Re: [CODE4LIB] Support for Small Libraries
Hi Mark, As Evan said, definitely check out consortia; this is a large part of what they do. Beyond the state and local level there are also larger organizations like Lyrasis (http://www.lyrasis.org) that you may be able to participate in. Here is a large list from a consortium of library consortia: http://icolc.net/consortia Jeff Dycus Library Specialist, Electronic Resources University of Kentucky -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Boyd, Evan Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 2:03 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Support for Small Libraries Hi Mark, Depending on the state the college is based in, the State Library or a statewide consortia for academic libraries may offer select databases as part of membership or on a partial cost recovery basis. For instance, here in Illinois, the State Library pays for what used to be called a FirstSearch subscription from OCLC, and CARLI, Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Illinois, provides all of its paying* governing members with a subscription to Academic Search Complete and some other EBSCO products as well as the occasional surprise purchase based on how their financial picture is for the year (I believe this is all also subsidized by state appropriations to CARLI). Normally, this kind of organizational access to membership or state services requires some sort of certification. The State of Illinois has a few certification questions, such as having a regularly-staffed library that is organized in some manner, and CARLI has a few of its own requirements (certification to offer degrees by the Illinois Board of Higher Education is central, plus state certification). Other states just negotiate to provide all residents of their state access to certain databases and sometimes those overlap with the academic library's needs. They'll have to dig around and possibly contact a local consortia or librarian to see if these kinds of options are available to the school. Best of luck, Evan Evan Boyd Chicago Theological Seminary *As a school with an FTE of 300, we pay the minimum annually, which is about $2600. They say that the fully-subsidized products we get out of our membership would cost $48,000+ if we had to pay for them on our own. Plus all the other benefits of membership in a statewide library consortia (prof. dev., networking, etc.). -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Pernotto Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 6:29 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Support for Small Libraries Greetings! I wanted to see if there were any established programs, or any advice at all, really, about assistance for small college libraries. Specifically, some kind of affiliate program for small colleges, where the small college could gain access to electronic resources of the larger institution - either through a pay-per-user method, pay by quarter/semester, or a flat fee. The small college in question has less than 50 students, but only offers graduate degrees. Any assistance on or off-list would be greatly appreciated! Mark
Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL
Just curious, why can't you do that in your lab? Those operating systems are the right price, that's for sure Jeff Dycus Library Specialist, Electronic Resources University of Kentucky William T. Young Library 500 S. Limestone Lexington, KY 40506-0456 (859) 218-0678 jeff.dy...@uky.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:19 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL Smart, too bad we can't do that in our learning lab! Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes From: John Palmermailto:writing2...@gmail.com Sent: 3/2/2014 12:14 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL We are migrating our oldest machines (Pentium, 64-128Mb, 30gb hdd) to TinyLinux. Our Pentium and Celeron machines with 256 Mb, 100gb machines are going to Xubuntu. Anything below 4GB RAM is going to Ubuntu 12.04 4GB+ goes to Windows 7. On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Justin Coyne jus...@curationexperts.com wrote: They won't be a security risk on April 8th, but the first time that MS publishes security patches after that date for newer version, security researchers will examine the patches. Doing so will give them an idea about how to exploit the problem the patch was for. They will then try to run the exploit on XP and see if it is vulnerable. Eventually they will find an exploit that works against XP. Even if you have a AV, people can exploit your machine without using a virus. Is that a risk you want to accept? -Justin On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jimm Wetherbee j...@wingate.edujavascript:; wrote: Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those machines are instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th. We will not be doing anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are too old to run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them. --jimm On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comjavascript:; wrote: Hi, I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP End-of-Life (if anything at all :( Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows 8 (we ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but that's another story), and when April 7th comes around: throw anything we can't use away (sigh). Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes --
Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool for managing subscription content metadata
Hi Hugh- You may want to check out CORAL http://erm.library.nd.edu/ It is an open source MySQL/PHP system that seems like it would do most of what you want it to do, and could probably be modified to do it all. Jeff Dycus Library Specialist, Electronic Resources University of Kentucky William T. Young Library 500 S. Limestone Lexington, KY 40506-0456 (859) 218-0678 jeff.dy...@uky.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnes, Hugh Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Tool for managing subscription content metadata Hi An exercise we've just been through (don't ask!) has revealed a dire need to track information about subscription service vendors (e.g. serials, databases, e-book publishers) in a better way than Office documents. I am looking for a tool, ideally one to rule them all. Throwing it out here. The sort of information I am wanting to manage and give everyone an easy reference to is: * name * previous and variant names (they do like to re-brand) * login details (I can probably live with this being in a separate tool) * contact names and numbers * remote host URLs and URL patterns * ways we interact with them (e.g. do we change registered IP addresses by online form or by email notification?) * license information, maybe copies of them * how we authenticate our users * conditions of access (e.g. on/off campus, students/staff/alumni/walk-ins) * a simple activity log or just notes field Excluded or at least hidden from ordinary users: * invoicing and financial information * passwords (seems risky, happy to use a password safe for this) Essentially it's a catalogue/inventory of subscriptions we have. In some respects it's a lightweight CRM. Bonus points, I think, for having citable entries that we can share in emails (URLs probably, so a web interface). It would be brilliant if salient information was structured enough to export summaries or, say, generate EZProxy configuration files. I have been thinking along the lines of Mediawiki, maybe with a good template. From experience though, I worry about the willingness of new users to edit wiki content, especially in templates with lots of curly braces. I don't know if there is an actively maintained plug-in to turn a template into a non-threatening online form. Evan Prodromou's extension seems long abandoned [1]. Solving that issue, I think Mediawiki would be a good fit. So what do folks in this list use for the above functionality and how does it work? Or what _would_ you use? All insight appreciated. Cheers [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Form Hugh Barnes Digital Access Coordinator Library, Teaching and Learning Lincoln University Christchurch New Zealand p +64 3 423 0357 P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
