Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
Hi, Jeannie, We didn't have any problem porting old guides over. Haven't found any major or minor problems. I just completed one for our student veterans. Nothing fancy but simple and to the point. Here's the link: http://niagara.libguides.com/veterans Regards, j0e Joseph Umhauer Assistant Library Director for Technical Services Niagara University Library 716-286-8015 jumha...@niagara.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Graham, Jeannie Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav Our library is also just getting ready to delve into LibGuides v2 so I'm also interested in hearing what others are doing! Thank you, -- Jeannie Graham Jeannie Graham California State University, Chico Meriam Library - Library Technology Specialist Chico, CA 95929-0295 jgra...@csuchico.edu 530-898-4311 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brad Coffield Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:19 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav Hi all, I'm finally diving into our Libguides v2 migration and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experience/choices regarding templating. (Or even some code!) I'm thinking left-nav is the way to go. Has anyone split the main content column into two smaller columns? Done that with a column-width-spanning box atop the main content area? Any other neato templates ideas? We are in the process of building a style guide for all libguides authors to use. And also some sort of peer-review process to help enforce the style guide. I'm thinking we are going to want to restrict all authors to left-nav templates but perhaps the ideal solution would be to require left-nav of all but to have a variety of custom left-nav templates to choose from. Any thoughts are much appreciated! Warm regards, Brad -- Brad Coffield, MLIS Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian Saint Francis University 814-472-3315 bcoffi...@francis.edumailto:bcoffi...@francis.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data
I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel
[CODE4LIB] Reminder: AMIA/DLF Hack Day
Dear all, The AMIA/DLF Hack Day http://www.amiaconference.net/amiadlf-hack-day-2014/ is fast approaching! This FREE event on Wednesday, Oct 8 at the Hyatt Regency in Savannah, GA will provide attendees with an opportunity to work intensively together to solve a shared challenge or develop an innovative solution for the audiovisual archiving community. You do not need to have any technical skills to join a project -- just be able to communicate your needs, or bring sample data. Find out about some of the project proposals that have already been submitted through the Hack Day wiki http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/Association_of_Moving_Image_Archivists_%26_Digital_Library_Federation_Hack_Day_2014, and feel free to add your own! Don't feel like hacking? There will be a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon occurring simultaneously. Everyone is welcome, provided that you are willing to participate! No onlookers, observers, lurkers, please. Registration for the AMIA conference is not required to attend Hack Day. All Hack Day attendees are required to register through a separate form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1P8iQfCPub8abaWGUcl-WGPYnEvr7CxIFKK0dYA3VHaA/viewform (even if you already signed up when you did your conference registration). Did we mention there will be prizes?! Hope to see you there! -- Kara, Lauren, Steven, and Kathryn
Re: [CODE4LIB] PDX conference: invited speakers
This thread motivated me to add a few folks, but of note are the following people from the Pacific Northwest: - Amelia Abreu, a UX practitioner based in Portland and a PhD candidate at the University of Washington iSchool. Amelia's writing focuses on the intersection of user experience, data collection, and gender. - Jennifer O'Neal, Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives, who has research interests in international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. - Kim Christen Withey, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Kim is the director of the Mukurtu CMS project http://mukurtu.org/, an open source, freely available, international standards-based tool driven by the specific concerns and content management needs of Indigenous communities. Mark On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: What Tara said, Certainly one of the benefits of moving this conference around geographically must surely be the opportunity to pull on local talent. Thanks for pointing that out! Roy On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.ca wrote: Hi, The current list of proposed invited speakers has some great ideas on it: http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Invited_Speakers_Nominations I'm sure there's some kickass speakers in Portland who might be willing to speak. After all OSCON is in Portland, Portland hosted Typecon 2013, World Domination Summit (ugh), and home to so many people doing traditional things in new ways, disrupting existing business models, creative thinkers and fine purveyors of bespoke just about everything. Looking for local talent means saving on travel and accommodation costs too, or means being able to pay a higher speaker fee. I wonder if there are locals who have ideas of people they think we would benefit from learning from. Cheers, Tara
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
Long time lurker, second time poster (if memory serves). We launched our new library website yesterday, which is entirely built on LibGuides 2. You can see it here: http://library.acg.edu/ For simplicity’s sake we used only two templates: a full width template for single page guides (e.g., our home page). a content template that uses ~2/3 of the page for the content and ~1/3 for guide navigation. There are no dropdown menus anywhere, for the reasons people mentioned, nor do we use two columns for content. (Some of the landing pages use a small grid, but that’s about it.) We use LG’s built-in second column wrapped around an `aside` and placed at the bottom of the main content for related info. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see what I mean: http://library.acg.edu/citations/apa I decided to keep the navigation menu on the right to emphasize the main content. My guess is that this won’t work very well for sections with more narrative. My inspiration (GOV.uk) uses wizard navigation, which LG2 supports. That may be a way of handling this issue. I put the site together with almost no usability testing. I’ll have to grab some students in the coming weeks and find out how bad things really are :) You can see a slightly abstracted version of the content template, as well as other useful LG2 thingies in this gist: https://gist.github.com/alehandrof/9f083aa03c287931d9f0 The design was written in Sass on top of an imported and customized Bootstrap 3.2. There's an option in the LG admin to disable the default Bootstrap and I only had to write a few hundred lines to override aspects of the default LG stylesheets. Because I built the design on top of Bootstrap there was very little tweaking necessary for the admin side to work properly. Hope this helps, Alex -- Alex Armstrong E-Resource/Reference Assistant The American College of Greece Libraries, John S. Bailey Library 6 Gravias Street | GR 153 42 Agia Paraskevi | Athens, Greece Phone: +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1274, 1267 | Fax: +30 210 601 7795 Email: aarmstr...@acg.edu On 2014-09-19 12:31 AM, Joshua Welker wrote: That's a good idea. I changed the template using Bootstrap classes so that the sidebar will appear below the main column on small screens ( 1024px roughly). But I might consider hiding the side completely. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Schofield Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav I love your minimal template. We're experimenting with similar minimalism. If you all can't agree on the existence of the right column, you might compromise and use media queries to display: none; until the screen is sufficiently wide. E.g., 1140px so it will only pop on widescreen monitors and avoid almost all tablet orientations. Good work. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav I am in the middle of building a very minimalist LibGuides 2.0 template to go with our new website. Here's the current status: http://ucmo.beta.libguides.com/test-guide. We are still torn on whether to have any side columns. We currently have a right column just for important site-wide information. We used the right rather than left with the rationale that it is not an essential navigation menu and that we didn't want it to be the first thing users notice. Content should come first. The fact that users will not focus heavily on the right-hand content is actually a good thing in this instance. I go back and forth on whether to scrap the side column. I am pretty adamant that there should only be one column for page content, although I am prepared to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brad Coffield Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav Benjamin: Unfortunately we have authors who want *three* columns plus left-nav... LOL Margaret: Love the floating nav on that page. It's exciting that we'll be able to leverage Bootstrap with our guides now. Moving the entire library website to libguides CMS is looking more and more promising. Some more thoughts: I'm no UX expert but is it generally agreed that left-nav is the much better choice? It seems like it to me. Given current web wide conventions etc. One big issue to switching to left-nav in v2 is the amount of work it's going to take everyone to convert all guides to the new layout. Which is one of those things that both shouldn't matter (when looking at it in a principledness way - that is, Whatever is best
[CODE4LIB] VuFind Summit 2014: Registration Open
Apologies for cross-posting This year's VuFind Summit will be held on October 13-14 at Villanova University (near Philadelphia). Registration for the two-day event is $40 and includes both morning refreshments and a full lunch for both days. It is not too late to submit a talk proposal and, if accepted, have your registration fee waived. Day one will contain structured talks (including details on VuFind's technical architecture as well as discussions of specific applications of the software). Day two will be an unstructured hackfest where developers can compare notes and work together on problems. While many talks will be technical in nature, and there will be coding going on, this is not a developer-exclusive event. All are welcome, and if you let us know what you hope to gain from the event, we will do our best to accommodate you! More details, and a link to the registration form, can be found here: https://vufind.org/wiki/vufind_summit_2014 Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions, and I hope to see you in October! - Demian
[CODE4LIB] Job: Curation Archivist at University of Michigan
Curation Archivist University of Michigan Ann Arbor The Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan invites applications from innovative and creative individuals with demonstrated technical skills for an open title position in the Curation department of the Library. Position Focus: This permanent position will play an essential role in the Librarys Curation operations and assist in the Librarys current initiatives to implement Archivematica, ArchivesSpace and AEON and revise existing ingest, processing, and descriptive workflows for all collection genres and formats. Moving forward, the archivist will monitor emerging trends and best practices and build capacity to (1) implement technologies appropriate to the Librarys needs and policy framework and (2) develop strategies and resources to preserve and provide access to new and/or complex data types. Additional duties will include the arrangement and description of digital and hybrid collections and curation of archived websites social media content and technologies. Responsibilities* * Support the Librarys move to Archivematica, ArchivesSpace, and AEON systems including system configuration and account configuration. * Work with lead archivist for Description and Workflow Management and lead archivist for Curation to adapt current descriptive EAD practices; to migrate data from legacy systems to ArchivesSpace; and to integrate ArchivesSpace EAD with the University of Michigans finding aid access platform (DLXS). * Help create new processes and documentation for digital archives ingest workflows with Archivematica. * Develop procedures and documentation for the ingest and preservation of complex and/or new data types, including relational databases, content management systems, social media platforms, CAD files, digital artwork, etc. * Support Librarys goal of efficient and integrated (analog and digital) curation activities. * Process digital and hybrid collections using standard tools and archival appraisal. * Troubleshoot workflow procedures; develop workarounds, including batch files or scripts, as needed. * Monitor emerging trends and technologies related to digital archives. * Research and implement emerging technologies (such as BitCurator and digital forensic tools) appropriate to the Librarys needs and policy framework. Research and price equipment purchases and assist in the installation of specialized software as needed. * Actively represent the Bentley Historical Library in discussions with peer institutions and among national and regional professional organizations. * Manage and develop relational databases (including Filemaker and MYSQL); migrate data from legacy databases as needed to improve data collection and overall efficiency of operations. Required Qualifications* * Mastery of core archival concepts (provenance, original order, etc.) and functions (appraisal, arrangement, description, etc.). * Expert knowledge of current and emerging trends, tools, and best practices in digital archives (including OAIS standards and principles of Trustworthy Digital Repositories). * Familiarity with issues and considerations related to the creation and preservation of born-digital and digitized archives in various formats. * Practical understanding of important features and functionality for digital collection interfaces as they relate to users needs and requirements. * In-depth knowledge of descriptive and metadata standards such as EAD, DACS, MARC21, METS, and PREMIS; experience creating, reviewing and editing metadata for digital objects. * Awareness of legal and ethical issues affecting privacy, records restrictions, and access as they pertain to born-digital and digitized materials. * Proven capacity to acquire new skills and to synthesize and act upon complex technical information and developments. * Demonstrated technical expertise, including practical knowledge of HTML, XML, and XSLT, Windows and Linux shell languages, and programming languages such as Python, Perl, PHP, etc. * Demonstrated knowledge of relational database design (Filemaker and MySQL). * Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, manage time efficiently, and achieve goals. * Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work collegially in a dynamic environment. Required Education and Experience: * ALA-accredited Masters degree in library or information studies, plus a minimum of 2 years of experience with digital resources in archival collections. Additional Information About the Bentley Historical Library: The Bentley Historical Library was established in 1935 by the University of Michigan Regents to carry out two functions: to serve as the official archives of the University and to document the history of the state of Michigan and the activities of its people, organizations and voluntary associations. Some six decades after its
Re: [CODE4LIB] PDX conference: invited speakers
I asked a friend about local-to-PDX technology people who might be great speakers. He recommended two people: Selena Deckelman and Deborah Bryant. Both live in Portland. I'll add these to the wiki later today. Selena Deckelmann is a major contributor to PostgreSQL and a data architect at Mozilla. She's one of The Ada Initiative advisors.She's a very experienced speaker (http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/) and looks like an interesting speaker (Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE It looks like she's on an email sabbatical (http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2014/05/26/personal-email-sabbatical-july-10-october-15-2014/) but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to get in touch with her. According to the internet, she also raises chickens. Deborah Bryant's is currently Red Hat's Senior Director Open Source and Standards. Her experience is broad and deep: https://www.linkedin.com/in/opengovernment Her bio is impressive: http://debbryant.com Her work with open source adoption in government would make her qualified to give us advice on how to push things within the institutions that we work in. For me, the most successful keynotes are people from outside the library community who are unexpected, thoughtful, inspiring and skilled presenters. In the past I've programmed Jer Thorpe (who at that time was the Data Artist in Residence at the NYT), Andrea Reimer (a local politician who was behind the open data push at the City of Vancouver), Zak Greant (open source technologist) and Marian Bantjes (designer and creative typographer). I've also helped organize conferences where we invited authors to keynote: Arundathi Roy, Ivan Coyote and John Valliant. While I've been resistant to book authors because I balk at libraries are about books! librarians love books! these were very successful because someone from the organizing team briefed each author that we wanted them to talk about their ideas and not to give us a I remember when i was a kid and loved going to the library feel good, surface deep, nostalgia-laced talk. We asked all of these people to talk about what they know, and to assume that we'll make the links to libraries or figure out what we can learn from the expertise that they share. Here's two more half-baked Portland ideas: Someone from Bitch Media who run Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture that started in 1996. Their content has always been thoughtful and thought provoking. With #libs4ada raising over $16k, there's an obvious interest in making our community more inclusive. If we wanted to develop a more complex and nuanced understanding of feminisms, someone from Bitch Media might be a good fit: http://bitchmagazine.org/staff Someone from the Rebuilding Centre, a non-profit that sells recycled doors, windows, and other building supplies. Their main building is beautiful and wacky looking: http://bit.ly/1uM4g5M If there's someone there who is a dynamic speaker it might be interesting to hear their thoughts on reuse and building new models for doing stuff. I don't know anyone at either of these organizations--does anyone here? Tara On 2014-09-19, 7:51 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: This thread motivated me to add a few folks, but of note are the following people from the Pacific Northwest: - Amelia Abreu, a UX practitioner based in Portland and a PhD candidate at the University of Washington iSchool. Amelia's writing focuses on the intersection of user experience, data collection, and gender. - Jennifer O'Neal, Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives, who has research interests in international indigenous activism, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, and indigenous use of new media and technology. - Kim Christen Withey, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program in the Department of English and Director of Digital Projects at the Plateau Center, Native American Programs at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Kim is the director of the Mukurtu CMS project http://mukurtu.org/, an open source, freely available, international standards-based tool driven by the specific concerns and content management needs of Indigenous communities. Mark On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: What Tara said, Certainly one of the benefits of moving this conference around geographically must surely be the opportunity to pull on local talent. Thanks for pointing that out! Roy On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.ca wrote: Hi, The current list of proposed invited speakers has some great ideas on it: http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Invited_Speakers_Nominations I'm sure there's some kickass speakers in Portland who might be willing to
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data
I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. https://developers.google.com/chart/ -Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
Nice job. I like the simplicity. Let me know how the usability testing goes. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:28 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav Long time lurker, second time poster (if memory serves). We launched our new library website yesterday, which is entirely built on LibGuides 2. You can see it here: http://library.acg.edu/ For simplicity’s sake we used only two templates: a full width template for single page guides (e.g., our home page). a content template that uses ~2/3 of the page for the content and ~1/3 for guide navigation. There are no dropdown menus anywhere, for the reasons people mentioned, nor do we use two columns for content. (Some of the landing pages use a small grid, but that’s about it.) We use LG’s built-in second column wrapped around an `aside` and placed at the bottom of the main content for related info. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see what I mean: http://library.acg.edu/citations/apa I decided to keep the navigation menu on the right to emphasize the main content. My guess is that this won’t work very well for sections with more narrative. My inspiration (GOV.uk) uses wizard navigation, which LG2 supports. That may be a way of handling this issue. I put the site together with almost no usability testing. I’ll have to grab some students in the coming weeks and find out how bad things really are :) You can see a slightly abstracted version of the content template, as well as other useful LG2 thingies in this gist: https://gist.github.com/alehandrof/9f083aa03c287931d9f0 The design was written in Sass on top of an imported and customized Bootstrap 3.2. There's an option in the LG admin to disable the default Bootstrap and I only had to write a few hundred lines to override aspects of the default LG stylesheets. Because I built the design on top of Bootstrap there was very little tweaking necessary for the admin side to work properly. Hope this helps, Alex -- Alex Armstrong E-Resource/Reference Assistant The American College of Greece Libraries, John S. Bailey Library 6 Gravias Street | GR 153 42 Agia Paraskevi | Athens, Greece Phone: +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1274, 1267 | Fax: +30 210 601 7795 Email: aarmstr...@acg.edu On 2014-09-19 12:31 AM, Joshua Welker wrote: That's a good idea. I changed the template using Bootstrap classes so that the sidebar will appear below the main column on small screens ( 1024px roughly). But I might consider hiding the side completely. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Schofield Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav I love your minimal template. We're experimenting with similar minimalism. If you all can't agree on the existence of the right column, you might compromise and use media queries to display: none; until the screen is sufficiently wide. E.g., 1140px so it will only pop on widescreen monitors and avoid almost all tablet orientations. Good work. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav I am in the middle of building a very minimalist LibGuides 2.0 template to go with our new website. Here's the current status: http://ucmo.beta.libguides.com/test-guide. We are still torn on whether to have any side columns. We currently have a right column just for important site-wide information. We used the right rather than left with the rationale that it is not an essential navigation menu and that we didn't want it to be the first thing users notice. Content should come first. The fact that users will not focus heavily on the right-hand content is actually a good thing in this instance. I go back and forth on whether to scrap the side column. I am pretty adamant that there should only be one column for page content, although I am prepared to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brad Coffield Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav Benjamin: Unfortunately we have authors who want *three* columns plus left-nav... LOL Margaret: Love the floating nav on that page. It's exciting that we'll be able to leverage Bootstrap with our guides now. Moving the entire library website to libguides CMS is looking more and more promising. Some more thoughts: I'm no UX expert but is it generally agreed that
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data
Definitely Highcharts. I have used it on a few projects, and it is fantastic. It's free for non-commercial use. Great documentation and support. It also has plugins for several web app frameworks like Rails, Django, Yii, etc. Very helpful if you are going to use one of those to build your dashboard. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kaile Zhu Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:05 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. https://developers.google.com/chart/ -Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data
There's also C3 which is a D3-based chart library. It's supposed to make using D3 a little easier. I haven't used it myself - just bookmarked it for future reference. http://c3js.org/ Heather - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Heather Klish Systems Librarian University Library Technology Tufts University heather.kl...@tufts.edu 617.627.5853 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michel, Jason Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:26 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data
Hi, I parked these links in my pile of links for later, perhaps they'll help you with your project? Dashing is a nice framework to handle making a dashboard: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ Here's a writeup of how someone used Raspberry Pis and TVs to put dashboards around their office. http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/business/how-to-set-up-a-killer-audiovisual-system-for-your-office --Hardy From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Michel, Jason [miche...@miamioh.edu] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel
[CODE4LIB] Job: Director of Information Systems at Modern Language Association
Job Description The Modern Language Association of America seeks a Director of Information Systems to establish and oversee the association's technical vision. Under the supervision of the executive director, the director manages the operating environment and drives operational efficiencies, collaborates with colleagues on new product innovation and development, and aligns the association’s technology strategy with its mission by implementing and managing reliable and scalable technology infrastructure, applications, and processes. The director also establishes and manages key metrics for analyzing user experience and for measuring and optimizing user satisfaction. Requirements • Master’s degree in a relevant field. • At least 5 years’ experience in technical project management, with 3 years of increasingly responsible managerial experience. Some experience in an information-publishing environment preferred. • Working knowledge of enterprise applications, databases, development tools and environments, frameworks and scripting languages, and open-source software. • Working knowledge of enterprise and information-publishing technologies, trends, and best practices. • Working knowledge of user experience (UX) analysis and optimization. • Experience with Lotus Notes or Oracle databases and applications a plus. About The Modern Language Association Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. The *MLA International Bibliography* is a database of two million bibliographic citation records from 1926 to the present. In 2013, the Modern Language Association launched *MLA Commons* to expand the opportunities for its members to communicate their teaching experiences and collaborate on scholarly research. The MLA has an annual convention, works with related organizations, and sustains one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. Benefits - intellectually stimulating work environment - competitive salary - generous vacation and sick time - flexible work hours - 403(b) retirement plan - individual health and dental plans are offered with no shared premium cost Applications https://apply.interfolio.com/26685 Please submit a letter of application, vitae, and the names of three references to Rosemary G. Feal, MLA executive director, through Interfolio using this link. https://apply.interfolio.com/26685 The MLA is an equal opportunity employer. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data
Wow. Highcharts looks to be an excellent tool. Thanks for the tip! Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote: Definitely Highcharts. I have used it on a few projects, and it is fantastic. It's free for non-commercial use. Great documentation and support. It also has plugins for several web app frameworks like Rails, Django, Yii, etc. Very helpful if you are going to use one of those to build your dashboard. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kaile Zhu Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:05 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. https://developers.google.com/chart/ -Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
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Highcharts truly is a wonderful tool. However, it can be onerous to get it to accept datetime values but the documentation and examples are great (http://www.highcharts.com/demo/). You can theme your charts, be interactive, etc. It is all built and used via JavaScript so having a firm foundation or being comfortable to make changes in that language is a requirement. The interactive facets of Highcharts that I appreciate the most are interactive zooming (for dense data) and the ability to click on a series and have the chart redrawn with only the currently selected -- automatically updating the axes if necessary and animating the transition to the new data set as well! You can also have the data update live on a regular interval if applicable. We decided to combine some of our top priority statistics and graphs into a single view here: http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/dashboard/public.php Our dashboard interface has come a long way and is powered through a fairly robust back-end of various factories of information and widgets of data to choose from. You are welcome to take the interface as an inspiration and see the JavaScript in the source files that drive the display. Feel free to contact me with questions, Victor Replogle University Libraries...A destination for research, learning, and friends Library Technologies Support Analyst University Libraries765.285.8032 Ball State University 765.285.2008 (fax) Muncie, IN 47306 vreplo...@bsu.edu www.bsu.edu/library The University Libraries provides services that support student pursuits for academic success and faculty endeavors for knowledge creation and classroom instruction. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michel, Jason Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 13:39 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data Wow. Highcharts looks to be an excellent tool. Thanks for the tip! Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote: Definitely Highcharts. I have used it on a few projects, and it is fantastic. It's free for non-commercial use. Great documentation and support. It also has plugins for several web app frameworks like Rails, Django, Yii, etc. Very helpful if you are going to use one of those to build your dashboard. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kaile Zhu Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:05 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. https://developers.google.com/chart/ -Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
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We use Highcharts for our charting needs. Fits nicely with jQuery. http://www.highcharts.com/ -- Chad Mills Digital Library Architect Ph: 848.932.5924 Fax: 848.932.1386 Cell: 732.309.8538 Rutgers University Libraries Scholarly Communication Center Room 409D, Alexander Library 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/ - Original Message - From: Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 12:05:05 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. https://developers.google.com/chart/ -Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
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I second D3.js for putting together custom web-based interactive visualizations. NVD3 (http://nvd3.org/) is another good starting point for D3 that takes some of the time/pain out of building custom charts. For non-coders, Tableau (http://www.tableausoftware.com/) is another very powerful and full-featured data visualization solution. I've used Tableau Public to aggregate and visualize user-testing data, and our assessment librarian uses the server version extensively for creating and sharing interactive data dashboards. It has a fairly steep learning curve and the non-public version is pricey, but perhaps worthwhile when compared with the time and effort necessary to create similar functionality using something like D3. __ Schuyler Lindberg Interaction Designer / Programmer Analyst UBC-IT (Library) On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Chad Mills cmmi...@rci.rutgers.edu wrote: We use Highcharts for our charting needs. Fits nicely with jQuery. http://www.highcharts.com/ -- Chad Mills Digital Library Architect Ph: 848.932.5924 Fax: 848.932.1386 Cell: 732.309.8538 Rutgers University Libraries Scholarly Communication Center Room 409D, Alexander Library 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/ - Original Message - From: Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 12:05:05 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. https://developers.google.com/chart/ -Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous adoption, is really flexible. http://d3js.org/ Best, Eric On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: Hello all! We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data. What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had to say about it. Thanks in advance! This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using chart.js for this: http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *miche...@miamioh.edu miche...@miamioh.edu* @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Librarian - Integrated Systems Librarian (Open Rank) at Texas Tech University
Associate Librarian - Integrated Systems Librarian (Open Rank) Texas Tech University Lubbock POSITION DESCRIPTION: Reports directly to the Associate Dean for Resources Management and Library Systems. Responsible for managing the library management systems and associated products including discovery services from either a single vendor or multiple vendors. Provide technology support and development assistance for the library systems of the TTU Libraries. This position's primary role supports the library application software and services associated with management of key library functions including the suite of Ex Libris Products and other vendor software applications dependent on data from these systems including Discovery services. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Provides oversight and long-range planning for library application software and systems. * Develops, establishes and oversees procedures and work standards for maintenance, scheduling, troubleshooting, problem reporting and tracking. * Advises and implements training requirements for the library staff on appropriate library software. * Provides written reports, analyses and documentation for the library systems * Maintains a broad knowledge of operating systems, programming languages and software. * Leads technology-related groups or actively participates as a technology representative to cross-functional groups. * Attends and actively participates and works across library functional areas to enable library systems support. * Customizes applications and proposes the development of new ones and is actively involved in developing custom solutions. * Solving service problems and development of new capabilities for the Library Management system. * Participate in the design, coordination and support of statistical and managerial reports needed for the organization to support assessment of services and resources. * Keep abreast of developments in library technologies to maintain current awareness of information tools in order to meet the needs of students, faculty, staff and community users of the Libraries. * Engage in scholarly pursuits and other professional activities in accordance with Texas Tech Libraries' standards for promotion and tenure. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: Master's degree in Library Science from an ALA accredited program. Preferred: Experience with integrated library and/or discovery systems. Academic library experience. SALARY AND BENEFITS: The position is a 12-month appointment with a nationally competitive salary. Librarians and archivists have academic status and are an integral part of the academic teaching and research mission of the University. Comprehensive benefits include choice of retirement programs, including TIAA-CREF; 12-17 state holidays; developmental leave opportunities; moving allowance; and no state or local income tax. GENERAL INFORMATION: Texas Tech University (http://www.ttu.edu/) is a state-supported institution with an enrollment of around 30,000. It offers a wide range of academic programs in colleges and schools, including graduate, law, and medicine. Texas Tech is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, Greater Western Library Alliance and Texshare. The University Library (http://library.ttu.edu/) has over 2.4 million volumes. Lubbock has a metropolitan population of over 284,000 and is the regional center for education, agriculture, health care, banking, and business. APPLICATION INFORMATION: To apply for this position, please visit the Texas Tech University Personnel site at: http://www.texastech.edu/careers/faculty-positions.php. Please fill out the electronic application and attach a cover letter indicating qualifications and interest in the position, current vita, and names and contact information of three references. Review of applications will continue until position is filled. Texas Tech is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans, and we consider the needs of dual career couples. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community at Texas Tech University. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/16757/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
