[CODE4LIB] Scholarly Communications Core Competencies Task Force seeks your input
In November 2014, the NASIG Executive Board charged a task force with developing a statement describing core competencies for librarians whose professional responsibilities include activities related to digital scholarship and scholarly communications. The Scholarly Communications Core Competencies Task Force seeks your input. Part of our process includes analyzing job advertisements which we collect from various lists and websites. However, we also want to review actual job descriptions from those of you in the trenches. If your job is, or has components of, digital scholarship or scholarly communications, please consider sending us your current job description. Position descriptions may be sent as attachments or copied into the text of an email and sent to public...@nasig.org. For additional information about the task force charge, please see http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=1346pk_association_webpage=5372 Kind regards, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Charlene N. Simser Publicist, NASIG, Inc. public...@nasig.org | @NASIG ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Established in 1985, NASIG is an independent organization that promotes communication, information, and continuing education about serials and the broader issues of scholarly communication. For more information about NASIG, please visit http://www.nasig.org/.
[CODE4LIB] Job: Applications Programmer/Analyst, Data GIS Services at Scholars Portal (University of Toronto Libraries)
Applications Programmer/Analyst, Data GIS Services Scholars Portal (University of Toronto Libraries) Toronto Scholars Portal (http://scholarsportal.info), based at the University of Toronto Libraries, is seeking 2 programmers to work within the Data GIS Services team. The full job description is below. Please forward to anyone in the greater Toronto area who you think might be interested. Applications will be accepted online until May 18: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/1/jobdetail.ftl?job=1500413. Thanks, Leanne Trimble ___ Applications Programmer/Analyst - Data GIS Services (TERM - 2 Positions, Payband 12) Requisition ID: 1500413 Faculty / Division: Central Library System Department: Central Library System Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto) Description: Working as a member of a small development team, the Programmer Analyst supports the programming needs of Scholars Portal applications, including but not limited to ODESI, Scholars GeoPortal, and Dataverse. The Programmer Analyst develops new code and maintains and modifies existing code, tests, debugs and documents his/her own code and that of other members of the team. Access to all Scholars Portal services is through Web front ends or APIs. Working closely with the Systems Support Group, the Programmer Analyst is responsible for delivering correct, functional, secure, well-documented code. Working with the Information Design Architect, the Programmer Analyst is responsible for delivering clean, robust, easy-to-use, and accessible Web interfaces for use by 450,000 students and faculty in Ontario's 21 universities. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or an equivalent combination of education and experience). Experience: A minimum of 4 years' experience with high level programming languages, with at least one year experience developing web and/or mobile user interfaces or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Skills: Programming experience developing Web applications with Java and one or more of PHP Python and Ruby. Experience with web application frameworks for Java, PHP and Ruby as well as common Javascript libraries such as JQuery and Bootstrap. Experience with database APIs used with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Experience with spatial databases desirable. Familiarity with processing XML, using Java, XQuery and XSLT highly desirable. Experience working with geospatial and/or statistical datasets. Familiarity with commercial and open source GIS and/or statistical software packages. Experience with developing web mapping applications or data analysis/visualization tools highly desirable. Familiar with web development frameworks such as Spring and Django. Experience with Apache Hadoop and related Apache projects is desirable. Familiarity with testing frameworks, continuous integration (CI) tools and other team development support tools. Ability to write clean and well documented code in a collaborative development team environment and a willingness to troubleshoot and test other people's code. Other: Strong service focus and desire to produce useful and reliable products to serve the academic community. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills Patience with and tolerance for detailed, sometimes tedious or repetitive development tasks work. Self-motivated and willing to learn from other team members to share knowledge in turn. Ability to communicate ideas and issues within a small team setting. Notes: Recruiting for two (2) positions for two (2) year TERM contract. Employee Group: United Steelworkers (USW) Appointment Type: Budget - Term Schedule: Full-time Pay Scale Group and Hiring Rate: USW12 -- $63,014 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $80,585. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. Job Field: Information Technology Job Posting: May 4, 2015 Job Closing: May 18, 2015, 11:59:00 PM Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/20815/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
[CODE4LIB] EVENT: Islandora Conference Updates and CFP Extended to May 15
The world's first Islandora Conference is taking place this summer, August 3 - 7, in Charlottetown, PEI. Please note that Charlottetown is a beautiful place to visit in the summer. So beautiful, in fact, that a lot of other people will be visiting as well, so you should book your accommodations early. We have a list of recommendations, including budget-friendly on-campus housing at the conference venue, UPEI: http://islandora.ca/camps/conference2015/travel We have announced a series of two-hour workshops for Day Three and Four of the conference: http://islandora.ca/content/islandora-conference-proposed-workshops Day One and Two will be taken up with regular conference sessions, and we are extending the deadline for submissions. We are particularly interested in submissions for posters. Proposals will be accepted until May 15th and presenters will be notified soon afterwards. The theme of the conference is Community - the Islandora community, the community of people our institutions serve, the community of researchers and librarians and developers who work together to curate digital assets, and the community of open source projects that work together and in parallel. We are asking for your presentations, panels, and posters around this theme and welcome your interpretations of what community means to you. Please give us your contact details, a working title, and a brief synopsis of what you would like to present. We will allow for updates to reflect changes as your work develops, so just give us your best pitch with what you have now. Please submit your ideas here: http://islandora.ca/content/islandora-conference-call-proposals Thank you, The Islandora Team commun...@islandora.ca http://islandora.ca
[CODE4LIB] Help with Auto Hot Key
Hi there! I'm hoping someone here is a guru at AutoHotKey! :) We have a clerk that pays our invoices in Sierra. She will write the bib number on a sticky note, as well as the list price and the locations (that each copy will go to). I want to have Sierra copy the bib number, list price, locations, and order record notes onto a receipt and then this clerk would put this receipt with the first copy of the material, rather than hand write on sticky notes all day! Since I had looked, and couldn't find a way to do this easily from Sierra, I had another brilliant idea that we could have Autohotkey copy the fields I want into a template (say, in Publisher) and have the bib number turned into a barcode, and list the other fields that we want that travel around the tech services department. This barcoded bib number would be used by catalogers to enter the bib number in the 949 for overlay in Connexion, and then again by our barcoding clerk to search by bib number in Sierra. At this point, I'm thinking that Autohotkey is my best bet. Here is my prototype of what the routing slip would look like when it's done. The Thickety 2 is a note in the order record put in by our selectors for our catalogers to add that series to the bib record. The 978... is just a placeholder for where the list price will go once we get that field added to our order records: [cid:image001.png@01D08679.A5CC5160] Here is the corresponding order record. Part of my problem for Autohotkey is that not all order records will contain a note (in field z) and the locations may be different (fewer or more) on the LOCATIONS line. I have to include the multi line, because if it's just our Main Library that's receiving the item, then the LOCATIONS at the bottom don't show up at all...just the LOCATION fixed field (under ACQ TYPE). [cid:image002.png@01D08679.A5CC5160] Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Eddie Eddie Clem, MLS Cataloging Librarian ec...@khcpl.orgmailto:ec...@khcpl.org | www.KHCPL.orghttp://www.khcpl.org/ Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Collection Management Department 305 East Mulberry Street Kokomo, IN 46901 765.626.0853|765.450.6290 (fax)
[CODE4LIB] OR2015 NEWS: Full Program Available; Early Registration Deadline Friday; Sign Up for Workshops
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that full program and schedule details for Open Repositories 2015, taking place in Indianapolis on June 8-11, are now available on the conference website at http://www.or2015.net/ The program for this 10th Open Repositories conference includes: - keynote talks from Kaitlin Thaney of Mozilla Science Lab and Anurag Acharya of Google Scholar - a mix of workshops, tutorials, papers, panels, 24x7 presentations, posters, and “repository rants and raves” addressing a wide variety of topics related to digital repositories and the roles they play in supporting open scholarship, open science, online cultural heritage, and research data - a Developer Track that includes informal presentations and demonstrations showcasing community expertise and progress - interest group sessions focused on the open source DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora (including Hydra and Islandora) repository platforms - an Ideas Challenge enabling small teams to collaborate on proposing new ideas for moving repositories forward (with prizes) Coupled with a variety of social activities to help support networking with colleagues from across the globe, along with exhibit tables from conference sponsors, OR2015 should make for a rewarding experience for anyone working in the repositories space. *** Reminder: Discounted Early Registration Ends Friday, May 8 *** Online registration http://www.or2015.net/registration/ for OR2015 is open, and *participants can save $50 by registering by this Friday, May 8*. Special negotiated room rates http://www.or2015.net/conference-hotel-and-travel/ are available at the conference hotel until May 16. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.or2015.net/ All conference participants, including those with accepted presentations, need to register in order to attend the conference. *** Sign Up for Workshops and Tutorials *** If you have already registered for OR2015 and are planning to participate in workshops or tutorials on the first day of the conference, Monday, June 8, please visithttp://www.or2015.net/workshops to sign up for the sessions you plan to attend. Workshops and tutorials are included in the registration fee, but separate signup is required in order to guarantee a seat. We look forward to seeing you at OR2015! Holly Mercer, William Nixon, and Imma Subirats OR2015 Program Co-Chairs Jon Dunn, Beth Namachchivaya, Julie Speer, and Sarah Shreeves OR2015 Conference Organizing Committee
