Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Salazar, Christina]

Am I misunderstanding Roy and/or Francis's intention though that given 
essentially a full year to plan C4L 2017, that either they or entities that 
they have strong connections too are willing to be the fiscal agent for 2017? 
That's what I thought they were implying. Both indicated that they could pull 
of a big conference for 2017.

So perhaps we can discuss the matter of finding a "permanent" fiscal agent face 
to face at conference in 2017

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward 
M. Corrado
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 11:30 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

Generally speaking, what the fiduciary agent normally would get rewarded in 
money. Arrangements can vary of course, but basically they would get a portion 
of the income of the event.

Edward

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Shaun D. Ellis <sha...@princeton.edu>
wrote:

> I agree that securing a permanent fiscal agent is the only way to 
> sustain the annual conference at the current level, but I think there 
> are ways to make a less formal commitment.  What I don’t understand is 
> what any fiduciary agent gets out of such a deal.  There is 
> significant risk and overhead for anyone to take this on.  What is the reward?
>
> Overhead
> It’s not just about fronting money and signing contracts.  There is 
> people power involved too.  For 2016, I reviewed every contract and 
> agreement that came through because my hide was on the line if we 
> screwed up.  It’s not hard to miss something in the fine print, or to 
> find estimates and invoices that don’t add up.  Furthermore, there 
> were people in our finance department who had to do extra work to set 
> up the account, cut checks, double-check contracts, communicate with vendors, 
> etc.
>
> Risk
> While we have not yet gone "into the red" on an annual Code4Lib 
> conference (knock on wood), it is certainly possible unless there is a 
> degree of vigilance on the part of the organizers.  Because you have 
> different organizers each year there can be large fluctuations when it 
> comes to fundraising/sponsorship effort and experience.  The same goes 
> for researching, negotiating, and comparing vendor and venue prices.  
> We do pass on documentation as best we can, but the process is rarely 
> cookie cutter.
>
> Reward
> Is the reward simply “thanks” and a pat on the back?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (For 
> what it’s worth, I could see a high-visibility sponsor spot given to 
> this org since it's a form of in-kind donated resources.)
>
> Even if Code4Lib were to form a non-profit to strictly handle the 
> annual conf, someone’s hide needs to be on the line to make sure 
> there’s proper oversight of funds, budgets are properly formed and 
> adhered to, contracts are not putting the org at risk, and so on.  To 
> me, that sounds like a dedicated employee of the non-profit.
>
> -Shaun
>
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Rogan Hamby <rha...@esilibrary.com rha...@esilibrary.com>> wrote:
>
> There are a variety of options but I think it's fairly safe to say 
> that it would require some additional organization.  If another body 
> took Code4Lib under it's umbrella they would want organizational 
> contacts and some arrangements in place with whatever served as the 
> governance of Code4Lib (and I use the term governance here very 
> loosely).  And at the other end of the spectrum if Code4Lib did 
> something like become a non-profit there are a number of IRS 
> requirements it would have to observe in terms of a board, bylaws, etc
>
> Note, I'm sure there are other options, those are just the two that 
> occur to me off the top of my head from opposing ends of the "we have 
> to be a formal entity spectrum."
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Akerman, Laura <lib...@emory.edu lib...@emory.edu>> wrote:
>
> Would "finding a permanent fiduciary agent" call for some degree of 
> organizational formalization?  Wouldn't somebody or bodies have to 
> "sign for" Code4Lib on this agreement with this agent, and wouldn't 
> their role therefore have to be, to some degree, permanent?
>
> Sorry, but just wondering...
>
> Laura
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Salazar, Christina
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 5:26 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?
>
> Yes I think it's time to do so and I also felt that there was 
> significant su

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Salazar, Christina]

But not only that, if we have a permanent (insofar as ANYTHING is permanent) 
fiduciary agent, we'll have more flexibility in terms of WHO can volunteer to 
"host" in the future - it wouldn't just be limited to those institutions who 
are willing to take on $100k + in liability.

For example, I suppose OCLC IS willing, but my lil' institution is NOT, though 
we'd be glad to host (but apparently C4L folks aren't really into strawberries 
and former mental hospitals).


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian 
Rogers
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 2:38 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

Never hurts to have a working group for 2018 and beyond.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Salazar, Christina]

Yes I think it's time to do so and I also felt that there was significant 
support for the idea.

I think perhaps the title "formalizing Code4Lib" might be a bit misleading 
though... We might want to frame the idea as "finding a permanent fiduciary 
agent" or something along those lines. This way, we don't have to think about 
major changes all at once.

I imagine it would help those who plan for Code4Lib 2017 as well, assuming that 
there will be a physical one.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian 
Rogers
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 2:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

Since the Chattanooga Planning Committee inadvertently prompted this newest 
round of conversations around some degree of formalization, would it be useful 
if we threw together a follow-up survey for the community, to test the waters 
around support (or lack there of) for the notion of formalizing, to the extent 
that it allows for a stable place to house the annual conference funds? And if 
it seems like there is overwhelming support for the idea, a group of volunteers 
can band together at that point to pursue options to present back to the 
community?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Salazar, Christina]

I want to boost Terry's thread as well.

Having gone to C4L in 2007 in Athens, when it was I think 150 people (ha! Let's 
be honest: 145 men and 5 women) and then again in 2015 in Portland and 2014 in 
Raleigh, the Code 4 Lib that once was is no more. Long live Code4Lib.

If we continue to want a large conference we need a better fiduciary agent. 
Take the fact that so few folks are willing to put bids to host as a sign that 
something different is happening here from what used to be 10 plus years ago. 
(Wait, damn! Am I THAT old???)

I'm not saying that all the changes that have happened over time have been bad 
(see my observation of gender balance above) but I think the large annual 
conference specifically needs to be thought through.

How do we approach thinking it through? I have no idea but as others have said, 
the conversation is long overdue. (I wonder when Ruth says "Clearly the 
community wants to go" WHAT "the community" wants to go TO? Would we even be 
able to come to an agreement on that?)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198





-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Terry 
Reese
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:37 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

>> Fiscal agents are ultimately responsible for the contracts they are 
>> going to be signing. In the case of this conference, that is easily well 
>> over $200K.

I think that this is the first pertinent question for the community to decide.  
The conference wasn't always this big, this extravagant, or this expensive.  
And the costs of running a conference that hosts say 150-200 people, is order 
of magnitude higher than our current size of 450-500.  It brings with it 
tradeoffs, and one of them has been the difficulty and exceptional risk 
organizations take on to run this event.  If as a community, there is an 
ongoing desire to have an annual mega conference, then it probably is 
definitely time to start looking for an organization that can provide the type 
of continuity needed to make the event easier to run and financially easier to 
manage.  And if we can't do that as a community, it's probably time to rethink 
our annual conference and scope it into an event that's more sustainable and 
attractive to a volunteer run community.

--tr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Salazar, Christina]

In an effort to um... help this conversation, I think it's useful to think 
about the fiduciary agent issue as being separate from formalizing Code4Lib as 
a whole.

Please, please, please don't let our reluctance to be organized kill the idea 
that we're proposing of reintroducing some sort of something that would allow 
Code4Lib to assume our own financial liability.

At this stage of the game we're literally asking for random organizations to be 
willing to cover us for hundreds of thousands of dollars of liability with 
nothing to secure against and I’m sorry, but that's insane, not just inhumane.


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Coral 
Sheldon-Hess
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:27 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Eric Lease Morgan  wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Mike Giarlo  wrote:
>
> >
> > Can you say more about what you expect "the emotional and 
> > bureaucratic
> expense" to be?
>
> Bureaucratic and emotional expenses include yet more committees and 
> politics. Things will happen increasingly slowly. Our community will 
> be less nimble and somewhat governed by outside forces. We will end up 
> with presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries, etc. Increasingly there 
> will be “inside” and “outside”. The inside will make decisions and the 
> outside won’t understand and feel left out. That is what happens when 
> formalization take place.
>

So, to be clear: you think this isn't already happening? You think* as it 
stands, nobody is baffled by the operations of Code4Lib, and nobody feels like 
outsiders, not knowing how decisions are made?*

*Would everyone else agree with that statement? *Am I the only one here who has 
felt like a baffled outsider to Code4Lib--who feels that way pretty regularly, 
in fact?

If I'm alone in that, maybe I'll change my mind on the value of structure to 
[potentially!] make things clearer to newcomers.


> The regional conferences are good things. I call them franchises. The 
> annual meeting does not have to be a big deal, and the smaller it is, 
> the less financial risk there will be. Somebody will always come 
> forward. It will just happen.
>

 I was the person who coalesced the Lessons Learned wiki pages from 2013-15 
into a single page in the leadup to the 2016 conference. So I can tell you, 
with great confidence, that the annual meeting DOES have to be a big deal.
It is impossible for it not to be, with so many people showing up every year, 
all of them with different needs that we have decided, as a community, that we 
will do our best to meet. Just *feeding* that many people for one day, without 
leaving anyone out (or, worse, accidentally poisoning someone), is a HUGE 
undertaking. "Just" managing the hotel block and fighting with the hotel over 
A/V and other fees and trying to prevent the host organization from going broke 
is a HUGE job.

I've served as "just" the technology chair for a 400 person conference that did 
*not* do live video streams with captioning. It was a TREMENDOUS job.
It took SO much work, even with notes from the previous tech chair and with a 
really involved conference chair who went to every meeting I went to.
(And I got to be part of negotiations with the hotel, so I have some 
understanding of how big a job that last line from the previous paragraph
is.)

And people who have served as our chairs are on here, *telling us*: It's a 
really big job. It *already is a big deal*.

- Coral
(not Carol :))

Re: [CODE4LIB] Update Regarding C4L17 in Chattanooga

[Salazar, Christina]

It's probably too late for a 2017 but I really do think it's time to reopen the 
question of formalizing Code4Lib IF ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF BEING THE 
FIDUCIARY AGENT for the annual conference.

Local (and national) politics aside, it's very difficult to stand in front of 
your boss (or worse, a total stranger) and ask them to be willing to cover 
financial liability for an unaffiliated, purely voluntary organization. In 
addition, we're no longer talking about a couple thousand dollars financial 
liability, we are now getting into a HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS liability.

I question the sustainability of this present system for the long term.

PS (I know, everyone says no no no, we don't want to be organized, but my 
feeling is that we need a better way to manage the funding part of the 
conference... Or choose to go local only.)


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian 
Rogers
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 8:27 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Update Regarding C4L17 in Chattanooga

Greetings from the Chattanooga C4L17 Planning Committee:

This is a follow-up to Andrea Schurr’s May 18th email (https://goo.gl/bs2au7) 
regarding the survey around potential impact on attendance of the 2017 Code4Lib 
conference, given the host of discriminatory/concerning legislation in 
Tennessee.

Please see the summary of results below. We thank the individuals who took the 
time to respond and provide thoughtful answers as to the issues at hand, as 
well as suggest possible solutions. We met as a group last Tuesday to decide 
how to proceed. As many pointed out, they were not easy questions, and so 
predictably, there were no easy answers.

We’ve determined that given this community’s commitment to providing a safe and 
accommodating environment for all attendees, it is morally and fiscally 
irresponsible to continue the effort of hosting the annual conference in 
Chattanooga. This decision was not an easy one, and there were hours of 
discussion as to the pros and cons of proceeding, informed by your responses to 
the survey, as well as our individual opinions. 

This decision is additionally informed by the inability to secure a fiscal host 
for the conference. Even prior to legislative concerns, multiple institutions 
in the southeast took a pass, given the size of attendance and increased risk 
of liability. The two viable leads we pursued finally confirmed as a “no” last 
week. Those decisions were in part or wholly informed by the financial risk 
assumed by a host having to contend with an unpredictable timeline of withdrawn 
support via geographical boycott.

Which leaves us with the voluminous question of, “Now what?” Threading together 
survey and committee responses, we put forth the following to the Code4Lib 
community:

1. There is a host site that has contacted the Chattanooga Planning Committee 
and informed us they are actively seeking a fiscal host and should shortly know 
the results of that endeavor. Given that no other city submitted a proposal, 
Chattanooga will pass along documentation and responsibility for next year’s 
conference if they are successful.
2. If this alternative site is unable to procure a fiscal host, then we suggest 
shifting the 2017 conference from in-person to virtual. We already have a 
potential fiscal host for this option, but we would open the implementation of 
such to the community. All of us agree that virtual cannot replace the feel and 
value of an in-person conference. However, given the mounting size of 
participation and the absence of a stable, consistent funding base, coupled 
with a socially conscious community, this year is a hard sell across many of 
the states.
3. For those interested and willing, simultaneously host in-person regional 
conferences alongside the main virtual conference. We realize, of course, that 
this leaves a vast majority of the southeast in a predicament, unless another 
region wishes to adopt us.

Know that this is not our preferred outcome, and that everyone on the planning 
committee wishes we could make this conference happen in Chattanooga. It is a 
grand little city with unexpected delights. We invite any and all questions, 
concerns, responses and conversation. Here, Slack, IRC, Twitter, Friendster, 
Myspace, and wherever else people seem to be lurking these days.

And with that, here is a summary of the survey results. Out of respect to those 
who answered under condition of anonymity, we are only sharing the raw numbers 
and not the freeform responses.

Q1: Given the current state of legislation in Tennessee, would you boycott 
Code4Lib 2017 in Chattanooga? 124 Responses:

22.58% Yes, I would boycott.
77.42% No, I would not boycott.

Q2: If Tennessee was considering a North Carolina type bathroom bill, would you 
boycott Code4Lib 

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

[Salazar, Christina]

I'm curious because I wanted to do a better job with our db categorization, 
other than program/majors/departments, HOW did you(s) come up with your 
categories? Any usability/card sorting/etc


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy 
C. Shellhase
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 10:07 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

Hi,
Subjects we're using are  http://library.humboldt.edu/search/articles.html
Based pretty much on our programs/depts.

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause 
and reflect." *-- **Mark Twain*

Jeremy C. Shellhase
Systems Librarian
Library room 206
Humboldt State University Library
One Harpst Street
Arcata, California 95521
707-826-3144 (voice)
707-826-3441 (fax)
jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Ian Chan  wrote:

> Hi,
> The subjects we use are listed on
> https://biblio.csusm.edu/research_portal/databases.
>
> Best,
>
> Ian Chan
> Systems Coordinator
> University Library
> California State University San Marcos ic...@csusm.edu | 760-750-4385 
> | biblio.csusm.edu | Skype: ian.t.chan
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Mitchell B. Roe
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:38 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects
>
> On 2016/03/15 14:26, Burrell, Matthew wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to 
> > one
> we are using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a 
> comparative model. We would like to limit the number of subjects and 
> searching for examples. Thanks in advance! I appreciate it.
> > Matt
> >
> > Matt Burrell
> > Web Developer
> > The Florida State University Libraries Tallahassee, Florida
> > (850) 814-9634
> > Or Schedule an Appointment
> >
>
> Here's Oakland University Libraries':
> https://research.library.oakland.edu/sp/subjects/databases.php
>
> --
> Mitchell B. Roe
> Medical Library Technology Specialist
>
> Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
> 130 Kresge Library
> 2200 N Squirrel Rd
> Rochester, MI 48309
>
> mb...@oakland.edu
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

[Salazar, Christina]

Julie asked a specific question in regards to personal and anonymous opinions. 
She did not ask for a blanket statement about this list to go out TO the list. 
(This you can read within her message.)

This is one way to shut someone who happens to have a differing opinion down. 
("Gosh, everyone else thinks that things are peachy keen, I really MUST be 
stupid.")

Don't let's have a conversation that could easily turn into self-congratulation 
in this public space unless the congratulation is legitimately warranted.

I for one have drafted and then deleted several messages to this list out of a 
motivation to protect myself.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
McCanna, Terran
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 9:31 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional 
communication

I don't see it on this forum, but I have certainly seen it on other 
professional forums. 


Terran McCanna 
PINES Program Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Suite 150 
Atlanta, GA 30345 
404-235-7138 
tmcca...@georgialibraries.org 

- Original Message -
From: "Cary Gordon" 
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:22:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional 
communication

I might have rose colored glasses, but I don’t see much of that in this forum. 
I can’t remember the last flame war. Most folks just answer the questions as 
best they can.

I think that you should present your sanitized results here. Perhaps we are 
missing something.

Cary

> On Mar 18, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Swierczek, Julie  
> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Following earlier discussions about the fear of looking stupid in public, 
> I've decided my unofficial research project for the year is to look into ways 
> that communication (especially on professional listservs) might provide 
> grounds for that fear.  I think this might be something especially relevant 
> in tech circles.
> 
> I would like to ask you if you have any examples of listserv communication 
> where you felt that one person was trying to belittle another person, 
> particularly about their knowledge of a given subject in their field.  Best 
> of all would be if you could point me to the conversation in a public 
> listserv archive so that I could read more of the thread.  However, I am also 
> perfectly happy with you quoting the message or even just telling me about 
> it.   I would also appreciate any explanation you could provide about why you 
> see it as a case of someone belittling someone else.  (I ask that for two 
> reasons: 1) it may not be obvious to me because I am not part of that group 
> and I don't know how things normally work in it, such as ongoing flame wars, 
> etc., and 2) I'd also be interested in gathering people's feedback and 
> interpretations of the bad behavior they have seen.)
> 
> An example would be someone saying, "You should know x, y, and z" in response 
> to someone who identifies as a newbie and has a very basic question.  The 
> newbie is asking for help and someone else essentially calls them stupid for 
> not knowing about the topic.
> 
> I promise to keep all posts confidential, as well as your communications to 
> me about them.  (If I publicized any of that information, I would myself be 
> publicly shaming people for being stupid, and that is the opposite of what I 
> am trying to accomplish here.)  I intend to anonymize feedback, removing 
> information about people, topics, the particular listserv, etc.
> 
> To avoid spamming the list with this project, please send your response to 
> juliecswierc...@gmail.com.  Also, if you 
> are interested in the project, please communicate with me through that email 
> address, since I feel this is off-topic for the list.
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> Julie
> 
> --
> 
> Julie C. Swierczek
> Digital Asset Manager and Archivist
> 
> Harvard Art Museums
> 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
> www.harvardartmuseums.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] next code4lib SoCal meetup 3/22

[Salazar, Christina]

Please note the March 22nd SoCal MeetUp will be rescheduled for some time in 
April. Josh, Gary or myself will be in touch with further details as we er... 
figure them out.

While I've cancelled the meeting in MeetUp, I have not yet rescheduled until we 
have confirmed a date so please stay tuned to update your RSVP.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Gomez [mailto:jgo...@getty.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 9:53 AM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Salazar, Christina; Gary Thompson
Subject: next code4lib SoCal meetup 3/22

Thanks again to the folks at CalTech for hosting the last quarterly meetup of 
Code4lib-SoCal in December.  For our next meetup we will invade the Central 
Coast again. Christina Salazar at Cal State Channel Islands has offered to play 
host. Unfortunately, the campus is not actually on an island. However, somewhat 
more interestingly, it was built from a re-purposed sanatorium, formerly known 
as "the Man Cave", tucked away in the hills of Camarillo [1].

If you're interested in giving a talk about a project or new technology that 
you are working with (or anything else you think other code4libbers would be 
interested in), please send a message to me or Christina.

Details in brief:
Place: CalState Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Date: March 22nd, 2016
Time: 10am-3pmish

Please RSVP on the meetup page: 
http://www.meetup.com/Code4lib-SoCal/events/227916277/

We hope to see you there.

Josh
 
 Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer
 Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA
 (310) 440-7410
  
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarillo_State_Mental_Hospital

Re: [CODE4LIB] SSL certificates and proxy servers

[Salazar, Christina]

Well, you told me ;-) Or let me say, I get it and I’m glad we had this talk. 
Thx.
Christina


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Gorman, 
Jon
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] SSL certificates and proxy servers

> I want to make a plea too, not to fragment Code4Lib, but rather to 
> consolidate EZProxy knowledge to post these queries to the EZProxy list.
> 
> For good, bad or indifferent, OCLC is putting together an EZProxy 
> community wiki and for those EZProxy folks who come after you, who are 
> not C4Lers, I ask that whatever info go there.

If we're going to go that far, why not also put it in the existing system? 
http://www.oclc.org/community/ezproxy.en.html? 

Honestly, I'm expecting much from the wiki. I tried using the community 
resource as it is now in the past and have had errors, things disappearing, 
etc.  I think I may have put something up in the community site, but honestly, 
I'm probably never going to log in again if I don't have to. A lot of it is 
simply poor management and needless restrictions, which will be the same no 
matter what software they use.

This particular question is definitely a FAQ and someday I'll get around to 
trying to write up something and I'll put it up ..somewhere. Maybe even just up 
in github and send it to the link.

I don't see the harm in repeating info here.  I'm guessing folks who find this 
new information aren't already on ezproxy and won't be on there. They're not 
likely to find it either, the ezproxy-l list doesn't seem very well exposed to 
searching.



> (@Jon, kind of looking at you because I worry that EZProxy expertise 
> such as yours will get lost. I know it seems impossible, but one day 
> we may all go on to other work. I for one am looking forward to an 
> exciting second career as a Starbucks barrista; I hear my Master's 
> degree will serve me well there ;-)

I'm guessing no matter where or how I put the information, people will still 
ask the questions :).  My learned knowledge about ezproxy is combined a bit 
from the mailing list, a large part in just reading the OCLC documentation, and 
a little from ./ezproxy --help or whatever it is :).

I'll try to dump some of the info or create an FAQ one of these days, but it 
probably won't be today.

Or, of course, someone else could visit 
http://search.gmane.org/?query=wildcard=gmane.education.ezproxy and type 
in the search box wildcard and summarize the various emails on the topic ;).


Jon Gorman
Library IT
University of Illinois
217 244-4688

Re: [CODE4LIB] SSL certificates and proxy servers

[Salazar, Christina]

I want to make a plea too, not to fragment Code4Lib, but rather to consolidate 
EZProxy knowledge to post these queries to the EZProxy list.

For good, bad or indifferent, OCLC is putting together an EZProxy community 
wiki and for those EZProxy folks who come after you, who are not C4Lers, I ask 
that whatever info go there.

(@Jon, kind of looking at you because I worry that EZProxy expertise such as 
yours will get lost. I know it seems impossible, but one day we may all go on 
to other work. I for one am looking forward to an exciting second career as a 
Starbucks barrista; I hear my Master's degree will serve me well there ;-)


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason 
Bengtson
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:24 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] SSL certificates and proxy servers

Yeah, in the latest EZProxy version you can use a multi-domain cert with the 
wildcard in the SAN. Be sure when you request your cert with the EZProxy CSR 
you get a multi-domain cert, otherwise it won't matter what you've selected for 
the SAN.

Best regards,
*Jason Bengtson*
www.jasonbengtson.com

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Gorman, Jon  wrote:

> > Hi Code4Lib,
> > We're looking into applying an SSL certificate to an EZproxy server 
> > and
> aren't
> > sure exactly how a wildcard cert gets handled in that context.
> > Anyone have experience with this?
>
> Yup.
>
> > The fuzzy part is that we're not clear how wildcard certificates 
> > that
> handle
> > subdomain matching (e.g., *.example.org) translate into wild-looking
> proxied
> > domains (like search.whatever.com.proxy.example.org).
>
> This depends a lot on the version number of EzProxy.
>
> The older versions of EzProxy look for a couple of things:
>
> * proxy-by-hostname needs to be on (sounds like you have that)
> * The wildcard MUST be in the CN, not a SAN. You'll likely want to use 
> your login domain in the SN, depending on levels.
>
> Given those two things, when ezproxy sees that it has a wildcard in 
> the CN, it'll change from using periods to hypens.
>
> I think, although I can't remember for sure, at some point in 6.x this 
> was fixed so a wildcard in a CN or SAN will work. I'd definitely 
> verify that through testing though.
>
> A license of ezproxy should let you run a separate test instance on 
> another machine. You can verify this by just creating a self-signed 
> wildcard cert. You'll get a warning, but you should also see the 
> ezproxy behavior change. I find dnsmasq can be helpful as well.
>
> So you'll want to get a wildcard cert for the one level of subdomain.
> While you're at it, make sure it's a 2048 bit key and SHA-2. I've been 
> seeing a lot of people running into problems with old 3 year certs 
> that they finally gotten around to putting into place.
>
>
> > This might be more of an EZproxy config question and more 
> > appropriate to
> that
> > list. There's also documentation
> > <
> https://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/cfg/ssl.en
> .ht
> > ml>
> > out there. But if anyone can comment on the process, whether the 
> > documentation was helpful to you, what sort of wildcard cert you got 
> > to address this problem, etc., we'd be interested to hear from you.
>
> It's asked frequently enough that if I wasn't quite so lazy, I'd make 
> it into the top FAQ question. The documentation was ok, but it's 
> really not all that complicated.
>
>
>
> Jon Gorman
> Library IT
> University of Illinois
> 217 244-4688
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

[Salazar, Christina]

I'm going to ask the perennial question: will these be on sale separate from 
conference attendance?

(Nice job, Shaun Ellis.)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Christina Harlow
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:03 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

Hi folks-

Thank you to everyone who submitted a Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt logo, as well as 
those of you who took the time to vote on those submissions.

The winning t-shirt logo for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia is the “Code for 
Libraries” design by Shaun Ellis. See the winning submission here: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B74oOQcTdnHjalpmQjhxR2FuU3c/view?usp=sharing.

This means the Code4Lib 2016 t-shirts will be red, with low-contrast ink chosen 
by Shaun to match the winning submission as closely as possible. The vendor 
logos on the back will be the same ink color.

Again, thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s call for t-shirt 
designs.

Thanks,
Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt Committee

Re: [CODE4LIB] Greater Boston LibTech'rs meet-up group

[Salazar, Christina]

Hey Whitni

Just wondering how LibTech is different from Code4Lib?

(I'm not at all in the Boston area, but am always interested in what's 
happening in the library technology world and always looking for opportunities.)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Whitni 
Watkins
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:11 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Greater Boston LibTech'rs meet-up group

A bunch of us have expressed interest in starting a meet-up group for 
Mass/Greater Boston LibTech'rs so that's what we did.

What is the Boston LibTech'rs? This is a group for anyone interested in 
libraries wanting to get together with other library folk to talk shop or not. 
This is not exclusive to any one librar* type, if you're interested (or in) 
libraries and technology join us! Meet-ups will be monthly and will be around 
the greater Boston area including but not limited to Somerville, Medford, and 
Cambridge. The goal of this group is to bring together like minded people in an 
informal way to develop connections, pull together resources of knowledge, make 
friendships and to encourage each other. 

If you are: 
-in Mass/Greater Boston area (meet-ups will be in the Greater Boston area) 
-interested (or in) Libraries and technology -interested in a monthly meet-up

Join us! The *official* Meet-up group is here: 
http://www.meetup.com/Boston-LibTech-Meetup/ 

If you have questions/concerns/insight let me know.  

-Whitni (@_whitni in the Twitters) 

Re: [CODE4LIB] next code4lib SoCal meetup 3/22

[Salazar, Christina]

For the sake of those who may make attendance decisions based on proximity: 
Camarillo is technically northern Southern California - midway between Santa 
Barbara and Los Angeles. I know this because at one time I lived here. Now I 
just work here (insert mental hospital joke here).

If you're in any LA parts north and west of the San Fernando Valley, hit me up 
and we can carpool.

Christina Salazar (Valley Girl by birth, Librarian by choice, like fer sher)
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Joshua Gomez [mailto:jgo...@getty.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 9:53 AM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Salazar, Christina; Gary Thompson
Subject: next code4lib SoCal meetup 3/22

Thanks again to the folks at CalTech for hosting the last quarterly meetup of 
Code4lib-SoCal in December.  For our next meetup we will invade the Central 
Coast again. Christina Salazar at Cal State Channel Islands has offered to play 
host. Unfortunately, the campus is not actually on an island. However, somewhat 
more interestingly, it was built from a re-purposed sanatorium, formerly known 
as "the Man Cave", tucked away in the hills of Camarillo [1].

If you're interested in giving a talk about a project or new technology that 
you are working with (or anything else you think other code4libbers would be 
interested in), please send a message to me or Christina.

Details in brief:
Place: CalState Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Date: March 22nd, 2016
Time: 10am-3pmish

Please RSVP on the meetup page: 
http://www.meetup.com/Code4lib-SoCal/events/227916277/

We hope to see you there.

Josh
 
 Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer
 Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA
 (310) 440-7410
  
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarillo_State_Mental_Hospital

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

[Salazar, Christina]

What happens to the Mac once you've completed the project? Or would it be used 
to continue parallel (Win/Linux/Mac) development?


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Terry 
Reese
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 12:46 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

Clarification -- this will written using Xamarin's Mac toolset which utilizes 
Object-C for the UI and messaging, and an optimized version of the mono 
framework delivered for 32/64-bit mac systems).  The present Mac version of 
MarcEdit is really two applications.  There is the backend assembly files and a 
god-awful emulation of the WPF classes that work fairly poorly but allow for a 
single code-base.  When run headless (via the command line) -- the non-UI 
version of MarcEdit runs quite nicely and at speeds that are close to the Linux 
and Windows version.  Open it up to use it via a GUI, that it sucks (I'll admit 
it).  What I've offered is that I'd redo the application to provide a native 
Mac App that is Mac-Native while still making use of the present assembly code. 
 This of course requires a Mac of some kind -- and since I'm not a Mac user, 
there it is.  From the users perspective, it should all be Mac-tastic. 

Since this was brought up -- I've sketched out a 3 month roadmap -- enough time 
I believe to migrate the core functionality to a native application build.  
From there, feature parity as appropriate.  

--tr  

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Francis 
Kayiwa
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 3:31 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

Terry Reese (thanks Terry if you are reading this) has offered to write a 
Object-C version of MarcEdit. In order to this he needed access to a Apple 
Hardware. While my initial proposal on Go Fund me below was for a Macbook Pro, 
we've since realized it need not be a portable device. My current arithmetic 
puts the price of this at ~US$1300 as opposed to the listed ~US$2400


Thanks for boosting this signal if you cannot otherwise help fund porting 
MarcEdit for the Mac OSX platform.

http://www.gofundme.com/qtbzq4


Cheers,
./fxk
--
Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient.  Don't believe a thing he 
tells you.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

[Salazar, Christina]

I think I see what you're saying - it's not really the location of the 
conference that we're voting on: it's the location plus the capability of the 
planners to put on a conference, plus whatever the plans that have been 
outlined in the case that those plans HAVE in fact been outlined and COMMITTED 
to.

My concern though is that we'd be voting on too many different aspects of the 
conference itself simultaneously and some of it unknown and subject to change 
in any case. Being on the LA proposal group, I don't think we committed to a 
single track, especially since Josh offered other options here on this list. We 
are in fact open to changing this part based on what people are interested in 
here. I'd hate for people to think Philly = multi track, LA = single. So in 
truth we're not really VOTING on that aspect in any case (discussing is another 
matter).

So what I really meant to say originally is it'd be good to know what we're 
voting ON (does that make any of what I'm trying to say less obnoxious? Equal 
was certainly a poor choice of words and not what I'd actually intended) but I 
would argue that in fact we STILL REALLY don't know what we're voting on 
because it's subject to the discretion of the planning committee as they see 
fit in planning the conference and based on community feedback now and in the 
near future.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Esmé 
Cowles
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 11:45 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

I think now is exactly the right time to talk about this -- when we have 
multiple hosting proposals to choose from.  Adding some multi-track sessions, 
like making the conference significantly larger, is controversial, and people 
can vote based on that.

I am also torn between different factors (weather, trying some multi-track 
sessions, travel considerations, etc.), but that's always the case when 
deciding on hosting proposals.

-Esme

 On 02/23/15, at 11:36 AM, Salazar, Christina christina.sala...@csuci.edu 
 wrote:
 
 What Josh said:
 
 In a multi-track, you are forced to choose and never get to see what is going 
 on in the areas that you've been forced to opt out of. Which I think would be 
 a shame since some of the non-technical talks really NEED to be heard by 
 those who are there purely for the tech.
 
 I do think someone from Philly needs to answer the original question: can 
 they put on a single track conference if that's what the community wants. It 
 will make a difference it seems, in the vote.
 
 Then if BOTH LA and Philly can do single track (or multitrack or some other 
 permutation) we can vote on each city as equals.
 
 This way we don't need to debate the merits of single or multitrack at the 
 same time as we're debating the merits of LA versus Philly.
 
 
 Christina Salazar
 Systems Librarian
 John Spoor Broome Library
 California State University, Channel Islands
 805/437-3198
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Joshua Gomez
 Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 11:31 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location
 
 Allowing for focus via multi-track also enables echo chambers in which 
 people that could probably most benefit from non-code related talks never see 
 them.
 
 As a possible solution, we could have a post-conference afternoon on Thursday 
 where people could meet to dig deeper into themes that occurred during the 
 general session. Similar to what happened this year with the breakouts at the 
 end, but with a little more emphasis and organization.
 
 -Josh
 
 
 Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer
 Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA
 310-440-7421
 
 Frumkin, Jeremy A - (frumkinj) frumk...@email.arizona.edu
 02/23/15 11:19 AM 
 A couple of thoughts:
 
 1) It takes a lot of effort to put these proposals together. Let's not lose 
 sight that both proposals are good proposals, and that's why we have a vote. 
 I'm sure there are various opinions on both proposals.
 
 2) Separate from either proposal, I was struck this year by a greater 
 diversity in topic areas for code4lib than I have observed in the past.
 There definitely felt like there was interest in tracks that were not as 
 code-focused (such as culture / community, management, etc.). With the 
 conference growing to the size it has, I personally feel it might be 
 interesting to try a hybrid of single / multi-track, to allow those attending 
 an opportunity to have the ability to have some additional focus on some 
 theme areas. When we started code4lib, the size of the conference was such 
 that a single track made a lot of sense; as the event has grown, both in size 
 and maturity, I'd like to suggest

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

[Salazar, Christina]

I want to be helpful so I fill that part in, if we can extrapolate from current 
conditions:

Philadelphia high tomorrow - 26 degrees
Los Angeles high tomorrow - 74 degrees

You know, just to be helpful...

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric 
Hellman
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 10:47 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

These are both great but the Philly folks seem to have forgotten the Weather 
section.

 On Feb 22, 2015, at 8:48 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@pobox.com wrote:
 
 Hey All,
 
 Just wanted to make everyone aware of the two fantastic proposals to host 
 Code4lib 2016 that have been submitted. The cities of of Los Angeles and 
 Philadelphia have submitted proposals which are now available at the official 
 Code4lib Website
 
 http://code4lib.org/content/code4lib-2016-conference-proposals
 
 Voting will open tomorrow (UTC so probably already open if you are reading 
 this) and will remain open until 2015-03-07 08:00:00 UTC
 
 You can vote here (registration required)
 
 http://vote.code4lib.org/election/37
 
 Thanks to the both cities for their submissions.
 
 best regards,
 Francis
 
 -- 
 FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #13
 A:Doc, Happy, Bashful, Dopey, Sneezy, Sleepy,  Grumpy
 Q:Who were the Democratic presidential candidates?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks

[Salazar, Christina]

Yayyy!! Thank you all. I think this is a TREMENDOUS service to C4L.


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary 
Gordon
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 10:00 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks

I want to deeply thank Ashley Blewer, Steven Anderson and Josh Wilson for 
running the video streaming and capture at Code4LibCon in Portland. Because of 
you, we had great video in real time (and I got to actually watch the 
presentations). I also want to again thank Riley Childs, who could not make it 
this year. Riley moved the bar up last year by putting together our YouTube 
presence.

For the second year running, we requested and were not allowed to setup and 
test the day before, and for the second year running lost part of the opening 
session. Fortunately, we did capture most of what did not get streamed on 
Tuesday, and I will put that online next week. There is always next year.

Thanks,

Cary

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

[Salazar, Christina]

In order to keep some presenters from being streamed and others not would 
require the presentation line up (including whether ALL of the presenters who 
are included on an individual presentation) to be made available to the filming 
crew in advance, for that line up not to change (for example, to run behind 
schedule), it would require quite a bit of babysitting of the piece of paper 
to make sure it was to hand at the time it's needed... I'm sure there's more 
that I don't know.

Because the broadcast is live, it's really NOT as simple as sticking up a piece 
of paper when someone comes on who doesn't want to be filmed because ONCE 
you've inadvertently filmed someone the cat is out of the bag - their image is 
out there for the world to see - it requires a bit of planning and thought (as 
I imagine) before the person is standing there getting filmed.

Cary and Riley (others) film C4L for fun and for free and may () want to 
actually do stuff other than juggling pieces of paper (like take a restroom 
break, perhaps?).

I believe Cary's and Riley's assessment that this is burdensome cos I can just 
imagine how this would be if *I* had to do it. Both have way more experience 
with this than me (er... I have none), but still, as I understand it, this is 
more than they feel comfortable taking on.

(Haven't you watched them - they actually DO bring some production values to 
this, too.)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sarah 
Shealy
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 12:07 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

What more would be required than just putting a sheet of paper in front of the 
lens while filming? Honestly curious.
Sarah

 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:00:05 -0800
 From: listu...@chillco.com
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 
 I think that requiring explicit permission from presenters is overly 
 burdensome for the crew that is struggling to get the recordings up. I think 
 that speakers and presenters should be informed that all presentations may be 
 recorded and made available to the public unless they inform the conference 
 committee that they do not want to be recorded before their presentation 
 begins.
 
 If they object, the video crew will refrain from capturing their presentation.
 
 If we do screen capture again, it is possible that presenter could have the 
 option of allowing us to record their voice and screen. 
 
 Cary
 
  On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote:
  
  We would definitely want to both give notice to the presenters that 
  the plan is to record and to get consent (or dissent) ahead of time, 
  so that we can plan AV appropriately if someone does not want to be 
  broadcast. It would be awful to broadcast someone who didn't consent 
  to it; nor would we want to have to disrupt things in progress to adjust 
  for an unexpected
  dissent that should/could have been expected.
  
  On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Tara Robertson 
  trobert...@langara.bc.ca
  wrote:
  
  I love this conversation.
  
  WRT presenters, I think it's good to be explicit that the plan is 
  to stream and record. It would be good practice to have presenters 
  sign a consent form agreeing to this.
  
  Tara
  
  
  
  On 26/01/2015 10:42 AM, Andreas Orphanides wrote:
  
  Sounds like we've got an established practice in place, then. Awesome.
  
  Wouldn't hurt for us to clarify any policy we decide on to state 
  that presenters are welcome to not consent to webcast.
  
  On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:41 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote:
  
  On 26 January 2015, Andreas Orphanides wrote:
  
   Not to complicate things: shall (or *how shall*) we accommodate 
  requests
  
  from presenters who might have a no photo preference vis-a-vis 
  conference webcast?
  
  A few years ago a speaker didn't want to be filmed, and someone 
  turned
  off
  the camera and put a paper bag over it for the duration.
  
  Bill
  --
  William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  https://www.miskatonic.org/
  
  
  
  --
  
  Tara Robertson
  
  Accessibility Librarian, CAPER-BC http://caperbc.ca/ T  
  604.323.5254 F  604.323.5954 trobert...@langara.bc.ca 
  mailto:Tara%20Robertson%20% 3ctrobert...@langara.bc.ca%3E
  
  Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca
  
  100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
  
  

Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN!

[Salazar, Christina]

FYI, I wasn't even selecting Friday, I was selecting Thursday and it's sold 
out. I booked for Sun through Wed but if I can get through Thursday, it'd be 
better.


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Johnson
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:16 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is 
NOW OPEN!

The block rates aren't available for Friday (they are Sunday night through 
Thursday night), so if you are selecting Friday, you might be hitting a snag.

It's also possible that the block is filled for thursday. We can contact the 
hotel about expanding the block, and getting a current report on where we 
stand.  Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday's blocks are larger than the number of 
currently registered attendees, so you should still be able to book then.

I would also recommend giving the hotel a call and seeing what they can do for 
you about good rates for the weekend.

- Tom

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu
wrote:

 This is the problem I had. Tried to book through the weekend and it 
 apparently wasn't available.

 --
 
 Aaron Collier
 Digital Repository Services Manager
 Systemwide Digital Library Services, California State University 
 
 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
 Joshua Gomez [jgo...@getty.edu]
 Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:10 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland 
 Oregon is NOW OPEN!

 I had trouble as well, but when I restricted my reservation to only 
 Sunday-Wed nights, it then allowed me to reserve rooms. It appears 
 that there are no rooms available for Thursday or Friday after the 
 conference.

 -Josh


 Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer
 Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA
 310-440-7421

  Louisa Kwasigroch lkwasigr...@clir.org 12/08/14 10:07 AM 
 I just tried the link from the registration page:
 https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_neweventID=11714
 845, and then clicked on łmake a reservation˛, and it allowed me to 
 select dates and get a room.

 On 12/8/14, 1:00 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote:

 Can someone from the conference check with the hotel about our room
 block?
 It seems weird that we've got a link to a special event page but that
 it's
 returning no results on the day of registration
 
 On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Dana Jemison dana.jemi...@ucop.edu
 wrote:
 
  Looks like the recommended hotel is already filled up.  Are there 
  any other options close by?
 
  Thanks!
 
  Dana
 
  Dana Jemison
  Principal Metadata Analyst
  California Digital Library
  University of California, Office of the President
  415 20th Street, 4th Floor, Office 424B Oakland, CA 94612-2901
  Tel: 510.987.0832
  Email: dana.jemi...@ucop.edu
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On 
  Behalf
 Of
  Wick, Ryan
  Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 9:00 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland 
  Oregon
 is
  NOW OPEN!
 
  Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is now open!
 
  To register for Code4Lib 2015, please visit:
 http://c4l2015.eventbrite.com
 
  Code4Lib will be held at the Hilton Portland  Executive Tower
 located
 in
  downtown Portland. Rooms are $139 a night for single/double rooms.
 Please
  use this link for reservations:
  https://aws.passkey.com/event/11714845/owner/4173/landing
 
  Preconferences begin on February 9, with the main conference 
 running from  February 10-12.
 
  The full schedule for Code4Lib is here:
  http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/schedule
 
  Details on the preconference offerings can be found here:
  http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Preconference_Proposals
 
  Code4Lib plans to offer on-site childcare in 2015. Please let us 
 know how  many children you expect to bring with you and their ages 
 at the time
 of
  registration. We are seeking sponsors to offset childcare costs, 
  but
 for
  now, you should plan for $200/child/day for a 0-2 year old and $100
 for
 a
  3+ year old.
 
  There are also a variety of social activities around Code4Lib -
 please
  visit http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Social_Activities for more  
 information about the Craft Brew Drinkup, the Newcomer Dinners and a 
 list  of a variety of events scheduled that week.
 
  We're really looking forward to having all of you join us in 
 Portland this  February.
 
  The Local Program Planning Committee
 
  Evviva Weinraub
  Tom Johnson
  Ryan Wick
  Trey Terrell
  Mike Eaton
  Hui Zhang
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN!

[Salazar, Christina]

Yep, me too. With the exception that Oh you're in luck, there's still rooms 
available (wow, thanks, since I wasn't the one who lost my reservation). Also 
be warned that the conference room confirmation number is NOT the hotel's 
confirmation number.


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark 
Mounts
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 11:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is 
NOW OPEN!

I just tried to check my hotel reservation that I made through the link on the 
registration page with the hotel directly and they couldn’t find my reservation 
- and now they claim to be out of rooms.

Best to check yours!

On 12/8/14, 1:46 PM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote:

I'm also being told that you will likely get the block rate for the 
weekend if you call and ask.

Again, we're working to make sure the edge dates stay available and 
ready to ask the hotel to expand any dates that fill up.

We are closing in on sold out for Thursday, but trying to expand that 
day, Monday-Wednesday nights are still very available.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tom Johnson 
johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I'm told we're not currently out of block space for any of 
Sunday-Thursday  nights.

 If you're having trouble, calling the hotel directly is probably the 
best  solution.

 We'll do our best to stay on top of the block status and expand it 
 where needed.  The hotel has been very flexible thus far, and I get 
 the impression they would be glad if we booked them solid.

 On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Tom Johnson  
 johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote:

  Any chance we could get in touch with the hotel? It might not be 
  that
 the hotel is booked up, but rather that it won't allow us to order 
 that night on the block.

 That seems to be the case (i.e. the block for Thursday night is sold 
 out). We're working on getting info and expanding the block as needed.

 On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Andreas Orphanides 
 akorp...@ncsu.edu
 wrote:

 Lack of Thursday overnight is going to be a big deal, especially 
with the  west coast location. Any chance we could get in touch with 
the hotel?
It
 might not be that the hotel is booked up, but rather that it won't 
allow  us  to order that night on the block.

 On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Collier, Aaron 
 acoll...@calstate.edu
 wrote:

  This is the problem I had. Tried to book through the weekend and 
  it apparently wasn't available.
 
 
 

---
---
  Aaron Collier
  Digital Repository Services Manager Systemwide Digital Library 
  Services, California State University 
  
  From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Joshua
  Gomez [jgo...@getty.edu]
  Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:10 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in 
  Portland
 Oregon
  is NOW OPEN!
 
  I had trouble as well, but when I restricted my reservation to 
  only Sunday-Wed nights, it then allowed me to reserve rooms. It 
  appears
that
  there are no rooms available for Thursday or Friday after the 
  conference.
 
  -Josh
 
 
  Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer Getty Research Institute | 
  Los Angeles, CA
  310-440-7421
 
   Louisa Kwasigroch lkwasigr...@clir.org 12/08/14 10:07 AM 
   
  I just tried the link from the registration page:
 
 
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_neweventID=117
148
45
 ,
  and then clicked on łmake a reservation˛, and it allowed me to
select
  dates and get a room.
 
  On 12/8/14, 1:00 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote:
 
  Can someone from the conference check with the hotel about our 
  room
  block?
  It seems weird that we've got a link to a special event page but
that
  it's
  returning no results on the day of registration
  
  On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Dana Jemison
dana.jemi...@ucop.edu
  wrote:
  
   Looks like the recommended hotel is already filled up.  Are 
   there
 any
   other options close by?
  
   Thanks!
  
   Dana
  
   Dana Jemison
   Principal Metadata Analyst
   California Digital Library
   University of California, Office of the President
   415 20th Street, 4th Floor, Office 424B Oakland, CA 94612-2901
   Tel: 510.987.0832
   Email: dana.jemi...@ucop.edu
  
   -Original Message-
   From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
 Behalf
  Of
   Wick, Ryan
   Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 9:00 AM
   To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
   Subject: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland
 Oregon
  is
   NOW OPEN!
  
   Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is now open!
  
   To register for Code4Lib 

[CODE4LIB] No really, this part is about RFID stuffs

[Salazar, Christina]

I'm not an RFID expert by a long shot, but we do use it here at CSU Channel 
Islands and I had to learn a lot about it quickly because all our stuff broke 
and I had to fix it.

In that process, I had heard that while RFID's great for public libraries 
(where they're circulating enough that staff time is problematic as is material 
theft), academic libraries don't love it, particularly for security (which RFID 
is pretty bad at actually). I've heard of a few academic libraries that have 
abandoned RFID for security because it's just not worth maintaining (i.e., cost 
of stuff stolen versus costs of time, materials etc. to maintain the tags in 
the collection).

However, hopefully this audience knows that there's more to RFID than security 
and self-check (like automated materials handling, collection inventory and 
this other stuff, I wouldn't call it augmented reality - probably because I 
have the same reaction that Chris had to that phrase - but maybe something like 
automated finding). I mean with your RFID tag in there, your book or thing or 
whatever can send a signal to a receiver and now the receiver possibly could be 
your smart phone, right?

So while RFID has in fact made MY life hellish, I feel like there's more to it 
than what it's currently doing for us here in academic libraries in the US. But 
at the same time, I get the idea that people that I talk to in academic 
libraries in the US basically don't care about RFID and I kind of wonder why. 
They'd apparently rather talk about c4l illuminati.

On a related note, there IS an RFID in Libraries list (which is where I'm 
getting a lot of this information from) but I'm not sure that it's quite the 
venue to start talking about standards and innovation, while I thought this 
list was.

It makes me happy that one other person is interested in RFID in libraries... 
or were you just toying with my emotions?

Christina Salazar

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris 
Fitzpatrick
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 4:53 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how 
should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

So this thread started from talking about RFID ( i'm interested! ) to talking 
about augmented reality ( uh, ok, now less interested...) to talking about 
standards ( oh no, not again.. ) to talking about c4l ( yep. )

So, are people using RFID? A lot? Is it working, or did it make life hellish?

b,chris.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

[Salazar, Christina]

Yes, I love C4L too, but

Can/does C4L have players on NISO for example - what is C4L involvement in 
standards? Should/could C4L be involved in standards? (And probably 
tangentially, is C4L a professional organization?)

Wow, this is turning into another iteration of the library community web 
standards thread from last week, isn't it?

But man, I think we're losing so many opportunities to have a voice in the 
development of technologies that could be useful to us and our users.

Christina
PS, just to throw this back in response: I disagree that current print books 
in academic libraries aren't conducive to student learning - they're just more 
one tool in the research tool kit, aren't they and would they get used more 
often if librarians made them easier to use?

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary 
Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 8:53 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how 
should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

This is as good as it gets, which is pretty good in my opinion.

Cary Gordon, MLS

On Monday, October 6, 2014, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com
wrote:


 Is there a professional organization for librarians who code?



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

[Salazar, Christina]

OH NO! (shudder) I’m pretty sure no one is suggesting a formalized c4l AGAIN 
- we've been there done that, relatively recently too.

I think what we're talking about is a way to represent c4l interests in 
standards making bodies.

And just for my own edification, if you're saying c4l IS represented in 
standards making bodies, please tell me who do I talk to? For instance on the 
RFID thing, who can I talk to in order to find out HOW and IF this conversation 
is happening with American standards making bodies?

Or do you mean INDIVIDUALS who participate in c4l are represented in standards 
making bodies?

Christina

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Francis 
Kayiwa
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:07 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how 
should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

On 10/07/2014 02:03 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:



  NISO (and LITA, ASIST,
 etc.) are quite well represented on this list, and I don't believe 
 that a formalized c4l would give us any more say in standards that we have 
 already.

+1


./fxk


--
You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess.

[CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

[Salazar, Christina]

Hey C4L’ers,

I hope this isn’t too spammy, but in the last round of “how are you building 
your stack mapping” app, I mentioned the potential of RFID to fulfill this need 
in the future (or did I chicken out on that post?) instead of using barcodes 
that then interact with a database …

This SHORT (I promise) blog by a British RFID expert talks about that use as 
well as some other NFC uses in libraries: 
http://www.mickfortune.com/Wordpress/?p=1185

Seems like whenever I bring this up, I hear crickets chirping but since a whole 
bunch o’ libraries adopted RFID (many of whom later abandoned it), wouldn’t it 
be cool to leverage RID and our users’ mobile devices to assist them in various 
ways?

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
[Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

[Salazar, Christina]

Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm not sure what type of work environment Terry has or 
his capacity to hold his ground in the face of enraged catalogers but I think 
it's wise to note the sort order problem and let the original poster determine 
its importance in his individual environment (and his willingness to fight that 
battle).

I say all this as someone who got caught on the wrong side of the Marc tag sort 
order thing (not with Ruby but with MarcEdit - yes, yes, I know who's the 
responsible party for MarcEdit, I'm not pointing fingers though, really I'm not 
and it's too long ago anyway) and I had NO IDEA that our records' tags weren't 
in sort order nor that it would be a problem but boy was it and those 
catalogers can be MEAN and scary if pressed (just kiddin').

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Galen 
Charlton
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 10:23 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Terry Reese ree...@gmail.com wrote:
 I was so hoping someone would bring up position of MARC fields.
 Everything Kyle says is true -- and I would follow that up by saying, 
 no one will care, even most catalogers.  In fact, I wouldn't even 
 resort the data to begin with -- outside of aesthetics, the sooner we 
 can get away from prescribing some kind of magical meaning to field 
 order (have you ever read the book on determining 5xx field order, I 
 have -- it's depressing; again, who but a cataloger would know) we'll 
 all be better off.  :)

Indeed, field order is not a great way to convey meaning, is not going to 
migrate well to RDF, and there are few practical reasons to be too worried 
about it -- although some OPACs do at least display subject headings links in 
the order that they were entered in the record.

However, some catalogers in my experience do care, and even if only for the 
sake of inter-personal harmony, avoiding unnecessary reordering of MARC fields 
can be a win.

Regards,

Galen
--
Galen Charlton
Manager of Implementation
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
email:  g...@esilibrary.com
direct: +1 770-709-5581
cell:   +1 404-984-4366
skype:  gmcharlt
web:http://www.esilibrary.com/
Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org  
http://evergreen-ils.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

[Salazar, Christina]

LOL! I always liked you, Galen Charlton and where else but Code4Lib could you 
get this type of cultural blended with workplace blended with technical blended 
with Marc insight??? Amazing. What a great Friday in Library Land.

Christina

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Galen 
Charlton
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 10:56 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Salazar, Christina 
christina.sala...@csuci.edu wrote:
 Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm not sure what type of work environment 
 Terry has or his capacity to hold his ground in the face of enraged 
 catalogers but I think it's wise to note the sort order problem and 
 let the original poster determine its importance in his individual 
 environment (and his willingness to fight that battle).

I kinda view attention to the MARC field sort order as a brown MM issue [1] -- 
it can help indicate the degree to which a given MARC tool or the results of 
its use have had exposure to professional catalogers.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

Regards,

Galen
--
Galen Charlton
Manager of Implementation
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
email:  g...@esilibrary.com
direct: +1 770-709-5581
cell:   +1 404-984-4366
skype:  gmcharlt
web:http://www.esilibrary.com/
Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org  
http://evergreen-ils.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is Anyone Doing RFID Book Location or Stack Mapping?

[Salazar, Christina]

I'm very interested in this topic too. My current understanding is that because 
of interference basically due to the field of broadcast on the tags and the 
fact that your shelves keep those tags in the books pretty close together, it 
may be difficult to implement. We haven't tried doing this here (yet).

However, I'm interested in ANY INNOVATIVE way of using RFID other than security 
or automated materials handling. I think the potential is there.

Basically we spent a good chunk of change to implement RFID here back in 2008, 
when we first opened this library, not to mention the time to tag the books and 
then an additional $30,000 or so to replace all the gates this past summer 
because the hardware reached end of life (not a typical situation apparently) 
and in truth this security function could have been accomplished better using 
tattle tape. So I want to push other uses of RFID wherever I can so that I 
don't feel like all this was a waste.

By the way, you might try asking this question on the RFID in libraries list 
serv, but you may be met with just the sounds of crickets chirping. You also 
may have run across Mick Fortune in your research, but it's worth taking a look 
at his site to see what some of the possibilities are with RFID: 
http://www.mickfortune.com/Wordpress/

PS Thank you so much for asking the question. I don't feel so alone now :)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jarrell, Mark
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:16 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Is Anyone Doing RFID Book Location or Stack Mapping?

Are there any libraries out there that are making use of RFID hardware/software 
to help patrons know the precise location of books/items on the shelves? Or is 
anyone use other stack mapping software to help patrons know the general 
location of items on the shelf? If so, I have a few questions for you. Please 
feel free to message me directly and I can compile the results into an 
anonymous set to share with the group.

  1.  Name of software  vendor
  2.  Approximate time to implement
  3.  Approximate cost to implement
  4.  What types of hardware/software is involved in the process that wasn't 
used previously?
  5.  How does the customer locate the item on the shelf (e.g. Via handheld 
tool, map linked to catalog record, etc.)
  6.  Is there a way for the patron to find out the location of items that are 
shelved in non-public areas (if a library branch is undergoing renovations)?
  7.  Would you recommend this software/hardware method to other libraries? Why 
or why not?

[cid:B062E8AC-43B8-4564-9851-3B3E64D2EDF1]
Mark W. Jarrell
Online Applications Developer | Richland Library
1431 Assembly St.  | Columbia, SC 29201
(p) 803.553.9818 | (GTalk, Skype) mark.jarrell Access Freely at 
RichlandLibrary.comhttp://www.richlandlibrary.com/.
Interested in helping to shape RichlandLibrary.com? Join an advisory 
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Re: [CODE4LIB] ACTION REQUESTED: Volunteer for 2015 Conference Committees

[Salazar, Christina]

YESSS! Anyone else?

And I am willing to help out in whatever capacity. (You probably don't want me 
taking care of your kids though.)

The typical obstacle that I've seen in helping/offering childcare has been 
insurance stuff. Just for whatever THAT'S worth...

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of sara 
amato
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:54 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ACTION REQUESTED: Volunteer for 2015 Conference 
Committees

Quick question for those planning to attend Code4Lib 2015 -  Would the 
availability of childcare make a difference in your being able to attend?  If 
so I'll propose and lead a childcare committee (seeing as I'm almost local to 
it.) 


On Aug 12, 2014, at 3:35 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

 The 2015 Code4Lib annual conference may seem like a long way away, but 
 it's already time for various volunteer committees to start work on 
 the planning. As you know, the conference happens each year thanks to 
 the work of the community at large; please take the time to sign up 
 for confrence committees here:
 
 *http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2015_Conference_Committees
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2015_Conference_Committees*
 
 *We especially need people for the Keynote Speakers and Sponsorship
 committees.* These groups need to begin work ASAP and are short on 
 membership.
 
 Thanks to everyone who has already signed up to help!
 
 --
 Tom Johnson
 on behalf of the C4L15 PDX Team

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib in San Diego?

[Salazar, Christina]

I'm not in San Diego but I am in Southern Cali and a part of the Southern Cali 
group, so I feel I can weigh in on this:

If the people in SD want to meet and can find a convenient place to do so, for 
goodness sakes, let them and don't worry about meetup vs local code4lib. 
Just ask please Bee et al to keep in touch with the other Southern Cali and 
other Cali groups so that we can have periodic joint events. If there's 
confusion, San Diego can just call itself Northern Mexico group (just kiddin').

The LA area is so hard to get around that I would much rather have a bunch of 
little offshoot local code4libs that occasionally get together for a larger, 
longer meeting than to have no one meet at all because it's so damn difficult 
to get to the place where the meeting is. I don't see the harm in many mini 
groups.

I'm saying this as someone who commutes 42 miles each way to my job. I don't 
think anyone else in the US who hasn't lived here can really understand what it 
means to get around Southern California.

(I cannot believe Giarlo used the o word - organize.)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael 
J. Giarlo
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 9:42 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib in San Diego?

That said, if the SD folks want to go out one night without having to do much 
planning or coordination -- think meetup here rather than local code4lib 
meeting -- they should be be encouraged to do that too.

I would also encourage folks to keep these discussions on-list instead of 
responding privately, if that's OK with Bee and other interested folks.
 It'll be good for the broader community to watch the SD/SoCal crowd 
self-organize, learn from it, and lend a hand where appropriate!

-Mike



On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:

 We are trying to reformat the SoCal group to better serve the rest of 
 the region, including having longer meetings.

 I have the ability to webcast the meetings, or at least the 
 presentations, and we might be able to do that, as well.

 There is strength in numbers, so I hope we can hang together.

 Thanks,

 Cary

 On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Bornheimer, Bee eborn...@qualcomm.com wrote:

  Hi all, I know there is a Southern California meet up group for 
  Code4Lib but am wondering if there are folks on this list in San 
  Diego who would
 be
  interested in the occasional meet-up? It sounds like the Southern 
  Cal one may be primarily LA area.
 
  Feel free to contact me off list.
 
  Bee Bornheimer
  eborn...@qualcomm.com javascript:;mailto:eborn...@qualcomm.com
 javascript:;
  
 


 --
 Cary Gordon
 The Cherry Hill Company
 http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

[Salazar, Christina]

Define wet.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Forrest, Stuart
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:43 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

A but it is also wet in its gaseous form.


Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
sforr...@bcgov.net

http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org

For Liesure, For Learning, For Life




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brad 
Baxter
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:38 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Lisa Rabey academichu...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Valerie Forrestal 
 valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu wrote:
  lord help us all can someone just set up an online poll and we can 
  be done with it?

 Water is wet.
 Discuss.


In its liquid form.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

[Salazar, Christina]

This thread has been really interesting to read from my point of view:

I've been seeing soo much about Drupal here there and everywhere that I 
truly have been thinking I'm missing out on something and furthermore that in 
order to even stand a chance in the current library technology job market, I 
need to find an excuse - ANY excuse - to put up a Drupal site, even though our 
library website is locked down by a campus-wide CMS.

I'm not reading in the thread that people are saying don't implement Drupal but 
it's just good to know there's another side to it (which realistically, I KNOW 
there always is, I've only been doing this for 14 years after all...)

Despite the Kiwi/American language barrier there have been three EXTREMELY 
useful posts in the past week or so, so go Code4Lib - just when I was loosing 
faith!


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shaun 
Ellis
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

Josh,
I welcome your initial rant, which was well articulated -- sometimes I can't 
find anything beyond 4-letter words to express my frustration.

It surprises me that there has not been much discussion of Drupal on this list, 
or even on Drupal4Lib recently -- yet it's so prevalent in Libraries, which 
seems strange to me.  I've been developing with it for about 5 months, and the 
key thing I've learned in that time is that you HAVE to have a community of 
other Drupalists to bounce questions at -- perhaps that means going to Meetups, 
Camps, Cons, etc.  Whatever your trying to do, it's likely that someone has 
already done it.

Books are not that helpful in my opinion. For example, in a 700 page book on 
Drupal 7 Development from Apress, Views does not even have an index entry -- 
so you can imagine how much information/noise is out there.  I have found the 
BuildAModule videos to be exceptional and reasonably priced. I use that 
regularly.  I have also had the benefit of a more experienced colleague helping 
me navigate, so I can't imagine going it alone.

For scenario #2 (exposing your data to other apps), you should look at
Services:
http://www.lullabot.com/blog/article/content-syndication-using-services-and-feeds

I, for one, am looking forward to easy RESTful Web Services in Drupal 8 [1], 
which will allow me to combine some of Drupal's content modeling power, 
syndication features, and out-of-the-box admin/permissions features with more 
cutting edge UI frameworks always seem behind the curve in Drupal.

Scenario #1 (the hours page house of cards) is in some ways a feature. 
If there's a known bug in one of your modules, you can simply update that one 
little piece.  That said, it can be fragile, so you should always test 
features/updates in a development environment first.  You should also be making 
regular, automated backups of your production (and
dev!) code and database so that you can roll back to one that works while you 
fix what broke.

-Shaun

[1]
http://drupalize.me/blog/201401/introduction-restful-web-services-drupal-8



On 5/15/14 2:03 PM, Joshua Welker wrote:
 Nina,

 Thank you for your insights. I'm glad to get a response from someone with
 lots of relatively positive Drupal experience.

 As far as functionality problems, I can offer two examples:

 1. I have a library hours page that pulls information from Google
 Calendars with Feeds and redisplays it using Views. In addition to these
 two modules, there are a handful more extending them: Dates (and a host of
 submodules), Dates iCal, Feeds Tamper, Computed Field, Better Exposed
 Filters, and Views Field View (just looking briefly at my modules page).
 The hours page works, which is a testament to the Drupal community, but
 the whole thing feels like a giant hack. I can barely remember how it all
 works. It's like a giant Rube Goldberg device. If it suddenly stops
 working, I have about 10 modules to look at to try to find the bug, and
 most of those modules are very poorly documented.

 2. I want to allow a non-Drupal app to harvest some of my Drupal nodes to
 mashup into another app that is fairly complex. I have spent several hours
 looking at Drupal documentation trying to figure out how in the world to
 harvest this data via an API or basic SQL queries, but I am at a total
 loss. The Entity API is beyond me. And looking directly at the underlying
 MySQL tables, I have absolutely no idea what is what. Fields have their
 own tables, and content types are fields. I kid you not. It is the exact
 opposite of sane database design.

 I agree with you that rolling a full-fledges CMS is a bad idea and would
 be hard to inherit. But inheriting a framework app is apparently not so
 bad, from what others here have said. I would have a standard
 implementation of 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

[Salazar, Christina]

While I really do agree - you can train skills, but you can't train personality 
(well, unless you're a parent, but that's another story), I also think on both 
sides of the table, we need to be aware that there will always be a bias.

If we let personability—some indefinable, prerational intuition, magnified by 
the Fundamental Attribution Error—bias the hiring process today, then all we 
will have done is replace the old-boy network, where you hired your nephew, 
with the new-boy network, where you hire whoever impressed you most when you 
shook his hand. Social progress, unless we’re careful, can merely be the means 
by which we replace the obviously arbitrary with the not so obviously 
arbitrary.
http://gladwell.com/the-new-boy-network/

(I read this as some small consolation for all the interviews that I've been on 
for jobs that I was turned down for.)

(PS despite the use of the word boy I don't necessarily think Gladwell's 
referring to a GENDER bias... or is he?)

Christina Salazar
christina.sala...@csuci.edu
Systems Librarian
California State University Channel Islands

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Roy Tennant 
[roytenn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 10:26 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hiring someone is the most important/expensive thing that organizations do.


I couldn't agree more[1]. And that's why I advocate that organizations hire
based on personality traits, not experience. I realize that justifications
must be given in terms of the candidate's qualifications vis. a vis. the
position description, but if you aren't paying attention to personality
traits then you are missing the boat.
Roy

[1] http://roytennant.com/column/?fetch=data/101.xml

Re: [CODE4LIB] ActiveSierra - Gem for connecting to III Sierra db

[Salazar, Christina]

We don't run III Sierra but I'm still finding this news to be very interesting.

You don't mention how III was involved (IF they were involved) and I'm curious 
to hear about that piece. For our vendor (not naming names) certain things that 
you might think to do with the database voids our maintenance agreement and I'm 
just wondering if that situation applies with III's Sierra.

Thanks for sharing the news.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Van 
Mil, James (vanmiljf)
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 11:29 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ActiveSierra - Gem for connecting to III Sierra db

My colleague Sean Crowe and I have written a simple Rails engine with models 
for the Postgresql database backend to Innovative Interfaces Inc. Sierra ILS. 
Within a host rails app, it can be used to spin up mediated access to the 
database via Ruby objects. With a few additional controllers, it would also be 
straightforward to enable the serialization of database contents over http via 
json or xml. Though there is a pending release of API functionality for Sierra, 
this gem offers broader and more granular access to the database.

See the github repo: https://github.com/uclibs/active_sierra/

We're both primarily tech services librarians, and our first use cases for this 
gem have focused on back-end workflow. For example, we're developing a Rails 
app to track and report lost, missing, or long-overdue items in Sierra. With a 
rake task, a webapp will query Sierra monthly and build a local database of 
targeted item record numbers and values, which will be served to a site for use 
in making decisions about replacement. Other possible use cases could be record 
quality control reports.

Out of security concerns, we've purposefully excluded models for patron tables 
but we haven't ruled out adding these once we can ensure the security of this 
data.

We still have some short-term development planned, but we noticed that the repo 
was getting some attention yesterday, and thought it would be a good time to 
share. Some of our planned work includes:

- Developing tests for the models and methods
- Adding more scopes and methods to abstract the tables (we have a goal of 
making our testing application backend as friendly as possible to other tech 
services staff, and so we'd like the code to be readable to anyone who is 
familiar with both MARC cataloging and III system conventions)
- Modeling additional tables

Please feel free to use, fork or contribute. We are very open to comments and 
suggestions (especially from experienced Rails developers who may be able to 
offer some perspective on our direction - we both started learning about Rails 
at Code4Lib2013).

And of course we welcome any questions.

Thanks!
James

James Van Mil
Collections  Electronic Resources Librarian University of Cincinnati Libraries
Telephone: (513)556-1410
vanmi...@ucmail.uc.edu

[CODE4LIB] Anyone know the status of MARCView (Systems Planning/OCLC Dev Network)

[Salazar, Christina]

Hi all,

I see that Systems Planning turned over MARCView and MARCConvert to OCLC Dev 
Network, but I cannot find any download on OCLC Dev Network. Does anyone know 
if this program is just gone, gone?

Yes, MARCEdit is still out there, but MARCView is super simple to use.

And yeah... MARC records... yeah...

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
[Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

[Salazar, Christina]

See what happens when you start talking about shutting the list down?

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Rosalyn 
Metz
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 1:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

meant to include this screenshot


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote:

 :(

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

[Salazar, Christina]

I realize that the EZProxy list is the vendor's list but to some extent, I 
think some of this conversation needs to happen there too. Perhaps there's 
others there who can support an initiative to develop some sort of an 
alternative.

However, many libraries on that list though will be in the same boat as me/my 
library, I suspect: I may or may not have the technical expertise to monkey 
with other options, but I definitely don't have the time. It would be hard to 
justify to my boss that I'm spending time on a proxy alternative when we 
already have EZProxy.

When I'd asked EZProxy list about alternatives I heard about this: HANServer: 
http://www.hh-han.com/en/default.cfm I haven't done a thorough analysis of 
functionality because I got nervous about getting English language support from 
a German company, though I see now that they're partnering with LM Information 
Delivery (I don't know who THEY are either...)

I really do think that the library community needs to do something and this 
whole thread has served to reinforce that - $500 per year or no.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott 
Prater
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 9:06 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

I'd add to the list that EZProxy integration with Shibboleth is fairly minimal; 
 for example, it doesn't support chaining attribute authorities, which is an 
issue for us.  We opened a ticket several years requesting that feature, but 
realistically, I doubt it will ever get added.

If EZProxy were open source, and if  I could make changes to it and push them 
back up to codebase, I'd be a lot happier with it.  Given the market share it 
already has, I would think that releasing the source code would be a good 
marketing decision:  the pool of interested developers who could implement new 
features, and help debug problems, would increase dramatically, and also 
contribute to making the software more secure.  Perhaps with OCLC's new EZProxy 
hosted service, there would be less of a financial incentive to keep the source 
closed, and more of a product development incentive to open it up?

-- Scott

On 02/03/2014 10:09 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
 For me it's a little more concrete, and a little less abstract when it comes 
 to why a viable alternative to EZproxy is necessary.  It has very little to 
 do with the cost of EZproxy itself, and much more to do with support, 
 features, and functionality.

 There exists a trivial DoS attack against EZproxy that I reported to OCLC 
 about 2 years ago, and has not been addressed yet.

 Native IPv6 support by EZproxy has slipped by years now.  I have patrons 
 using IPv6 for access today that I want to provide a better experience than 
 forcing them to use a 6to4 gateway at their ISP.

 You cannot proxy https to http with EZproxy to secure the patron to proxy 
 side of the proxy communication, increasing your patron's privacy.

 I have requested that OCLC make a minor change to their existing AD 
 authentication support to enable generic LDAP/Kerberos authentication that 
 was denied because no one wants it.  Since they support AD, 95% of the code 
 required already exists, and would make a lot more sense than some of the 
 other authentication schemes that EZproxy already supports.  This closes the 
 door on integration with eDirectory, IPA, SUN Directory Server, OpenLDAP, 
 etc. for no good reason.

 OCLC has been the steward of EZproxy for over 5 years now, and in that time, 
 they are yet to fully document the software.  Every few months some new 
 obscure configuration option gets discussed on the EZproxy list that I've 
 never seen before, and I have been working with this software for over a 
 decade now.  This is not only limited to existing configuration options, 
 either - there was no documentation on the new MimeFilter option when it was 
 first introduced.  I would have expected that the IT staff at OCLC that is 
 managing the EZproxy service would have demanded full documentation by now, 
 and that documentation would have been released to customers as well.

 EZproxy does not cluster well.  The peering support is functional, but not 
 seamless when there is a failure.  When a proxy in the server pool goes down, 
 the patron is prompted for authentication again when they land on a new proxy 
 server, since EZproxy does not share session state.  External load balancers 
 cannot fix this problem, either, for the same reason.

 EZproxy does not support gzip compression, causing library access use an 
 additional 80-90% bandwidth for textual content (HTML, CSS, JS, etc).

 EZproxy does not support caching, causing library access to use an 
 additional 30-50% additional bandwidth for cacheable web assets. (And 
 yes, you can park a cache in front of EZproxy to offset this, which is 
 how I collected the 30-50% numbers, but doing so breaks the it's easy 
 and just 

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

[Salazar, Christina]

I think though that razor thin budgets aside, the EZProxy using community is 
vulnerable to what amounts to a monopoly. Don't get any ideas, OCLC peeps (just 
kiddin') but now we're so captive to EZProxy, what are our options if OCLC 
wants to gradually (or not so gradually) jack up the price?

Does being this captive to a single product justify community developer time?

I think so but I'm probably just a damn socialist.

On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:

 Even with razor thin budgets, this is a no brainer.  May they need decide
 between buying 10 new books or license EZProxy?  Possibly, but if they have
 a need for EZProxy, that's still a no brainer - until a solid OSS
 replacement that includes as robust a developer /support community comes
 around.  But again, at $500/year, I don't see a lot of incentive to invest
 in such a project.
 
 
 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:
 
 But there are places on a razor thin budget, and things like this throw
 them off ball acne
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 So what's the price point that EZProxy needs to climb to make it more
 realistic to put resources into an alternative.  At $500/year, I don't
 even
 have to think about justifying it.  At 1% (or less) of the cost of
 position
 with little to no prior experience needed, it doesn't make a lot of sense
 to invest in an open source alternative, even on a campus that heavily
 uses
 Shibboleth.
 
 Tim
 
 
 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 Not only that, but it's also expressly designed for the purpose of
 reverse
 proxying subscription databases in a library environment.  There are
 tons
 of things vendors do that would be incredibly frustrating to get working
 properly in Squid, nginx, or Apache that have already been solved by
 EZProxy.  Which is self-fulfilling: vendors then cater to what EZProxy
 does
 (rather than improving access to their resources).
 
 Art Rhyno used to say that the major thing that was inhibiting the
 widespread adoption of Shibboleth was how simple and cheap EZProxy was.
 I
 think there is a lot of truth to that.
 
 -Ross.
 
 
 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 EZproxy is a self-installing statically compiled single binary
 download,
 with a built-in administrative interface that makes most common
 administrative tasks point-and-click, that works on Linux and Windows
 systems, and requires very little in the way of resources to run.  It
 also
 has a library of a few hundred vendor stanzas that can be copied and
 pasted
 and work the majority of the time.
 
 To successfully replace EZproxy in this setting, it would need to be
 packaged in such a way that it is equally easy to install and
 maintain,
 and
 the library of vendor stanzas would need to be developed as apache
 conf.d
 files.
 
 This. The real gain with EZProxy is that configuring it is crazy easy.
 You
 just drop it in and run it -- it's feasible for someone with no
 experience
 in proxying or systems administration to get it operational in a few
 minutes. That is why I think virtualizing a system that makes accessing
 the
 more powerful features of EZProxy easy is a good alternative.
 
 kyle
 
 
 
 --
 Tim McGeary
 timmcge...@gmail.com
 GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary
 484-294-7660 (cell)
 
 
 
 -- 
 Tim McGeary
 timmcge...@gmail.com
 GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary
 484-294-7660 (cell)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public transport from RDU to Sheraton Raleigh and how safe is it?

[Salazar, Christina]

CSUCI (http://www.csuci.edu/ ) is game to host C4L in sunny S CA (definitely 
NOT Los Angeles, but still S CA) but y'all have to not be cranky pants about 
the venue - it's an excellent facility, but a bit remote.* Current temp: 80 
degrees.

*On the site of a fairly infamous former mental hospital.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary 
Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:24 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public transport from RDU to Sheraton Raleigh and how 
safe is it?

Does that mean we can have Code4Lib in Sunny Southern California?

(Lookin' at you, UCLA, USC, CSUN, CSLB, LMU...)

On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:53 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote:

 Also, last time few time I was in LA I took the Metro to/from the 
 airport and it was great.
 I think the Green line goes to LAX and the Red Line goes to North 
 Hollywood and Burbank.
 
 But you would run the danger of running into Ed Begley Jr., so there's 
 that.
 
 
 
 On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
 
 There's a pretty reliable bus that will take you straight from the 
 airport to the center of downtown. Clean and safe, if a little infrequent. 
 And $2.
 
 
 http://www.triangletransit.org/sites/default/files/maps-and-schedules
 /RoutesAndSchedules-100.pdf
 
 
 On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Salazar, Christina  
 christina.sala...@csuci.edu wrote:
 
 (Am I the only one who hears James Brown's Night Train in my head 
 when I type Raleigh, North Carolina?)
 
 I'm just wondering if there's any public transportation from RDU to 
 the conference hotel and if so, how safe is it? I have opted out of 
 public transport at some places that I later found out were very 
 safe (e.g.,
 Boston) because I'm from Los Angeles and we don't do public
 transportation,
 so I just thought I'd ask now and plan in advance.
 
 Christina Salazar
 Systems Librarian
 John Spoor Broome Library
 California State University, Channel Islands
 805/437-3198
 [Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]
 
 
 

[CODE4LIB] Public transport from RDU to Sheraton Raleigh and how safe is it?

[Salazar, Christina]

(Am I the only one who hears James Brown's Night Train in my head when I type 
Raleigh, North Carolina?)

I'm just wondering if there's any public transportation from RDU to the 
conference hotel and if so, how safe is it? I have opted out of public 
transport at some places that I later found out were very safe (e.g., Boston) 
because I'm from Los Angeles and we don't do public transportation, so I just 
thought I'd ask now and plan in advance.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
[Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Patron Loads from Banner (XML/Tab-Delimited)

[Salazar, Christina]

Hi Matt et al,

I just want to be sure I'm understanding: Pentaho's Kettle can extract from ANY 
datastore - not just Banner?

Anyone else on this list using Pentaho or another open source ETL solution for 
loading data to their ILS who can share their experiences more fully?

Thanks,

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew 
Mikitka
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:55 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Patron Loads from Banner (XML/Tab-Delimited)

Hi Lauren,

Depending on the number and complexity of your data sources, I recommend that 
you consider deploying an ETL system (ETL stands for Extract, Transform, 
Load). There are a few open source and free of cost frameworks on market, 
notably Pentaho's Kettle (see http://community.pentaho.com/index.html).

ETL frameworks provide several useful sub-systems e.g., logging, database 
adapters, error handling, deduplication, GUI, XML, etc.

Once deployed, you can quickly create a reliable Extract from Banner, 
Transform by merging with other data and cleansing, and Loading into the 
ILS.

matt
 
 Lauren Magnuson lau...@lpmagnuson.com 12/16/2013 12:17 PM 
Hello,

If anyone is willing to share an example of a script/process you are using to 
extract patron data from Banner (can be for any ILS, but I'm specifically 
interested in a script that's being used to generate either XML or 
tab-delimited data) I would appreciate it!

If you happen to be extracting patron data from Banner into XML format required 
by OCLC WMS, I'm especially interested.

Thanks,

Lauren Magnuson

--
Systems  Emerging Technologies Librarian, CSUN Systems Coordinator, PALNI 
@lpmagnuson http://twitter.com/lpmagnuson

[CODE4LIB] Information on accessing yesterday's So You're Thinking of Upgrading Your ILS webinar archive

[Salazar, Christina]

(Plus a reminder about the 10/16 webinar.)

Please excuse cross-postings

Hello,

The first of two CARL webinars, So you're thinking of upgrading your ILS that 
took place yesterday, October 9, has been archived. To view the archived 
session, please click here, http://tinyurl.com/kr33t6w. Once you have clicked 
on the link, you will need to enter your name, email address, screen name and 
organization. If your organization is not listed on the drop down menu, you can 
choose any of the organizations listed.

Please email Christine Park, 
chp...@losmedanos.edumailto:chp...@losmedanos.edu,  if you have any problems 
connecting.

There is one more webinar in the series which will occur next Wednesday, 
October 16 at 11:00 Pacific Time.  Information for watching the second webinar 
live is below. This webinar will also be archived and information on how to 
access it will be sent out after the webinar takes place.

No prior registration is required for the October 16 webinar. Please note that 
the system can only handle 300 telephone lines. If multiple people from your 
institution are planning on participating, please consider watching and dialing 
in together if you have a speaker phone. You can also use VOIP; this option 
does not have a limit on how many people can participate.
The four Panelists for Wednesday October 16 are

*  Rogan Hamby, Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York 
County Library Systems, South Carolina; Operations Manager, SCLENDS, a 19 
library consortium, migration project manager. Most libraries switched from 
Horizon, TLC and Unicorn to Evergreen

*  Janel Kinlaw, Broadcast Librarian, National Public Radio, NPR's Library 
upgraded from Techlib to Collective Access

*  George Williams, Access Services Manager, Latah County Library District, 
Idaho, their 52 library consortium switched from ExLibris's Voyager to Koha.

*  Merrillene Wood, Interim Library Director, Western Nebraska Community 
College, WNCC switched from Follett Destiny as an individual entity to a 
statewide KOHA consortium (Pioneer)

Login information for the October 16th Session
PRIOR TO YOUR FIRST CCC CONFER MEETING
Test Your Computer Readiness, 
http://www.onfer.org/support/supportReadiness.aspx
PARTICIPANT DETAILS
Dial your telephone conference line: 913-312-3202 or (888) 886-3951
Cell phone users dial: 913-312-3202
Enter passcode: 969692
Go to www.onfer.orghttp://www.onfer.org
Click the Participant Log In button under the Webinars logo
Locate your meeting and click Go (CARL Webinar-So you're thinking of upgrading 
your ILS)
Fill out the form and click connect


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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[CODE4LIB] Information for attending the CARL Webinar “So you’re thinking of upgrading your ILS”.

[Salazar, Christina]

Please excuse any cross posting.

* Note that there’s a cap of 300 phone lines (no cap on the number of VoIP 
connections); first come, first served and this does promise to be a popular 
couple of webinars. We will be archiving these sessions. You do NOT need to be 
a CARL member to attend.

Information for attending the CARL Webinar “So you’re thinking of upgrading 
your ILS”.

The webinars will take place on Wednesday, October 9 from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 
Pacific Time and Wednesday, October 16, from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pacific 
Time. Both sessions will be recorded so if you are unable to make either or 
both, you will be able to watch them at a later date. Information on how to 
access the archived sessions will be sent out after the webinars have been 
recorded.

No prior registration is required for the webinar. Information on how to log 
into the sessions via CCC Confer is listed below. Please note that there are 
two different codes for dialing in, one code is for October 9th the other code 
is for October 16th. Please note that the system can only handle 300 telephone 
lines. If multiple people from your institution are planning on participating, 
please consider watching and dialing in together if you have a speaker phone. 
You can also use VOIP; this option does not have a limit on how many people can 
participate.

Once again the three Panelists for Wednesday October 9 are
•  Pearl Ly, Interim Assistant Dean, Library Services, Pasadena City College. 
PCC switched from ExLibris’s Voyager to OCLC Worldshare
•  Dana M. Miller, Head of Metadata and Cataloging, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge 
Center, University of Nevada Reno,  UNR upgraded from Innovative’s Millennium 
to Sierra
•  Jennifer D. Ware, Acquisitions Librarian, California State University, 
Sacramento, CSUS switched from Innovative’s Millennium to ExLibris’s Alma

The four Panelists for Wednesday October 16 are
•  Rogan Hamby, Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York 
County Library Systems, South Carolina; Operations Manager, SCLENDS, a 19 
library consortium, migration project manager. Most libraries switched from 
Horizon, TLC and Unicorn to Evergreen
•  Janel Kinlaw, Broadcast Librarian, National Public Radio, NPR’s Library 
upgraded from Techlib to Collective Access
•  George Williams, Access Services Manager, Latah County Library District, 
Idaho, their 52 library consortium switched from ExLibris’s Voyager to Koha.
•  Merrillene Wood, Interim Library Director, Western Nebraska Community 
College, WNCC switched from Follett Destiny as an individual entity to a 
statewide KOHA consortium (Pioneer)

Login information for the October 9th and 16th Sessions
PRIOR TO YOUR FIRST CCC CONFER MEETING
Test Your Computer Readiness

PARTICIPANT DETAILS
 Dial your telephone conference line: 913-312-3202 or (888) 886-3951
 Cell phone users dial: 913-312-3202
 Enter passcode: 169219 for Wednesday, October 9. Enter passcode: 969692 for 
 Wednesday, October 16.
 Go to www.onfer.orghttp://www.onfer.org
 Click the Participant Log In button under the Webinars logo
 Locate your meeting and click Go (CARL Webinar-So you’re thinking of 
 upgrading your ILS)
 Fill out the form and click connect

PARTICIPANT CONFERENCE FEATURES
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Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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[CODE4LIB] Save the date - free webinar on migrating ILSs

[Salazar, Christina]

Excuse cross posting.
_
Save the date!
Are your curious to find out how different libraries (academic, public and 
special) have made the switch to a new ILS? If so, please attend the California 
Academic and Research Library Association's (CARL) webinar series So you're 
thinking of upgrading your ILS.

The series of free webinars will be on Wednesday, October 9 from 11:00 
a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pacific Time and Wednesday, October 16 from 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 
p.m. Pacific Time. The first webinar will include panelists that have switched 
to proprietary ILSs and the second will include panelists that have switched to 
open source ILSs.

The three Panelists for Wednesday October 9 are

  *   Pearl Ly, Interim Assistant Dean, Library Services, Pasadena City 
College. PCC switched from ExLibris's Voyager to OCLC Worldshare
  *   Dana M. Miller, Head of Metadata and Cataloging, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge 
Center, University of Nevada Reno,  UNR upgraded from Innovative's Millennium 
to Sierra
  *   Jennifer D. Ware, Acquisitions Librarian, California State University, 
Sacramento, CSUS switched from Innovative's Millennium to ExLibris's Alma

The four Panelists for Wednesday October 16 are

  *   Rogan Hamby, Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York 
County Library Systems, South Carolina; Operations Manager, SCLENDS, a 19 
library consortium, migration project manager. Most libraries switched from 
Horizon, TLC and Unicorn to Evergreen
  *   Janel Kinlaw, Broadcast Librarian, National Public Radio, NPR's Library 
upgraded from Techlib to Collective Access
  *   George Williams, Access Services Manager, Latah County Library District, 
Idaho, their 52 library consortium switched from ExLibris's Voyager to Koha.
  *   Merrillene Wood, Interim Library Director, Western Nebraska Community 
College, WNCC switched from Follett Destiny as an individual entity to a 
statewide KOHA consortium (Pioneer)

Information on how to register for this series will be sent out in September!


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

[Salazar, Christina]

I just want to second what Galen and Shaun have said: 

I've only encountered StackExchange because I was Googling for answers to some 
issues (technical and non-technical) that I was having. I'm on a myriad of 
lists, but I feel an obligation to do due diligence before I bug y'all with 
my questions and searching every single one of the lists' archives that I'm on 
is tedious unless I know ahead of time that the answer to my question is 
contained in a given list.

The out of sight out of mind thing is very true too. This is why forum boards 
don't work for me unless I'm out seeking answers.

On a related note, hasn't everyone read this: India does not exist - 
http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/4308 about the very 
issue that some have raised here about SE.


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shaun 
Ellis
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 6:54 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

I like the idea of vote to promote as well as having a searchable archive of 
answers on the web.  For me it comes down to it being out of sight, out of 
mind.  It has to come to my inbox for me to pay attention, which is one of 
the nice features of the Code4Lib Jobs 
app.  In that vein, StackExchange has an API, which could be used to simply 
forward a daily digest of questions to the mailing list.  If all we need is an 
increase in traffic to establish the forum, that might do it.

Questions could be tagged with code4lib to make them easy to aggregate.  For 
example, we can get all the php tagged questions posted in the past day:

http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions?fromdate=1373155200todate=1373241600order=descsort=activitytagged=phpsite=stackoverflow

-Shaun


On 7/7/13 4:46 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:
 The main thing that the SE model adds is the ability to build up a set 
 (in one, search-engine-visible place) of consensus answers to 
 questions over time via the process of commenting and up-voting.  In 
 other words, I view it as a way to maybe achieve a community-built FAQ 
 or best practices database.  Mailing lists and IRC channels provide 
 immediacy, but there are some important library mailing lists whose 
 archives are not (intentionally) accessible to search engines, and 
 there are none that I'm aware of that try to maintain a community-curated set 
 of best questions and answers.

 Of course, for that model to work, there has to be a sizable number 
 people participating and actually getting answers to their questions 
 (as opposed to caviling about asking their questions properly).  
 Providing immediate and (hopefully) well-informed answers to questions 
 would have to be priority for the community of users; a goal of 
 building a knowledge base would not be achievable without a 
 recognition that it's necessarily a secondary goal.

[CODE4LIB] Call for panelists: upgrading ILS webinar

[Salazar, Christina]

*Apologies for cross-posting. Posted on behalf of a colleague - please contact 
Christine directly with questions or interest.* (Thought the open source ILS 
component could be of interest for this group.)
Call for panelists
Have you recently switched your ILS? Do you want to tell people about your 
experiences, the good, the bad and the ugly? If so, you might make a perfect 
panelist for the California Academic and Research Library Association's (CARL) 
webinar So you're thinking of upgrading your ILS.
 The goal of this one and a half hour webinar is to give librarians who are 
contemplating switching or upgrading their ILS more information on the process 
from fellow librarians' perspectives. It will be conducted via CCC Confer 
(Collaborate) and will be recorded for those that can't attend the webinar.
 We are looking for three to four panelists. Ideally, we would like at least 
one panelist that upgraded from their current ILS to a newer version (i.e. from 
Innovative's Millennium to Sierra), one person who upgraded and switched 
vendors (i.e. from Voyager to Worldshare) and one who has upgraded from a 
proprietary system to an open source system (i.e. SirsiDynix to Koha). All 
panelists will be given ten minutes to talk about the upgrade process from 
their perspective and the rest of the webinar will be a QA session. We would 
like to know what worked well for your library, what didn't, how library staff 
and students have adapted to the new system, etc.
 The webinar will be scheduled to take place in the beginning in of October. 
Please email me, Christine Park, 
chp...@losmedanos.edumailto:chp...@losmedanos.edu, if you are interested in 
participating on the panel with the specifics of your library's switch (max 500 
words). The deadline for panelists' applications is May 14, 2013.

Christine Park
Technical Services Librarian
Los Medanos College
chp...@losmedanos.edumailto:chp...@losmedanos.edu
925.439.2181 x3280

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John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

[Salazar, Christina]

We've been looking at something along these lines but as we understand it, 
voice recognition typically get's you only about 80% of the way there. We never 
thought that was acceptable. We just outsource our captioning.


Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of John Wynstra 
[john.wyns...@uni.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

I have been asked to find out whether there are software or hardware
solutions for on-the-fly closed captioning.  We currently work with
University IT production house on campus to perform this task.  I'm not
involved in any aspect of this at this time, but have been asked to
investigate.

Workflow is like this:
1) purchase a separate VHS copy of movie for captioning purpose (license
issues I believe)
2) view show and write a transcript (probably time consuming)
3) Campus IT production creates a closed captioned digital copy using
transcript and movie.

This is costly and time consuming for what often amounts to a single
viewing of an education resource that is not closed captioned out of the
box.

So basically, I'm asking if there is a magic black box that will allow us
to  bypass steps 1,2,and 3.  Just play the VHS and caption it on the fly
using voice recognition software and maybe a cray supercomputer on the back
end or even IBM's Watson if it is not playing jeopardy or going to school.

Thoughts?

--

John Wynstra
Library Information Systems Specialist
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
wyns...@uni.edu
(319)273-6399

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tickets for Craft Beer Night

[Salazar, Christina]

So can I pay now and then if I decide not to go, give my ticket to some needy 
soul day of?

Kudos for putting this together...

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Francis 
Kayiwa
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:33 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Tickets for Craft Beer Night

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 11:28:01AM -0500, Tania Fersenheim wrote:
 Francis,
 
 Sounds like a fun event.  What does the $25 registration fee cover?

Will respond to this to the list to save electrons. The 25 + processing fee 
gets you in the door and depending on what *hard to obtain* beers they put on 
tap will allow you to drink beers without pay.

If you are at the conference hotel it gets you on the bus for free. Free 
reminder that Chicago is generally *frigid* this time of the year.

Cheers,
./fxk

 
 Tania
 
 On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote:
  For those registered for the Code4lib 2013 Conference who enjoy 
  craft beers. Instead of having a beer exchange this year, Chicago 
  has managed to talk Goose Island Brewery into taking over all the 
  drafts at a bar and cover a hefty amount of the Shuttle from the 
  conference hotel to the aforementioned bar.
 
  We do however need to have a solid count/estimate of how many people 
  will be coming to drink Goose Island beers.
 
  Happy New Year.
 
  http://code4lib2013.eventbrite.com/
 
  ./fxk
 
  --
  Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?
 
 
 
 --
 
 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
 

--
Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

[Salazar, Christina]

Hi Bohyun,

Thank you so much for raising this again. I'm still interested in such a group.

I found the terminology separate but equal (that some on this list chose to 
use as a reason not to do this) offensive; it was not at all the spirit that 
I'd originally proposed and no one had suggested either separate OR equal other 
than detractors. In fact I said that anyone would be welcome. I completely 
agree with what you're saying about there not being any reason why we women 
couldn't do both (I think we're versatile that way). I'm pretty sure I vaguely 
recall (maybe) there being some (similar) concerns about the local c4ls and I 
would say it's very similar - no one says that just because a person finds say, 
Appalachia.c4l useful, it detracts from the global c4l.

If I can find other women who are willing to work together as a women in 
library technology/coder/whatever support group, I will work to make something 
like this happen. As someone pointed out, we don't need blessing from anyone.

If you will be there, I will look for you at the conference and we can discuss 
further. If there are other women who are interested, go us.

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

p.s. Usual disclaimer about these opinions being my own and not reflecting 
those of my workplace/employers.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bohyun 
Kim
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 8:14 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

Hi all,

I might upset some people with this, but I wanted to bring up this question. 
First, let me say that I think it is a terrific idea to have a code4lib 
learning group with or without a mentoring program.

But from what I read from the listserv, it seemed to me that there were 
interests in a space for women, NOT as a separate group from code4lib BUT more 
as just a small support and discussion group for just women, INSIDE the c4l 
community not OUTSIDE of it. (Like an IG inside LITA or something like that...).

I just wanted to know if there are still women in code4lib who are interested 
in this idea because gender-specific issues won't be addressed by a code4lib 
learning group. (If this is the case, I am still interested in participating, 
and I already set up #code4libwomen IRC channel.) Or, do we think that the 
initial needs that led to the talk of code4libwomen will be sufficiently met by 
having  a learning group instead?  Personally, I don't see why we can have both 
code4libwomen and code4liblearn inside code4lib if there are enough people who 
think that these would make code4lib more useful to them and if this makes 
code4lib serve more diverse interests of their members.

So I am looking forward to hearing form other women in c4l on this! :)

Cheers,
~Bohyun

[CODE4LIB] What about Code4Lib4Women?

[Salazar, Christina]

And/or Code4Lib4[I hate that word minority, but cannot think of another for 
here, but maybe you get what I mean]

Not trying to splinter, but that might be one way to encourage diversity but 
again, without implication that ANYONE would be excluded.

(Inspired by http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Womens-Ruby-on-Rails-Group/ )

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198
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Re: [CODE4LIB] What about Code4Lib4Women?

[Salazar, Christina]

Well, I guess any non-majority person, but I was thinking specifically of 
women ONLY because I'm a woman and I'd be willing to do something as far as 
coordinating. And possibly two or more non-location based chapters (i.e., one 
for gender, one for PoC).

And I wasn't really thinking of a separate conference (though that would be 
cool, but no one can afford more than one conference these days, can they?) but 
an additional meeting at the main con AND a separate e-mail list.

But I'm just throwing that out as venues that would be attractive/encouraging 
to me and things I know that I could do right now.

Christina
(Wow, I thought people would hate this concept, but me, I like it...)

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:48 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What about Code4Lib4Women?

Sounds possibly interesting. Other than a word, what would that be exactly, and 
what would be the goals of it?  Do you mean a different conference, or 
listserv, or what?

On 11/28/2012 3:34 PM, Salazar, Christina wrote:
 And/or Code4Lib4[I hate that word minority, but cannot think of 
 another for here, but maybe you get what I mean]

 Not trying to splinter, but that might be one way to encourage diversity but 
 again, without implication that ANYONE would be excluded.

 (Inspired by 
 http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Womens-Ruby-on-Rails-Group/ )

 Christina Salazar
 Systems Librarian
 John Spoor Broome Library
 California State University, Channel Islands
 805/437-3198
 [Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

[Salazar, Christina]

And also a policy could be support for an offendee to speak up that what 
happened to her/him was wrong.

Sorry to call her out, but Bess DID say that conferences have also been 
problematic for me a couple of times ALREADY, but she didn't know how to talk 
about it. A policy would hopefully give someone who also didn't know how to 
talk about such things some courage and some words to use.

And no, when there is even the perception of power imbalance as can happen when 
someone has a minority status (whether gender or culture or otherwise) it isn't 
so simple to just speak up and fix the problem. Sometimes you have to bend over 
backwards just to level the field a bit.

(Just sayin')

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael 
J. Giarlo
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 4:47 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

Hi Kyle,

IMO, this is less an instrument to keep people playing nice and more an 
instrument to point to in the event that we have to take action against an 
offender.

-Mike



On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jon Stroop jstr...@princeton.edu wrote:

  It's sad that we have to address this formally (as formal as c4l 
  gets anyway), but that's reality, so yes, bess++ indeed, and 
  mjgiarlo++,
  anarchivist++ for the quick assist.
 

 This.


  To that end, and as a show of (positive) force--not to mention how 
  cool our community is--I think it might be neat if we could find a 
  way to make whatever winds up being drafted something we can sign; 
  i.e. attach our personal names
 

 Diversity and inclusiveness is a state of mind, and our individual and 
 collective actions exert that force than any policy or pledge ever could.

 I'm hoping that things can be handled with the minimum formality 
 necessary and that if something needs to be fixed, people can just 
 talk about it so things can be made right. If we need a policy, I'm 
 all for it. But it's truly a sad day if policy rather than just being 
 motivated to do the right thing is what's keeping people playing nice.

 kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib-ers who will serve on the scholarship committee wanted

[Salazar, Christina]

Questions:

1) Do sponsorship team members have a defined call list or are we expected to 
come up with places to call on our own?
2) If we volunteer for a during the conference position does that help our 
chances of being able to GO to the conference (in the event of a very impacted 
registration)?

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Jodi Schneider 
[jschnei...@pobox.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:42 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib-ers who will serve on the scholarship 
committee wanted

Direct link:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_committees_sign-up_page#Scholarships_Committee

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Bohyun Kim bohyun.kim@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi code4lib-ers,

 The code4lib needs people who will serve on the scholarship committee for
 the upcoming c4l conference. Please sign up on the wiki!

 While you are there, check out other committees as well.

 Thanks!
 Bohyun

 *Sent from a mobile phone - please excuse the brevity of the message.

 Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS.
 Digital Access Librarian
 Florida International University Medical Library
 bohyun@fiu.edu
 305. 348. 1471

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib-ers who will serve on the scholarship committee wanted

[Salazar, Christina]

Oh no, God forbid I should seek reward! I was just wondering how I could commit 
without knowing for sure if I'd be going.

Christina

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Francis Kayiwa 
[kay...@uic.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:23 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib-ers who will serve on the scholarship 
committee wanted

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:10:57PM +, Salazar, Christina wrote:
 Questions:

 1) Do sponsorship team members have a defined call list or are we expected to 
 come up with places to call on our own?

A bit of both although we've pretty much exhausted the `past sponsors`
list. We do welcome new donors however.

 2) If we volunteer for a during the conference position does that help our 
 chances of being able to GO to the conference (in the event of a very 
 impacted registration)?

Oh no it doesn't. The reward is the work itself. :-) If you want to
guarantee a way to get into the conference submit (Deadline is this
week!) a proposal

Go ahead I dare ya! :-)

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_talks_proposals

./fxk


 Christina Salazar
 Systems Librarian
 John Spoor Broome Library
 California State University, Channel Islands
 805/437-3198
 
 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Jodi 
 Schneider [jschnei...@pobox.com]
 Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:42 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib-ers who will serve on the scholarship 
 committee wanted

 Direct link:
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_committees_sign-up_page#Scholarships_Committee

 On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Bohyun Kim bohyun.kim@gmail.comwrote:

  Hi code4lib-ers,
 
  The code4lib needs people who will serve on the scholarship committee for
  the upcoming c4l conference. Please sign up on the wiki!
 
  While you are there, check out other committees as well.
 
  Thanks!
  Bohyun
 
  *Sent from a mobile phone - please excuse the brevity of the message.
 
  Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS.
  Digital Access Librarian
  Florida International University Medical Library
  bohyun@fiu.edu
  305. 348. 1471
 


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