Code4Lib attendees are welcome to attend a reception and tour of the James
B. Hunt Library on NCSU's Centennial Campus tonight (Mar. 25) from 5:00 to
7:30 PM. The library, which opened in January 2013, was recently winner of
the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries, and has been
Visual Basic is still going strong.
Conspicuous by their absence: COBOL and Fortran - also still going strong.
Miles Fidelman
Roy Tennant wrote:
Basic? Seriously? I mean, the very first language I learned, in the early
1980s, was BASIC. But come on. If you can find a person to write the
Going in the other direction from cobol and fortran -Fair warning - Putting
on java evangelist hat- :) I wonder if it might be worth suggesting to the
authors that they change java into JVM Languages and cover off Java,
Scala, Groovy,...(others). We've had lots of success in the GoKB(
Gotta have PHP in there. Also, info on XSLT would be very useful given how
often it pops up; especially when XML is used as an intermediate layer in web
facing apps.
Best regards,
Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA
Head of Library Computing and Information Systems
Assistant Professor, Graduate College
I'm also surprised not to see anything about the sql/nosql end of the equation.
Integral to a lot of apps and tools . . . at least from a web perspective (and
probably from others too).
Best regards,
Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA
Head of Library Computing and Information Systems
Assistant
Come to think of it, there's nothing there to frame the intent and scope
of the book - is it aimed at librarians who write code, or at librarians
who are trying to guide people to topical material?
Either way, it sure seems like at least three framing topics are missing:
- a general overview
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If anyone is reading this, can you get the camera operator to stop waving the
camera around.
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Here is one Sumana mentioned:
UserTesting.com
What else is out there?
- Coral
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Usability resources
Here is one
I agree with all of these points (though perhaps not barn-level enthusiasm)!
Don't shoot the messenger. ;)
This seems like a great opportunity to provide insight to the non-programmery
authors on how we can increase tech use and awareness in the library field at
large. I encourage all to get
Wasn't it OCLC that put out Passport for Windows in the late 90s which used
Basic or a close form of Basic for the scripting language jun that application.
And because it was simply a terminal program we were able to integrate it with
ILLiad until finally all support died for it or it quit
On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Come to think of it, there's nothing there to frame the intent and scope of
the book - is it aimed at librarians who write code, or at librarians who are
trying to guide people to topical material?
An excellent question, so I'm cc'ing the
I am happy to report that we have just posted a position for a SHARE
Technical Project
Mangerhttp://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/3178-arl-seeks-share-technical-project-manager,
the person who will lead the development of the SHARE notification
Possibly relevant to the keynote this morning, the University of Arizona
Libraries are in the midst of a restructuring. We have a brand new team
tentatively called User Experience Engagement, which includes functions like
usability, instructional design, marketing public relations, web
This thread is getting interesting! A few comments, inline.
Joe Hourcle wrote:
On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Come to think of it, there's nothing there to frame the intent and scope of the
book - is it aimed at librarians who write code, or at librarians who are
trying
Hi, All:
Thank you very much for your replies! They are very helpful for us to choose
our ticketing system.
Jenny
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Sent: March-24-14 8:53 PM
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Hi Jenny,
We use kayako for our ticketing system.
-Brian
Brian McBride
Head of Application Development
J. Willard Marriott Library
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brian.mcbr...@utah.edumailto:brian.mcbr...@utah.edu
On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:52, Jenny Jing
Technical Project Manager
Association of Research Libraries
Washington, D.C.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is recruiting a project manager
for an 18-month project to build the [SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)
Notification Service
Hey Code4Libers,
The proposal deadline for edUi is less than 2 weeks away! Deadline is April
4th.
http://eduiconf.org/speak-edui/
What is edUi?
edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities,
libraries, and museums.
Why Submit a Proposal?
Everyone who submits a
Thank you all for starting this vibrant thread. I wanted to address some
concerns about this book.
Concern #1. Who is it for?
This book is for librarians, administrators, students and others who are
interested in programming. If you have been programming for some time this book
may not be for
Apologies for the cross postings. . . .
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Hi Code4Libbers,
Hope everyone is enjoying the conference. I am sad I was unable to
make it but I like what I have been able to catch of the livestream.
Anyway, I wanted to get some community thoughts on an issue I have
been noticing lately. I have run into an assortment of faculty that
are
Matthew Sherman writes
I have run into an assortment of faculty that are convinced the
Research Gate should replace the institutional repository at their
schools.
It will only be a short time until ResearchGate is sold to an
established player. I heard from a well-informed source that
Some things that came up in the UX discussion (well, the third of it I was
in) at the breakout session, about how to get your library to be more open
to UX:
Several libraries (Duke is one) use Steve Krug http://www.sensible.com's
approach to getting buy-in on usability. They get a bunch of their
On Mar 25, 2014, at 4:07 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote:
Some things that came up in the UX discussion (well, the third of it I was
in) at the breakout session, about how to get your library to be more open
to UX:
[trimmed, although, I agree on the Steve Krug books]
I apologize for the self
While I'm happy to MC (again) tomorrow afternoon, I thought I would open it
up to see if someone else might want to volunteer. If that's you, feel
free to ping me (just so I know) and remove my name from the wiki [1].
Rosalyn
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