[CODE4LIB] Position Posting - IDS Project Executive Director
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 collaborative enterprise. The IDS Project focuses on collaborative problem-solving and technology developments that produce high-impact results both locally and nationally in resource sharing, acquisitions, collection development, search and publishing services. If leading collaborative teams, developing innovative technology and organizing a national conference recognized for its community and innovation interests you, we hope you will seriously consider this opportunity to join us. Full details about the position and the organization are available at: idsproject.org If you have any questions about the IDS Project and this position, please feel free to contact me. Cyril Cyril Oberlander Interim Director Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo 1 College Circle Geneseo, NY 14454 TEL: 585-245-5528 FAX: 585-245-5769 Skype: cyriloberlander AIM: electronicCyril PS: Apologies for any duplicate posts Position Description: The State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo seeks an Executive Director to lead the Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project, http://idsproject.org http://idsproject.org a dynamic, expanding, nationally-recognized resource sharing cooperative of 72+ academic and research libraries throughout New York State (list of current members http://idsproject.org/executivedirectorsearch/Member%20List%2073.pdf ). The IDS Project is a special statewide program implemented and administered since 2004 within Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo. IDS Project members incorporate a strong identity as a unified community of trust and support that shares a combined collection of over 40 million volumes and hundreds of thousands of articles. A major goal of the Project is to continually develop and objectively evaluate innovative resource-sharing strategies, policies and procedures that will optimize mutual access to the information resources of all Project libraries. Member libraries agree to commit to a common set of performance benchmarks and do not charge each other for ILL transactions. The open source software and organizational strategies developed by the IDS Project are being adopted by several other regional library consortia. The IDS Project Executive Director reports to the SUNY Geneseo Milne Library Director. Specific Responsibilities: 1. Provide strong programmatic and administrative leadership in guiding the future of resource sharing among New York State libraries 2. Provide overall organizational management of the IDS Project's operation and services 3. Monitor Project budgets and expenditures, and develop additional funding streams to support IDS Project, including sponsorship, grant proposals, cost-recovery models vendor exhibit/sponsorship fees 4. Guide development and provide overall supervision of a variety of IDS Project events, including institutes, webinars, workshops, and an annual summer conference attended by 275+ 5. Effectively market and communicate the vision of a unified community of trust and support, focused on constant development of innovative resource sharing services within the IDS Project 6. Coordinate periodic review and enhancement of IDS Project's strategic plan with the IDS Project Council and IDS Project Administrative Team 7. Lead Project Administrative Team meetings and provide overall direction of various Project teams involved with the mentor/training program, technology development, and other cooperative team assignments 8. Leverage strong partnerships with other library organizations throughout New York State. 9. Represent the IDS Project via active participation and making presentations at regional, state and national association meetings and conferences 10. Recruit new libraries to join the IDS Project and work with stakeholders to recruit librarians from member libraries to participate in Project teams 11. Provide excellent administrative leadership to several simultaneous resource sharing projects 12. Stay current with research and trends regarding resource sharing technology and best practices 13. Monitor Project-wide adherence to IDS Project contractual benchmarks 14. Oversee IDS Project Web presence, including enhancement and redesign of IDS Project website 15. Hire, train, supervise, and evaluate 35 hour/week administrative assistant 16. Collaborate with Milne's Library Administrative Aide and Business Manager on IDS Project issues 17. Contribute to the development of state and regional planning of library services 18. Continue to develop strategic partnerships with IDS Project partners (http://idsproject.org/About/Partners.aspx) Required Qualifications: .
[CODE4LIB] Job: Director of the Library Information Technology Office, Columbia University
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, staff and public computing, servers and storage systems. Many of the projects will require collaboration with other departments within Columbia's Digital Program and Technology Services (DPTS) division as well as the Columbia University Information Technology Office. This position has four direct reports and a total staff of sixteen, along with an equipment budget of approximately $750,000. Reporting to the Associate Vice President of Digital Programs and Technology Services, key responsibilities include: Manage personnel, including recruitment, evaluation, training and development; Oversee planning, implementation, configuration and ongoing support for the enterprise Library management system and related applications. Play lead role in vendor assessment and coordination; Oversee desktop and administrative technology services, including networking, computing, peripherals and Help Desk. Administer technology budget, upgrades, and replacement cycles; Oversees administration, planning and budget for Windows/Linux servers and storage for staff and public-facing applications and services. Oversees specialized applications and in-house development; Play lead role in technology strategic planning, analysis and assessment; Manage the development, implementation and maintenance of Information Services IT policies and procedures; Keep up to date with latest technology trends as applicable to the organization; Represent the Libraries in campus, regional and national meetings. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 7 years of experience in related fields (or equivalent combination of education and experience); demonstrated management experience; demonstrated leadership, and organizational skills; strong knowledge of computer hardware, networking, systems administration, software tools and platforms to support commercial and custom software applications; experience working with servers, storage, desktop and laptop support, networking printing, help desk, emerging trends in IT; strong written and verbal communication skills; strong service orientation. Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience in academic and/or library IT strongly preferred. Master’s degree in computer science or related field preferred. To apply, please visit : jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=129238 Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
[CODE4LIB] Job: WorldShare Platform Community Manager at OCLC at OCLC
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 only of library workflows, but also of platform development processes. Strong knowledge of other business process systems, such as Blackboard, PeopleSoft, and 3M, as well as 3rd party platforms and social networks is also a plus. Robust knowledge of WMS functionality and integration with other OCLC products and services would be extremely beneficial. See the full job description on the [OCLC Careers website](https://jobs- oclc.icims.com/jobs/2075/job?hub=6) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/859/
[CODE4LIB] Job: WorldShare Platform Technical Product Manager at OCLC at OCLC
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 and internal needs associated with the use of services and development/integration of apps; she/he will also work across portfolios to coordinate, from a product perspective, service development and exposure. The incumbent will also act as a liaison across infrastructure teams (IDM/WSKEY, MSI, etc.) to ensure an effective, consistent user experience. For a full job description and to apply please visit the [OCLC Careers website](https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/jobs/2076/job?hub=6) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/860/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL
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). http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/database/article.php/3478051 Best, Arianna Schlegel *Library Web Applications Developer Central Connecticut State University * On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Wilfred Drew dr...@tc3.edu wrote: I am setting up my laptop to teach myself Microsoft SQL. I am installing SQL Express. I purchased Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-in-one desk reference for Dummies. Any suggestions on other tools to add to my laptop to learn SQL? Preferably free. Bill Drew Web: BillTheLibrarian.com Voice/SMS/: 607-745-4461 Email: bill.d...@gmail.com G+: gplus.to/BillDrew Twitter/Skype: BillDrew4 Web Design, Social Media, New Tech, Assessment, Change Management, Innovation, Mobile Tech, and more. [cid:image001.png@01CD0381.754C6DA0]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL
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 databases was James Wetherbe's book Systems Analysis and Design: Traditional, Structured, and Advanceed Concepts and Techniques- 2nd Editon in a systems analysis course at the library school at Drexel university in 1984. Keep the suggestions coming, please. Bill Drew -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of arianna Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:48 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL 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). http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/database/article.php/3478051 Best, Arianna Schlegel *Library Web Applications Developer Central Connecticut State University * On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Wilfred Drew dr...@tc3.edu wrote: I am setting up my laptop to teach myself Microsoft SQL. I am installing SQL Express. I purchased Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-in-one desk reference for Dummies. Any suggestions on other tools to add to my laptop to learn SQL? Preferably free. Bill Drew Web: BillTheLibrarian.com Voice/SMS/: 607-745-4461 Email: bill.d...@gmail.com G+: gplus.to/BillDrew Twitter/Skype: BillDrew4 Web Design, Social Media, New Tech, Assessment, Change Management, Innovation, Mobile Tech, and more. [cid:image001.png@01CD0381.754C6DA0]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL
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 Goodies stuff looks really good and I will look it over. My first exposure to relational databases was James Wetherbe's book Systems Analysis and Design: Traditional, Structured, and Advanceed Concepts and Techniques- 2nd Editon in a systems analysis course at the library school at Drexel university in 1984. Keep the suggestions coming, please. Bill Drew -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of arianna Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:48 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL 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). http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/database/article.php/3478051 Best, Arianna Schlegel *Library Web Applications Developer Central Connecticut State University * On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Wilfred Drew dr...@tc3.edu wrote: I am setting up my laptop to teach myself Microsoft SQL. I am installing SQL Express. I purchased Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-in-one desk reference for Dummies. Any suggestions on other tools to add to my laptop to learn SQL? Preferably free. Bill Drew Web: BillTheLibrarian.com Voice/SMS/: 607-745-4461 Email: bill.d...@gmail.com G+: gplus.to/BillDrew Twitter/Skype: BillDrew4 Web Design, Social Media, New Tech, Assessment, Change Management, Innovation, Mobile Tech, and more. [cid:image001.png@01CD0381.754C6DA0]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL
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 Express. I purchased Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-in-one desk reference for Dummies. Any suggestions on other tools to add to my laptop to learn SQL? Preferably free. Bill Drew Web: BillTheLibrarian.com Voice/SMS/: 607-745-4461 Email: bill.d...@gmail.com G+: gplus.to/BillDrew Twitter/Skype: BillDrew4 Web Design, Social Media, New Tech, Assessment, Change Management, Innovation, Mobile Tech, and more. [cid:image001.png@01CD0381.754C6DA0]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Gutenberg MARC
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 On 3/14/2012 4:43 PM, Robin Dean wrote: Hi Matt, The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) has a free download of MARC records for the top 500 most popular ebooks from Project Gutenberg: http://www.clicweb.org/import-marc-records The records have been cleaned up/enhanced by catalogers, including the addition of an 856$z for all the ebook records: http://www.clicweb.org/images/stories/ediscover/history_of_record_enhancement_.pdf Hope this helps! Your friendly fan of Colorado consortia, Robin Dean Director, Alliance Digital Repository Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Amory Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] NON-MARC ILS? Thanks for all the responses. Perhaps I woke up thos morning on the wrong side of MARC. What I'm really after is a way to display links to project Gutenberg titles in III Encore and not having MARC records is one technical hurdle, as is not having consistent display of URLs from field 856. Thanks in advance for your thoughts! Matt Sent from my iPhone
[CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?
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. Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has good coverage for latin cyrillic characters but has no CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $). A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters. Does anyone know of a good pan-unicode free font that includes CJK codepoints that looks good? Gnu unifont has the coverage, but it is not the best looking font. Barring that, we're thinking of rolling our own pan-unicode font. There are good open source fonts for portions of the unicode character sets. We're hoping to find some way to take a number of open source fonts and combine them into one large pan-unicode font. Does anyone have experience with font authoring and merging different fonts? It looks as though FontForge can merge fonts, but it's not clear how to deal with overlapping codepoints in the merged fonts. Thanks, Mark
Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Gutenberg MARC
Nicely done, Bob! I hope you'll post the solrmarc import specs somewhere. Sounds like a writeup of your process would make a really interesting blog post I bet you're not the only person who's going to want to do that once you've got it working. Did you make any attempt at de-duping? Or do you know that UVa doesn't already have a catalog entry for any of the books? Or is it a different edition so it doesn't matter? Bess On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Robert Haschart wrote: That's pretty cool. I just downloaded those records, tweaked my solrmarc import specification, and added the 466 records to our blacklight solr index. Currently they are only in our dev index, but I plan to get the OK to add them to our production index sometime next week. -Bob Haschart On 3/14/2012 4:43 PM, Robin Dean wrote: Hi Matt, The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) has a free download of MARC records for the top 500 most popular ebooks from Project Gutenberg: http://www.clicweb.org/import-marc-records The records have been cleaned up/enhanced by catalogers, including the addition of an 856$z for all the ebook records: http://www.clicweb.org/images/stories/ediscover/history_of_record_enhancement_.pdf Hope this helps! Your friendly fan of Colorado consortia, Robin Dean Director, Alliance Digital Repository Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Amory Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] NON-MARC ILS? Thanks for all the responses. Perhaps I woke up thos morning on the wrong side of MARC. What I'm really after is a way to display links to project Gutenberg titles in III Encore and not having MARC records is one technical hurdle, as is not having consistent display of URLs from field 856. Thanks in advance for your thoughts! Matt Sent from my iPhone
Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?
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, 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. Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has good coverage for latin cyrillic characters but has no CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $). A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters. Does anyone know of a good pan-unicode free font that includes CJK codepoints that looks good? Gnu unifont has the coverage, but it is not the best looking font. Barring that, we're thinking of rolling our own pan-unicode font. There are good open source fonts for portions of the unicode character sets. We're hoping to find some way to take a number of open source fonts and combine them into one large pan-unicode font. Does anyone have experience with font authoring and merging different fonts? It looks as though FontForge can merge fonts, but it's not clear how to deal with overlapping codepoints in the merged fonts. Thanks, Mark -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library
