[CODE4LIB] Position Posting - IDS Project Executive Director

2012-03-16 Thread Cyril Oberlander
Hello Everyone, SUNY Geneseo and the IDS Project are announcing a unique opportunity to lead an award-winning, innovative and transformative library cooperative known as the Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project. We are looking for a new leader of this rapidly evolving and growing

[CODE4LIB] Job: Director of the Library Information Technology Office, Columbia University

2012-03-16 Thread Stuart Marquis
The Columbia University Libraries/Information Services seeks an experienced professional to serve as the Director of the Library Information Technology Office (LITO). The incumbent will oversee the planning, implementation and operation of all aspects of Library management and related systems,

[CODE4LIB] Job: WorldShare Platform Community Manager at OCLC at OCLC

2012-03-16 Thread jobs
The Community Manager will act as a champion for OCLC's WorldShare Platform within the development community, creating awareness of the Platform and supporting its adoption in the library and other development spaces. The successful candidate, therefore, will have a comprehensive knowledge not

[CODE4LIB] Job: WorldShare Platform Technical Product Manager at OCLC at OCLC

2012-03-16 Thread jobs
This position will lead requirement definition and prioritization for the Platform infrastructure and Web service externalization efforts. Working closely with the development team leader and the WorldShare Platform Community Manager, the Product Manager will evaluate and document both external

Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL

2012-03-16 Thread arianna
Hi Bill, For years I have always found the HTML Goodies people to be great for quick and accessible reference, and I think they are good for getting people started in plain English (they are probably very similar to the Dummies books).

Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL

2012-03-16 Thread Wilfred Drew
I have been working with relational databases for over 2 decades. ;-) That is one reason I went with the book I bought. I just have no experience with Microsoft SQL or any version of SQL. The HTML Goodies stuff looks really good and I will look it over. My first exposure to relational

Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL

2012-03-16 Thread Pat Crawford
Qw Sent from my iPhone On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Wilfred Drew dr...@tc3.edu wrote: I have been working with relational databases for over 2 decades. ;-) That is one reason I went with the book I bought. I just have no experience with Microsoft SQL or any version of SQL. The HTML

Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL

2012-03-16 Thread Ross Singer
I generally find the w3schools stuff a pretty good starting point to help wrap my head around something I don't know: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp -Ross. On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Wilfred Drew wrote: I am setting up my laptop to teach myself Microsoft SQL. I am installing SQL

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Gutenberg MARC

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Haschart
That's pretty cool. I just downloaded those records, tweaked my solrmarc import specification, and added the 466 records to our blacklight solr index. Currently they are only in our dev index, but I plan to get the OK to add them to our production index sometime next week. -Bob Haschart

[CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Redar
Hi All, We're having some fun with unicode characters in PDF generation. We have a process that automatically generates a pdf from XML input. The tool stack doesn't support multiple fonts for displaying different codepoints so we need a good pan-unicode font to bundle with the pdfs.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Gutenberg MARC

2012-03-16 Thread Bess Sadler
Nicely done, Bob! I hope you'll post the solrmarc import specs somewhere. Sounds like a writeup of your process would make a really interesting blog post I bet you're not the only person who's going to want to do that once you've got it working. Did you make any attempt at de-duping? Or do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Dueber
I don't know if it's any good, but TITUS[1] is a pan-unicode font free for non-commercial use. I don't know if that included embedding in a PDF or not. 1. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Mark Redar mark.re...@ucop.edu wrote: Hi All,