[CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?
Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional event. - Randy Stern Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:31:45 -0500 From:Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:26 -0500 From:Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. ranti. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:08 -0500 From:Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? But I think in the past people on this list have said they don't mind the additional traffic from people planning regional stuff. It's useful to keep it on the main list, too, because the other regions can learn from the chatter (what works, what doesn't, etc.) Kevin On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Â Google group? -- End of CODE4LIB Digest - 17 Dec 2011 to 18 Dec 2011 (#2011-309) ***
Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?
I guess if we can nail down a list of people willing to help plan so we can get past the three basics, planning committee list, when and where this will happen. So to get the ball rolling, please respond to say if you are willing to help plan and can commit to at least two hours a week leading up and effectively be on the planning committee. If you'd like to help plan but don't want to be on the committee, respond saying that. I'll start by saying, I'll help and am willing to serve on the committee. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stern, Randall Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 8:44 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional event. - Randy Stern Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:31:45 -0500 From:Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:26 -0500 From:Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. ranti. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:08 -0500 From:Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? But I think in the past people on this list have said they don't mind the additional traffic from people planning regional stuff. It's useful to keep it on the main list, too, because the other regions can learn from the chatter (what works, what doesn't, etc.) Kevin On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Â Google group? -- End of CODE4LIB Digest - 17 Dec 2011 to 18 Dec 2011 (#2011-309) ***
Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?
Mike - I'm interested, but I'm not sure if I can commit two hours per week at the moment. Mark On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.edu wrote: I guess if we can nail down a list of people willing to help plan so we can get past the three basics, planning committee list, when and where this will happen. So to get the ball rolling, please respond to say if you are willing to help plan and can commit to at least two hours a week leading up and effectively be on the planning committee. If you'd like to help plan but don't want to be on the committee, respond saying that. I'll start by saying, I'll help and am willing to serve on the committee. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stern, Randall Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 8:44 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional event. - Randy Stern Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library -- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:31:45 -0500 From: Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From: Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:26 -0500 From: Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. ranti. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From: Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:08 -0500 From: Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? But I think in the past people on this list have said they don't mind the additional traffic from people planning regional stuff. It's useful to keep it on the main list, too, because the other regions can learn from the chatter (what works, what doesn't, etc.) Kevin On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? -- End of CODE4LIB Digest - 17 Dec 2011 to 18 Dec 2011 (#2011-309) ***
Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?
Hi Mike, I'd like to pitch in, and can work on the committee. - Kalee -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Friscia, Michael Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:08 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I guess if we can nail down a list of people willing to help plan so we can get past the three basics, planning committee list, when and where this will happen. So to get the ball rolling, please respond to say if you are willing to help plan and can commit to at least two hours a week leading up and effectively be on the planning committee. If you'd like to help plan but don't want to be on the committee, respond saying that. I'll start by saying, I'll help and am willing to serve on the committee. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stern, Randall Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 8:44 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional event. - Randy Stern Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:31:45 -0500 From:Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:26 -0500 From:Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. ranti. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibello@dartmouth.e du -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:08 -0500 From:Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? But I think in the past people on this list have said they don't mind the additional traffic from people planning regional stuff. It's useful to keep it on the main list, too, because the other regions can learn from the chatter (what works, what doesn't, etc.) Kevin On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Â Google group? -- End of CODE4LIB Digest - 17 Dec 2011 to 18 Dec 2011 (#2011-309)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
I had planned to come to code4lib and knew it filled up fast. I joined the mailing list so I could find out about the registration as soon as it happened. It came out in mid-morning and I happened to be in a meeting until 12 or so and by the time I tried to register it was sold out. This is annoying. Why not find a venue that is big enough to meet the obvious demand? There are surely plenty of larger venues in a city such as Seattle. The actual time when registration was going to open was published in a variety of venues (on the wiki, on the mailing lists, and it seemed someone was asking the question every fifteen minutes in the channel, including me ;) ). I purposely avoided scheduling meetings around that time and rescheduled some that were. On the other hand, it would be interesting to see a proposal for a larger code4lib and I imagine Minnesota has lots of places that can host a larger one. The deadline isn't until Jan. 22nd See http://code4lib.org/node/425 As always, if you want Code4Lib to do something or change, all you have to do is plan and work for it. That's why we're a loose collective and not a professional organization. I personally would not vote on making it much larger. It seems every order of magnitude increase takes it away from the techie origins and more like CiL or Internet Librarian. On the other hand, regardless of the size, I still suspect I'll find people willing to discuss the technical stuff, I just might stop showing up for most of the actual talks. Jon Gorman. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Elfstrand, Stephen F stephen.elfstr...@mnsu.edu wrote: Stephen Elfstrand PALS Executive Director stephen.elfstr...@mnsu.edu 507.389.5059
[CODE4LIB] Getting Started with Drupal-at ALA Midwinter!
***Apologies for cross-posting*** *Nina McHale of Arapahoe Library District, CO and Rachel Vacek of University of Houston* will present* Getting Started with Drupal.* This workshop will provide a thorough introduction to the Drupal content management system. Presenters will guide attendees as they create Drupal sites in a sandbox environment, covering the basics of content creation, themes, modules, and user management. Demonstrations of innovative Drupal sites, including library sites, library intranets, and an electronic journal will be provided. Previous web experience is helpful, but not required. Participants should plan to bring a laptop. More information on this workshop and other LITA events at Midwinter can be found at the LITA web sitehttp://lita.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b211fe88d0ff1155e320fde9did=6fb2671f60e=0acef12cd0 Visit the ALA Midwinter Meeting registration pagehttp://lita.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b211fe88d0ff1155e320fde9did=0c505c99ace=0acef12cd0 to register. *Please note: you do not have to register for the ALA Midwinter Meeting in order to attend this workshop. *You may register for the workshop only or add a workshop to your existing Midwinter registration by calling ALA Registration at 1 (800) 974-3084 or through the online registration form in the “Your Events” section. *Online Registration for workshops is available through January 16 or you may register onsite in Dallas.* -- Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS milehighbrarian.net Facebook Twitter: @ninermac
Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?
Cool, thanks Kalee, -mike ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sprague, Katherine Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Hi Mike, I'd like to pitch in, and can work on the committee. - Kalee -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Friscia, Michael Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:08 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I guess if we can nail down a list of people willing to help plan so we can get past the three basics, planning committee list, when and where this will happen. So to get the ball rolling, please respond to say if you are willing to help plan and can commit to at least two hours a week leading up and effectively be on the planning committee. If you'd like to help plan but don't want to be on the committee, respond saying that. I'll start by saying, I'll help and am willing to serve on the committee. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stern, Randall Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 8:44 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional event. - Randy Stern Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:31:45 -0500 From:Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:26 -0500 From:Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff. ranti. On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, Tito Sierra tjsie...@mit.edu wrote: I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in January. I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in. Yale as location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously. I would like to see this become a regular event. I can help with planning now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the future. What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the list? Google group? Tito Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 + From:Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu Subject: NEcode4lib? Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th= ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit= ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi= ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibello@dartmouth.e du -- Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:08 -0500 From:Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com Subject: Re: NEcode4lib? But I think in the past people on this list have said they don't mind the additional traffic from people planning regional stuff. It's useful to keep it on the main list, too, because the other regions can learn from the chatter (what works, what doesn't, etc.) Kevin On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM,
[CODE4LIB] LITA Mobile Computing IG 'Virtual' Meeting: 1/11 Noon EST
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Not going to Midwinter? You can still attend and participate in the LITA Mobile Computing IG Virtual Meeting. All you need to do is register for the web meeting below~! ++ LITA Mobile Computing IG Virtual Meeting ++ Meeting Title: LITA Mobile IG Meeting Date Time: 01/11/2012 at Noon EST. Duration: 1.5 hour(s) Register here (Select 'LITA Mobile IG Meeting') : https://ala.ilinc.com/public Join the meeting on 1/11 : https://ala.ilinc.com/join/zwktzsx Presentations HTML5 Apps, APIs, and the Mobile Platform - Jason Clark, Head of Digital Access and Web Services, Montana State University Libraries With features like geolocation, voice input, and offline data storage, HTML5 is changing the way we can develop for the mobile platform. We'll take a close look at a prototype mobile web app, BookMeUp, a book recommender tool built with some of the newest features of HTML5 coupled with the Amazon Product Advertising API. The session will focus on some of the cutting edge features HTML5 has to offer, but will look to ways you might use HTML5 in your mobile development today. Handheld Tube Tours: Increasing orientation engagement with viral videos and mobile devices - Sean Cordes Instruction Services Coordinator, Western Illinois University Libraries Library orientation tours are helpful, but for many students, if you’ve seen one service point, you’ve seen them all. This presentation describes the practice of incorporating the You Tube viral video format with handheld devices to energize and engage students during library orientation tours. Topics include best practices for creating viral library content, and triumphs and challenges of using handheld devices to support library orientation tours including device availability, connectivity, sequencing content, and pacing the handheld supplemented tour. JISC m-libs - a UK academic library perspective - Jo Alcock, Researcher, Evidence Base at Birmingham City University The JISC Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme is a series of projects in UK supporting initiatives that utilise mobile computing in academic libraries. The presentation will give a brief overview of the institutional projects, and discuss the broader community support project which aims to help support and engage the emerging m-library community by reviewing and synthesising existing research and evidence-based guidance. Using paper prototyping to determine mobile platform requirements - David Brightbill, Manager of Research and Development, College Center for Library Automation, FL At CCLA, We’re currently doing some paper prototyping around potential mobile applications for our discovery tool . We are looking at mobile apps that support the student research process and are in a very early stage of this but have identified a few potential topics that we hope to examine in student focus groups in the new year. WordPress Mobile Piug-ins - Sharon Whitfield, Emerging Technologies Librarian, The College of New Jersey WordPress is primarily known as an open source blogging platform, but it’s actually capable of much more. One of the areas that Wordpress has been improving is with mobile website and app creation. There are presently 126 plug-ins that support mobile website creation including tools that can post, manage, and edit your website from your mobile device. Why guess which plug-ins will work for you? Join us for this presentation and learn the best plug-ins to make your WordPress site, mobile friendly. -- Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS. LITA Mobile Computing IG Chair Digital Access Librarian | 305.348.1471 Florida International University Medical Library http://medlib.fiu.edu | http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile)
Re: [CODE4LIB] site vulnerabilities
By the way, who ever decided it would be fun to reply by checking the gluejar website for XSS vulnerabilities, by all means, tell everyone about it! Eric On Dec 16, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 21:42, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: You'll be happy to know that as bad as things are, they've improved considerably! I showed several ILS vendors how I could insert arbitrary javascripts into their products. Some of them fixed their products in the next update cycle, some took a couple of years. One particularly nasty vulnerability I am unable to talk about, it was so nasty and close to home. But the general problem persists. Perhaps an outing process would be useful. Leaks4Lib? +1 -Mike
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
Salvete! Not sure the bigger is worse dictum holds. Do Code4Libbers suddenly get trolly when you have more of them about? Sure, a larger conference is a different experience, but I wonder if what the organisational toll is for not honouring folks' frustration in being left out in the cold. Are people willing to give it a go once, or will the nerds just take their USB drives and their lappies and go home? ;) Cheers, Brooke
Re: [CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib?
I agree - I'd prefer to keep it on the main list - we'll pick up more participants that way. Tania -- Tania Fersenheim Manager of Library Systems Brandeis University Library and Technology Services 415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110) Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Phone: 781.736.4698 Fax: 781.736.4577 email: tan...@brandeis.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
I would be against making C4L any bigger. There are already bigger conferences one can attend to. Not only because it will lose the feel, but it will become more expensive, limit locations, and harder to host. Being involved with a conference that attracts 500+ people, I can tell yo that it is a lot different then a 200 or 250 person conference to plan. If C4L did get much bigger, I would very likely take my USB drives and [my] lappies and go home. Still, if a larger conference is what everyone else wanted, that would be fine with me but I very well might miss my first C4L in that case. Personally, I'd rather see it smaller. As far as a solution: I think the solution is to host more regional C4L conferences like the New England people have been discussing. Edward
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I would be against making C4L any bigger. There are already bigger conferences one can attend to. Not only because it will lose the feel, but it will become more expensive, limit locations, and harder to host. One thing to keep in mind is that one of the reasons that Code4Lib capacity has always been so low is to make it easier to keep as a single track (which, personally, I feel is pretty important to maintain). While, certainly, we could probably get a venue with a larger single-room seating capacity (Providence could have probably easily seated 700+ if it had been arranged like Portland), we quickly begin to lose any sense of intimacy. 250 people is a gathering, 500+ is a crowd. To boot, we'd basically be pushing the exclusive wall from the registration process to the breakout and lightning talk signups. The lottery idea sounds intriguing, but complicated. It would have to be pretty well thought out in advance, I think. -Ross.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: One of the founding concepts of the conference had been no spectators. That is, everyone has an opportunity to participate and is encouraged to do so. I'm not saying we need to limit the conference to 80 seats or so, but I think we should at least mark the passing of this concept with some regret. This makes a lot of sense -- I didn't realize that, even as someone who's been around the outskirts of the community for several years now. It doesn't, however, particularly support the current size limit. Signed up promptly isn't necessarily a good predictor of participates actively. But I agree. Just making the conference bigger without thought to its purpose -- especially WRT local c4l miniconferences -- risks changing the conference while bringing to more people. Which may kind of miss the point. -n
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
My honest opinion is that we should get closer to this model. I think that even 250 is larger than optimum. For a couple years, I ran DrupalCon, which in five years grew from just over 30 folks to a North American event with about 3,000 and a European event with almost 1,800. Originally, DrupalCon had a lot more in common with Code4Lib. It has one track and focused on making the software better. Now, that aspect of DrupalCon, while collocated, is almost a separate event. The price of admission to that event is a talk proposal, and while perhaps obviously, not everyone speaks, it does set a boundary. It might be tough to find folks to serve as gatekeepers, but maybe we should at least require a why you should let me go to Code4Lib statement or proposal. The gatekeepers could read these and figure out how to get a mix of folks who would make the best conference. The downside would be hurt feelings, and the only way to mitigate that would be to have very clear procedures, even if names and hats were part of it. Cary On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: One of the founding concepts of the conference had been no spectators. That is, everyone has an opportunity to participate and is encouraged to do so. I'm not saying we need to limit the conference to 80 seats or so, but I think we should at least mark the passing of this concept with some regret. The more C4L becomes like every other conference the less it is the kind of unique event it was created to be. But perhaps the group has grown to the point where only regional events can have that flavor, and the annual conference becomes something qualitatively different, which in some ways it already has. It would be good if we went into this with our eyes wide open, and with some forethought, rather than stumbling into it by default. That is, if we can't handle a participatory conference of 300 and above, how can we re-envision participation? Can we offer some virtual venues for participation? I don't have answers at this point, just questions. But it seems clear that we've hit the point where something has to give. Roy On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I would be against making C4L any bigger. There are already bigger conferences one can attend to. Not only because it will lose the feel, but it will become more expensive, limit locations, and harder to host. One thing to keep in mind is that one of the reasons that Code4Lib capacity has always been so low is to make it easier to keep as a single track (which, personally, I feel is pretty important to maintain). While, certainly, we could probably get a venue with a larger single-room seating capacity (Providence could have probably easily seated 700+ if it had been arranged like Portland), we quickly begin to lose any sense of intimacy. 250 people is a gathering, 500+ is a crowd. To boot, we'd basically be pushing the exclusive wall from the registration process to the breakout and lightning talk signups. The lottery idea sounds intriguing, but complicated. It would have to be pretty well thought out in advance, I think. -Ross. -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: My honest opinion is that we should get closer to this model. I think that even 250 is larger than optimum. For a couple years, I ran DrupalCon, which in five years grew from just over 30 folks to a North American event with about 3,000 and a European event with almost 1,800. Originally, DrupalCon had a lot more in common with Code4Lib. It has one track and focused on making the software better. Now, that aspect of DrupalCon, while collocated, is almost a separate event. The price of admission to that event is a talk proposal, and while perhaps obviously, not everyone speaks, it does set a boundary. It might be tough to find folks to serve as gatekeepers, but maybe we should at least require a why you should let me go to Code4Lib statement or proposal. The gatekeepers could read these and figure out how to get a mix of folks who would make the best conference. The downside would be hurt feelings, and the only way to mitigate that would be to have very clear procedures, even if names and hats were part of it. Unfortunately, this would seem (in my mind) to encourage recidivism more than anything. Newcomers are not going to have the benefit of knowing what Code4Lib is about in their statement and what is already viewed as a bit of a cliquish cabal will only likely become more so. -Ross. Cary On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: One of the founding concepts of the conference had been no spectators. That is, everyone has an opportunity to participate and is encouraged to do so. I'm not saying we need to limit the conference to 80 seats or so, but I think we should at least mark the passing of this concept with some regret. The more C4L becomes like every other conference the less it is the kind of unique event it was created to be. But perhaps the group has grown to the point where only regional events can have that flavor, and the annual conference becomes something qualitatively different, which in some ways it already has. It would be good if we went into this with our eyes wide open, and with some forethought, rather than stumbling into it by default. That is, if we can't handle a participatory conference of 300 and above, how can we re-envision participation? Can we offer some virtual venues for participation? I don't have answers at this point, just questions. But it seems clear that we've hit the point where something has to give. Roy On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I would be against making C4L any bigger. There are already bigger conferences one can attend to. Not only because it will lose the feel, but it will become more expensive, limit locations, and harder to host. One thing to keep in mind is that one of the reasons that Code4Lib capacity has always been so low is to make it easier to keep as a single track (which, personally, I feel is pretty important to maintain). While, certainly, we could probably get a venue with a larger single-room seating capacity (Providence could have probably easily seated 700+ if it had been arranged like Portland), we quickly begin to lose any sense of intimacy. 250 people is a gathering, 500+ is a crowd. To boot, we'd basically be pushing the exclusive wall from the registration process to the breakout and lightning talk signups. The lottery idea sounds intriguing, but complicated. It would have to be pretty well thought out in advance, I think. -Ross. -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
David Fiander wrote: so, from Monday to Thursday, each day at noon Eastern, 50 registration slots open. I think this is a fantastic idea -- especially if you shift around the timeslot so that it is beneficial to people in different time zones. E.g. newly Eastern Monday, noon Central Tuesday, etc. I've seen this work very well in other distributed communities. As a side benefit, it reduces server load. Well, until the final day. -Deborah
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
Roy Tennant wrote: I'm not saying we need to limit the conference to 80 seats or so, but I think we should at least mark the passing of this concept with some regret. The more C4L becomes like every other conference the less it is the kind of unique event it was created to be. There is always a trade-off between comfortably small and exclusivity. Regional meetings will find it easier to be comfortably small, but they do tend towards not having the opportunity to meet new people. When a group finds a really successful way of sharing information within a professional community, a larger pool of people will want to participate. This is a good thing, for all it has costs. The tricky part for the old guard to do is how do you manage preserving as much of the original vibe as you can while not putting up a wall that keeps out scary strangers. It's hard work, but not impossible. People have proposed lots of potential solutions in this conversation: say there is no problem and we like it the way it is; lottery for a single conference; different registration times for a single conference; one large and many regional conferences; shrink the current conference even further. All of them have pros and cons. As long as people are willing to talk through them and be willing to change, the conference will probably be the stronger for it. -Deborah -- Deborah Kaplan Digital Resources Archivist Digital Collections and Archives Tufts University
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 14:05, Kaplan, Deborah deborah.kap...@tufts.edu wrote: The tricky part for the old guard to do is how do you manage preserving as much of the original vibe as you can while not putting up a wall that keeps out scary strangers. It's hard work, but not impossible. People have proposed lots of potential solutions in this conversation: say there is no problem and we like it the way it is; lottery for a single conference; different registration times for a single conference; one large and many regional conferences; shrink the current conference even further. All of them have pros and cons. As long as people are willing to talk through them and be willing to change, the conference will probably be the stronger for it. Well said, Deborah. I'd love if we had one or more hosting proposals for #c4l13 that suggest tinkering with, or scrapping, the formula. Otherwise this thread will end the way many of our threads do, by fading into a series of bacon and OCLC jokes, which are then rehashed year after year. Though I've thoroughly enjoyed all six code4lib conferences, I can appreciate folks' arguments for change. I will say that I think we've done a decent job at not putting up a wall that keeps out scary strangers -- it's unscientific, but the opening show of hands the past few years has shown that we continue to attract many dozens of newcomers every year. -Mike
Re: [CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib?
Just a reminder that there is a NE Code4Lib space on the wiki -- http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NEC4L (or http://ne.code4lib.org ) that was used as part of the planning for a 2008 meeting in Boston. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote: Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is there still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addition to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a significant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
[CODE4LIB] Share your best work in an ALA Annual Conference Poster Session
**Please excuse cross postings** Dear colleagues, As another year comes to a close, and you reflect on all you accomplished over the past twelve months, the ALA Poster Session Committee hopes that you will consider sharing your best work and ideas with the library community at the ALA Annual Conference. Proposals for poster sessions to be presented at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim are now being accepted. An application form is available on the poster session website, at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/howto.aspx, and the deadline for submission is January 6. The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a description of an innovative library program; an analysis of a solution to a problem; a report of a research study; or any other presentation that would benefit the larger library community. Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards that are usually 4 x 8 feet. During their assigned 1½ hour time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Titles/abstracts from previous years, and pictures of sample posters, are available at the poster session website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala. The deadline for submitting an application is January 6, 2012. Applicants will be notified by Feb. 29, 2012, whether their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference, prior to the ALA Early Bird Registration deadline. The 2012 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held June 23 and 24, 2012 (the Saturday and Sunday of the conference) at the Anaheim Convention Center. Questions about poster session presentations and submissions may be directed to: Luke Vilelle, chair of the ALA poster session committee, lvile...@hollins.edumailto:lvile...@hollins.edu Or Candace Benefiel, chair of the ALA poster session review panel, cbene...@lib-gw.tamu.edumailto:cbene...@lib-gw.tamu.edu Email: ala.post...@gmail.commailto:ala.post...@gmail.com Website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/ Luke Vilelle Public Services Librarian Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University 540-362-6592 lvile...@hollins.edumailto:lvile...@hollins.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
I don't know that folks would need to what Code4Lib is about in the sense that they know what Code4Lib has been about or used to be about. They very well might dream up an about that is more about us than we have ever been. BTW, some of my best friends and role models are scary strangers. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: My honest opinion is that we should get closer to this model. I think that even 250 is larger than optimum. For a couple years, I ran DrupalCon, which in five years grew from just over 30 folks to a North American event with about 3,000 and a European event with almost 1,800. Originally, DrupalCon had a lot more in common with Code4Lib. It has one track and focused on making the software better. Now, that aspect of DrupalCon, while collocated, is almost a separate event. The price of admission to that event is a talk proposal, and while perhaps obviously, not everyone speaks, it does set a boundary. It might be tough to find folks to serve as gatekeepers, but maybe we should at least require a why you should let me go to Code4Lib statement or proposal. The gatekeepers could read these and figure out how to get a mix of folks who would make the best conference. The downside would be hurt feelings, and the only way to mitigate that would be to have very clear procedures, even if names and hats were part of it. Unfortunately, this would seem (in my mind) to encourage recidivism more than anything. Newcomers are not going to have the benefit of knowing what Code4Lib is about in their statement and what is already viewed as a bit of a cliquish cabal will only likely become more so. -Ross. Cary On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: One of the founding concepts of the conference had been no spectators. That is, everyone has an opportunity to participate and is encouraged to do so. I'm not saying we need to limit the conference to 80 seats or so, but I think we should at least mark the passing of this concept with some regret. The more C4L becomes like every other conference the less it is the kind of unique event it was created to be. But perhaps the group has grown to the point where only regional events can have that flavor, and the annual conference becomes something qualitatively different, which in some ways it already has. It would be good if we went into this with our eyes wide open, and with some forethought, rather than stumbling into it by default. That is, if we can't handle a participatory conference of 300 and above, how can we re-envision participation? Can we offer some virtual venues for participation? I don't have answers at this point, just questions. But it seems clear that we've hit the point where something has to give. Roy On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I would be against making C4L any bigger. There are already bigger conferences one can attend to. Not only because it will lose the feel, but it will become more expensive, limit locations, and harder to host. One thing to keep in mind is that one of the reasons that Code4Lib capacity has always been so low is to make it easier to keep as a single track (which, personally, I feel is pretty important to maintain). While, certainly, we could probably get a venue with a larger single-room seating capacity (Providence could have probably easily seated 700+ if it had been arranged like Portland), we quickly begin to lose any sense of intimacy. 250 people is a gathering, 500+ is a crowd. To boot, we'd basically be pushing the exclusive wall from the registration process to the breakout and lightning talk signups. The lottery idea sounds intriguing, but complicated. It would have to be pretty well thought out in advance, I think. -Ross. -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
