[CODE4LIB] Recruiting and Retaining Library Staff - survey closing soon

2015-11-20 Thread William Helman
Survey closes after *November 30th*! This is your last chance to voice your opinions about working in library IT. Dear Library Technology Professional, Would you like to participate in research that may help make library workplaces more pleasant and rewarding? We are writing to invite you to

[CODE4LIB] Random question - what do you use to limit public access to your Win7 PCs?

2013-09-04 Thread William Helman
We are an academic library, and currently have two public access PCs that outside users can take for a spin for an hour a day. They're Win XP running Steady State, which is an obvious problem. So -- What do you use to manage limited public access to your Win7 PCs? Any thoughts are appreciated,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-25 Thread William Helman
Like Cynthia that decision is made at the campus IT level. Over the past year I've migrated nearly all lab and staff PCs from XP to Win7 (keep an eye out for a related question I'll be posting later today on that topic). Campus IT is toying with some Win8 images, but haven't been happy with any of

Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile app

2013-07-03 Thread William Helman
Hi Kalie, Two of my graduate assistants and I recently developed a user-centered mobile web app/interface http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/m/ for our library. We spent a lot of time doing focus groups and user testing over the course of two semesters worth of development time, and have been pretty

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone doing streaming video reserves for online film classes?

2011-07-08 Thread William Helman
Thanks for all the great advice, folks! Now to delve into all the great links you've shared. -Bill Integrated Digital Services Librarian - University of Baltimore Langsdale Library whel...@ubalt.edu - ph. 410 837 4209 - http://whelman.com

[CODE4LIB] Anyone doing streaming video reserves for online film classes?

2011-07-07 Thread William Helman
We are in the information gathering stage of a project to look at offering streaming video course reserves for online/distance multimedia classes the University of Baltimore offers. Think Netflix streaming for obsucure films not on Netflix (such as digitized films from special collections, or