[CODE4LIB] Scholarly Communications Core Competencies Task Force seeks your input
This is a second call for 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, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Leigh Ann DePope 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/. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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] Combining RSS feeds
I am looking for a solution to combine 2 RSS feeds into a single feed. One is the feed for our library blog and another is the feed for our library's events calendar. My concern is that posts from the two feeds are appropriately interspersed. An example of what I mean: it would be counterproductive for an August event, posted today, to have more prominence than a previously posted event occurring tomorrow. Is this possible to accomplish? I've found scads of online sites that offer to combine feeds, but they don't seem to ensure against this problem. Kyle
[CODE4LIB] digital scholarship liaison librarian positions (Baylor University)
The Baylor University Libraries are seeking to fill two (2) Digital Scholarship Liaison Librarian positions. The Digital Scholarship Liaison Librarian (DSLL) is a reimagined, hybrid liaison role. The DSLLs will develop digital scholarship services, partnerships, and programming; facilitate the use of library content in digital scholarship projects by faculty and students; and serve as a liaison to one or more academic departments. This is an academic professional position with faculty status. We are looking for creative, entrepreneurial candidates who will bring new digital scholarship skills to our team, enhancing our ability to provide leading-edge services. The DSLLs will facilitate new research strategies, curricular innovation, and management of increasingly complex products of scholarship. For the full job description, please visit http://bit.ly/DSLLpositionguide. To apply, please submit letter of application, current CV, and list of three professional references with contact information to Shā Towers, Chair, Digital Scholarship Librarians Search Committee, at sha_tow...@baylor.edumailto:sha_tow...@baylor.edu. To ensure full consideration, please submit your application by 1 July 2015. Positions will remain open until filled. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. To learn more about the Baylor University Libraries and Baylor University, please visit us online at baylor.edu/libraryhttp://baylor.edu/library and baylor.eduhttp://baylor.edu. Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, consistently listed with highest honors among The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For.” Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. The university provides a vibrant campus community for over 15,000 students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Baylor is actively recruiting new faculty with a strong commitment to the classroom and an equally strong commitment to discovering new knowledge as we pursue our bold vision, Pro Futuris (baylor.edu/profuturis/http://baylor.edu/profuturis/). Baylor University is a private not-for-profit university affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. As an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, Baylor is committed to compliance with all applicable anti-discrimination laws, including those regarding age, race, color, sex, national origin, marital status, pregnancy status, military service, genetic information, and disability. As a religious educational institution, Baylor is lawfully permitted to consider an applicant’s religion as a selection criteria. Baylor encourages women, minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Combining RSS feeds
Kyle It's a question of merging the two feeds in order of pubDate? This is the kind of thing that Yahoo Pipes was for, before Yahoo abandoned it. https://pipes.yahoo.com/ But there are alternatives around; perhaps the list in this article will provide some options you haven't seen already: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/12-best-yahoo-pipes-alternatives-look/ If you can't find an existing web service offering, you could implement the merger pretty easily in a custom XSLT. Good luck! Conal On 18 June 2015 at 06:53, Kyle Breneman tomeconque...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a solution to combine 2 RSS feeds into a single feed. One is the feed for our library blog and another is the feed for our library's events calendar. My concern is that posts from the two feeds are appropriately interspersed. An example of what I mean: it would be counterproductive for an August event, posted today, to have more prominence than a previously posted event occurring tomorrow. Is this possible to accomplish? I've found scads of online sites that offer to combine feeds, but they don't seem to ensure against this problem. Kyle
[CODE4LIB] edUi schedule available
Code4Lib subscribers, The schedule for the 2015 edUi conference was just posted yesterday. edUi is a UI and UX conference for higher ed, libraries, and museums. The 2015 conference takes place in Charlottesville, VA Nov. 9-11. Check it out! http://eduiconf.org/schedule/ -Trey
[CODE4LIB] LITA UX IG Meeting at ALA Annual 2015 - Mon. 6/29 3PM
*Apologies for cross-posting!* LITA User Experience IG Meeting Date Time: Monday, June 29, 2015 - 3-4 PM Location: Hotel NIkko Golden Gatehttp://alaac15.ala.org/node/28709 Heading out to ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco? Check out the LITA User Experience IG Meeting. We will have the following three 10-min. presentations and QA (5 min). We will also have discussion time for any UX topics on-site. If you have any UX-related topics you would like to discuss, please bring them with you! http://connect.ala.org/node/240559 Rocket Surgery for the Recent MLS: Use the skills you already know to become a lean, mean UX machine Jennie Rose Halperin - Safari, jennie.halpe...@gmail.commailto:jennie.halpe...@gmail.com When first tasked with defining a qualitative research roadmap for Safari Books Online this year, I was shocked to discover how much I used the skills I learned in my MLS and experience as an reference librarian, from usability testing to proper survey protocol to distinguishing what users want versus what they're asking for. User experience and research is an obvious career choice for the recent MLIS graduate, and learning the basics (and jargon) of UX is often a book, podcast, or blog post away. In my talk, I will discuss the resources I found most useful as I entered the field of user and design research as well as highlight common popular tools, patterns, and methods I use at an Agile company that can translate to libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. I'll also emphasize how the common sense skills that librarians possess are an asset and a weapon in the field of usability and user research. Slaying usability dragons often takes little more than a love of documentation, excellent organizational skills, and a lot of confidence. Librarians are uniquely positioned to be UX leaders, and I hope that this talk can help those who want to transition their skills in the library world and beyond. Card Sorting, One small step forward Allison Deluca, Systems Librarian at Florida Atlantic University, adel...@fau.edumailto:adel...@fau.edu Description: Card sorting may be the gateway user testing your library needs to begin a website redesign. Step-by-step, I will go over the process I used to begin my user testing experience at my own library, Florida Atlantic University. User testing opened our eyes to a new way of looking at our own website and our patrons. While we suspected our patrons didn't understand our jargon, or how to navigate the website efficiently, we were floored with the results of each and every user test we conducted. Deciding to conduct this user testing has been one small step forward for our library and I'm more than happy to share my experience so that others can benefit. #litaUX Monthly Chat by the UX IG and Weave Bohyun Kim - LITA UX chair/ AD at University of Maryland, Baltimore HS/HSL, b...@hshsl.umaryland.edumailto:b...@hshsl.umaryland.edu Did you know that the LITA UX IG holds a monthly Twitter chat #litaUX with the editors of Weave, a library UX journal? See more details and the chat schedule here: http://connect.ala.org/node/239151. We will do a mini #litaUX chat at the meeting with a topic of your choice! Bring your discussion topics and get cool ideas from others!
