[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: Voting for Code4Lib 2014 Prepared Talks ends December 6th

2013-12-03 Thread Kevin Beswick
The program committee would like to remind everyone to submit their votes for prepared talk proposals for Code4Lib 2014 in Raleigh, NC. Voting closes this Friday, December 6th by 11:59:59pm PDT. To vote for prepared talks, visit: http://vote.code4lib.org/election/28 For more details about

[CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Varnum
Has anyone built (or is working on) a local discovery layer on top of Ex Libris' Alma? I'm thinking of VuFind or other front ends to the Alma API. -- -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum |

Re: [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

2013-12-03 Thread Demian Katz
I haven't heard about any VuFind/Alma projects yet, but I'm copying this thread to vufind-tech in case anyone there knows something that I don't. - Demian -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Varnum Sent: Tuesday, December

[CODE4LIB] FW: [VuFind-Tech] [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

2013-12-03 Thread Demian Katz
Passing this back to CODE4LIB from vufind-tech - Demian -Original Message- From: Alan Rykhus [mailto:alan.ryk...@mnsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:20 PM To: vufind-t...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma Hello, Alma does

[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: RDAP14 Call for Poster and Lightning Talks and Registration Open

2013-12-03 Thread McDonald, Robert H.
REMINDER: RDAP14 Call for Poster and Lightning Talks and Registration Open Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 March 26-28, 2014 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marinahttp://www.sheratonsandiegohotel.com/, San Diego, CA RDAP14, the fifth annual Research Data Access and Preservation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos

2013-12-03 Thread Dunn, Jon William Butcher
Hi Kelley, If you haven't already, you might want to look at the music score and sound recording FRBRization work done on the Variations-FRBR project here at Indiana University. I'm not sure how directly useful this would be for your work with moving images, but there may be some useful

[CODE4LIB] Job: Applications Analyst/Programmer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2013-12-03 Thread jobs
Applications Analyst/Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY The Research Libraries Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY is pleased to announce an opportunity for an Applications Analyst/Programmer to join the staff in the Division of the CIO. Reporting to the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications

2013-12-03 Thread Emily Lynema
Just a note that yes, the hosting committee was a bit surprised by the number of scholarships that came in this year! We realized at the last minute that perhaps we should have discussed a scholarship based SOLELY on economic need, but there just wasn't the opportunity to thoughtfully consider

[CODE4LIB] Job: Instructional Design Librarian at Weill Medical College of Cornell University

2013-12-03 Thread jobs
Instructional Design Librarian Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York City **Position Title:** Instructional Design Librarian **Department: **The Samuel J. Wood Library and The C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center **Status:** Full Time, Academic/Faculty - Non Professorial

[CODE4LIB] Job: Dean of the School of Information Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2013-12-03 Thread jobs
Dean of the School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the School of Information Studies (SOIS). UWM is one of two doctoral-granting institutions in the

[CODE4LIB] Job: Scholarly Communications Librarian at Western Washington University

2013-12-03 Thread jobs
Scholarly Communications Librarian Western Washington University Bellingham **About the Position**: Western Washington University Libraries seeks an innovative, forward-looking librarian who will build and promote the Institutional Repository (IR), as well as further scholarly communication as

[CODE4LIB] Interested in enhancing call-number browse in Millennium catalog

2013-12-03 Thread Harper, Cynthia
I'm thinking of trying to enhance the call-number browse pages on a Millennium catalog with meanings of the classification ranges taken from the LoC Classification database. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification.html a typical call-number browse page might look like this:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos

2013-12-03 Thread Kelley McGrath
Thanks, Jon. I have seen the Variations work and also talked to Jenn Riley about it. It has definitely influenced me, although we are going in a slightly different direction and moving images have some different needs from music. One thing about Variations that struck me is this paragraph from