Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

[Christina Harlow]

Yes, we are planning on having these available for purchase at 
http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com/ after the conference.

Best,
Christina

On Feb 16, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Salazar, Christina 
> wrote:

I'm going to ask the perennial question: will these be on sale separate from 
conference attendance?

(Nice job, Shaun Ellis.)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Christina Harlow
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:03 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

Hi folks-

Thank you to everyone who submitted a Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt logo, as well as 
those of you who took the time to vote on those submissions.

The winning t-shirt logo for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia is the “Code for 
Libraries” design by Shaun Ellis. See the winning submission here: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B74oOQcTdnHjalpmQjhxR2FuU3c/view?usp=sharing.

This means the Code4Lib 2016 t-shirts will be red, with low-contrast ink chosen 
by Shaun to match the winning submission as closely as possible. The vendor 
logos on the back will be the same ink color.

Again, thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s call for t-shirt 
designs.

Thanks,
Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt Committee

[CODE4LIB] Job: Chinese Technical Services Librarian at Yale University Library

[jobs]

Chinese Technical Services Librarian
Yale University Library
New Haven

_Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in
New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston
and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural
resources that include two major art museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory
theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of
Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music._

  
**Position Focus: **The Chinese Technical Services Librarian has system-wide 
responsibility for management and coordination of technical services processes 
and functions for Chinese language materials including providing original and 
complex copy cataloging for Chinese language materials in all formats. 
Descriptive cataloging is performed in accordance with national standards and 
the requirements of Yale's local online system. The Technical Services 
Librarians keep abreast of revisions in cataloging rules and trends, and apply 
new rules, interpretations, and techniques as appropriate. Subject analysis and 
classification assignment follow Library of Congress standards and local 
practice. Authority records follow NACO standards and are contributed to the 
national authority file. The Technical Services Librarian contributes to Yale 
University Library (YUL) technical services goal-setting and strategic planning 
and to decision-making on YUL technical services policy and procedur!
 es. He/she seeks opportunities to contribute to the Yale University Library 
through participation in committees, task forces, working groups, and projects. 
The Technical Services Librarian is active professionally in organizations such 
as the American Library Association (ALA), the Council on East Asian Libraries, 
and/or other relevant groups.  
  
**Required Education, Skills and Experience:**  
• Qualified individuals new to the library profession are welcome to apply.

• Master's degree from an ALA‐accredited library school. A post‐graduate
degree in a related discipline may be substituted for a master's degree in
library science.

• Demonstrated excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communications and
analytical ability.

• Demonstrated record of designing projects and bringing them to a conclusion
in a timely fashion.

• Experience working collegially, collaboratively, and independently with
varied groups, within and across a complex organization and a rapidly
changing, team environment.

• Ability to exercise appropriate professional judgment with collegiality,
flexibility, accuracy, and attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills (reading, writing, speaking) in Chinese and
understanding of the ALA-LC Romanization scheme for Chinese (pinyin).
Familiarity with both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts. Excellent
communication skills in English.

• Excellent knowledge of RDA, LC-PCC PS, MARC, AACR2, LCSH, LCC, and PCC
standards, and good understanding of authority control. Familiarity with
current trends and best practices in cataloging and metadata services, and
developments in metadata (Linked Data, BIBFRAME, etc.)

• Excellent computer skills. Experience with bibliographic services such as
OCLC and network-based cataloging tools. Must be proficient in MS Office Suite
and familiar with batch-load processing tools such as MarcEdit.

• Demonstrated ability to succeed in a collaborative, team-based environment.
Ability to set priorities and adhere to deadlines in a fast-paced work
environment. Commitment to a high level of service to faculty, staff and
students.

Yale University assigns ranks to librarian positions based on a combination of
professional experience and accomplishments. Librarian ranking information can
be found at: http://www.library.yale.edu/about/departments/lhr/rank.html.

  
**Preferred Education, Skills and Experience: **Familiarity with Unicode, CJK 
script searching, indexing, and other issues in discovery systems. Experience 
in Chinese acquisitions. Familiarity with Chinese rare book cataloging. 
Knowledge of Chinese studies scholarship trends. Familiarity with one or more 
non-MARC metadata formats. Experience with tools and coding for batch-related 
metadata transformations. Working knowledge of basic SQL syntax.  
  
**The University and the Library**  
The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries,
collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich
and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual
growth and supports the teaching and research missions of Yale University and
scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum
of resources, including around 12.8 million volumes and information in all
media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic
databases. The Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to
its physical and digital collections. Housed 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inquiry about Omeka developers

[Patrick Murray-John]

Please forgive the double-posting, but wanted to give a last reminder 
that the Omeka team wants to learn more about who Omeka devs are, where 
they are, what they're doing, and -- most importantly -- how we can help 
your work.


Original message is below. TL;DR: There's a survey asking Omeka devs at 
http://omeka.org/blog/2016/02/02/who-are-our-omeka-developers


So far, 13 countries in 4 continents (come on Africa and Asia! 
Antarctica would be awesome) are represented by librarians, developers, 
CTOs, archaeologists, analysts, sysadmins, freelancers and more.


We want to hear from as many coders, at any level, before we start 
studying results on February 19.


Thanks, all.
Patrick Murray-John
Omeka Director of Developer Outreach



On 02/02/2016 03:29 PM, Patrick Murray-John wrote:
In the past few years, we have been delighted to see more and more 
developers of both themes and plugins contacting us on our href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/omeka-dev;>developer 
list and on the http://omeka.org/forums/;>forums. 
That has made us curious about who all of you are, and what can we do 
better to help you.


With that in mind, we've put together a short survey to get to know 
you better. It'll take about ten minutes. We're asking about where you 
are, what kinds of places you work for, and what kinds of Omeka 
development you do.


We'll use this information to guide our documentation and outreach 
efforts. Personal information, of course, will not be exposed or sent 
to others.


We'd like to hear about any level of Omeka development, from building 
a plugin to hacking a couple lines of a theme. All those activities 
are important to us, and knowing about the people and projects that 
spur the activity will help tremendously. Please fill out and share href="http://goo.gl/forms/of19fFALqJ;>the survey if you have 
written or hacked Omeka code.


We'll start compiling and analyzing the data on February 19, so 
responses before then are much appreciated.


Many thanks,

Patrick Murray-John
Director of Omeka Developer Outreach

Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation assessment?

[Harper, Cynthia]

Thanks for the very complete reply! I'll be at IUG and look for your 
presentation there!

Cindy Harper
VTS

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Thomale, Jason
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:02 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation 
assessment?

Hi Cindy,

Sure, and thank you for the compliment! [And, thanks Terry for the pointer to 
our report the other day, as well.]

It is homegrown. Regarding sharing, I'm currently in the process of switching 
that app (and several related projects) from local subversion to the UNT 
Libraries' GitHub space, but they're not there yet. Personally, I'm also in the 
process of making the (long overdue) switch from svn to git, so there's a 
little bit of a mental shift there on my part. My goal is to have everything 
moved over by mid-March, in time for the Innovative User Group conference--I'll 
be presenting about our local Catalog API project, which the bento box uses for 
some of its results, and I'd like to have that whole set of apps available for 
folks to look at, if possible. Though, it is only a few weeks away, so I may 
only manage to get the Catalog API up by then--we'll see.

The bento box consists of two components, a backend API and front-end app.

1. The backend API is implemented in Python Django, using Django REST 
Framework. It provides a simple interface for the front-end app to query and 
does the job of communicating with bento box search targets and returning the 
data needed for display as JSON. New search targets can be added pretty easily 
by extending a base class and overriding methods that define how to query the 
target and how to translate results into the output format. Different targets 
can return different fields, and you can use whatever fields are available in 
views and templates in the front-end app.

2. The front-end is a JS app that uses Backbone.js, RequireJS, and Bootstrap, 
skinned with our website template. It also ties into Google Analytics, with 
lots of custom events to record exactly what results people click on; how often 
"best bets" (from the Summon API) show up, for what queries, and how often 
they're clicked on; how often each target returns no results and for what 
queries, and fun things like that.

Search targets include:

* "Articles" retrieves results from Summon via their API.
* "Books and More" scrapes our III Web catalog (ouch). That's why that search 
tends to perform a little slowly compared to the others.
* "Librarians" hits a Solr instance where we've indexed our LibGuides and staff 
directory data, in an attempt to serve up a relevant librarian for a given 
query.
* "Journals" and "Databases" both hit our homegrown Catalog API.
* "Website" hits our Google Custom Search that services the Library website 
search.
* "Guides" hits our local Solr index of LibGuides.
* "Digital Collections" hits the Solr index for our digital library.
* "Background Materials" is another Summon API search, limited to reference 
materials.

The reason we're scraping our catalog for Books and More instead of pulling 
results from our catalog API is because the results the bento box displays 
needs to mirror what the catalog displays, and attempting to replicate III's 
relevance ranking ourselves wasn't something we wanted to do. Soon we'll be 
looking at possibly implementing a Blacklight layer on top of the same Solr 
index our catalog API uses, at which point we'd switch Books and More so it 
pulls results from the API instead of scraping the III catalog.

I hope that gives you a good idea, and I'm happy to answer any additional 
questions on or off list! Thanks for asking.

Jason Thomale
Resource Discovery Systems Librarian
User Interfaces Unit, UNT Libraries



> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Harper, Cynthia
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:01 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post- 
> implementation assessment?
> 
> Jason Thomale - can you tell us about your bento-box application? Is 
> it homegrown?  Is it shareable?  I like it a lot.
> 
> Cindy Harper
> Virginia Theological Seminary
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Terry Reese
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:10 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post- 
> implementation assessment?
> 
> I'm not sure if this was exactly what you are looking for -- but a 
> talk derived from this report was given at C4L last year.
> http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc499075/
> 
> --tr
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Tom Cramer
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 12:55 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> 

[CODE4LIB] [EVENT] Islandora Camp Florida May 4 - 6: Schedule Announced!

[Islandora]

The Islandora Foundation is hosting a three-day Islandora Camp event in
Fort Myers, Florida from May 4 - 6.  Registration is open and the full camp
schedule  has just been
published.  We'll be offering up a full day of hands-on workshop training
(with tracks for developers and front-end users), and sessions on topics
ranging from how to store 3D objects in a digital repository, to merging
Omeka with Islandora, to the latest in Islandora/Fedora 4 compatibility.

Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help
institutions and organizations, and their audiences, collaboratively manage
and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Combining
Fedora and Drupal, Islandora is implemented and contributed to by an
ever-growing international community.

Full details and registration on our camp website:
http://islandora.ca/camps/fl2016

Thanks, and we hope to see you in Florida!
The Islandora Team
--
*http://islandora.ca/camps/fl2016 *
http://islandora.ca
commun...@islandora.ca

[CODE4LIB] Preconference only registration closes this Friday!!

[Anna Headley]

Last chance to attend a pre-conference workshop at this year's annual
conference in Philadelphia!! Precon-only registration will close this
Friday at 5pm Pacific.

To see the full offering of workshops visit
http://2016.code4lib.org/workshops/. (Note a couple of workshops are full
and you will only be able to see this by entering the registration site.)

Pre-conference-only pricing is $25 per morning or afternoon session.
Register at code4lib Registration
.

Thanks,
Anna



On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Anna Headley  wrote:

> Dear Code4Lib,
>
> We're pleased to announce that pre-conference-only registration is now
> open, through Friday February 19th.
>
> Please join us on Monday, March 7th in Philadelphia's Old City for
> workshops led by esteemed members of the code4lib community. To see the
> full offering of workshops visit http://2016.code4lib.org/workshops/.
>
> Pre-conference-only pricing is $25 per morning or afternoon session. You
> can register for pre-conference ONLY sessions or general conference
> waitlist PLUS pre-conference sessions at code4lib Registration
> . Please note the
> general conference wait list will close this Friday, 2/5.
>
> If you have already registered for the general conference waitlist, and
> are interested in registering for pre-conference only sessions, please
> complete the following steps:
>
>- Click the following link to Amend Your Current Registration
>.
>- Enter your Email Address and Password to modify your current
>registration.
>- Scroll to the bottom of your Registration Summary and click “Edit
>Registration”
>- On the Registration Details page, click “Edit” on the right side of
>the page
>- Scroll to the bottom of your Waitlist Registration Details and click
>“Proceed”
>- On the Session Selection page you may select the Pre-Conference
>Session(s) you are interested in attending, and click “Next”
>- This will bring you to your Registration Summary.  At this time you
>may select credit card and Complete your Registration.
>
> We look forward to having you!
>
> Anna Headley
> On behalf of the 2016 Local Planning Committee and the 2016 Preconference
> Committee
>
>

[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Director for Collections & Technical Services at Iowa State University

[jobs]

Associate Director for Collections & Technical Services
Iowa State University
Ames

Please consider joining us! It's an exciting time to be at the Iowa State
University Libraries, and we are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking
person to join us at the Associate Director level.

  
The Iowa State University Library is seeking a strong leader to shape and
direct the work of the Collections & Technical Services Division as the
Associate Director. The successful candidate will be highly engaged in
acquiring and making accessible library collections and research resources in
all formats for the Iowa State University Library.

  
Working closely with the Assistant Director for Library Information Technology
Services, the Associate Director leads and directs technical services and
collections operations. Working closely with the Library's Collection
Coordinator and Business Manager, the Associate Director provides oversight of
the library's materials budget expenditures.

  
The application deadline for this position has been extended to March 11,
2016.

  
Iowa State University has had an increasing number of students in the past
five years with a resulting increase in hiring of faculty and
staff. The university is located in Ames, Iowa, rated as
one of the top 100 most livable places, and no. 8 of the Best Small Cities in
America. Located in a beautiful, continuously updated building, the library
has a materials and access budget of over 12 million
dollars. The Collections & Technical Services Division has
a dedicated staff of 8 professionals and 20 support staff, both seasoned and
newly hired individuals, seeking a new leader. If you have
the qualifications listed in the link to this position description, please
apply to join us in the Iowa State adventure.

  
ISU students, staff, and faculty strive to overcome historical and divisive
biases in our society. Library staff must embrace an environment of inclusion
that moves beyond simple tolerance to recognizing the richness in individual
identities of people, and diverse perspectives. Iowa State University is an
EO/AA employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
disability, or protected Vets status.



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Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

[Salazar, Christina]

I'm going to ask the perennial question: will these be on sale separate from 
conference attendance?

(Nice job, Shaun Ellis.)

Christina Salazar
Systems Librarian
John Spoor Broome Library
California State University, Channel Islands
805/437-3198

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Christina Harlow
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:03 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

Hi folks-

Thank you to everyone who submitted a Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt logo, as well as 
those of you who took the time to vote on those submissions.

The winning t-shirt logo for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia is the “Code for 
Libraries” design by Shaun Ellis. See the winning submission here: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B74oOQcTdnHjalpmQjhxR2FuU3c/view?usp=sharing.

This means the Code4Lib 2016 t-shirts will be red, with low-contrast ink chosen 
by Shaun to match the winning submission as closely as possible. The vendor 
logos on the back will be the same ink color.

Again, thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s call for t-shirt 
designs.

Thanks,
Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt Committee

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 Winning T-shirt Submission

[Christina Harlow]

Hi folks-

Thank you to everyone who submitted a Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt logo, as well as 
those of you who took the time to vote on those submissions.

The winning t-shirt logo for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia is the “Code for 
Libraries” design by Shaun Ellis. See the winning submission here: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B74oOQcTdnHjalpmQjhxR2FuU3c/view?usp=sharing.

This means the Code4Lib 2016 t-shirts will be red, with low-contrast ink chosen 
by Shaun to match the winning submission as closely as possible. The vendor 
logos on the back will be the same ink color.

Again, thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s call for t-shirt 
designs.

Thanks,
Code4Lib 2016 T-shirt Committee

Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation assessment?

[Thomale, Jason]

Hi Cindy,

Sure, and thank you for the compliment! [And, thanks Terry for the pointer to 
our report the other day, as well.]

It is homegrown. Regarding sharing, I'm currently in the process of switching 
that app (and several related projects) from local subversion to the UNT 
Libraries' GitHub space, but they're not there yet. Personally, I'm also in the 
process of making the (long overdue) switch from svn to git, so there's a 
little bit of a mental shift there on my part. My goal is to have everything 
moved over by mid-March, in time for the Innovative User Group conference--I'll 
be presenting about our local Catalog API project, which the bento box uses for 
some of its results, and I'd like to have that whole set of apps available for 
folks to look at, if possible. Though, it is only a few weeks away, so I may 
only manage to get the Catalog API up by then--we'll see.

The bento box consists of two components, a backend API and front-end app.

1. The backend API is implemented in Python Django, using Django REST 
Framework. It provides a simple interface for the front-end app to query and 
does the job of communicating with bento box search targets and returning the 
data needed for display as JSON. New search targets can be added pretty easily 
by extending a base class and overriding methods that define how to query the 
target and how to translate results into the output format. Different targets 
can return different fields, and you can use whatever fields are available in 
views and templates in the front-end app.

2. The front-end is a JS app that uses Backbone.js, RequireJS, and Bootstrap, 
skinned with our website template. It also ties into Google Analytics, with 
lots of custom events to record exactly what results people click on; how often 
"best bets" (from the Summon API) show up, for what queries, and how often 
they're clicked on; how often each target returns no results and for what 
queries, and fun things like that.

Search targets include:

* "Articles" retrieves results from Summon via their API.
* "Books and More" scrapes our III Web catalog (ouch). That's why that search 
tends to perform a little slowly compared to the others.
* "Librarians" hits a Solr instance where we've indexed our LibGuides and staff 
directory data, in an attempt to serve up a relevant librarian for a given 
query.
* "Journals" and "Databases" both hit our homegrown Catalog API.
* "Website" hits our Google Custom Search that services the Library website 
search.
* "Guides" hits our local Solr index of LibGuides.
* "Digital Collections" hits the Solr index for our digital library.
* "Background Materials" is another Summon API search, limited to reference 
materials.

The reason we're scraping our catalog for Books and More instead of pulling 
results from our catalog API is because the results the bento box displays 
needs to mirror what the catalog displays, and attempting to replicate III's 
relevance ranking ourselves wasn't something we wanted to do. Soon we'll be 
looking at possibly implementing a Blacklight layer on top of the same Solr 
index our catalog API uses, at which point we'd switch Books and More so it 
pulls results from the API instead of scraping the III catalog.

I hope that gives you a good idea, and I'm happy to answer any additional 
questions on or off list! Thanks for asking.

Jason Thomale
Resource Discovery Systems Librarian
User Interfaces Unit, UNT Libraries



> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Harper, Cynthia
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:01 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-
> implementation assessment?
> 
> Jason Thomale - can you tell us about your bento-box application? Is it
> homegrown?  Is it shareable?  I like it a lot.
> 
> Cindy Harper
> Virginia Theological Seminary
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Terry Reese
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:10 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-
> implementation assessment?
> 
> I'm not sure if this was exactly what you are looking for -- but a talk
> derived from this report was given at C4L last year.
> http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc499075/
> 
> --tr
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Tom Cramer
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 12:55 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation
> assessment?
> 
> I’ve seen many reviews of article discovery platforms (Ebsco Discovery
> Service, Ex Libris Primo Central, Serials Solutions Summon) before an
> implementations as part of a selection process—typically covering things
> like content coverage, API features, integrability with other content /
> 

[CODE4LIB] Designing for Digital, Join Us Online!

[Mary Marissen]

D4D16 is less than 7 weeks away! Did you know you can attend the D4D conference 
live online? Register to attend D4D online and get archive access for a full 
year!
​

This two-day conference brings together colleagues working on user experience, 
discovery, design and usability projects inside and outside of libraries, 
drawing expertise from the tech and education communities, as well as from 
peers. 

Register and you’ll be there for our live opening keynote by Jesse James 
Garrett and many other great sessions. View the full D4D program: 
https://d4d2016.sched.org

Select Sessions from the Designing for Digital program:

Understanding Understanding: Implementing Design-Focused Service Initiatives at 
Your Library
User Personas: How Fake People Can Help Us Make Libraries Better
What Do Users Want from Our Website? A User Study of the UC San Diego Library 
Website
Search is the New Black: How Students Make Decisions on Search Results
Something Borrowed: Iterative Space Planning & Design
What interface customization can do beyond branding?
What’s In The Library?: prototyping the future of digital collections
Write responsively: content as a touchpoint
Writing On the Web: Writing as Design
Building a UX Army at Your Library
Choosing Our Words Wisely: Writing for Library Websites
Collaborative UX Testing: Cardigans Included
Does the best library web design eliminate choice?
Eat, Work and Sleep: How Students Use Library Spaces
Evidenced-based web content management with Google Analytics
Lightweight user testing that makes a heavyweight impact
Making Waves with Iterative Usability Testing
Reimagining Scholarly E-book Assessment: A Study of Discovery, Access, and Use
The Inside Users: How to Work with Your Colleagues to Tame the Intranet Beast
The User Experience: Online and IRL
Understanding Service Design Principles in Creating Effective Library Services 
and Spaces
Register today to attend online!

Thanks!
--Designing for Digital Planning Committee

p.s. Still considering attending in Austin? Register this week… only 22 seats 
remain for the D4D conference in Austin! 

Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation assessment?

[Harper, Cynthia]

Jason Thomale - can you tell us about your bento-box application? Is it 
homegrown?  Is it shareable?  I like it a lot.

Cindy Harper
Virginia Theological Seminary 

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Terry 
Reese
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:10 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation 
assessment?

I'm not sure if this was exactly what you are looking for -- but a talk derived 
from this report was given at C4L last year.  
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc499075/

--tr

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom 
Cramer
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 12:55 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation 
assessment?

I’ve seen many reviews of article discovery platforms (Ebsco Discovery Service, 
Ex Libris Primo Central, Serials Solutions Summon) before an implementations as 
part of a selection process—typically covering things like content coverage, 
API features, integrability with other content / sites. I have not seen any 
assessments done after an implementation.

- what has usage of the article search been like?
- what is the patron satisfaction with the service?
- has anyone gone from blended results to bento box, or bento box to blended, 
based on feedback?
- has anyone switched from one platform to another?
- knowing what you know now, would you do anything different?

I’m particularly interested in the experiences of libraries who use their own 
front ends (like Blacklight or VUFind), and hit the discovery platform via an 
API.

Does anyone have a report or local experience they can share? On list or 
directly?

It would be great to find some shoulders to stand on here. Thanks!

- Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 12 Feb 2016 to 14 Feb 2016 (#2016-40)

[Farrell, Larry Dean]

Greg,

I won¹t be a at Code4Lib, but if you or anyone else is interested, I¹ve
played around with something somewhat similar using metadata from DPLA,
Europeana and Digital New Zealand, http://www.deanfarr.com/meta-dash.

Dean

Dean Farrell
Digital Repository Analyst
University of North Carolina Libraries
919-962-3868
lfarr...@email.unc.edu




On 2/14/16, 11:00 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of CODE4LIB automatic
digest system"  wrote:

>There is 1 message totaling 37 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics of the day:
>
>  1. introduction, and a fun date visualization
>
>--
>
>Date:Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:48:33 -0500
>From:Eric Lease Morgan 
>Subject: Re: introduction, and a fun date visualization
>
>On Feb 10, 2016, at 1:06 AM, Greg Lindahl  wrote:
>
>> Hi! I'm a new employee of the Internet Archive, formerly a search
>> engine guy, mostly working on search for the Wayback Machine. In my
>> spare time I've been working on a visualization of dates and entities
>> in scanned book contents. There's a blog post about it here:
>> 
>> 
>>https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-books-in-the-21st
>>-century/
>> 
>> And the demo itself is here:
>> 
>> https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/
>> 
>> I'm going to be attending the Philly conference, and I'm looking
>> forward to hearing from folks about other discovery tools driven
>> by content or algorithmic metadata.
>> 
>> ‹
>> greg
>
>
>Yes, very cool. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
>
>From my point of view, Greg, you have created an alternative and
>supplemental index to one or more books. While printed books have a whole
>lot of utility, digital books manifest a different sets of functionality.
>Imagine having a digital book and then providing services against the
>text that go beyond find. (³Blasphemy!²) One of the services would be
>graphing as you (literally) illustrate above. Other services might be
>parts-of-speech analysis, definition extraction, tabulations of
>additional named-entities, etc. While reading fiction is many times
>intended for ³just fun², I believe these sorts of services may make
>fiction more interesting as well as more accessible for study. Again,
>thank you.
>
>‹ 
>Eric Lease Morgan
>
>--
>
>End of CODE4LIB Digest - 12 Feb 2016 to 14 Feb 2016 (#2016-40)
>**

[CODE4LIB] EuropeanaTech FLOSS Inventory Task Force Report

[Gregory Markus]

Dear Code4Lib list,

On behalf of EuropeanaTech
, the R branch of
the Europeana Network I would like to share the Task Force Report

on the EuropeanaTech FLOSS Inventory .

The Task Force had three clear goals

   - Assessment, enrichment and improvement
   - Gathering new software and tools
   - Improvement of FLOSS taxonomy

The FLOSS Inventory has been a staple of EuropeanaTech for several years,
with community engagement becoming more intensive in the past 6 months.
Similar to projects like the DiRT Directory does for digital humanities,
the FLOSS Inventory contains over 200 tools relevant for the digital
cultural heritage sector.

EuropeanaTech is putting efforts, along with the Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision towards improving the development, implementation and
sustainability of OS tools in Europe and improving developer collaboration.

The FLOSS Inventory is a stepping stone towards understanding what exists
in the ecosystem, what has fallen by the wayside and where are the areas
for improvement.

We would greatly appreciate any feedback or views on the standing of DH and
DCH OS developer communities around the globe as we move forward with our
research. We're always up for a discussion and we're nice!

With warm regards and a special thanks to all the Task Force participants,

Gregory


-- 

*Gregory Markus*

EuropeanaTech Community Manager

Project Assistant

*Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision*
*Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB
Hilversum | *
*beeldengeluid.nl* 
*T* 0612350556

*Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016 -- Second call for volunteers

[Haley, Kathleen M.]

First off, thank you to everybody who has already volunteered to help out at 
Code4Lib 2016!

There are still a few spots where we could use some help, though. If you 
haven't already volunteered, please consider one of the following:


* Conference Logistics: One more person needed to help with set up on 
Monday.


* Social Networking: One more person to answer general questions on 
Twitter and IRC throughout the conference. One person to ask questions on the 
microphone on Thursday on behalf of the community.


* Livestream: Three people to serve as backup minders of the livestream 
equipment if the technician needs a break. We need one person each for Tuesday 
morning, Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.


* IRC (Technical): One person to be available before sessions begin to 
demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib and to offer support for newcomers in 
#code4lib during the conference.


To sign up, just edit the wiki page at  
http://wiki.code4lib.org/2016_Conference_Volunteers and add your name to the 
list for the job you'd like. If you need a wiki account, please email Ryan Wick 
at 
ryanw...@gmail.com>.
 If you'd prefer not to get a wiki account just contact me and I'll be glad to 
add your name to the volunteers list.



See you in Philadelphia!



Kathleen Haley, for the Onsite Volunteers Committee

Kathleen M. Haley
Information Systems Librarian
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury St.
Worcester, MA 01609

phone: (508) 471-2147
e-mail: kha...@mwa.org
AAS website: American Antiquarian Society

[CODE4LIB] Job: Solutions Architect at University of Michigan

[jobs]

Solutions Architect
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor

**Solutions Architect**  
  
**How to Apply**  
A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be
attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address
your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that
directly relate to this position. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling
basis as they are received.

  
**Job Summary**  
The University of Michigan Library is seeking a talented and experienced
Solutions Architect to join the Library Information Technology (IT) division
in designing, engineering, and building solutions for enterprise architecture,
technology infrastructure, and large-scale application integration for the U-M
Library. The successful candidate will first focus on the large-scale
implementation of a Hydra and Fedora based access and preservation framework,
an umbrella initiative that over the next few years will include launching an
ambitious enterprise research data preservation and access system, building an
innovative digital publishing work flow engine, and migrating two of the most
extensive archives of digital collections and digital scholarship in the
country. The new system will handle a wide array of materials: research data
sets, historical records, electronic journals, audio, video, and more. This is
an opportunity to join a skilled and forward­-thinking group of developers and
librarians, and to design and build elegant solutions to complex problems with
modern technology infrastructure that supports digital preservation, research,
publishing, archives, and broad public access to U-M Library resources.

  
The Library IT division has a combined staff of more than 60, focused on
enabling library services through elegant technology solutions; and uniting
the preservation, access, and publishing of digital content. Notable current
preservation and access initiatives of the division include the HathiTrust
digital library; extensive digital collections; the Text Creation Partnership
(TCP) for encoding Early English Books Online (EEBO); the Digital Preservation
Network (DPN) preservation initiative; the Deep Blue institutional repository;
and the soon-to-be-released Deep Blue Data research data service based on the
Hydra repository framework. National digital initiatives and communities we
are connected with include the Unizin learning systems partnership; the
APTrust consortium; the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) platform; the
Hydra project; and the Fedora project.

The University of Michigan Library is one of the world's largest academic
research libraries and serves a vibrant university community that is home to
19 schools and colleges, 100 top ten graduate programs, and annual research
expenditures approaching $1.5 billion a year. To enable the university's
world­changing work and to serve the public good, the library collects,
preserves, and shares the scholarly and cultural record in all existing and
emerging forms, and leads the reinvention of the academic research library in
the digital age.

  
The library is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and
encourages all employees to fully incorporate their diverse backgrounds,
skills, and life experiences into their work and towards the fulfillment of
the library's mission.

  
  
**Responsibilities**

  * Partners with experienced systems and application programmers, project 
managers, designers, and domain experts in requirements gathering and reviews
  * Collaborates across units to produce an optimal, high-level, technical 
conceptual design for projects
  * Responsible for analyzing and translating organizational, informational, 
and technical requirements into a service model, or architectural blueprint 
that outlines solutions to achieve library objectives
  * Develops enterprise-level solutions that integrate across applications, 
systems, and platforms or services and processes
  * Proposes changes in process, policy, and standards as they relate to the 
architecture or service and design principles
  * Researches and maintains knowledge in emerging technologies and solutions, 
or service life cycle and process frameworks to solve business problems
  * Responsible for service design or process work that is complex and varied 
in nature
  
**Required Qualifications**

  * Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and five or more 
years relevant experience
  * Experience designing solutions for, or participating in, technical projects 
that require complex coordination, high levels of integration, and/or diverse 
stakeholders and users
  * Demonstrated understanding of the role and potential of technology for 
achieving excellence in creating system architectures for the delivery of 
information resources and services
  * High levels of accuracy, problem-solving, dependability, and responsibility
  * Enthusiasm to learn and adapt as new technologies