[CODE4LIB] Quick questions for Makers
Hello All! I am writing a chapter for a book on how makerspaces get funded and keep funding and was hoping a few of you could answer the questions below. Feel free to email me directly or answer on the list. How did you come up with the idea for a Makerspace? How did you pay for initial costs? How do you pay for ongoing costs? How do you decide what to purchase? Do you recover costs? (charge for printing etc...) Many thanks! Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Thanks
Thanks all of you who took the survey. It will be up until 5:00 Eastern on Friday. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/38H733R Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] in house or outsourced technology solutions
Hello All, As some of you know I am putting together a book on the way libraries acquire technology and I was hoping to get a feel for something here. How many of you have systems you have built and maintain yourselves in production vs something you bought? It doesn't have to be big but I would love some examples of libraries that use a model of in house expertise. The most glaring example of this would be an Open Source project you use and contribute to even though there is no official help desk. If you have time I made up a very short (4 questions) survey here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/38H733R Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with VR in libraries
Thanks for all the great replies. OU is fairly close. May be time for a road trip. Edward Iglesias On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Matthew Kopel <mko...@clrc.org> wrote: > We ordered about 600 Google Cardboards from a vendor in China (via ebay) at > a cost of ~$5 a pop and sold them to our members (a mix of public, school, > academic, & special) for ~$3/pop to get them started and experimenting. > Some libraries are circing them, others are reserving them for specific > programming. The biggest piece of feedback that we're getting is that it > would be nice to have at least one or two dedicated devices in the space > for those who don't have phones or to provide quick demos to people who > might be interested. I've been looking at the feasibility of getting some > used Androids to wipe and preload with content. > > Matthew Kopel > Research & Development Librarian > Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC) > mko...@clrc.org > 315-446-5446 > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Coates, Sarah <sarah.coa...@okstate.edu> > wrote: > > > I know the University of Oklahoma Libraries is doing some really cool > > things with VR and other things. Here's the page for their Innovation @ > the > > Edge program: https://libraries.ou.edu/edge which also has contact > > information. I think they've been doing VR stuff for at least a year or > two > > now. > > > > Sarah > > > > -- > > Sarah Coates, MA, MLIS > > Special Collections and University Archives > > 204 Edmon Low Library > > Oklahoma State University > > 405-744-6076 > > sarah.coa...@okstate.edu > > > > > > From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Jacob > > Ratliff <jaratlif...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 10:11 AM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with VR in libraries > > > > I would recommend going to www.polygon.com and looking for articles by > > "Ben > > Kuchera." He's a video game journalist and VR enthusiast and has been > > writing extensively about the VR landscape for a few years. Definitely a > > good place to start. > > > > Jacob > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Edward Iglesias < > > edwardigles...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I am in the midst of putting together a proposal to try out some VR > gear > > in > > > our library with the thought of eventually providing some student space > > to > > > support it. Any reccomendations on equipment or things to looks out > for. > > > So far we are looking at a couple of Oculus Rifts and perhaps an HTC > > Vive. > > > > > > Edward Iglesias > > > > > >
[CODE4LIB] Experience with VR in libraries
Hello All, I am in the midst of putting together a proposal to try out some VR gear in our library with the thought of eventually providing some student space to support it. Any reccomendations on equipment or things to looks out for. So far we are looking at a couple of Oculus Rifts and perhaps an HTC Vive. Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] One last call for chapters
The deadline for contributing to Library Technology, Funding, Planning and Deployment has been extended to Dec. 15th. Please submit your proposal at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1942 This is really the final call. email me if you have any questions. Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Deadline Extended
The deadline for contributing to Library Technology, Funding, Planning and Deployment has been extended to Nov. 15th. Please submit your proposal at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1942 Click on the big box that says “Propose a Chapter”. Yes, an entire chapter could be written criticizing that UI decision and I would welcome it. I would also welcome chapters on Directors getting drunk at conferences and buying systems you have to implement when they get back. That time you ordered the 3D printer and it cam unassembled. The bake sale that started your makerspace. Contact me at edwardigles...@gmail.com if you have any questions. Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] Survey: What Role do Librarians Play in Support of Technological Innovations?
Jackie over at IGI is doing this survey some of you might be interested in. E *Survey Title: * What Role do Librarians Play in Support of Technological Innovations? A Survey on Academic Libraries as Centers for the Advancement of Technology *Survey Description:* Traditionally the role of the librarian as an enabler of technology advancement has been underestimated. Almost all innovators—faculty members, students, alumni, and industry professionals—have relied on knowledge assembled from library resources. Today, more than ever, innovation is needed to fuel the economy. It is clear that advancements in technology specifically, carry the most opportunity to flourish in this ever-changing global economic landscape. >From mobile technology breakthroughs to cyber theft, information science and technology issues are a central topic in the public conversation. Policymakers, economists, and other experts agree that in order to assure long-term economic growth, advancements in technology must continue to be significant in coming years. IGI Global and our librarian advisory board seek to understand how college and university libraries can support technological innovations. The aim of this survey is to determine the current and future role of libraries in supporting technological innovation in their own academic communities. The survey is being shared with librarians worldwide. All participants will receive a free copy of the survey results prior to its public release. *URL:* https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/library_technology_innovation Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Call for Chapters
Just a reminder that if you want to propose a chapter for the upcoming book Library Technology, Funding, Planning and Deployment the submission deadline is October 15. This is just for the proposal which you can fill out online at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1942 Thanks again, Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] Call for Chapters
Hello All, I am putting together a book for IGI on how libraries acquire technology. The formal call can be seen at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1942 I've also included it below for your plain text pleasure. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Edward Iglesias CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2015 Library Technology Acquisition & Funding A book edited by Edward Iglesias To be published by IGI Global: Introduction Libraries purchase and use technology everyday. From simple items like printers and scanners to complex enterprise level products like Integrated Library Systems and Discovery Layers libraries must plan, purchase and deploy technology. The way these products are purchased can vary greatly by institution. This book will look at case studies from a variety of libraries focusing on how they make large technology purchases as well as their guiding principles. Certain questions are likely to be focused on. • Are they only allowed to use certain vendors? • Is it necessary to go though a formal RFP process? • How do you build consensus? • Where does the money come from? • How will you sustain these purchases? In this way it is hoped that lessons can be learned from institutions that have successfully completed the purchasing of technology as well as those that had challenges. Objective of the Book This book will be a compilation of case studies that will be a resource for libraries as they pursue the purchase of technology as part of their strategic goals. The hope is that this will be a framework of what other libraries have done leading to savings in time and money. Target Audience Librarians and staff involved in the purchase of technology for their libraries. Additionally students in Library School seeking top see what awaits them. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: Contributors are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics relating to Technology Acquisition and Funding - The RFP Process - Budget allocations for technology - Funding technology through grants - Funding non traditional technology projects - Approaches to technology planning Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 15, 2015, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2015 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 28, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2011. Important Dates October 15, 2015: Proposal Submission Deadline December 15, 2015: Notification of Acceptance February 28, 2016: Full Chapter Submission April 30, 2016: Review Results Returned May 30, 2016: Final Chapter Submission August 15, 2016: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Edward Iglesias Burritt Library Central Connecticut State University 1615 Stanley Street PO Box 4010, New Britain, CT 06050 Tel.: (860) 832 - 2082 E-mail: edwardigles...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Terrible Drupal vulnerability
I have a bluehost site with Wordpress on it. In my case whenever a vulnerability has been discovered they have been very good about automatically updating it. Keep in mind this is a standard instal using cpanel. Your mileage may vary if you did something custom. Edward Iglesias On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Heidi P Frank h...@nyu.edu wrote: Hi, A colleague and I volunteer for an organization to maintain their website, which is a Drupal site hosted on Bluehost, however, neither of us are very experienced with Drupal. So we've been trying to figure out what we need to do to prevent the site from being affected by this vulnerability issue, and have read a lot of the documentation and tried following the instructions to upgrade, etc. but are still having trouble. If there is anyone on this list who would be willing to speak with us and answer some questions about how we need to proceed, please contact me off list. Any guidance will be much appreciated with numerous Thank You's! (i.e., we need some pro bono assistance :) cheers, Heidi Heidi Frank Electronic Resources Special Formats Cataloger New York University Libraries Knowledge Access Resources Management Services 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 212-998-2499 (office) 212-995-4366 (fax) h...@nyu.edu Skype: hfrank71 On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: If you can migrate to a maintained service, you could use feeds or migrate to move your content. You could also take that approach on your own new site. Obviously, none of your entities — nodes, menus, users, blocks, taxonomies, etc. — should contain executable code. I suggest that you do not migrate users or menus, unless you have the ability to validate your data. I love the internets, but I have learned that nobody should be running public facing services — open-source or other — unless they are prepared to maintain them, including managing a disaster recovery plan and vigilantly monitoring and acting on security notices. If this is not doable, use a service provider to manage it. The days of running services from a computer under a desk are gone. Cary On Sunday, November 2, 2014, Hickner, Andrew andrew.hick...@yale.edu wrote: I'd be curious to hear how others are proceeding. We had already planned to migrate our D7 sites to a centralized Drupal instance offered here at Yale and this has just accelerated the timetable. I imagine there are a lot of libraries running Drupal though who don't have this kind of option and might not have pre-October 15 backups to revert to (we don't!) Andy Hickner Web Services Librarian Yale University Cushing/Whitney Medical Library http://library.medicine.yale.edu/ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:;] on behalf of Lin, Kun [l...@cua.edu javascript:;] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 2:10 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Terrible Drupal vulnerability I think so. However, Cloudflare in their blog post claim they have develop a way to block the attack immediately when the vulnerability was announced. Whether or not they know the exploit ahead of time or not, it would be good to know someone is watching out for you for $20 a month. And you will be mad if you took Oct 15th off without it. I just check, I patched my instance on Oct 16th. Not sure what's going to happened. Kun -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 1:44 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Terrible Drupal vulnerability The vulnerability was discovered in the course of an audit by SektionEins, a German security firm, and immediately reported to the Drupal Security Team. Because this was a pretty obscure vulnerability with no reported exploits, the team decided to wait until the first scheduled release date after DrupalCon Amsterdam to put out the notice and patch. Obviously, they knew that once word of the vulnerability was announced, there would immediately be a wave of exploits, so they imposed a blackout on any mention of it before October 15th. I think that they stuck to their word. Of course, attacks started a few hours after the announcement. Cary On Oct 31, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov javascript:; wrote: On Oct 31, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Lin, Kun wrote: Hi Cary, I don't know from whom. But for the heartbeat vulnerability earlier this year, they as well as some other big providers like Google and Amazon were notified and patched before it was announced. If they have an employee who
Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?
Couldn't agree more with Eric. Additionally if you are going to be doing any web work at all you will need to know the back end environment which will likely be Linux. Edward Iglesias On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Learning Unix is not necessarily the problem to solve. Instead it is means to an end. To my mind, there are number of skills and technologies a person needs to know in order to provide (digital) library service. Some of those skills/technologies include: indexing, content management (databases), programming/scripting, HTTP server management, XML manipulation, etc. While these technologies exist in a Windows environment, they are oftentimes more robust and specifically designed for a Unix (read “Linux”) environment. — Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians
Once upon a time there was whitebox linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Box_Enterprise_Linux Edward Iglesias On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Chudnov daniel.chud...@gmail.com wrote: For a number of years, White Box Linux [1][2] was supported by somebody from the Beauregard Parish Library in Louisiana. He was a very interesting guy who I met at ALA Annual in Chicago in 1999 or 2000. The project had a healthy run but was effectively replaced by the larger community effort of CentOS. I don't recall that it had anything particular to libraries in its design, rather I'm pointing it out just because it was developed by a library staff person (as you asked) and it struck a certain chord in the broader community at the time. I know I got a few good years of use out of it on several servers before switching to CentOS. -Dan [1] http://www.beau.org/~jmorris/linux/whitebox/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Box_Enterprise_Linux On 18 Oct 2014, at 20:08, Cornel Darden Jr. wrote: Hello, Every now and then I consider switching my main operating system. I've been using Ubuntu for years. Does anyone know of any Linux distros made by librarians or One that's most used by librarians? Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. MSLIS Library Department Chair South Suburban College 7087052945 Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong learning. Sent from my iPhone
Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians
Sorry Daniel, just saw your post. Edward Iglesias On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.com wrote: Once upon a time there was whitebox linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Box_Enterprise_Linux Edward Iglesias On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Chudnov daniel.chud...@gmail.com wrote: For a number of years, White Box Linux [1][2] was supported by somebody from the Beauregard Parish Library in Louisiana. He was a very interesting guy who I met at ALA Annual in Chicago in 1999 or 2000. The project had a healthy run but was effectively replaced by the larger community effort of CentOS. I don't recall that it had anything particular to libraries in its design, rather I'm pointing it out just because it was developed by a library staff person (as you asked) and it struck a certain chord in the broader community at the time. I know I got a few good years of use out of it on several servers before switching to CentOS. -Dan [1] http://www.beau.org/~jmorris/linux/whitebox/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Box_Enterprise_Linux On 18 Oct 2014, at 20:08, Cornel Darden Jr. wrote: Hello, Every now and then I consider switching my main operating system. I've been using Ubuntu for years. Does anyone know of any Linux distros made by librarians or One that's most used by librarians? Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. MSLIS Library Department Chair South Suburban College 7087052945 Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong learning. Sent from my iPhone
Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring strategy for a library programmer with tight budget - thoughts?
Also keep in mind benefits are increasingly important. If you offer a good job at a decent salary that is not as stressful as some of the higher paying jobs that is a big deal. I have a colleague who just took a $15,000 pay cut to go to work for an ivy that she loves. Edward Iglesias On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Eric Phetteplace phett...@gmail.com wrote: My first thought was a project-based contract, too. But there are few programmer projects that would require zero maintenance once finished. As someone who has had to pick up projects completed by others, there are always bugs, gaps in documentation, and difficult upgrade paths. So I have no solutions to offer. Enticing people with telework is a good idea. It's disappointing to see libraries (and higher ed more generally) continuing to not invest in software development. We need developers. If we cannot find the money for them, perhaps we should re-evaluate our (budgetary?) priorities. Best, Eric On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Would it be possible to re-write this position as a project-based contract? Such a position is more appealing for short-term (part-time) gig-type work and telework types. Also, it helps you out in that if the telework thing doesnıt work for various reasons, youıre done with it at the end of the contract. You could always offer an opportunity to renew the contract for a new projects if it does seem to work for the both of you. -Sean On 8/15/14, 12:44 PM, Kim, Bohyun b...@hshsl.umaryland.edu wrote: I am in a situation in which a university has a set salary guideline for programmer position classifications and if I want to hire an entry-lever dev, the salary is too low to be competitive and if I want to hire a more experienced dev in a higher classification, the competitive salary amount exceeds what my library cannot afford. So as a compromise I am thinking about going the route of posting a half-time position in a higher classification so that the salary would be at least competitive. It will get full-time benefits on a pro-rated basis. But I am wondering if this strategy would be viable or not. Also anyone has a experience in hiring a developer to telework completely from another state when you do not have previous experience working with her/him? This seems a bit risky strategy to me but I am wondering if it may attract more candidates particularly when the position is half time. As a current/past/future library programmer or hiring manager in IT or both, if you have any thoughts, experience, or ideas, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Bohyun
Re: [CODE4LIB] Fine collection online
Swear I thought this was about a fine collection that was online. Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University Edward Iglesias On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Riley-Huff, Debra riley...@olemiss.eduwrote: We would like to allow our patrons to pay their fines online. I am interested in hearing the solutions folks have for this. We currently use Innovative's Millennium. Our campus uses TouchNet to process payments. Innovative does offer a SOAP based API for fines, but it is pretty bare bones and expensive. We would also need to write the application to interface it with TouchNet ourselves. I'd like to know how you go about collecting fines online. Thanks -- Debra Riley-Huff Head of Web Services Associate Professor JD Williams Library University of Mississippi University, MS 38677 662-915-7353 riley...@olemiss.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool Library 2.0
Thanks to all of you for the replies. Great suggestions on the k-12 set Ian as the primary users are public libraries. Cary, your setup is brilliant! Expect theft of your intellectual property ;) This is definitely early days with a focus on just checking out kits with a minimum of training required. The idea is to lend tools or kits to libraries who want to try something out but not make a major commitment yet. Edward Iglesias On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Daron Dierkes daron.dier...@gmail.comwrote: In St. Louis, to my knowledge we do not have a makerspace as part of a library. We do however have a hackerspace called Arch Reactor and a new TechShop is coming soon, which I guess is maybe something similar but diffferent? Could any of you help clarify the terms for me and maybe explain what libraries have to do with them? On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Personally, I would put soldering irons in phase 2, as they really do require training to use. Without a pretty decent skillset, you can burn through a lot of led strips, etc. My lab consists of a Sparkfun kit hot-glued to the top of a parts box. This arrangement has been very helpful for my chronic mislayer self. It's a makerspace in a box. Cary http://www.flickr.com/photos/36809832@N00/12821466713/ Cary On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, A colleague and I were recently asked to help create a tool library for makerspaces for a local state library consortia. The idea being they would lend out kits such as Arduino's with breadboards to libraries that are thinking of setting up some kind of makerspace but unsure where to start. So any of you have any must haves for such a collection. I'm thinink soldering irons arduinos Raspberry Pis Flora breadboards lots of connectors leds etc... Thanks, Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Tool Library 2.0
Hello All, A colleague and I were recently asked to help create a tool library for makerspaces for a local state library consortia. The idea being they would lend out kits such as Arduino's with breadboards to libraries that are thinking of setting up some kind of makerspace but unsure where to start. So any of you have any must haves for such a collection. I'm thinink soldering irons arduinos Raspberry Pis Flora breadboards lots of connectors leds etc... Thanks, Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Code4lib g+ community
I started a thread on the g+ community based on the lifehacker how I work series. I would love to see some of your responses. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114587042187424680647 Edward Iglesias
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers
Thanks so much for this Eric. Edward Iglesias On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Here is a pointer to a recent article on policies for 3D printers. FYI: A Model for Managing 3D Printing Services in Academic Libraries by Vincent F. Scalfani in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 2013 The appearance of 3D printers in university libraries opens many opportunities for advancing outreach, teaching, and research programs. The University of Alabama (UA) Libraries recently adopted 3D printing technology and maintains an open access 3D Printing Studio. The Studio consists of a 3D printer, multiple 3D design workstations, and other supporting equipment. Training of new Studio users (students, faculty, and staff) is a two-step process: an initial workshop followed by an individual training session. After the individual meeting(s), users may access equipment in the Studio independently. The 3D Printing Studio service is popular across campus. During early implementation, 50 users have attended training workshops. 3D users have experimented in the Studio with projects for advanced coursework and independent research. It is expected that the number of trained users will double in the near future. An evaluation of our management policies suggests that providing an open access environment and permitting users to experiment independently in the 3D Printing Studio contributes greatly to the success of the service. We also present ideas for future improvements to the 3D Studio service. http://bit.ly/19lo3x9 FYI -- ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers
If it is unlimited and free, is printing out 100 Hulk statues to sell at a comic convention acceptable? How about Barbie dolls to sell at a flea market? Or maybe Barbee dolls to side-step trademarks These are good points however the very ineffectiveness of 3D printers is an advantage here. It takes so long to print just one very rough barbie that it would not make any sense to try and mass produce anything. These are one off machines. Certainly you could have people abuse that but that is a people issue rather than a tech issue. Edward Iglesias On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Marc Comeau marc.com...@dal.ca wrote: Kyle: why would a library provide 3D printing services when just printing text on paper seems to cause enough grief for many libraries? Well I guess it depends on why you're struggling with paper printing. If you are having difficulty working with the technology then I would have to agree since hobby-grade 3D printing, which is what most libraries are deploying, is in its early days and it's still rough around the edges so it requires time and attention. Our primary struggles with paper printing have to do with keeping up with the demand. Our students use it more and more every year, but struggling to meet demand is a good problem to have. the logical thing for people to do is to print out stuff that they need based on files they just download from the internet. Or make useful things to sell. Those are two things people would definitely do but there's an important one that lies in between. People make useful things for themselves. Yes we're seeing downloaded iPad stands, we're charging a small amount so it wouldn't be 100% profit to sell something they made but I wouldn't be shocked to hear that it happened. But we're seeing a lot of stuff that they've created for themselves. Sometimes for a class, sometimes for research, sometimes to solve a problem they have at home. Personally, I just needed a strange piece that could connect my robot's ultrasonic sensor to the servo mount with a special gap for the wiring. It's different for everyone which is where the strength of the technology lies. Everyone can tailor their thing specifically to their unique needs. I can come up with dozens of other examples that would meet the criteria of being truly useful for many libraries but I'm sure I can't cover every situation. Which brings me to David's point. David: That's a question every library will have to answer for themselves. Absolutely! I think it's been a great service for us to roll out and we really believe we're engaging our students in a new and exciting way. They are creating with us. For us it's an extension of providing them computers, scanners, Photoshop, CAD software and more... However I'm not going to try to persuade those who don't think this fits for their library because they might be 100% correct, I don't know what their situation might be. If it is unlimited and free, is printing out 100 Hulk statues to sell at a comic convention acceptable? How about Barbie dolls to sell at a flea market? Or maybe Barbee dolls to side-step trademarks? Anything's possible and there were a hundred ways our service could have gone (and still might go) sideways, but there was no way to find out without trying it. Pick any technology and you can find lots of ways that it can be abused, but what we're finding so far is that people really want to create. The quality of the hobby grade equipment leaves much to be desired in terms of a product that you could sell. We have someone who's building a prototype for a commercial product and he has to do a good amount of additional work sanding and other prep work for the model to be good enough for a prototype. At the end of the day, for every useful, constructive or educational use for the technology that I could come up with someone else could come up with a negative use that doesn't serve the cause. You'll probably only find out what your people will do with it a minimum of six months after you deploy it. If you're worried about any kind of abuse you can write policy to protect yourself. We've been very liberal with it, preferring to allow the problems that eventually do present themselves to guide policy because there was no good information on how people would use them when we started. Marc Comeau Director of Library IT Library Information Technology Services Dalhousie University On 2013-05-20, at 5:47 PM, Bigwood, David wrote: That's a question every library will have to answer for themselves. For us it makes perfect sense. Our scientists are sending out files to have 3D models of craters. When the price drops enough it will become more cost effective to do that in-house. It will just be an extension of maps and remote sensing data we already have in the collection. I can see a limit being fabrication related to the mission
Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers
Thank you all for this great feedback. I imagine we will probably not charge at the beginning and change as needed. My Director's bigger concern is the whole are they gonna print a gun with that question. Luckily we have a student handbook to point to. Edward Iglesias On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com wrote: If fines, fee structures, and social contracts in community spaces interest you, watch Clay Shirky's TED talk about cognitive surplus, and listen to the story about day care centers and late pickup fees. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=qu7ZpWecIS8desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqu7ZpWecIS8 On Sunday, May 19, 2013, BWS Johnson wrote: Salvete! Libraries charge to lend books. Some, by no means all. It's also generally limited to newer materials. It's universally stupid to do this, in my opinion. The folks that can pay are already buying copies, and we're hurting the patrons that can't pay. Late fines are almost universal, and lost items will result in a charge for replacement costs. What are we getting for our charges? Is this go away mentality worth it? Is this helping or hurting us in the relevancy arena? It's definitely hurting in the fundraising department, which is precisely where it's meant to help. Every budget I've seen has not netted enough in charging for extras to offset the actual costs they're seeking to cover. So with that in mind, why are we doing this? Our patrons rightfully see these as nuisance fees. If we're doing it to avoid abuse, which is why I assume a lot of these are implemented, there are usually better ways to go about that. Cheers, Brooke -- Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/ http://www.natehill.net
[CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers
Hello All, It looks like we will be getting a 3D printer in the library and it is now my job to write up a policy for its use. Do any of you have similar policies you would be willing to share? Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers
This looks great! I think we are in a slightly better position for part of this since we can point to the Student Handbook for the thou shalt nots Edward Iglesias On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com wrote: This is a draft that will be tweaked and go before our board very soon. Feedback from the group is greatly appreciated. ### Chattanooga Public Library (CPL) is committed to offering community access to new and emerging technologies as part of our public computing services. In this age of digital publishing, desktop fabrication, and participatory culture this means the library will offer access to physical and digital tools which users will leverage to create, publish, and distribute their own unique content. CPL applies the same standards to content that users create in the library that we do to materials or media that the library selects and purchases for public access. It is the goal of the Library to provide a high quality collection of books and media in a variety of formats and languages for all ages that is responsive to the needs and interests of the community and reflective of the diversity of the community. To support an informed public, the collections represent diverse points of view, and may include materials that some members of the public consider to be controversial in nature. Likewise, when patrons use library tools as a platform for creative expression, the objects and media they create represent diverse points of view and may also be considered controversial by some members of the public. The Chattanooga Public Library endorses the principles documented in the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights, Freedom to Read Statement, Freedom to View Statement, Code of Ethics, and Core Values of Librarianship Statement. The freedom of creative expression that is granted to patrons when they use library tools to create unique content is an extension of these same principles. Library users will not be permitted to use public tools to create material or media that are: - illegal to own or produce - in violation of copyright or patent laws - unsafe, harmful or pose immediate threat to the well being of others present - in violation of location-specific policies, for example tighter restrictions might be placed on tools located in a children’s area On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.comwrote: Hello All, It looks like we will be getting a 3D printer in the library and it is now my job to write up a policy for its use. Do any of you have similar policies you would be willing to share? Thanks, Edward Iglesias -- Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/ http://www.natehill.net
Re: [CODE4LIB] makerspaces in libraries workshp
As soon as I have a something I will. Workshop is not until October. Edward Iglesias On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Migell Acosta maco...@library.lacounty.gov wrote: Krista, Can you share the resource and activity documents with the group? Thanks. Migell Acosta County of LA Public Library www.colapublib.org
[CODE4LIB] makerspaces in libraries workshp
Hello All, I have the unlikely distinction of getting to offer a 1 day workshop on Makerspaces in libraries. I have a general idea of how it's going to go --morning theory afternoon hands on -- but am a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. My first thought was to show them how to use a Raspberry Pi but that would require them all to buy a Raspberry Pi. I am open to suggestions on what would be worth learning that is hands on and preferably cheap for a group of around 20. What would you teach/learn in an afternoon given the chance? Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] makerspaces in libraries workshp
Jodi, Thanks for the encouragement. Audience is unknown since it will just depend on who registers. I had the good fortune to attend the Make a Makerspace conference and was exposed to Sparkfun's version of the Lillypad and was quite impressed. I am looking into funding. Edward Iglesias On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.comwrote: Great news, Edward! Who is the audience of the workshop? Are you trying to convince administrators, or give ideas to tech people? This will determine how hands on hands on is... Do you have a 3D printer? A demo would make sense -- 3D printing is on its way to mainstream, but still impressive and unusual (even unthinkable!) to people. What about a LilyPad project? http://lilypadarduino.org/ Perhaps there's a small grant available for purchasing reusable electronics? -Jodi On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.comwrote: Hello All, I have the unlikely distinction of getting to offer a 1 day workshop on Makerspaces in libraries. I have a general idea of how it's going to go --morning theory afternoon hands on -- but am a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. My first thought was to show them how to use a Raspberry Pi but that would require them all to buy a Raspberry Pi. I am open to suggestions on what would be worth learning that is hands on and preferably cheap for a group of around 20. What would you teach/learn in an afternoon given the chance? Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Job:Digital Resources Librarian
current professional references with addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers For more information contact Theresa Mastrogiovanni at 860 832-2097 or mastrogiovan...@ccsu.edu. Please make sure your Social Security Number is not listed on any documents submitted. Redact any personally identifiable information. Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Digicamp 2013, Monday March 11, 8:30-12:30 p.m. at Bryant University!
Please excuse cross posting. BTW, this is a fun sort of unconference that I have been involved with for some time. It is usually very good. Mark your calendars for Monday, March 11th and join us @ DigiCamp, '13! This low cost 1/2 day youConference (8:30am-12:30pm) focuses on library technology and will take place at Bryant University, Krupp Library. How does ITIG's DigiCamp work? If you are interested in hearing about how other libraries use technology, or if you wish to exchange innovative or interesting things in library technology with other librarians, just show up and share! DigiCamp will feature a community-driven format where each session is designed and delivered by you. Even the topics chosen for each session will be chosen by you! This format fosters spontaneous sharing, therefore, no PowerPoints needed, but feel free to come with online examples, as you'll have access to a laptop and projector. What is ITIG? ITIG is the Information Technology Special Interest Group of ACRL New England. Learn more about ACRL NEC (http://www.acrlnec.org/) . Is DigiCamp right for me? DigiCamp is designed for all technology levels, so come one, come all! Where: Bryant University, Krupp Library When: Monday, March 11th. Registration starts @ 8:30am and continues till 9:30am. Lightning round sessions begin at 9:30am-12:30pm How much? Only $10 (to cover food expenses) How do I register? http://itigdigicamp2013.eventbrite.com Registration Deadline: Registration ends on Friday, February 22, so register early! We are only taking the first 80 registrants. Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Outsourcing and Insourcing
Hello All, I am thinking of writing an article comparing things that are done in house vs things that are outsourced. I know the standard line of nearly everything moving outside the library Hosted databases Hosted ILS Outsourced cataloging etc... but I am interested in the things that are done more efficiently in house. As an example we have this home grown database finder. It is clunky and the back end is awful but we still use it because it beats any of the comercial alternatives. Another example is a kindle counter we made using a Raspberry Pi and an old monitor. It was under $50.00 for signage that would have cost a lot more if we bought a preexisting solution. What are the little long tail-niche solutions you have come up with that we can still handle better than a purchased solution? Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Maker Spaces and Academic Libraries
This has turned into quite a discussion. I think the whole issue of liability is a bit overstated. A 3D printer is somewhere between a toaster oven and a xerox machine in terms of dangerousness. Yes, a student might burn themselves on hot plastic or the printing surface but they might get a worse burn from a latte. I really like Lisa's idea of the library becoming a nexus point where students can access other resources as needed. Maybe a chop saw in the library is a bit much but if a student wants to use one for his or her course work why not? There are already tool libraries. We have a similar issue on our campus where there are 3D printers but only in the Engineering department. Meanwhile we have students in all disciplines doing hobby robotics, our graphic design department is teaching 3D rendering and art students are starting to ask about how they can take a new approach to sculpture. Edward Iglesias On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: One note on this. All of the commercial printers I have seen from the plastic shooters to water cutters that can turn out a great car wheel have been enclosed boxes with safety systems. They are orders of magnitude safer than, say, a bunsen burner. Sure, these can be defeated by someone with intent to do harm to themselves or others, but I have seen some pretty dangerous books, as well, and I am not talking about intellectual content. Cary On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: On Aug 27, 2012, at 9:44 AM, BWS Johnson wrote: Salvete! Can't. Resist. Bait. Batman. Can anyone on the list help clarify for me why, in an academic setting, this kind of equipment and facility isn't part of a laboratory in an academic department? I'd say that I hate to play devil's advocate, but that would be a patent misrepresentation of material fact. Conversely, could you please tell us why you think it *shouldn't* be at the Library? I can think of one reason they shouldn't be *anywhere*: liability. When I was working on my undergrad, in civil engineering, the university's science and engineering school had their own machine shop. Officially, you were only supposed to use it if you were a grad student, or supervised by a grad student. Yet, there were a number of us (the undergrad population) who had more experience than the grad students. (I had done a couple years of shop class during high school, one of the other students had learned from his father who worked in the trade, another was going back to school after having been a professional machinist for years, etc.). So well, I know at least two of us would go down and use the shop without supervision. (and in a few cases, all alone, which is another violation when you're working at 1am and there's no one to call for medical assistance should something go really, really wrong). And in some cases, we'd teach the grad students who were doing stuff wrong (trying to take off too much material in a pass, using the incorrect tools, etc. But I made just as many mistakes. (when you're in a true machine shop, and there's two different blades for the bandsaw with different TPI, it's not that one's for metal and one's for wood ... as they don't do wood cutting there ... but I must've broken and re-welded the blade a half dozen times and gone through a quart of cutting fluid to make only a few cuts, as I didn't realize that I should've been using the lower TPI blade for cutting aluminum) I admit I don't know enough about these 'maker spaces' ... I assume there'd have to be some training / certification before using the equipment. The other option would be to treat it more like a print shop, where someone drops off their item to be printed, and then comes back to pick it up after the job's been run. And it's possible that you're using less dangerous equipment. (eg, when in high school, my senior year we got a new principal who required that all teachers wear ties ... including the shop teachers. Have you ever seen what happens when a tie gets caught in a lathe or a printing press? He's lucky the teachers were experienced, as a simple mistake could've killed them) But even something as simple as a polishing/grinding wheel could be a hazard to both the person using it and anyone around them. (I remember one of my high school shop teachers not happy that I was so aggressive when grinding down some steel, as I was spraying sparks near his desk ... which could've started a fire) ... so the whole issue of making sure that no one gets injured / killed / damages others is one of the liability issues, but I also remember when I worked for the university computer lab, we had a scanner that you could sign up to use. One day, one of the university police saw what one of the students was doing, and insisted that we were allowing
Re: [CODE4LIB] Maker Spaces and Academic Libraries
Thanks so much for this. One immediate question I have regards staff training. Who did you get to assemble and maintain the 3D printers etc... Is it all enthusiastic self taught staff or did you hire folks especially for these positions? Thanks, Edward On Friday, August 24, 2012, Lisa H Kurt wrote: Hi Edward, Throughout the past year we have been working toward transforming the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library into a library makerspace at the University of Nevada, Reno. It started with the purchase of a button maker and holding mini maker breaks and has grown with bigger events, workshops, the purchase or repurpose of numerous tools and equipment. We've also made changes to the space to create the kind of environment where our community wants to create. Though we are in name a science and engineering library- we work across many departments and colleges with several faculty and students to bring together computer scientists, designers, engineers, artists, and others to promote a really creative, exploratory learning space. Today, in the DeLaMare Library we have 2 3D printers, a 3D scanner, 2 button makers, about a dozen arduino kits, soldering kits, AR Drones, and more. We've converted a lot of the space that once held books to make room for collaborative space and entire walls painted in whiteboard paint. We've held a lockpicking workshop in partnership with Reno's local makerspace, Bridgewire: http://www.renobridgewire.org/, here in the library where over 80 people attended. We worked with them to offer a student membership as well. Bill Nye is coming to our campus and we're heavily involved in the science fair planned for that day, showcasing all of the great resources we have available and student projects done in the library. We collaborate regularly with both Bridgewire and the local co-working space, The Reno Collective: http://renocollective.com/. We also have been involved with Reno's WordPress group and have hosted WordCamp the past couple of years. We wrote up a post talking more specifically about the 3D printer and the setup here: http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1403 You can also see some of the photos of stuff we've done here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr We're working on collaborating more with various departments and showcasing all kinds of things here: http://www.kclabs.org There is a lot to say about what we've been busy doing but I hope this glimpse helps- let me know if you have questions or need more information- thanks! Lisa Lisa Kurt Engineering and Emerging Technologies Librarian DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library University of Nevada, Reno phone: 775.682.5706 On 8/24/12 5:03 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: Thanks Jason! Ab Fab indeed! Edward Iglesias On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jason Griffey grif...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: In my last Library tech report, I included a chapter on 3D printing (chapter 4, please excuse the title, I had to) that spoke a bit to why libraries needed to be in the space, which certainly overlaps with the Makerspace convo: http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/rpl5883j3620/?p=5b1da8d73bec46 918808d4fb69a73abepi=2 Full text is available there...the whole work is CC licensed, so feel free to grab a copy. :-) Jason On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:55 PM, David Brightbill dbrightb...@cclaflorida.org javascript:; wrote: I'm leading the effort to build a makerspace in my local community and have some thoughts around the role of established institutions (libraries, EDC's, government, etc.) in making this happen. I'd be happy to have a telephone or G+ chat with you about this if you wish. Cheers, Dave Brightbill Manager of Research and Development Florida Virtual Campus -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUjavascript:;] On Behalf Of Edward Iglesias Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:11 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:; Subject: [CODE4LIB] Maker Spaces and Academic Libraries Hello All, A colleague and I are going to be presenting at code4lib NE on the subject of makerspaces in academic libraries. Are any of you doing this? If so I would love to pick your brains a little. Edward Iglesias -- Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!
Keep the job ads coming! Edward Iglesias On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Pottinger, Hardy J. pottinge...@umsystem.edu wrote: As Cameron Neylon pointed out in his keynote to Open Repositories 2012 in Edinburgh a few weeks back, filtering on the supply/server side should be considered friction or a barrier. We need better/more dynamic demand-side filtering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axr80qm6NHwfeature=youtu.bet=8m36s How's that for ya? Spin a thread about too many job postings back into an on-topic thread. You're welcome. -- HARDY POTTINGER pottinge...@umsystem.edu University of Missouri Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ It is a well-known fact in any organization that, if you want a job done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy. --Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals On 8/2/12 9:07 AM, Lynch,Katherine ke...@drexel.edu wrote: The jobs posted on this list are all relevant and appropriate to the wide scope of people who read this list. We have not just seasoned programmers, but also recent college graduates and people looking for entry-level jobs in the field, as well as archivists and more. It seems like a mistake to impose additional rules and regulations on what types of jobs are allowed to be posted here...professional organizations looking to spread the word about jobs available in the field may become reticent to share some here if we give the impression that we don't want them. I agree with Kelly, and everyone else who has stated that the number of job postings does not bother me one bit. Whether or not the amount of job postings coming through here is too much or too little seems like a personal preference issue, and one that can be treated with filters on keywords, etc, in one's own email client or RSS feed reader. Cheers, Katherine On 8/2/12 10:01 AM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: How about this? Please only post the jobs that require programming skills or experience due to the nature of this list. Think before you post. For me, it doesn't bother me at all. If you don't like it, it just takes a click to delete it. You will not see the hiring phenomenon stays on peak all the time. Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chen, Janey Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 8:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! I am with you on this! Actually, it is encouraging to see that there are many job openings in this field. And the job descriptions give people a sense of what skills the employers are looking for. Janey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Wilhelm Sent: August 2, 2012 9:31 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! Too many job postings? I think there are fields where people would kill to have this problem. :-) --Mark On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't come up sooner :-) In the interests of science I've created a little poll to indicate whether you think the job postings should be sent to the code4lib mailing list or not: http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-emails If you care either way just click yes or no and I'll report the results. But if you can't wait I made the spreadsheet public: http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-email-spreadsheet //Ed PS. Just fyi, shortimer will *not* re-post jobs to the discussion list if the posting was discovered there. Typically the job postings that shortimer posts to code4lib have been pulled from a source other than the mailing list, which met some curatorial criteria as being relevant for the code4lib community. If you care about influencing this criteria I encourage you to help curate [1] the jobs. [1] http://jobs.code4lib.org/curate/ -- Mark Wilhelm E-Mail: markc...@gmail.com Twitter: @markcwil Facebook: facebook.com/markcwil Read the Information Science News Blog at: http://infoscinews.blogspot.com/ **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] Drupal and mod_security
That was the doc that came closes to fixing the problems. Still has issues though. Edward Iglesias On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I am guessing that you have seen: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/11/getting-drupal-and-mod-securit.html The bulk of the difficult issues with mod_security and Drupal seem to be version conflicts between mod_security and versions of Apache and other CentOS/RHEL/Fedora components. Cary On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone out there have any tips for working with Drupa and mod_security? I've got a centos box with Drupal 7 on it and no matter what local rules I set up there is always something that does not work, usually forum responses. Thanks, Edward Iglesias -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Putting several small databases online.
There are tools that let you use Filemaker as a sort of front end to MySQL http://www.filemaker.com/support/technologies/mysql.html You could export the MS Accses into csv then import into Filemaker. Edward Iglesias On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.eduwrote: Hi All, In the last week the library has been approached by two different departments across campus that have small databases, one FileMaker Pro and one MS Access, that they would like to make available online. The interfaces would be nothing fancy, with a backend that allows for adding/updating/deleting resources. I've had a chance to look at the FileMaker Pro data. Not the worst I have seen, it needs normalized, but the data itself is fairly uniform and would map easily enough to Dublin Core. So far just text, though they say perhaps, someday, they might want images. I have yet to see the MS Access data. I've worked on various personal/school projects using SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, and various repositories/CMS. For personal use and fun I've thrown together a few LAMPs using VMWare, but nothing production. I would prefer not to build too much from scratch. I don't think I want/need a full blown repository for either (though I help admin ours and it is due for a complete hardware/software overhaul later this summer http://archive.umw.edu/. I am thinking of transitioning it to more of an IR with disparate content.) So, what would you do or have you done? I want something nimble. I would love to build it once and then duplicate it. I get the sense once I start helping folks other departments will come forward. I am thinking of tossing together a virtualized LAMP, secure it, build the bones of a site, and then clone the thing and put the data for each project in its own copy onto a webserver. Is there a better/easier way? Am I doomed to a life of pain and suffering (besides that due to being a librarian)? Have a LAMP distro with a CMS to suggest? Any suggestions are welcomed. Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic libraries - Will dev for pay models?
Just personally speaking I think the idea of University Libraries charging for services to other units can be a good thing. We have a very good relationship with out IT department but they are now reaching a point where storage costs are such that they are having to charge departments that use more than a certain amount on network shares. About those archival TIFFs... Similarly libraries have an economic responsibility to try to be entrepreneurial centers of profit instead of loss. It may not be tasty but it is a pill we have to swallow. I think there are good opportunities for libraries to realize substantial revenue by charging for things like data storage and organization. That said, I do think that this will differ widely by University. When I was at Loyola New Orleans our library advertising campaign was taken on as a project by marketing students. No money changed hands. If we had asked the marketing department to put together a team to develop a campaign I imagine it would have been different. Edward Iglesias On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: Having done my time working for in both the research and administrative side university computing, I would also have to ask if the development is within the library's competence, or if it is something that would normally be handled by one of the other groups. If it's administrative computing, charging for special projects seems to be quite common. It often ends up with departments going it alone, or contracting with commercial firms to do the work. If it's something like developing web applications, and the library IT group is staffed up to handle the extra work well without impacting core library activities, then it is worth making a bid for the work; I would advise using a cost-plus model, and using a very agile process, with very short POD-cycles (short PODs make cost-plus an easier sell). Watch out for central IT to make counter moves; for example, they may start a whisper campaign that the library IT groups must be overstaffed if they can have all these spare bodies lying around. Preemptive top-cover at the level where the whispering would be targeted would be wise. This is easier if central IT has a poor reputation, and if it is the would-be customer who seeks leave to approach library IT. If using the library IT dept appears clearly cheaper than the outside consultants would otherwise be, then the top-cover should be easy. The university librarian should confirm the top-cover, and should keep them informed to avoid surprises. Always leave the top-cover with a covered line of retreat, but make sure that they have a sufficient stake in the upside to keep them from pulling out early. Also, as Jonathan says, make sure that support arrangements are baked in to the initial agreement. If you're set up for long term preservation services, adding long term support for keeping a slice of server running should be something you're set up for anyway. If any of this involves implementing a Data Management Plan, get involved during the grant development, as funding for implementing the DMP can be requested. If there are a number of people who at one point worked for central IT but now work for library IT, ensure that they are present or geared up in ready reserve for any meetings where ambush is a real possibility. Also ensure that they use sources for proper IPB. // Reboot, Hell - we just got here. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: It seems odd to me for the library to charge individual departments for special projects. Although I realize it can make sense and be reasonable in some cases, I think there are some dangers.
Re: [CODE4LIB] People network visualization
Have you considered a Topic Map? Something like http://www.wandora.org/wandora/wiki/index.php?title=Topic_Maps Edward Iglesias On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Kimberly Silk kimberly.s...@rotman.utoronto.ca wrote: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Hi everyone, Here at our happy think tank we have an informal network of researchers from around the world who collaborate from time-to-time on various academic papers. Once a year, we bring together these researchers here at our office for a few days so that they can communicate and collaborate face-to-face. The rest of the year, their communication is largely virtual. This network is always growing and changing shape ---new researchers join, many change positions and jobs, and we lose a few now and then. What I'd like to do is use an interactive visualization on our web site that will allow researchers to find each other. I want to tag the researchers according to their areas of study (I can develop a taxonomy here), affiliated institution, what years they attended our annual conference, etc. I am looking at TheBrain, which is neat, but I want to embed it in our web site (wordpress). Any other ideas? Thanks, Kim - Kimberly Silk, MLS Data Librarian, Martin Prosperity Institute Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto President-Elect, SLA Toronto Chapter Member, SLA 2012 Chicago Conference Advisory Council Office: 416-673-8586 Mobile: 416-721-8955 kimberly.s...@martinprosperity.orgmailto:kimberly.s...@martinprosperity.org @kimberlysilk Find out what REALLY goes on at a think tank: http://blog.martinprosperity.orghttp://blog.martinprosperity.org/ Twitter: @MartinProsperit
Re: [CODE4LIB] duplicate jobs postings from jobs.code4lib.org
Ah, but they charge for it. Maybe there is a non-proprietary version? Edward Iglesias On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Thomas Dowling dowli...@wfu.edu wrote: Doesn't OCLC assign a Universal Unique Job Posting Identifier? On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: ... Now that there are multiple job curators who are finding jobs and putting them on jobs.code4lib.org it is important to double check that a job hasn't been posted already. -- Thomas Dowling Director of Technologies, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University dowli...@wfu.edu / 336-758-5797
Re: [CODE4LIB] viewer for TIFFs on iPad
Thanks for all of the replies. Yes, hosted JPEG2000 seems the way to go. I can't even open a 300MB TIFF on an iPad. We use ContentDM to upload JPEG2000 images right now so serving them would not be an issue. My basic idea was that in a tablet form with high resolution images you could pinch and zoom the experience of holding a manuscript would actually be more intimate and closer to the intended viewing experience of the original creator. That said pixelation is the enemy. Additionally being able to mark up a digital manuscript and make a copy for future reference would be valuable. My original idea was a small class in Special Collections that would be given matching iPads vs a group that had either access to the original or high quality reproductions and seeing which group got more out of it. Putting the images on a server fixes many issues but creates new ones. Thanks so much for all your help. Edward Iglesias On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Edward, A bit of disclosure: I'm one of the developers for Diva. We have done quite a bit of experimentation for viewing images on various platforms, and even on a Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM and an SSD, 300MB TIFF images still require a bit of waiting for any viewing or operations. As Dave mentioned, we're developing the Diva viewer to do online viewing. It requires a bit of server setup, but the big advantage is that I find it's actually faster to view large images online in the browser than it is to view them off a hard drive. These images: http://coltrane.music.mcgill.ca/salzinnes/experiments/diva-cci-tif/ are approximately 170MB for each page (about 80GB for the whole document), but since we only ever serve out the parts of the document that you are looking at, it makes viewing large medieval manuscripts very easy and fast, without sacrificing the ability to zoom in to see very fine details. We did a bit of testing on the iPad early on, but haven't tested it since we did another round of development. If you're interested, let me know and I can help you get it set up. Cheers, -Andrew On 2012-05-10, at 5:16 PM, Edward Iglesias wrote: Hello All, I was wondering if any of you had experience viewing large ~300MB and up TIFF files on an iPad. I can get them to the iPad but the photo viewer is less than optimal. It stops enlarging after a while and I'm looking at Medieval manuscripts so... Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] viewer for TIFFs on iPad
Hello All, I was wondering if any of you had experience viewing large ~300MB and up TIFF files on an iPad. I can get them to the iPad but the photo viewer is less than optimal. It stops enlarging after a while and I'm looking at Medieval manuscripts so... Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea
These are all very good ideas. I'm partial to the Arduino solution myself but it got me thinking, does facilities already collect this information? A lot of systems have built in monitors that report to a central location. It might be possible there is a built in API you could just hijack and display on a webpage. Now facilities probably wont help you prove they are not doing their job but it is possible. Edward Iglesias On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Maryann Kempthorne marya...@gmail.com wrote: Why not a cardigan checkout? Maryann On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote: [stuff on where to get sensors deleted] Depending on how many you need, wireless sensors for weather stations could make more sense (you can run them on different channels to prevent interference). Plus you can use the weather software to generate graphs, upload data, etc. kyle -- -- Kyle Banerjee Digital Services Program Manager Orbis Cascade Alliance baner...@uoregon.edu / 503.999.9787
[CODE4LIB] Last Call for Chapters
Please excuse cross posting. Hello All, This is the last call for chapters for the book “Robots in Academic Libraries: Advancements in Library Automation,” part of the book series, Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS) from IGI Publishers. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2011. The main focus of the book is how automation is taking over certain areas that used to be exclusively human and the changes to the library work environment that these changes will entail. The book will be 15+ chapters, with a total of at least 135,000 words. I am looking for contributors to write individual chapters at around 10,000 words. While I already have quite a few qualified authors there are a couple of areas I would still like to see chapters in. If you would like to participate there is still time. Please send a proposal to edward.igles...@ccsu.edu by December 1st Thanks Again, Edward IglesiasSystems LibrarianCentral Connecticut State UniversityEdward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics
Thanks to everyone. Lots of good ideas here. I am not sure about transferring our mobile app to html5 but it might work. Thanks again. Edward Iglesias On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Brad Rhoads bdr...@gmail.com wrote: I'd try using couchdb (http://www.couchbase.org/get/couchbase-mobile-for-ios/current). It would auto sync when ever you did get online. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, We are implementing iPads in our library as wayfinders or kiosks. Does anyone know of a way to get stats from them? We are using Kiosk software that loads local html pages so as to not have to worry about internet connectivity. I've thought about just exporting the history from the browser and parsing it but surely there is a more elegant solution. Thanks, Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics
Hello All, We are implementing iPads in our library as wayfinders or kiosks. Does anyone know of a way to get stats from them? We are using Kiosk software that loads local html pages so as to not have to worry about internet connectivity. I've thought about just exporting the history from the browser and parsing it but surely there is a more elegant solution. Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics
No internet connection. We have wireless but it would be sketchy for a months at a time connection. Edward Iglesias On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.edu wrote: Why not put google analytics into those local pages? Or are the ipads not connected to the internet? ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Iglesias Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 2:53 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics Hello All, We are implementing iPads in our library as wayfinders or kiosks. Does anyone know of a way to get stats from them? We are using Kiosk software that loads local html pages so as to not have to worry about internet connectivity. I've thought about just exporting the history from the browser and parsing it but surely there is a more elegant solution. Thanks, Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Call for Authors (Please excuse cross posting)
Hello All, I have been contracted to do a book on the future of automation in the academic library by IGI Publishers. The working title is “Robots in Academic Libraries: Advancements in Library Automation,” and it will be part of the book series, Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS). The book will be 15+ chapters, with a total of at least 135,000 words. I am looking for contributors to write individual chapters at around 10,000 words. The specific subjects are the increasing and future automation of the following areas of the academic library. •Acquisitions •Collection Development •Cataloging •Circulation •Inter-library loan •The Future of the ILS •Public Interface Design •Library Management (especially hiring decisions) Additionally I am looking for very high level chapters that look at automation in academic libraries in conjunction with changing University environments as well as the changing needs of students and faculty. Other chapters dealing with this subject are also highly desirable. Please contact me at edward.igles...@ccsu.edu or this address. Thanks, Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] iPads as Kiosks
Apologies if this has been covered already but do any of you have experience using iPads as kiosks? We would like to set up several as directional beacons with a sot of you are here feature. I've found several apps to do the kiosk feature but the home button seems to be an issue. Suggestions include a case that locks out the home button such as this http://www.nothingbuttablets.com/4588 Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
Thank You Abagail! I was just doing this in Excel. Here were the top vote getters with a little squishing to dedup. ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University XML/XSLT 6 Drupal 5 Git 5 RDA 5 map/reduce 4 PHP 4 Python 4 R 4 guitar 3 hadoop 3 Javascript 3 MYSQL 3 networking 3 Node.js 3 Spanish 3 Edward Iglesias On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Abigail Goben ago...@uic.edu wrote: In case anyone was curious--here's a compilation of topics people are seeking. May be some ideas for presentations, continuing ed, what not in the future. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvPz7vaHT-1CdDdvNEFSdlphYmtPUkJOcTNSVnB1RHchl=enauthkey=CM2S9tEO Mentioned once for the list, x's are if it was mentioned further in other emails. Top items include: Git Hadoop XLST PHP Python R Cheers! -- Abigail Goben Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences - Chicago (M/C 763) 1750 W. Polk Street Chicago, Illinois 60612 312.996.8292
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
Thanks for all the responses. From the looks of things the next Code4lib conference should include A) A good New Orleans Jazz Band. May I suggest Tuba Skinny http://tubaskinny.blogspot.com/ B) A few good sessions on Statistics C) A keynote by Jamie Oliver. I love this group. Edward Iglesias On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Chad Nelson c.nel...@londonmet.ac.ukwrote: Node.js hadoop basics of complex data structures How anyone else learned to stop worrying and love their LMS how to maintain focus when I have 3000 things on the go how to get a toddler to consistently sleep through the night And for Benjamin Brussel Sprouts, Garlic, Cashews, Olive Oil and a Bit of Marjoram. Roast on Medium High heat for 30 mins, giving the dish a good stir halfway through. Chad On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Benjamin Florin benjamin.flo...@gmail.comwrote: * neo4j * All the math I forgot since college (linear algebra, graph theory, etc) * RDA * PostGIS * Augmented reality * Cleaner, more stylish Javascript than the derpy stuff I currently write. * A brussel sprout recipe my wife will eat that doesn't involve bacon. Ben
[CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
Hello All, I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) on changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a while back (if you participated, thank you) but this stuff changes so quickly I thought I would ask this another way. What do you wish you had time to learn? My list includes CouchDB(NoSQL in general) neo4j nodejs prototype API Mashups R Don't be afraid to include Latin or Greek History. I'm just going for a snapshot of System angst at not knowing everything. Thanks, ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] Dublin Core to tab delimited text
Hello there. Does anyone have an xslt stylesheet or know of a tool that can transform dublin core xml into tab delimited text? Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Dublin Core to tab delimited text
Trying to move from eprints to ContentDM. I was able to export the metadata easily enough but now have a file that looks like this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8 ? eprintsdata xmlns=http://eprints.org/ep2/data; record field name=eprintid1/field field name=userid1/field field name=dirdisk0/00/00/00/01/field field name=datestamp2003-02-07/field field name=typethesis/field field name=succeeds/field field name=commentary/field field name=replacedby/field field name=abstractAlcohol affects individuals physically, mentally, and emotionally. Little work has been done to investigate a possible link between alcoholism and anger.#xD; The purpose of this research study was an attempt to determine if alcohol dependence had an effect on the amount of anger an individual reported and#xD; the ways an individual expresses his or her anger. The researched was gathered from 20 alcohol dependent individuals at Alliance Treatment Center#xD; (ATC). Anger was measured in alcohol dependent individuals using one survey containing two separate instruments; (a) The State-Trait Anger#xD; Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2), and (b) the Anger Disorder Scale. All participants completed the anger survey upon admission (pre-detoxification)#xD; and again, 4-6 days later, upon discharge (post-detoxification). This research study examined subscales, comparing pre-detoxification to#xD; post-detoxification anger scores for each participant. The mean scores were compared among 20 participants, both male and female. Data collected#xD; from ATC revealed only one significant finding; this was found in a subscale of the STAXI-2 measure. This provides information to conclude alcohol#xD; dependence may have an effect on how individuals control their expression of angry feelings. There were no significant differences detected on any of#xD; the other STAXI-2 scales. This means that there was little to no difference in how an individual perceives the intensity of current feelings, and the#xD; perceived verbal and physical expression of anger, following detoxification. The ADS was the second measure used in this research study. In#xD; comparing the pre to post detoxification scores, this measure provided no significant findings. Therefore, there were little to no differences in how#xD; participants viewed their problems with or without the influence of alcohol. This study was breaking new ground, a repetition of this study, with minor#xD; modifications, could provide valuable results for those studying alcohol dependence and anger. /field field name=altlochttp://wilson.ccsu.edu/theses/etd-2002-4/etd-2002-4.html/field field name=altlochttp://wilson.ccsu.edu/theses/etd-2002-4/etd-2002-4.pdf/field field name=authors id=part name=givenSarah J./partpart name=familyColella/part/field field name=chapter/field field name=commref/field field name=confdates/field field name=conference/field field name=confloc/field field name=departmentDepartment of Criminology and Criminal Justice/field field name=institutionCentral Connecticut State University/field field name=ispublishedunpub/field field name=keywordsCCSU Thesis/field field name=monthjul/field field name=noteThe author grants to Central Connecticut State University or its agents the right to archive and display their thesis or dissertation in whole or in part in#xD; the University Libraries in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The author retains all proprietary rights, such as patent rights. The author also#xD; retains the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis or dissertation. #xD; #xD; Use or inclusion of any portion of this ETD in a work intended for commercial use will require clearance by the copyright owner. /field field name=number/field field name=pages/field field name=pubdomFALSE/field field name=publication/field field name=publisher/field field name=refereedFALSE/field field name=referencetext/field field name=reportno/field field name=series/field field name=subjectsHM/field field name=subjectsHV/field field name=subjectsHN/field field name=subjectsHQ/field field name=thesistypeMasters Thesis/field field name=titleThe Relationship Between Alcoholism and Anger/field field name=volume/field field name=year2002/field field name=suggestions/field /record Edward Iglesias On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Edward, The probability of transforming Dublin Core or any other XML standard into tab delimited text is dependent upon how database-like the source XML is. If your Dublin Core files have a lot of hierarchical/nested content, you're going to have some problems migrating it into a simple tab delimited text file. Are you attempting to migrate Dublin
Re: [CODE4LIB] digital storage
Thanks to all of you who answered. Crowdsourcing does work if you pick the right crowd. We have been looking at the S3 possibility but I agree this would have to be a second copy. The policy and institutional support comments from my tokayo see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tocayo seem especially appropriate. I am going to include a link on our staff blog to this thread as a resource. Thanks again, Edward Iglesias On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Edward M. Corradoecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: Joe Atzberger wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote: Nate Vack wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Ryan Ordwayrord...@oregonstate.edu wrote: $213,360 over 3 years If you're ONLY looking at storage costs, SATA drives in enterprise RAID systems range from about $1.00/GB to about $1.25/GB for online storage. Yeah -- but if you're looking only at storage costs, you'll have an inaccurate estimate of your costs. You've got power, cooling, sysadmin time, and replacements for failed disks. If you want an apples-to-apples comparison, you'll want an offsite mirror, as well. I'm not saying S3 is always cost-effective -- but in our experience, the costs of the disks themselves is dwarfed by the costs of the related infrastructure. I agree that the cost of storage is only one factor. I have to wonder though, how much more staff time do you need for local storage than cloud storage? I don't know the answer but I'm not sure it is much more than setting up S3 storage, especially if you have a good partnership with your storage vendor. Support relationships, especially regarding storage are very costly. When I worked at a midsize datacenter, we implemented a backup solution with STORServer and tivoli. Both hardware and software were considerably costly. Initial and ongoing support, while indispensable was basically as much as the cost of the hardware every few years. They can be depending on what you are doing and what choices on software you make, but for long term preservation purposes they don't have to be nearly as expensive as what Ryan calculated S3 to cost. If you shop around you can get a quality 36GB array with 3 yr warranty for say $30,000 that is almost $180,000 less than S3 (probably much less, I'm be less than generous with my Sun discounts and only briefly looked at there prices). Even if we use the double your cost for support, it is still over $50,000 a year less for 3 years. Yes, we might need some expertise, but running a 36TB preservation storage array is not a $50,000 a year job and besides, what is wrong with growing local expertise? ... Yes, maybe you save on staff time patching software on your storage array, but that is not a significant amount of time - esp. since you are still going to have some local storage, and there isn't much difference in staff time in doing 2 TB vs. 20 TB. There's a real difference. I can get 2 TB in a single HDD, for example this one for $200 at NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148413 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148413 Any high school kid can install that. 20 TB requires some kind of additional structure and additional expertise. Well building a 20 TB storage device and getting it to work can actually be very cheap and doesn't require a PhD (just a local GNU/Linux geek who likes to play with hardware) if you are OK with a home grown solution. I wouldn't be satisfied with that, but I don't see how a commercial offering that adds up to $150,000 worth of expertise and infrastructure. You may some time on the initial configuration, but you still need to configure cloud storage. Is cloud storage that much easier/less time consuming to configure than an iSCSI device? Replacement for disks would be covered under your warranty or support contract (at least I would hope you would have one). Warranties expire and force you into ill-timed, hardly-afforded and dangerous-to-your-data upgrades. Sorta like some ILS systems with which we are all familiar. Yes some application upgrades can cause issues, but how is that different if your application and/or storage is in a cloud? The cloud doesn't necessarily stay the same, but the part you care about (data in, data out) does. How do you know they won't change their cloud models? And you don't even have a warranty with the cloud. They won't even guarantee they won't delete your data. As long as you use a common standards based method of storage, you won't have any more issues getting it to work than you will getting future application servers to work with the cloud. While I'm not a huge fan of NFS I've been using it for many years with no problems due to changes in NFS or operating systems or hardware. NFS has been available to the public for about 20 years. Occasionally you may need to migrate
[CODE4LIB] digital storage
As I was trying to figure out what to do with half a terabyte of archival TIFFS it occurred to me that perhaps someone else had this problem. We are starting to produce massive amounts of digital objects (videos, archival TIFFS, audio interviews). Up until now we have been dealing with ways to display them to the public. Now we are starting to look at dark archives like OCLC's digital archive product. I would welcome any suggestions from those of you who have dealt with this on an archival level. It's one thing to stick the stuff up on a server, but then what? Our CIO suggested storage appliances like this one http://www.drobo.com/products/index.php but I am wary of the proprietary RAID system. Thanks in advance, ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] Thanks for taking the survey
Thanks to all 204 of you who took my Systems Librarian Survey. Results are at http://library.ccsu.edu/staffblog/?p=147 The full results and analysis will be part of an upcoming book from Chandos publishing tentatively called Systemic Shifts: The Changing Role of the Systems Librarian. Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] Systems Librarian Survey
Hello All, I am conducting a quick survey on the changing roles of the Systems Librarian. I invite any who think of themselves in this capacity to please take it. The only common denominator is that if your ILS goes down, someone expects you to fix it. I will post a link to the survey results here when it is done. Survey link http://survey.ccsu.edu//TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=721M6l2 Thanks so much, Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] Call for Chapters
Please excuse duplicate postings. Hello All, I have a contract to deliver a book on the changing role of Systems Librarians and Systems Offices in libraries to Chandros Publishing in the UK by April 1 2010. I am looking for contributors who can provide a chapter on the subject. Of special interest are * IT infrastructure * Relationships with Vendors * Library culture * Public Relations/Marketing/Fundraising * Open Source Software * Hosted databases and how these have changed what you do over the past few years. Since this is a British Publisher any contribution from outside the US would be especially interesting. If you are a Systems Librarian (or equivalent) and would like to submit a chapter please send me a proposal. It does not have to be formal at this point, just a paragraph or two on what you would write about and your contact information. Deadline for chapters in January 1, 2010. Please address all inquiries to iglesias...@ccsu.edu. Thanks, ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University
[CODE4LIB] microformats creator
All right, this has to exist but I can't find it. I'm looking for a simple script to convert a csv file of staff names into hcards. So it would start with a list like John ,Smith,Organization,em...@email.com em...@email.com,555- and spit out div id=hcard-John-Smith class=vcard span class=fnJohn Smith/span div class=orgOrganization/div a class=email href=mailto:em...@email.com;em...@email.com/a div class=tel555-/div p style=font-size:smaller;This a href= http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard;hCard/a created with the a href= http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator;hCard creator/a./p /div the hcard creator does a lovley job for one at a time http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator but I want to do this with 50 or more names at a time that come out of a mysql query as csv. Before I try to do this from scratch in perl does anyone know of something out there that already does this? Thanks in advance, Edward Iglesias
[CODE4LIB] recommendations for archival storage
Hello All, As our various digital collections increase we are starting to look more seriously at long term storage. We have archival TIFFS, video recordings and sound recordings. We have all these things digitized on servers but now we are looking long term. What are you doing in the area of long term digital preservation? Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?
Just as an aside I'd look at how you want items deposited. We use eprints for our Master's Theses and they get cataloged. If you want faculty at a number of locations to submit work with just a few tags you might want to look at dspace. Another consideration is harvesting. Both of these allow OAI harvesting. The other thing I would look at is what you plan to put up. We are starting to host some honors projects and I had to break it to the Graduate Committee that only two dimensional objects would work so that sculpture while nice ... ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Rob Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: To throw in my 2c. Eric Lease Morgan wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know. I think an institutional repository is a type of digital library. I think the set of institutional repository is a subset of the set of digital library. The defining feature being that IRs are designed to be updated relatively frequently, by more than one or two people, and typically non technical members of an institution. This happens via a user UI, rather than via an admin UI. The contents of the IR are research output, whereas a DL can hold anything. Rob -- Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections management software
Hello Harish, I second Tim's enthusiastic endorsement. We are very pleased with it. Support is very good and it runs with no problem on linux. We got it to host our veterans history project which is a collection of video interviews so it is quite versatile. http://content.library.ccsu.edu/ ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Tim McGeary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Harish, We use CONTENTdm to manage many of our Digital Library collections. You can see them at http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/ The collections we have using CONTENTdm are mostly digitized books/monographs, but we also have illuminated manuscripts, hand written letters, and other ephemeral. We are nearly complete in archiving the entire student newspaper collection, which we hope to release late fall. We used Greenstone, which is open source, for our first digital project called Digital Bridges. But we just re-released the project by converting it to CONTENTdm. Greenstone required much too much customization and no sustainability, as we wanted to add more to this collection. The University of Utah and the Claremont Colleges both recently developed their institution digital repositories with CONTENTdm. I plan to follow their lead with our IR on CONTENTdm this upcoming academic year. I believe it was the presenter at Utah that said paraphraseWhy create a technological hurdle trying to learn and shape Fedora or DSpace to our needs when we already know CONTENTdm and have an open API that we are comfortable with using./paraphrase Though CONTENTdm is proprietary, the cost is well worth it. The API is very open, the community is among the best user communities out there, and the vendor (DiMeMa via OCLC) is very receptive and responsive to user concerns and enhancement suggestions. It has a very intuitive metadata interface, and is easy to administer on the server side. I never have to worry about it. I would HIGHLY recommend CONTENTdm. Well worth the price! Cheers, Tim Tim McGeary Senior Systems Specialist Lehigh University 610-758-4998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google Talk: timmcgeary Yahoo IM: timmcgeary Harish Maringanti wrote: Hi all, I've heard of Contentdm from OCLC that many institutions are using to manage their digital collections. If you are using Contentdm would you mind sharing some of the pros cons of using it (either to the group or off the list). Are there any other viable products either commercial or open source that can be considered to manage digital collections. Particularly in the open source domain are there any good applications to manage image collections? Thanks in advance, Harish Harish Maringanti Systems Analyst K-State Libraries (785)532-3261 -- Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing
Thanks Antonio. Edward Iglesias On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Antonio Barrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward, I haven't actually used this, but I know Arizona State did for SFX Usability testing. http://www.techsmith.com/morae/ Antonio Barrera Princeton University Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Iglesias Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:57 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] usability testing Hello All, I was wondering if anyone on this list knew of a usability/eye tracking program that took advantage of the built in camera in many computers. I was specifically thinking of using something like openeyes http://thirtysixthspan.com/openEyes/software.html But integrating it with a mac's built in camera. I think it would be good enough to do basic facial recognition enough to do point of gaze analysis. Thanks, ~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University -- Edward Iglesias -- Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing
Looks like these guys have what I was looking for. There is even someone who made it work with a Mac and eyesight. It does not have the analytics of Morae but it does have a driver. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/ Edward Iglesias On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Gabriel Sean Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:51:16AM -0400, Antonio Barrera wrote: I haven't actually used this, but I know Arizona State did for SFX Usability testing. http://www.techsmith.com/morae/ We picked up a copy of Morae for our usability testing. It records video in sync with whatever the person's doing on the screen, but it doesn't do eye tracking. Most of the eye tracking stuff I've seen requires expensive hardware and software, but I did find a potentially promising list of projects at http://www.cogain.org/eyetrackers/low-cost-eye-trackers -- Edward Iglesias
