This is the argument I give for our special collections/archives group. Do what 
is feasible now with current technology and then have a means for providing 
one-on-one accommodation services. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Tim McGeary
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:45 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

This is why defining the policy of access is critical. If these digitized 
collections are intended to be published for the entire public, the needs of 
the (original) requester is not sufficient; the federal mandates require full 
accessibility as best to your ability without undue burden.

If you aren’t making these available for the entire public, and your policies 
are well documented about that restriction and the request process, then you 
have more flexibility to balance the burden of making a collection accessible 
based on the needs of the specific user.

Tim

Tim McGeary
Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology Duke 
University

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:37 PM Kate Deibel  wrote:

> While this is true in the general case, we're again talking about 
> Special Collections and the needs of the requester. Audio descriptions 
> are extremely difficult to do as the ideal is to never interrupt other 
> relevant sounds in the media, especially dialogue. That's a unique 
> challenge of being precise and fast. My recommendation would be to 
> make audio descriptions available upon request just as with more quality 
> captioning.
> There is currently no means of automating audio descriptions even of 
> low quality. AI tools just aren't there yet, and frankly, I'm a little 
> scared of the idea of a world where AI can view a random scene and 
> describe what is happening.
>
> Katherine Deibel | PhD
> Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
> Syracuse University Libraries
> T 315.443.7178
> kndei...@syr.edu
> 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
> Syracuse University
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

2019-02-13 Thread Kate Deibel

Yeah, it's the domain specific terms that really make or break these systems, 
especially in academic settings. These might suffice for business domains, but 
I've seen transcription quality drop quite fast for a STEM class or any 
non-Western humanities course. Ideally, there would be a feedback loop to these 
systems but I have yet to see one where you can send in corrections.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Carol Kassel
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:42 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your replies! I'll reply to each of you individually as 
well.

In answer to your question about which auto-captioning solutions we're looking 
at, there are 2 main solutions we have our eye on. One is VerbIt and the other 
is Konch. Both appear to offer reasonable accuracy in the languages we need, 
though we are still evaluating. Still, as with any of these solutions, they 
miss some domain-specific vocabulary as well as anything that's mumbled or 
otherwise hard to understand. Also, we need to figure out our workflow for 
generating captions/transcripts, getting them into our infrastructure, and 
allowing for hand corrections and the workflow for revisions resulting from 
same. The devil is in the details!

Best wishes,

Carol


>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of 
> Carol Kassel
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 11:31 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility
>
> Hi,
>
> We're working on a roadmap for making A/V content from Special 
> Collections accessible. For those of you who have been through this 
> process, you know that one of the big-ticket items is captions and 
> transcripts. In our exploration of options, we've found a couple of 
> pretty good auto-captioning solutions. Their accuracy is about as good 
> as what you'd get from performing OCR on scanned book pages, which 
> libraries do all the time. One possibility is to perform 
> auto-captioning on all items and then provide hand-captioning upon 
> request for the specific items where a patron needs better captions.
>
> This idea will be better supported if we know what our peer 
> institutions are doing... so what are you doing? Thanks to those to 
> whom I've reached out personally; your information has helped 
> tremendously. Now I'd like to find out from others how they've handled this 
> issue.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Carol
>
> --
> Carol Kassel
> Senior Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure NYU Digital Library 
> Technology Services c...@nyu.edu
> (212) 992-9246
> dlib.nyu.edu
>
>
>

--
Carol Kassel
Senior Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure NYU Digital Library Technology 
Services c...@nyu.edu
(212) 992-9246
dlib.nyu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

2019-02-11 Thread Kate Deibel

I'd love to hear what auto-captioning options you've found to be tolerable?

 What I can say is that this is the informal policy I've been promoting for 
accessibility in our special collections. In general, any accommodation 
requests in special collections will likely be part of a very nuanced, focused 
research agenda. Thus, any remediation will likely not only have to be specific 
to the individual's disability but also the nature of their research. In the 
case of A/V, a rough transcription may be enough if they are focusing more on 
the visual side of it. For others, though, a more thorough transcription may be 
required. 

All in all, your approach sounds wise.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Carol Kassel
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 11:31 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility

Hi,

We're working on a roadmap for making A/V content from Special Collections 
accessible. For those of you who have been through this process, you know that 
one of the big-ticket items is captions and transcripts. In our exploration of 
options, we've found a couple of pretty good auto-captioning solutions. Their 
accuracy is about as good as what you'd get from performing OCR on scanned book 
pages, which libraries do all the time. One possibility is to perform 
auto-captioning on all items and then provide hand-captioning upon request for 
the specific items where a patron needs better captions.

This idea will be better supported if we know what our peer institutions are 
doing... so what are you doing? Thanks to those to whom I've reached out 
personally; your information has helped tremendously. Now I'd like to find out 
from others how they've handled this issue.

Thank you,

Carol

--
Carol Kassel
Senior Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure NYU Digital Library Technology 
Services c...@nyu.edu
(212) 992-9246
dlib.nyu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel Formula to change Title Fields into APA Format (in terms of Capitalization)

2019-06-19 Thread Kate Deibel

Not sure what the original casing looks like, but Excel does have the PROPER() 
function that capitalizes the first letter of each word. To do more, you're 
going to need a custom function. Plus, you're always going to run into edge 
cases like words that that meant to be in all caps like IBM or partially all 
caps like FRBRization. I can think of some heuristic approaches that one could 
do in VBA. I kinda wish I had time to code this up. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Mackenzie M. 
Salisbury
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 3:24 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Excel Formula to change Title Fields into APA Format (in 
terms of Capitalization)

Hi all!

Does anyone know of an Excel Formula to change Title Fields into APA Format (in 
terms of Capitalization)? Or a way to make a batch change in another program? 
I've seen the one off copy and paste website, but nothing that would handle 
more than one title at a time.


Best!


Mackenzie Salisbury (she, her, 
hers)
Librarian, Digital Scholarship
Walden University 
Library




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Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

2019-07-03 Thread Kate Deibel

Not necessarily full approval by an IRB, but many people have noted that since 
this this is a sensitive topic concerning a vulnerable population it would be 
wise to use an ethical approach designed to protect participants. IRBs provide 
one such model to follow. Journalism has similar procedures for protection of 
sources. 

You are right that if going through an IRB approval, there would be a need for 
more explicit statements of research purpose. Not necessarily a question but a 
well-articulated goal. An exploratory study of a topic like sexual harassment 
can be difficult to get passed unless there is a lot of caution demonstrated 
for protecting the participants.

At the least, the following points have been listed as high importance:

1. Clear identification and contact information of the researcher 
2. A statement of anonymization practices and protocols in both the data 
collection instruments AND in reporting
3. A statement of how the data we will be used including if direct quotes will 
be used
4. Data retention and sharing policies with other researchers

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Sarah Green
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 10:34 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

A couple of people have mentioned that this project needs approval by an IRB. I 
do not believe this is true---correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Sunni would 
have needed to be more systematic in her investigation and have included a real 
research question, not just an intention to raise awareness.

Sarah

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:04 AM Jenn C  wrote:

> As also not official, let me say that the vagueness of identity, lack 
> of research oversight and inclusion of transphobia in your "piece" 
> makes every concern about this article legitimate.
>
> I do not apologize.
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 8:22 AM Craig Boman  wrote:
>
> > Dear Sunni,
> >
> > On behalf of the leaderless Code4lib community, for which I have no 
> > authority to represent, please allow us to apologize. In my short 
> > time participating in Code4lib it has been clear to me that Code4lib 
> > has been
> a
> > place to talk about gender issues in library coding communities 
> > . It has been a place 
> > to discuss diversity and inclusion in library coding communities 
> > . As others have 
> > stated, I would like to reiterate that Code4lib is certainly a place 
> > to talk about sexual harassment within our technology perspectives; 
> > we are not sweeping this under the rug. Although this was not your 
> > first time posting to our listserv, we welcome and encourage your 
> > ongoing participation. We may not always get it right, but we hope to learn.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Craig
> >
> > (he/him/his)
> > Craig Boman, MLIS (Ph.D. student)
> > Discovery Services Librarian and
> > Assistant Librarian
> > Miami University Libraries
> >
> > 302 King Library
> > boma...@miamioh.edu
> > ORCID ID: -0001-7511-4078
> >
> > "There is no education as that which comes from participation in the 
> > constant stream of events." - Jane Addams (1902, p. 93) Craig Bowman
> Craig
> > Bauman
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 7:38 PM Mike Giarlo 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Code4Lib has always been home both to technical and social
> conversations
> > > (and everything in between). The mailing list blurb may not 
> > > effectively convey this, but this has been true for over 12-13 
> > > years in my
> > experience.
> > > Discussions of what Code4Libbers can do to increase awareness of 
> > > sexual harassment in our world is *not* off-topic.
> > >
> > > What is off-topic, and off-base, is some of the inappropriate ad
> hominem
> > > remarks in this thread that may have a chilling effect on the
> discussion.
> > > We all play a part in making Code4Lib a welcoming place, and I'm 
> > > sorry
> > that
> > > not all of us have lived up to that.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Giarlo
> > >
> > > Software Engineer & Architect
> > >
> > > Digital Library Systems & Services
> > >
> > > Stanford Libraries
> > >
> > > 
> > > From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of 
> > > Edward Almasy <000e5cccdc3a-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 15:09
> > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]
> > >
> > > On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:03pm, Monica Westin 
> > > 
> > > quoted:
> > > > *This mailing list provides a forum for discussion all things
> relating
> > > to programming code for libraries. This is a place to discuss
> particular
> > > programming languages, but also provides a place to discuss the 
> > > issues
> of
> > > programming in libraries in

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-03 Thread Kate Deibel

Honestly, this is worrisome to me. 

First, who are the members of the Community Support Squad? I can find no 
mention of it anywhere on the website or the wiki. And it's disturbing that 
such a group let such a coincidence in lack of coverage occur. Yes, there were 
people listed for the 2019 conference, but to our knowledge, that was to be 
only for the conference. 

Two, shutting down any conversation while an unknown cabal (redundant, I know) 
discusses a solution that is to come with no projected timeline not only shuts 
down hurt but also prevents people from speaking up against any hurt that has 
or is still happening. Imagine if you had done this exact intervention 
yesterday after the emails about how the C4L mailing list was only to about 
CODE. You would have prevented the many posters who stood up to counter that 
narrative. Any teaching moments or learning that have come afterwards would 
also have been squashed. All that would remain would be the unchallenged 
statements of what the C4L community is only about: code. That silence would 
speak way more hurt. Sure, the Community Support Squad will eventually raise a 
solution... I mean a "pull request"...

It's uncomfortably ironic in that this conversation started with concerns about 
the transparency of the authorship and the procedures behind the sexual 
harassment articles but is now being "handled" by an opaque process where we 
are told to wait until the mystery box goes ping.


Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Bobbi Fox
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 12:08 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

Apologies to the List for this late response from those of us who compose the 
Community Support Squad; through an unfortunate coincidence, we each had been 
off-line for most of the "[CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]" 
exchanges.

The thread has raised some issues that should be covered in the Code Of 
Code4lib Conduct (see https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct )
including:

  * what's appropriate for the mailing list
  * anonymity
  * requests for survey participation
  * what to do/whom to contact when any of these issues comes up.

Members of the CSS are working on an initial PR to address these issues, on 
which we will seek community feedback.  We will post a link to the PR when it 
is ready, and we encourage your input there to help shape how the community 
handles these issues in the future.

To prevent any further harms or misunderstandings while we try to address these 
important issues, we respectfully request that you suspend any further 
discussion in the thread until that announcement.

Thanks for your patience.

  -- Bobbi Fox, for the Community Support Volunteers/Community Support Squad

Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

2019-07-03 Thread Kate Deibel

What was false? What was an assumption? 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of S B
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 9:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

You are making an assumption and false statement.  Only part one of the series 
has been printed.  There are more parts coming.  Instead of asking me questions 
or having a courtesy of emailing me privately, choose to take the public route 
of criticizing.  

I hope positive discussion will happen here on Sexual Harassment in Libraries.  

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 3, 2019, at 8:03 AM, Jenn C  wrote:
> 
> As also not official, let me say that the vagueness of identity, lack 
> of research oversight and inclusion of transphobia in your "piece" 
> makes every concern about this article legitimate.
> 
> I do not apologize.
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 8:22 AM Craig Boman  wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Sunni,
>> 
>> On behalf of the leaderless Code4lib community, for which I have no 
>> authority to represent, please allow us to apologize. In my short 
>> time participating in Code4lib it has been clear to me that Code4lib 
>> has been a place to talk about gender issues in library coding 
>> communities . It has 
>> been a place to discuss diversity and inclusion in library coding 
>> communities . As others 
>> have stated, I would like to reiterate that Code4lib is certainly a 
>> place to talk about sexual harassment within our technology 
>> perspectives; we are not sweeping this under the rug. Although this 
>> was not your first time posting to our listserv, we welcome and 
>> encourage your ongoing participation. We may not always get it right, but we 
>> hope to learn.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Craig
>> 
>> (he/him/his)
>> Craig Boman, MLIS (Ph.D. student)
>> Discovery Services Librarian and
>> Assistant Librarian
>> Miami University Libraries
>> 
>> 302 King Library
>> boma...@miamioh.edu
>> ORCID ID: -0001-7511-4078
>> 
>> "There is no education as that which comes from participation in the 
>> constant stream of events." - Jane Addams (1902, p. 93) Craig Bowman 
>> Craig Bauman
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 7:38 PM Mike Giarlo  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Code4Lib has always been home both to technical and social 
>>> conversations (and everything in between). The mailing list blurb 
>>> may not effectively convey this, but this has been true for over 
>>> 12-13 years in my
>> experience.
>>> Discussions of what Code4Libbers can do to increase awareness of 
>>> sexual harassment in our world is *not* off-topic.
>>> 
>>> What is off-topic, and off-base, is some of the inappropriate ad 
>>> hominem remarks in this thread that may have a chilling effect on the 
>>> discussion.
>>> We all play a part in making Code4Lib a welcoming place, and I'm 
>>> sorry
>> that
>>> not all of us have lived up to that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Mike Giarlo
>>> 
>>> Software Engineer & Architect
>>> 
>>> Digital Library Systems & Services
>>> 
>>> Stanford Libraries
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of 
>>> Edward Almasy <000e5cccdc3a-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 15:09
>>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]
>>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:03pm, Monica Westin 
>>> quoted:
 *This mailing list provides a forum for discussion all things 
 relating
>>> to programming code for libraries. This is a place to discuss 
>>> particular programming languages, but also provides a place to 
>>> discuss the issues of programming in libraries in general*
>>> 
>>> I think discussion about sexual harassment issues is crucial, in the 
>>> library world and throughout our society, but it seems to me a 
>>> stretch to construe the above as having been intended to include it.
>>> 
>>> One solution, used by some other communities, would be to create a 
>>> new "sister" list, named something like CODE4LIB-COMMUNITY, for 
>>> discussion of non-technical topics important to the Code4Lib community.
>>> 
>>> Ed
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Edward Almasy  Director  •  Internet Scout 
>>> Research Group Computer Sciences Dept  •  U of Wisconsin - Madison
>>> 1210 W Dayton St  •  Madison WI 53706  •  3HCV+J6
>>> 608-262-6606 (voice)  •  608-265-9296 (fax)
>>> 
>>

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-11 Thread Kate Deibel

For people who lack either github or git knowledge and don't want to just try 
to read the diff outputs, here are the links you need:

This is the particular fork (Bobbi's personal version that she wants to be 
merged):
https://github.com/bobbi-SMR/code-of-conduct/tree/listserv_edits 

In particular, one should look over the following files: 
https://github.com/bobbi-SMR/code-of-conduct/blob/listserv_edits/code_of_conduct.md
https://github.com/bobbi-SMR/code-of-conduct/blob/listserv_edits/css_volunteers.md
 
https://github.com/bobbi-SMR/code-of-conduct/blob/listserv_edits/csvcharge.md
https://github.com/bobbi-SMR/code-of-conduct/blob/listserv_edits/norms.md
https://github.com/bobbi-SMR/code-of-conduct/blob/listserv_edits/procedures.md 

I hope this helps people who do not know how to merge a pull request on their 
local copy (or have the resources/time) or how to navigate the Byzantine link 
structure of github pages. 


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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Bobbi Fox
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 2:42 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

I have submitted a Pull Request [PR -- a suggestion to change code/text] to the 
Code of Code4Lib Conduct GitHub repository:
https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/pull/80

Suggestions welcome.

Cheers,

Bobbi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

2019-07-03 Thread Kate Deibel

For the record, this is the excerpt from your article that is being referred to 
as transphobic:

"I’ve had more training for what pronouns to call people and where our gender 
neutral bathrooms are than addressing sexual harassment,”

So why is this quote a transphobic microaggression? It posits that trainings 
for supporting trans individuals are blocking or more important than sexual 
harassment training without any proof. This "versus" mentality also implies 
trans rights are of less value and should be secondary to other topics. In a 
sense, that quote suggests that sexual harassment might even have been 
prevented if not for all that malarkey training about pronouns, bathrooms, and 
the other silly trans civil rights issues. Of course, none of this is overt or 
directly negative, hence calling it a microaggression. Indirect suggestions are 
still hurtful.

Anticipating some common responses, here are my rejoinders:

1. "I don't see it as transphobic."
Do your opinions matter here? If you are trans, then your opinions do matter... 
somewhat. However, one contrary perspective does not necessarily mean something 
is not harmful. Regarding sexual harassment, should a complaint be ignored 
because one woman finds a comment or act innocent or playful instead of not 
harmful? 

2. "It's a fact that we don't have time to do trainings on every issue. We have 
to make choices."
I agree that resource limitations hinder our efforts, but one has to realize 
that there is no guilt-free way to tell someone that their rights to be are not 
important enough at the moment. Advocacy has a sordid, dark history of this. 
Abolitionists told suffragists to be quiet because they were hurting the fight 
against slavery. Suffragists focused mostly on the rights of white women, 
telling women of color their times will come. Civil rights pioneers quieted 
other movements, such as gay rights. LGBT advocacy has internal infighting over 
whether trans issues should be kept down for the time being. Advocates must 
acknowledge the harm they can cause others by saying one issue matters more. 
The point here is about harm. If you want to discuss how to advocate across the 
board and lessen such harm, I'm game for that separate discussion.

3. "It's not directly negative on trans issues." 
Yes. It's a microaggression. There is a huge body of literature on the topic 
that shows bigotry is not always overt but can be a literal thousands of small 
cuts that take a person down. Many of us will provide you with plenty of 
research and references if you want to learn more.

4. "Those weren't my words. I'm just quoting another person."
That is true. However, you chose to include those words out of the thousands of 
other responses you have stated you have collected. You hold responsibility for 
echoing it. Now, that doesn't mean you couldn't have included it. You could 
have stated it with cautions about its problems. You could have included 
commentary on the challenge of addressing many civil rights issues given 
limited times for trainings and advocacy. 

5. "I didn't see it as a problem when I wrote it."
Okay. What are you going to do now? You can go back and revise. Add commentary. 
Address the problems directly. Apologize properly (none of the sorry you were 
offended crap). 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
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-Original Message-
From: Kate Deibel 
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 9:25 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

What was false? What was an assumption? 

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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of S B
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 9:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]

You are making an assumption and false statement.  Only part one of the series 
has been printed.  There are more parts coming.  Instead of asking me questions 
or having a courtesy of emailing me privately, choose to take the public route 
of criticizing.  

I hope positive discussion will happen here on Sexual Harassment in Libraries.  

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 3, 2019, at 8:03 AM, Jenn C  wrote:
> 
> As also not official, let me say that the vagueness of identity, lack 
> of research oversight and inclusion of transphobia in your "piece"
> makes every concern about this article legitimate.
> 
> I do not apologize.
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 8:22 AM Craig Boman  wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Sunni,
>> 
>> On behalf of the leaderless Code4lib community, for which I have no 
>> authorit

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-03 Thread Kate Deibel

Yes, you, Francis, and Mark publicly committed to working to expand the role of 
the CSS/CSVs at C4L19 via Mark's lightning talk. You three did drop the ball in 
announcing the conference volunteers would be continuing their roles. They were 
vetted and approved for the conference only. People may have objections to them 
serving community conduct roles in other venues. Furthermore, you have 
restricted participation to a narrow group. Not everyone could be a CSV at a 
conference. Maybe they weren't able to attend? Maybe they had additional duties 
to perform? 

All that is a separate issue from the "request" (really a directive since it 
comes from a place of authority) being told to stop posting. Yes, it does 
effectively hinder future harm from that conversation, but it also constrains 
any productive conversation as well. This is where the opaqueness debate comes 
in. There was no awareness of the CSS, its membership, and its authority (which 
the current CoC implies they have no enforcement). Furthermore, halting a 
conversation until the CSS group issues a PR is opaque because we have no 
timeframe or window into that process. 

Finally, I ask you all to consider the effects of basing CoC conversations 
around git terminology. Not everyone uses git or has a GitHub account. Not 
everyone gets git terminology. It took me more than a few minutes to remember 
what else PR could mean besides "public relations." How will the CSS support 
people ensure that git is not a barrier to community participation. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Anne Slaughter
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 1:36 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

Seconding Francis' points, and adding that this "failure" does not rest on his 
shoulders. Mark, Francis, and I publicly committed in San Jose to working to 
expand the role of the CSS/CSVs to better support the community in situations 
like this. This work unfortunately hasn't been on any of our front burners yet 
for all the reasons you might suspect in a volunteer leadership role. But we 
have a systemic issue with the community's code of conduct. It is written to 
specifically restrict enforcement to the annual conference, which by definition 
doesn't give any clear or transparent guidance in dealing with issues outside 
of the conference proceedings. The work to address that starts now with the 
process Bobbi introduces in her message, and I assure you that we are committed 
to doing it openly. It's absolutely not ideal that it's happening in a reactive 
rather than proactive state, and for that I apologize as well.

Anne Slaughter
Director of Technology Services
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5127
Fax: 630.734.5050
anne.slaugh...@railslibraries.info
https://www.railslibraries.info

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:50 AM -0500, "Francis Kayiwa" 
mailto:kay...@pobox.com>> wrote:

Heya Kate my responses interleaved. For starters if there's any opacity I will 
take this as my fault/oversight. You, Anne, Mark and I spoke in San Jose about 
the transition to the CSSCSV group after the conference and promised to work on 
this once we were done. Unfortunately I've been dealing with lots of personal 
grief and this took less priority

On 7/3/19 12:37 PM, Kate Deibel wrote:
> Honestly, this is worrisome to me.
>
> First, who are the members of the Community Support Squad? I can find no 
> mention of it anywhere on the website or the wiki. And it's disturbing that 
> such a group let such a coincidence in lack of coverage occur. Yes, there 
> were people listed for the 2019 conference, but to our knowledge, that was to 
> be only for the conference.

It is the same group that was volunteered at the conference.

https://2019.code4lib.org/conduct/#officers

We didn't expect every one to want to continue but all the volunteers offered 
to hang on during the transition process which once again I failed to deliver 
on.

>
> Two, shutting down any conversation while an unknown cabal (redundant, I 
> know) discusses a solution that is to come with no projected timeline not 
> only shuts down hurt but also prevents people from speaking up against any 
> hurt that has or is still happening. Imagine if you had done this exact 
> intervention yesterday after the emails about how the C4L mailing list was 
> only to about CODE. You would have prevented the many posters who stood up to 
> counter that narrative. Any teaching moments or learning that have come 
> afterwards would also have been squashed. All that would remain would be the 
> unchallenged statement

Re: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace reCAPTCHA

2019-04-23 Thread Kate Deibel

Two things to consider about reCAPTCHA.

One, its accessibility has often been a mixed bag, which is common for most 
Google widgets. Despite being widely used, Google tends to deprioritize fixing 
accessibility complaints on them. Also, Google appears to only focus on screen 
reader access, which means that other assistive tools, even keyboard 
navigation, may cause issues. In general, captchas are viewed as one of the 
biggest barriers to accessibility out there. And no, the sound alternatives are 
not a panaceas and typically add even more difficulty in getting past the 
captcha.

Two, it can create cultural barriers if the image verification task appears. 
I've seen some tasks that ask me to identify storefronts, but I failed because 
I clicked an image of a stand at a farmers market. Others have asked for trucks 
but where do you draw the line? I consider a delivery van a truck? These might 
seem minor cultural impasses, but it gets worse when it comes to language. 
Supposedly, reCAPTCHA will use the default language of the browser unless you 
override it in the link during setup. However, not all users get to change a 
browser's default language due to security restrictions on the machine. This 
penalizes users who are not fluent in the default language of the browser.





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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of TAILOR, BHAVIN
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:59 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace reCAPTCHA

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the repost if you got this elsewhere. Have any of you 
successfully integrated reCAPTCHA or another spam reducer into ArchivesSpace? 
We've had issues with spam emails coming through the resource request form and 
reCAPTCHA makes sense since we have it elsewhere but we haven't quite gotten 
the serverside validation side of things figured out in ArchivesSpace. Any help 
would be greatly appreciated. I know some institutions have just disabled the 
request feature but where's the fun in that?

Thanks,
Bhavin

-
Bhavin Tailor
University Libraries
University of South Carolina
tail...@mailbox.sc.edu | 803-777-9584

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-16 Thread Kate Deibel

It does add to the confusion. Furthermore, since we link to the main branch of 
that repo as our Code of Conduct, it is concerning that it was edited 
significantly without consultation of the larger community. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Jenn C
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:37 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

No apology needed, honestly trying to get a grip on the process!

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 8:02 AM Esmé Cowles  wrote:

> Jenn-
>
> Sorry — I merged the other PR prematurely.  I didn't mean to 
> short-circuit discussion here, and I would be happy to revert that 
> change if anyone would like me to do that.
>
> Since the other PR is open for comments ( 
> https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/pull/80), I think it's 
> probably better to just resolve the discussion there.
>
> -Esmé
>
> > On Jul 16, 2019, at 7:43 AM, Jenn C  wrote:
> >
> > This PR to the CoC was merged more than a week ago:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/commit/b6cc99c7b7e16cdf278
> b5c4565d661ba53c011ea
> >
> >
> > I think (? see GH comments previously) that is different 
> > from the PR that was announced for comments. This PR introduced 
> > (again I think??) this language which talks about how anonymity 
> > should be handled. I don't think this implies any fundamental change 
> > to the functioning of the
> list. I
> > am a little confused why this PR was merged without discussion but 
> > the other PR announced and what process is actually happening.
> >
> > jenn
> >
> > ### Anonymity
> >
> > In general the community prefers to know who is writing. Exceptions 
> > may arise when the you feel at risk; in that case, the you may 
> > contact one or more [Community Support 
> > Volunteers](css_volunteers.md) for help
> forwarding
> > your message. At the least, your message should include a *reason* 
> > for
> why
> > you are choosing to be anonymous. For example:
> >
> > * "I'm looking for advice on how to present myself for another job, 
> > but
> my
> > boss doesn't know I'm looking"
> > * "I'd like some advice in dealing with a programming conflict, and 
> > other members of the team are on this list"
> >
> > ### Surveys
> >
> > If you wish to ask people on the listserv to participate in a 
> > survey, you should minimally identify:
> >
> > * yourself
> > * purpose of the survey
> > * the reason you're asking **in this listserv**
> > * what kinds of information you're collecting
> > * (if collecting identifying information such as email address, 
> > name),
> what
> > you plan to do with it, and how you'll keep it secure.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:26 AM EDWIN VINCENT SPERR 
> wrote:
> >
> >> I personally agree that requiring verified identities for posters 
> >> is potentially *really* disruptive to the list. It seems a 
> >> disproportionate response to what is still mostly a theoretical risk.
> >>
> >> I also trust that any changes to the fundamental functioning of 
> >> this
> list
> >> would only be undertaken after a period of broad discussion 
> >> followed by
> a
> >> (very)  formal vote. This list is common property and is still a 
> >> primary communication channel for this community. Decisions 
> >> regarding changes to it's function (or the rules that govern its 
> >> participants) should be made democratically.
> >>
> >>
> >> Edwin V. Sperr, MLIS
> >> AU/UGA Medical Partnership
> >> Office of Graduate Medical Education Clinical Information Librarian
> >>
> >> St. Mary’s Hospital
> >> 1230 Baxter Street
> >> Athens, GA 30606
> >>
> >> p: 706-389-3864
> >> e: esp...@uga.edu | esp...@augusta.edu >> esp...@augusta.edu>
> >> w: 
> >> medicalpartnership.usg.edu
> >>
> >>
> >> 
> >> From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of 
> >> Natasha Allen 
> >> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 4:29 PM
> >> To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
> >> [admiistratativia]"
> >>
> >> [External Sender]
> >>
> >> Hi Tom,
> >>
> >> Thank you for responding with your clarifications. Much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Natasha
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Natasha Allen (she/her)
> >> System and Fulfillment Coordinator, University Library San José 
> >> State University
> >> 1 Washington Square
> >> San José , CA 95192
> >> natasha.al...@sjsu.edu
> >> 408-808-2655
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:08 PM Tom Johnson < 
> >> johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
>  As both a woman and librarian, i think i'm qualified to point out 
>  that
> >> if
> >>> someone is asking for me to give them private, potentially 
> >>> damaging

[CODE4LIB] Screen Reader Survey

2019-07-30 Thread Kate Deibel

Please distribute widely.

"WebAIM's screen reader 
survey #8 is now open. If you 
use a screen reader I highly recommend filling it out as it provides the 
industry with trends and helps us figure out what AT-browser combos are most 
used."


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Syracuse University Libraries
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Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-15 Thread Kate Deibel

While Risa was spot on with my criticisms about the survey approach, I want to 
be clear that there are two issues here.

One is having a policy for when it does come to research collection related to 
the community and setting standards for what we expect to see. This is 
especially true when it comes to sensitive topics.

The second issue is the debate that came up about topics are "permitted" in 
this community. 

The proposed code of conduct changes address both. The current conversation 
about anonymity only concerns the first, unless one intends to use the absence 
of anonymity to make this a difficult place to discuss a multitude of issues 
that don't involve programming languages.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Josh Welker
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 12:26 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

I agree with Kate here. This seems too much like those cases where one patron 
leaves an empty bag of chips on a table, so the whole library plasters 
obnoxious "NO FOOD ON THE TABLES" signs all over and creates a 12-person ad hoc 
committee to discuss food policies. I don't think we need to create a formal 
policy based on what happened here except maybe a statement that we will not 
passive-aggressively shut down conversations about sensitive issues due to 
being deemed off-topic.

Joshua Welker
Library Systems and Discovery Coordinator James C. Kirkpatrick Library 
University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 JCKL 2260
660.543.8022



On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:19 AM S B <
0019b805e526-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org> wrote:

> In at least one initial post early on, I did identify myself.  I think 
> this is a considerate group of professionals and I would like for you 
> to consider some things:
>
> -The survey was anonymous.  Anyone could have emailed me at any time 
> with questions on more specifics about the survey and some did and I 
> answered those questions.  I understand that some disagree with the 
> oath I took on that.  I have heard from some of you and in the future, 
> I will make some if the suggested modifications.
>
> -Throughout the time of collecting information and writing part one of 
> the series on sexual harassment in libraries, I received some very 
> critical and negative messages.  In part one of the series, I revealed 
> my own experience with sexual harassment, outside the library 
> profession, in the author’s note.  I decided to do this at the last 
> moment.  When you get your in box filled with with some mean messages, 
> it is not fun and when you get called out, it is also not fun.  When I 
> revealed my own experience with sexual harassment, it was certainly my 
> own choice but also putting yourself out there.  Even though I am the 
> writer, I still have a right to privacy and right to protect myself from in 
> some cases cruel messages.
>
> -I am human and nothing I ever do will be perfect including parts of 
> the investigative process.  Some things could have done differently 
> and I have already taken owner that.
>
> I appreciate you reading this and I hope as you all move forward that 
> you will take into consideration the thoughts of where a poster is 
> coming from and that person is human too.
>
> Grateful,
> Sunni Battin
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 15, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Natasha Allen 
> wrote:
>
> >> finally, i think it's regrettable that demands for discussants to
> identify
> > themselves came up in the prior thread. even in this case (with
> legitimate
> > concerns at hand about methodolgy and the nature of the information 
> > being
> > solicited) it seemed to me that these demands did more to intimidate 
> > than anything else. i fear adopting this as policy would codify that 
> > intimidation.
> >
> > As both a woman and librarian, i think i'm qualified to point out 
> > that if someone is asking for me to give them private, potentially 
> > damaging information, I have a right to know who they are and their 
> > motivations
> for
> > asking, because lord knows there are plenty of bad actors who would 
> > use sensitive information for ill purposes. I can only speak for 
> > myself when
> i
> > say this but it's a matter of safety, not intimidation.
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Natasha Allen (she/her)
> > System and Fulfillment Coordinator, University Library San José 
> > State University
> > 1 Washington Square
> > San José , CA 95192
> > natasha.al...@sjsu.edu
> > 408-808-2655
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:23 AM Tom Johnson <
> johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> i'll put in another word strongly against a name/signature policy.
> >>
> >> as professionals who work regularly with authorship, surely we can 
> >>

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-15 Thread Kate Deibel

I humbly ask people here to put down the nuclear fly swatters. This 
particularly refers to people insisting on a name/signature policy for all 
posters. I get that a fault has happened in this community. However, we do not 
need to respond like we do in technical situations when we face a security 
intrusion, code failure to bad data, or inefficiency due to edge cases. To put 
it more succinctly, we don't need to make our code of conduct consider and 
prevent all possible threats all at once. Not only is it unreasonable, but the 
extra "protection" might cause degraded performance. 

In recent months, an incident did happen due to unclear identity. The person 
doing the sexual harassment survey failed to identify herself. There was no 
contact information in her message nor in the survey itself. Additionally, the 
C4L list's configuration obscured her email. Thus, we had a person collecting 
data on a sensitive topic with a vulnerable population. In such cases, the C4L 
community should mandate identity and communication outlets in some fashion for 
people soliciting information especially in terms of sensitive research. 

Let's just focus on patching that particular security issue for the time being. 
We don't need to consider all types of threats and prevent them right now. 
There's plenty to argue and discuss just on this topic. To what degree of info 
seeking requires identity? Can I ask about opinions on MARC editors without 
issuing an IRB statement? I'd say yes. If you wanted to publish on it, that's 
different. Can a person who does a survey on a sensitive topic maintain their 
anonymity under an alias email? That's a finer point and one I waffle on. I 
want to say yes but there needs to be more there I think. 

If it helps, think of keeping anonymity in the C4L community as a good/bad 
thing just like encryption. There's the old saying that one wouldn't want an 
evil empire having encryption, but at the same time, you'd want the freedom 
rebels there to have encryption. Same goes for anonymity. Anonymity can allow 
some to hurt and harass, but it can also be a means for people to reach out for 
help and support in safe ways. 

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 11:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

i'll put in another word strongly against a name/signature policy.

as professionals who work regularly with authorship, surely we can understand 
that people use and attach their ideas to many names in both private and public 
life for a wide range of reasons. the argument that restricting naming here 
would improve the quality or civility of posts appears unsupported. absent a 
compelling need for the restriction, any rule would seem only to provide tools 
for excluding certain people and topics.

to take it a step further, and reading between the lines a bit, excluding 
people and topics seems to be the precise goal of the rule. the discussion has 
already drifted into adjudicating hypothetical topics to be excluded:
"my boss is a baddy, and here's why..." is a trivializing example, but i'd put 
it to you that in many circumstances this is a perfectly reasonable issue to 
raise publicly and anonymously to a professional community. unless our goal is 
to tip the balance of power further in favor of baddy bosses, that is. that 
this is coming up in the current context makes me worry very much about which 
topics we'd attempt to filter in practice.

finally, i think it's regrettable that demands for discussants to identify 
themselves came up in the prior thread. even in this case (with legitimate 
concerns at hand about methodolgy and the nature of the information being
solicited) it seemed to me that these demands did more to intimidate than 
anything else. i fear adopting this as policy would codify that intimidation.

best,

tom

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 8:14 AM Tom Johnson  wrote:

> i'll put in another word strongly against a name/signature policy.
>
> as professionals who work regularly with authorship, surely we can 
> understand that people use and attach their ideas to many names in 
> both private and public life for a wide range of reasons. the argument 
> that restricting naming here would improve the quality or civility of 
> posts appears unsupported. absent a compelling need for the 
> restriction, any rule would seem only to provide tools for excluding certain 
> people and topics.
>
> to take it a step further, and reading between the lines a bit, 
> excluding people and topics seems to be the precise goal of the rule. 
> the discussion has already drifted into adjudicating hypothetical topics to 
> be excluded:
> "my boss is a baddy, and here's why..."

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-15 Thread Kate Deibel

Thank you for the clarifications, Tom. That is what we need now. To speak to 
specifics and not what-ifs or general cases that might happen.

Katherine Deibel | PhD
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 4:05 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note 
[admiistratativia]"

> As both a woman and librarian, i think i'm qualified to point out that 
> if
someone is asking for me to give them private, potentially damaging 
information, I have a right to know who they are and their motivations for 
asking, because lord knows there are plenty of bad actors who would use 
sensitive information for ill purposes. I can only speak for myself when i say 
this but it's a matter of safety, not intimidation.

my apologies. my implication was not at all meant along these lines.

on the contrary, i think the transparency issues in this case are utterly 
clear. the work undertaken by yourself and others to address them has my 
complete support.

what i object to is the idea, as exemplified in Eric's posts of June 28, that 
unsigned posts to this board constitute suspicious activity and that the normal 
administrative response is to de-anonymize in order to "get rid of them". i'm 
not aware of that being a practice here. if it has been, i'm extremely 
uncomfortable with it. in either case, Eric's reference to this enforcement 
practice was sudden, apparently unconnected to any documented policy or 
process, and coupled with claims that the entire subject matter of sexual 
harassment is unwelcome on this board. this combination seems chilling to me; 
it certainly makes /me/ reluctant to continue my limited participation here. 
this is what i meant by "intimidation".

again, apologies for the confusion. i was initially reluctant to be so direct 
about attributing issues to specific posts or people. it's clear to me now that 
if i'm going to chime in, that directness is called for.

- tom



On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:50 AM Natasha Allen 
wrote:

> >finally, i think it's regrettable that demands for discussants to 
> >identify
> themselves came up in the prior thread. even in this case (with 
> legitimate concerns at hand about methodolgy and the nature of the 
> information being
> solicited) it seemed to me that these demands did more to intimidate 
> than anything else. i fear adopting this as policy would codify that 
> intimidation.
>
> As both a woman and librarian, i think i'm qualified to point out that 
> if someone is asking for me to give them private, potentially damaging 
> information, I have a right to know who they are and their motivations 
> for asking, because lord knows there are plenty of bad actors who 
> would use sensitive information for ill purposes. I can only speak for 
> myself when i say this but it's a matter of safety, not intimidation.
>
>
> ---
> Natasha Allen (she/her)
> System and Fulfillment Coordinator, University Library San José State 
> University
> 1 Washington Square
> San José , CA 95192
> natasha.al...@sjsu.edu
> 408-808-2655
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:23 AM Tom Johnson < 
> johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > i'll put in another word strongly against a name/signature policy.
> >
> > as professionals who work regularly with authorship, surely we can 
> > understand that people use and attach their ideas to many names in 
> > both private and public life for a wide range of reasons. the 
> > argument that restricting naming here would improve the quality or 
> > civility of posts appears unsupported. absent a compelling need for 
> > the restriction, any
> rule
> > would seem only to provide tools for excluding certain people and topics.
> >
> > to take it a step further, and reading between the lines a bit, 
> > excluding people and topics seems to be the precise goal of the 
> > rule. the
> discussion
> > has already drifted into adjudicating hypothetical topics to be excluded:
> > "my boss is a baddy, and here's why..." is a trivializing example, 
> > but
> i'd
> > put it to you that in many circumstances this is a perfectly 
> > reasonable issue to raise publicly and anonymously to a professional 
> > community.
> unless
> > our goal is to tip the balance of power further in favor of baddy 
> > bosses, that is. that this is coming up in the current context makes 
> > me worry
> very
> > much about which topics we'd attempt to filter in practice.
> >
> > finally, i think it's regrettable that demands for discussants to
> identify
> > themselves came up in the prior thread. even in this case (with
> legitimate
> > concerns at hand about methodolgy and the nature of the information 
> > being
> > solicited) it seemed to me that these demands did more to intimidate 
> > than anything

[CODE4LIB] Latest Screen Reader Survey Results

2019-09-30 Thread Kate Deibel

Every year, WebAIM conducts a study of screen reader usage that tracks trends 
in preferred reader software, browser choice, and more. The results were 
released at the end of last week. Key findings this year include:



* NVDA usage tops out over JAWS for the first time

* Chrome usage continues to grow

* IE usage remains consistently strong among reader users



https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/


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[CODE4LIB] Volunteers: 2020 Conference Accessibility Committee

2019-09-30 Thread Kate Deibel

Hello everyone,

The Accessibility Committee for the 2020 Code4Lib conference in Pittsburgh is 
seeking volunteers to help in ensuring that attendees, both meat-y and digital, 
can equitably access and attend the annual conference. Any and all forms of 
volunteering are welcome. Activities that the committee does include:

* Advising on the accessibility of the conference web site 
* Arranging live captioning for the conference 
* Advising on physical issues at the conference location
* Providing guidelines for presenters to give accessible presentations and 
provide accessible files
* Promoting microphone issue
* Supporting the quiet space
* Responding to accommodation requests at they arise

If you've read this far down, I'd appreciate stepping back from chairing this 
committee but will still participate. There's a lot of great content and 
practice already established. We can only improve. The one thing I'd like to do 
is provide a webinar for presenters on accessible talks. I can do that if I'm 
not also coordinating everything else.

So yes, volunteer!

Katherine Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
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[CODE4LIB] Seeking Opinions on Institutional Repository Systems

2020-02-10 Thread Kate Deibel

Our libraries are currently vetting several options for our repository. We are 
seeking people to give us feedback on any of the following software:

  *   Bepress Digital Commons,
  *   DSPACE,
  *   E-Prints,
  *   Islandora,
  *   Tind

If you are willing to answer questions about any of these repository systems, 
please contact Holli Kubly (hku...@syr.edu<mailto:hku...@syr.edu>) or reply to 
me and I'll forward on your contact information.

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
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[CODE4LIB] Survey of librarians working with a chronic condition or illness (fwd)

2020-01-14 Thread Kate Deibel

Dear colleagues,
You are invited to participate in a research study about the work experiences 
of librarians with a visible or invisible chronic illness or condition. The 
purpose of this research is to better understand the ways that professionals 
face and overcome the challenges associated with their chronic condition in the 
workplace.

If you agree to participate in this research, I ask you to complete a survey 
lasting approximately 15-20 minutes. The survey will be conducted online 
through the Qualtrics survey tool.

For more information about the survey, including your consent to participate, 
and to participate in the study, please click the link below:

https://uofsc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3dVkaHCxieoVTgx


If you have any questions about the study, please do not hesitate to contact me 
at srath...@mailbox.sc.edu<mailto:srath...@mailbox.sc.edu>. This study 
(Pro-00095114) has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of the 
University of South Carolina Office of Research Compliance. If you have any 
questions about your rights as a research participant, you may call the ORC at 
(803) 777-7095.



Thank you,


Susan Rathbun-Grubb, MSLS, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Science
University of South Carolina
1501 Greene St.
Columbia, SC 29208
803.777.0485
srath...@mailbox.sc.edu<mailto:srath...@mailbox.sc.edu>


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Syracuse University Libraries
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[CODE4LIB] Presentation Accessibility Tips

2020-03-06 Thread Kate Deibel

For anyone presenting at Code4Lib, even just for a lightning talk, please take 
some time to make any presentation slides accessible.

First, the conference website provides suggestions on how to make your 
presentation visually accessible during the conference. These include guidance 
on choosing fonts, text size, colors and more: 
https://2020.code4lib.org/general-info/accessibility#presenters

Moreover, if you share your slides to the Code4Lib repository, take a moment to 
do some accessibility fixes.

Microsoft PowerPoint has a built-in accessibility checker that guides you on 
how to fix things:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Make-your-PowerPoint-presentations-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-6f7772b2-2f33-4bd2-8ca7-dae3b2b3ef25

Google Slides has similar guidance. If you export to PowerPoint, do take the 
time to run the PPT accessibility checker if you can:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6199477?hl=en





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Re: [CODE4LIB] computer science email list suggestion?

2020-04-02 Thread Kate Deibel

Adding to this list, SIGCSE is the computer science education group and when I 
was on there, there were often announcements for jobs and internships. I do 
believe there is a specific job sublist.

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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Jodi Schneider
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 5:06 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] computer science email list suggestion?

Complementary, I think, to other responses you've received:

DBWorld is a listserv mainly affiliated with the database community, and ACM 
SigMOD.
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld/

ACM-Widening Participation mentions CONQUER (undergrad-focused):
https://conquer.cra.org
You could try to figure out where other opportunities for students in research 
(focusing here on undergrads):
https://conquer.cra.org/students/getting-into-research/finding-opportunities

NCWIT has a jobs list - probably primarily full-time:
https://www.ncwit.org/resources/jobs

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 2:18 PM Amy Schuler < 
00088c12581f-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
> We have a summer data internship position opening at my institution.
> I will post the opportunity here, of course, but wondered if anyone 
> could suggest a good computer science email list to cross-post to?  I 
> am on a bunch of research data management lists, but it has been 
> suggested by my scientist colleagues that we also post to a CS list.
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
>
> Amy C. Schuler
> Director, Information Services & Library
>
>
> Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
> 2801 Sharon Turnpike
> Millbrook, NY
> 845-677-5343 ext 164 <(845)%20677-5343>
>
> www.caryinstitute.org
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating animated gifs

2020-08-31 Thread Kate Deibel

I'm not sure if I'm following correctly, but when you say learning tutorial, 
are you saying that you are going to make a demo of how to do something and 
then show that demo in an animated gif? If so, please don't do that. Animated 
gifs are extremely hard to cognitively follow since you generally cannot pause 
them or move them frame by frame. Videos allow exactly that. Otherwise, you're 
creating an accessibility and usability nightmare. 

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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Matthew Reidsma
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 3:15 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating animated gifs

Charles,

I have used Giphy in the past. I have only used the Mac app, but looks like 
they have iOS/Android and web-based apps, too: https://giphy.com/apps/giphy

--
Matthew Reidsma
Web Services Librarian, GVSU :: gvsu.edu/library<http://gvsu.edu/library>
he/him/his

Need to report a problem? https://gvsu.edu/library/support







On Aug 31, 2020, at 3:04 PM, charles meyer 
mailto:reachmepl...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

It’s amazing what can be done without necessarily having an audio/video 
department or a tech degree as I’ve learned video editing.

BTW, that video editing software edits; it doesn’t create videos or .gifs.

I was wondering if anyone on this list has created a .gif?

I’m interested in creating a learning tutorial making the subject in the 
creation animated.

Yes, you can use Blender but that has a learning curve similar to learning GIMP 
(which I’ve read can create .gifs but the steps to create one have not been 
shared.

I’m interested in any free, easy-to-learn/use software which could create 
animated .gifs?

Thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts/suggestions.

Charles.

[CODE4LIB] FWD: For Wide Review: WCAG 2.2 Updated Working Draft

2020-08-20 Thread Kate Deibel

Significant updates to the web accessibility guidelines are forthcoming and you 
have a chance to offer feedback.
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-Original Message-

From: Shawn Henry mailto:sh...@w3.org>>

Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 11:08 PM

To: public-wai-annou...@w3.org<mailto:public-wai-annou...@w3.org>

Subject: For Wide Review: WCAG 2.2 Updated Working Draft



Dear WAI Interest Group,



W3C WAI invites you to comment on the updated Working Draft of WCAG 2.2 at:

 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/



The Working Group is done adding new success criteria for WCAG 2.2. This 
Working Draft is ready for wide review before finalizing WCAG 2.2.



Additional information is in the blog post "Web Content Accessibility 
Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Draft for Review":

 https://www.w3.org/blog/2020/08/wcag22-wide-review/



Updates:

This draft includes 9 new success criteria since WCAG 2.1, and 1 success 
criteria level change. The new success criteria address user needs of people 
with cognitive or learning disabilities, users of mobile devices, and users of 
ebooks. Details of these changes are in:

 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#new-features-in-wcag-2-2



In-progress updates to the document are available in the Editors' Draft at:

 https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/



Comments:

Public feedback is really important to us. We want to hear from users, authors, 
tool developers, policy makers, and others about benefits from the new proposed 
success criteria, as well as how achievable you feel it is to conform to the 
new success criteria.



To comment, please open a new issue in the W3C Spec GitHub repository:

 https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/new

If this is not feasible, send email to:

 public-agwg-comme...@w3.org<mailto:public-agwg-comme...@w3.org>



Please send comments by *18 September 2020*.



Share:

We encourage you to share this information and include @w3c_wai, @w3c, 
#accessibility, #a11y, #wcag Here's a tweet you can use: 
https://twitter.com/w3c_wai/status/1293034805777637376



Regards,

Alastair Campbell, Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Co-Chair Chuck Adams, 
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Co-Chair Rachael Montgomery, 
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Co-Chair Michael Cooper, W3C Staff 
Contact for Accessibility Guidelines Working Group

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web accessibility and ARIA

2020-10-23 Thread Kate Deibel

WebAIM offers an API for their WAVE evaluation tool, albeit not as a free 
service.

Many others have said what I would have said, but I'll make a further comment 
on ARIA. For my regular work doing accessibility evaluations, more ARIA is a 
RED FLAG that the page will need to be fully tested by hand with multiple 
browser/screen reader combinations. The first rule of ARIA is don't use ARIA, 
but many sites and many frameworks abuse it horribly. 

Furthermore, keep in mind that ARIA is currently only utilized by screen reader 
technology. Disability access on the web is more than supporting screen readers 
for blind and low-vision users. Mobility issues, other sensory issues, 
supporting different cognitive abilities, and all forms of disabilities must be 
supported. 

That all said, automatic testing of websites will only get you so far. Keyboard 
navigation and focus control need to be tested by a human. Alternative text for 
images, link names, and other labels need to be evaluated for appropriateness. 

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
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Syracuse University Libraries 
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Caffrey-Hill, 
Julia
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020 9:37 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Web accessibility and ARIA

Hello Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay,
I can provide some partial thoughts, and there are other members who have 
strong, knowledgeable perspectives that may want to chime in also.

Re: 2. 
- For ARIA, there's consensus that a high number of ARIA found on a page is not 
necessarily an indicator of accessibility and, to the contrary, a high score is 
a red flag that may indicate abuse of ARIA tags. They are easily mishandled. 
There are others in this community, namely Katherine Deibel, who are prolific 
on this topic that I hope can chime in or link to part presentations/resources.
- For your study, as it relates to ARIA specifically, I recommend AXE browser 
extension (https://www.deque.com/axe/). I don't think an API is available for 
it, but it is good for validation, and I believe is suited to a quantitative 
study. There is a learning curve on understanding it. Deque Systems, according 
to their training, split off from the team behind WAVE, and built out the 
tool's capacity for testing ARIA tags.

Re: 3
- In terms of a globally recognized quantitative indicator, I'm not aware of 
one. A combination of different tools is recommended, and they do have their 
weak spots. I prefer mixed methods to test for web accessibility. 
- For a large number of websites at a time, I understand the need for a 
framework. For auditing our e-resources for accessibility, Towson University 
adapted a framework from Princeton University, who in turn adapted it from 
another library. My colleagues and I recently presented on how to do this 
approach (Description: 
https://wp.towson.edu/tcal/one-step-at-a-time-assessing-e-resources-for-accessibility-compliance/
 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQZjTeW-69E=youtu.be  - 40 
mins) - I hope that's helpful and if so, I'd be interested to hear about it.

All the best,
Julia Caffrey-Hill
Web Services Librarian
Towson University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Parthasarathi 
Mukhopadhyay
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:55 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Web accessibility and ARIA

[EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION]

Hello all

We are trying to measure web accessibility of some Indian 
institutes/universities/libraries in the form of a score and then rank those 
institutes/universities/libraries against the score (still at the idea plane). 
The plan is to fetch data through API in a data wrangling software for further 
analysis. My questions are as follows:

1) Are there other services (apart from WAVE) that provide results in JSON 
format through API?
2) What is the significance of *ARIA* in determining such a score for web 
accessibility? Does a higher number of ARIA indicate a better accessibility? Or 
is converse true?
3) Is there any globally agreed-upon indicator for web accessibility?

Best

---
Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of 
Kalyani, Kalyani - 741 235 (WB), India
---

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

2020-12-03 Thread Kate Deibel

To be clear, our policy is to include captions AND that all captions must be 
manually checked and edited. This applies to both automated and captions from 
live transcription. 

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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Kyle Breneman
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 2:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

Thanks, all, for your responses.  Quick clarification: my main interest here is 
in seeing other libraries' policies governing the creation of public-facing 
video content, whether marketing videos, tutorials, or info-lit instruction.  
Although I can understand how the discussion has gone towards whether or not, 
and how, to caption videos, my interest is in seeing policies.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:32 AM Kyle Breneman 
wrote:

> I'm looking for policies that govern the library's creation of 
> public-facing video content.  Anyone have an internal policy 
> stipulating where videos are stored or mandating captioning?
>
> Kyle Breneman
> University of Baltimore
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

2020-12-03 Thread Kate Deibel

We'll add audio descriptions upon request but haven't had any yet. The bigger 
issue is that our video players don't generally offer multiple soundtracks, 
meaning we have to have the video uploaded twice: one without AD, one with. 

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Hicks, William
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:03 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

Policy-adjacent for our DL. 
https://digital.library.unt.edu/accessibility/#text-alternatives; bullets 3-5.

Interesting note for Texas institutions: TAC §206.70(a)(1) and §206.70(b) would 
supersede/cover for local institutional policies, but puts an .edu into a weird 
space regarding the timing of remediation efforts if hit by a DOE complaint (I 
think, TINLA). 
https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R=9_dir==1=1=10=206=70

Would be interested if anyone addresses Audio Description since that's of equal 
import to blind users, required for AA compliance, and AFAICT almost no one 
does them given the cost.

William Hicks
 
Digital Libraries: User Interfaces
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #305190
Denton, TX 76203-5017
 
email: william.hi...@unt.edu  | phone: 940.891.6703 | web: 
http://www.library.unt.edu Willis Library, Room 321

On 12/3/20, 9:33 AM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Kyle Breneman" 
 wrote:

I'm looking for policies that govern the library's creation of
public-facing video content.  Anyone have an internal policy stipulating
where videos are stored or mandating captioning?

Kyle Breneman
University of Baltimore

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

2020-12-03 Thread Kate Deibel

Just to comment further, auto-caption accuracy varies greatly by person and 
even within a person. A lot of speech input users find they need to create 
different profiles such as a morning and afternoon voice profile. I knew one 
person who even had spring versus non-spring variations due to her allergies.

Training data overwhelmingly focused on the midwestern American accent until 
recently. This is largely due to the historical source of the training data for 
a long time: newscasts with teleprompters. A lot of speech recognizers were 
great about recognizing Muammar Gaddafi due to this. 

Regional accent recognition is getting better, but it can be very stereotyped, 
and this isn't even getting into foreign language accents. Some are better 
supported, such as Indian, especially if it's one more local to Bangalore. I 
leave the reason for why this is to the reader.

Domain-specific terms and jargon are particularly tricky. Some recognition 
systems now involve the source content, like the built-in captions in 
PowerPoint. I believe that's the only reason why the recognition spells my last 
name correctly.

Captioning has so many nuances to it, especially with video. If I ever manage 
to stop putting out fires or trying to fix toxic work situations, I might get 
to actually write them up.

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Pennington, 
Buddy D.
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:56 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

Completely agree with Kate. Auto-captioning is a decent start but you have to 
clean them up to make them helpful. And many users have a need for captions. So 
please do it. 

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Kate Deibel
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:53 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

WARNING: This message has originated from an External Source. This may be a 
phishing expedition that can result in unauthorized access to our IT System. 
Please use proper judgment and caution when opening attachments, clicking 
links, or responding to this email.

We mandate captioning as well. Kaltura does auto-captions but both myself and 
the university mandate checking and editing the captions soon after posting. 
Anyone who says the auto-captioning and pretty much perfect are made to wear 
the silliest of hats and sit in the corner of a circular room. 

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Pennington, 
Buddy D.
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:49 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

We don't have a formal policy but we are putting our library video content on 
Panopto and we do captioning.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Koshoffer, Amy 
(koshofae)
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:47 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

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Hi Kyle

Would you be willing to share what you find.

Here is a link the page at UC - 
https://www.uc.edu/about/accessibility-network/getting-started/policy.html.  We 
use Kaltura and require captioning.

And a checklist for video/audio content 
https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/ucit/media/accessibility-network/bestpractice/best-practices-video-audio.pdf

Cheers,
Amy Koshoffer (pronounced "K-osh-offer")
she/her(s)
Assistant Director of Research & Data Services | UC Libraries [orcid 
small]ORCID -0001-8130-103X<http://orcid.org/-0001-8130-103X>

amy.koshof...@uc.edu<mailto:amy.koshof...@uc.edu>  (preferred) | (513) 556-1310 
Research & Data 
Services<https://libraries.uc.edu/research-teaching-support/research-data-services.html>
 (Data, GIS, Informatics)

Cheers,
Amy

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Kyle Breneman 

Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:32 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

I'm looking for policies that govern the library's creation of public-facing 
video content.  Anyone have an internal policy stipulating where videos are 
stored or mandating captioning?

Kyle Breneman
University of Baltimore

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

2020-12-03 Thread Kate Deibel

We mandate captioning as well. Kaltura does auto-captions but both myself and 
the university mandate checking and editing the captions soon after posting. 
Anyone who says the auto-captioning and pretty much perfect are made to wear 
the silliest of hats and sit in the corner of a circular room. 

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Pennington, 
Buddy D.
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:49 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

We don't have a formal policy but we are putting our library video content on 
Panopto and we do captioning.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Koshoffer, Amy 
(koshofae)
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:47 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

WARNING: This message has originated from an External Source. This may be a 
phishing expedition that can result in unauthorized access to our IT System. 
Please use proper judgment and caution when opening attachments, clicking 
links, or responding to this email.

Hi Kyle

Would you be willing to share what you find.

Here is a link the page at UC - 
https://www.uc.edu/about/accessibility-network/getting-started/policy.html.  We 
use Kaltura and require captioning.

And a checklist for video/audio content 
https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/ucit/media/accessibility-network/bestpractice/best-practices-video-audio.pdf

Cheers,
Amy Koshoffer (pronounced "K-osh-offer")
she/her(s)
Assistant Director of Research & Data Services | UC Libraries [orcid 
small]ORCID -0001-8130-103X<http://orcid.org/-0001-8130-103X>

amy.koshof...@uc.edu<mailto:amy.koshof...@uc.edu>  (preferred) | (513) 556-1310 
Research & Data 
Services<https://libraries.uc.edu/research-teaching-support/research-data-services.html>
 (Data, GIS, Informatics)

Cheers,
Amy

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Kyle Breneman 

Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:32 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

I'm looking for policies that govern the library's creation of public-facing 
video content.  Anyone have an internal policy stipulating where videos are 
stored or mandating captioning?

Kyle Breneman
University of Baltimore

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web site builder - checklist

2021-07-01 Thread Kate Deibel

This comes up on accessibility channels from time to time. None of these site 
builder sites do great for disability access, but the general opinion is that 
WordPress tends to be better than the rest. The main reasoning is that if you 
go to wordpress.ORG (not the .com), you can get a list of accessible WordPress 
templates that have actually been somewhat vetted. Quite often, a bad theme 
will undo all the good an accessible site skeleton provided. This has been 
noted as an issue on Wix. 

To summarize, I'd suggest WordPress and have them look for a theme from 
https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Petersen, Andrew
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:14 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Web site builder - checklist

Hi Charles,

Have they considered a Wordpress site on a ReclaimHosting account? I know you'd 
said they're not super techy, but they should be able to do everything they'd 
be able to do in the other four without some of the added hassles and 'bonus' 
fees. Happy to chat more about this option if you're interested.

All the best,
Andy

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of charles meyer 

Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:41 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Web site builder - checklist

Hi my esteemed listmates,

I'm so sorry for the barrage but now that our library is in another stage of 
opening we have a plethora of issues we're addressing.

Our "Friends of the Library" NPO wants to have a Web site.

They are great people but not that tech oriented so I've narrowed down their 
web site builder and hosting choices as follows:

1 Wix
2 SquareSpace
3 Go Daddy
4 Wordpress.com

Have you developed any Web sites or helped your "Friends of the Library"
with their Web sites?

If so, might you please share any checklist for features, functions, factors to 
consider in choosing a Web site builder/host?

Ex. How much bandwidth - storage space needed? Has SSL certificate?

I've Googled this and there doesn't seem to be any "vetting" organization which 
shares checklists of what to look for in a web site builder/hosting co.

I found "reviews" but each reviewer seems to have a leaning - e.g.
WordPress preferences, Wix choice, etc. so the reviews seeme a tad skewed.

Thank you so much!

Best,

Charles.

[CODE4LIB] FW: [Athen] Call for Proposals - ATHEN Virtual Conference 2021!

2021-04-28 Thread Kate Deibel

The ATHEN Virtual Conference is calling for proposals from those who are 
working around the accessibility (disability access) of Open Education 
Resources (OER) for this year's conference.


Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu<mailto:kndei...@syr.edu>
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

From: athen-list  On Behalf Of 
ATHEN President
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 1:51 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network 
Subject: [Athen] Call for Proposals - ATHEN Virtual Conference 2021!

Hi all,

We are in the process of planning our annual ATHEN Virtual Conference! This 
year, we thought we'd call for proposals from those who are working around the 
accessibility of Open Education Resources (OER).

  *   Session talks will be 15 minutes with 5 minutes Q and we expect to have 
3-4 sessions.
  *   Sessions can be as informal/formal as the presenter wants.
  *   Sessions will be announced after May 20th.
  *   The date of the event will be June 16 starting at 2 PM Eastern.
To submit your proposal about OER Accessibility, fill out our short Google 
form<https://forms.gle/Sz66KSrncjedPfB46>.

If you have any questions, please let us know!

ATHEN Executive Council
Dawn Hunziker
President, ATHEN
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[CODE4LIB] Asking for examples with search boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Kate Deibel

We're currently underway in a major web site redesign at my library. We're a 
Voyager/Summon house, so we're looking for any examples of the following?


  *   Do any of you utilize search scopes (Books, Articles, All, etc.) on your 
main search box on your homepage?
 *   For Voyager?
 *   For Summon?
  *   Have any of you implemented a bento box-style search results page? Any 
advice on connecting with Voyager, Summon, LibGuides, or other common tools?

Reply directly to me or on the list. If there's interest, I'll try to share out 
the collected responses.


Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu<mailto:kndei...@syr.edu>
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

Re: [CODE4LIB] Accessibility in SVG

2021-08-12 Thread Kate Deibel

I really recommend working with screen reader users to identify what actually 
helps in these cases. Simply having more accessible text in the SVG is not 
necessarily better. One can get overwhelmed easily. Moreover, you need to 
consider what is the actual task at hand? Are you promoting wayfinding for 
specific areas? Starting from where? It's also worthwhile to ask if the text 
being added could be useful for all users? 

Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD
Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries 
T 315.443.7178
kndei...@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
Syracuse University

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of parker, anson D 
(adp6j)
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2021 10:15 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Accessibility in SVG

Hi Kun

that's cool you're working on SVG accessibility - and I like the solutions 
people are coming up with... 

we're working on making some tactile maps with the used acrylic sheets that are 
everywhere due to covid prevention efforts 

https://guides.hsl.virginia.edu/it-services-blog/zoombites/tactile-map-design-in-the-library

i bet those SVG files you have would be great for making maps...


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Guita Lamsechi 

Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 6:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Accessibility in SVG

Hi Kun,

If what you want are text labels inside the SVG files for your library floor 
map, add the text to the images areas but do not convert the text to raster or 
vector outlines.
Please feel free to provide additional clarification or reach out to me 
directly, if I can help.

Best,
Guita


Guita Lamsechi, PhD MI
(she, her, hers)
guita.lamse...@utoronto.ca<mailto:guita.lamse...@utoronto.ca>

On Aug 11, 2021, at 17:58, Guita Lamsechi 
mailto:guita.lamse...@utoronto.ca>> wrote:

Hi Kun,
SVG includes two elements for providing short and long text descriptions: The 
"title" and "desc" elements. This link on text in an SVG file may be helpful:
https://www.tpgi.com/using-aria-enhance-svg-accessibility/

Best regards,
Guita


Guita Lamsechi, PhD MI
(she, her, hers)


On Aug 11, 2021, at 14:47, Kun Lin mailto:l...@whitman.edu>> 
wrote:

EXTERNAL EMAIL:

Hi

Anyone has experience in creating accessible SVG floor map?  I am wondering if 
there is a way to add descriptions in SVG to each block (path or rect).
Or I am being limited to the alt tag in HTML.



Thanks

Kun

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