[CODE4LIB] Electronic Resources Manager position open

2011-07-30 Thread Linda Wobbe
Saint Mary's College seeks qualified applicants for our Library Electronic Resources Manager position. You will be responsible for improving the organization, functionality, and accessibility of Library electronic resources. You will implement open source and purchases software. Skills neede

[CODE4LIB] Job opportunities: project manager & developers for Revs Program at Stanford

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Cramer
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) is seeking to hire three positions to support the Revs Program at Stanford (http://revs.stanford.edu). This program is a transdisciplinary research program, dedicated to the study of the past, present and future of the au

Re: [CODE4LIB] opds specification

2011-07-30 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Enrico Silterra : my thought on OPDSv would be that perhaps libraries should offer their catalogs of ebooks as opds catalogs -- and 'purchase' in the opds sense would be perhaps 'checking out' the ebook? or adding the ebook to one's own ebook library as a URL -- not as a download? how

Re: [CODE4LIB] opds specification

2011-07-30 Thread Enrico Silterra
my thought on OPDSv would be that perhaps libraries should offer their catalogs of ebooks as opds catalogs -- and 'purchase' in the opds sense would be perhaps 'checking out' the ebook? or adding the ebook to one's own ebook library as a URL -- not as a download? how do folks see this working in

[CODE4LIB] opds specification

2011-07-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
> http://opds-spec.org/2011/06/15/opds-1-1-call-for-comments/ By way of the Code4Lib mailing list and Ed Summers of the Library Of Congress, I learned of a call for comments regarding a document (book) catalog specification called ODPS. From the document's Introduction: The Open Publication D

Re: [CODE4LIB] opds specification

2011-07-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: >> http://opds-spec.org/2011/06/15/opds-1-1-call-for-comments/ > > By way of the Code4Lib mailing list and Ed Sh!t Don't you hate when that happens. -- Earache Least Moron

Re: [CODE4LIB] OPDS 1.1 review period

2011-07-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Ed Summers wrote: > http://opds-spec.org/2011/06/15/opds-1-1-call-for-comments/ Ed, thank you for bringing this to our attention. From the document's Introduction: The Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format is a syndication format for electro

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-30 Thread Madrigal, Juan A
It's always good to know C if you ever need to write an Apache module! Juan Madrigal Web Developer University of Miami Richter Library On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:39 AM, "Luciano Ramalho" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Genny Engel wrote: >> C++ might be a better choice if you want to sta

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-30 Thread Luciano Ramalho
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Genny Engel wrote: > C++ might be a better choice if you want to start off with a grounding in > object-oriented programming.  Or maybe Java.  I'm about to start the C++ > course at the local junior college.  Which reminds me to mention, it probably > doesn't ma