Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

[Sam Kome]

+1 Brooke
  
We're a medium-sized library for a consortium of private colleges. No Library 
IT group, instead a technology working group with reps from each department. 
Organizational structure is somewhat matrixed.  We encourage & facilitate 
skillshares, professional development, etc.  We have started an annual workflow 
 analysis meeting that includes *everyone*.  It's fun to find optimizations 
between departments.

We work closely with the campus' (7) IT departments and central IT.  That's all 
a lot of work and communication is sometimes challenging, but necessary for 
smooth-ish operations.
Cheers,

Sam 

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Carol Bean 
[beanwo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 3:14 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional 
communication

Um, yeah.  I gotta side with Brooke's point here about our tendency to
forget about the smaller, especially rural, libraries. And I would extend
it to include special libraries, which are usually also smaller with less
resources.

Carol

Carol Bean
beanwo...@gmail.com

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:22 AM, BWS Johnson 
wrote:

> Salvete!
>
> *lights match, positions gin based cocktail, and preps for incoming hate
> mail*
>
>
>
>  With all due respect Mr. Morgan, I wholeheartedly disagree.
>
>  Most Public Libraries are Rural Public Libraries. [IMLS 2013] Most
> Academics are also small by FTE enrolment [ies of NCES 2012] So "we are the
> little folk we". We might not actually have different fancy pants
> departments. I will cede the gentleman his perception amongst those
> Academic Ivory Behemoths that possess battleship turning or are eligible
> for ASERL membership.
>
>  I would also further venture that anecdotally, folks in settings
> similar to the ones I've chosen are less likely to have a Master's degree
> period, much less a Master's degree from a prestigious Institution.
> (Please, not in the face! I hate the paper standard, but it is there.) This
> lack of paper could well lead to someone being made to feel inferior. How
> many times have we heard in passing that so and so is not a "real"
> Librarian since they do not possess their $50k+ piece of paper?
>
> Your most humble and obedient servant,
> Brooke
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> > From: Eric Lease Morgan 
> > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 6:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in
> professional communication
> >
> > In my humble opinion, what we have here is a failure to communicate. [1]
> >
> > Libraries, especially larger libraries, are increasingly made up of many
> > different departments, including but not limited to departments such as:
> > cataloging, public services, collections, preservation, archives, and
> now-a-days
> > departments of computer staff. From my point of view, these various
> departments
> > fail to see the similarities between themselves, and instead focus on
> their
> > differences. This focus on the differences is amplified by the use of
> dissimilar
> > vocabularies and subdiscipline-specific jargon. This use of dissimilar
> > vocabularies causes a communications gap and left unresolved ultimately
> creates
> > animosity between groups. I believe this is especially true between the
> more
> > traditional library departments and the computer staff. This
> communications gap
> > is an impediment to when it comes to achieving the goals of
> librarianship, and
> > any library — whether it be big or small — needs to address these issues
> lest it
> > wastes both its time and money.
> >
> > For example, the definitions of things like MARC, databases & indexes,
> > collections, and services are not shared across (especially larger)
> library
> > departments.
> >
> > What is the solution to these problems? In my opinion, there are many
> > possibilities, but the solution ultimately rests with individuals
> willing to
> > take the time to learn from their co-workers. It rests in the ability to
> respect
> > — not merely tolerate — another point of view. It requires time,
> listening,
> > discussion, reflection, and repetition. It requires getting to know
> other people
> > on a personal level. It requires learning what others like and dislike.
> It
> > requires comparing & contrasting points of view. It demands “walking a
> mile
> > in the other person’s shoes”, and can be accomplished by things such as
> the
> > physical intermingling of departments, cross-training, and simply by
> going to
> > coffee on a regular basis.
> >
> > Again, all of us working in libraries have more similarities than
> differences.
> > Learn to appreciate the similarities, and the differences will become
> > insignificant. The consequence will be a more holistic set of library
> > collections and services.
> >
> > 

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

[Sam Kome]

Not to be a noodg (sp?) - touch devices that use a stylus often support hover.  
Wacom tablets, Android tablets (e.g. Samsung Notes), the old PalmOS devices, 
etc.   Of course it's a small market segment.  relurk


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 6:17 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

Mouse hover is not available to anyone using a touch device rather than a 
mouse, as well as being problematic for keyboard access.

While there might be ways to make the on-hover UI style keyboard accessible 
(perhaps in some cases activating on element focus in addition toon hover), 
there aren't really any good ones I can think for purely touch devices (which 
don't really trigger focus state either).

An increasing amount of web use, of course, is mobile touch devices, and 
probably will continue to be and to increase for some time, including on 
library properties.

So I think probably on-hover UI should simply be abandoned at this point, even 
if some people love it, it will be inaccessible to an increasing portion of our 
users with no good accomodations.

Jonathan

On 9/17/14 4:25 PM, Jesse Martinez wrote:
 On the same token, we're making it a policy to not use mouse hover 
 over effects to display database/asset descriptions in LG2 until this 
 can become keyboard accessible. This is a beloved feature from LG1 so 
 I'm hoping SpringShare read my pestering emails about this...

 Jesse

 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Brad Coffield 
 bcoffield.libr...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Johnathan,

 That point is well taken. Accessibility, to me, shouldn't be a 
 tacked-on we'll do the best we can sort of thing. It's an essential 
 part of being a library being open to all users. Unfortunately I know 
 our site has a lot of work to be done regarding accessibility. I'll 
 also pay attention to that when/if I make mods to the v2 templates.

 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jonathan LeBreton 
 lebre...@temple.edu
 wrote:

 I might mention here that we (Temple University)  found LibGuides 
 2.0  to offer some noteworthy improvements in section 508 accessibility
 when compared with version 1.0.   Accessibility is a particular point of
 concern for the whole institution as we look across the city, state, 
 and country at other institutions that have been called out and 
 settled with various disability advocacy groups.
 So we moved to v. 2.0 during the summer in order to have those 
 improvements in place for the fall semester, as well as to get the 
 value from some other developments in v. 2.0 that benefit all customers.

 When I see email on list about making  modifications to templates 
 and such, it gives me a bit of concern on this score that by doing 
 so,  one might easily begin to make the CMS framework for content less 
 accessible.
I thought I should voice that.This is not to say that one shouldn't
 customize and explore enhancements etc.,  but one should do so with some
 care if you are operating with similar mandates or concerns.Unless I
 am
 mistaken, several of the examples noted are now throwing 508 errors 
 that are not in the out-of-the box  LibGuide templates and which are 
 not the result of an individual content contributor/author inserting bad 
 stuff
 like images without alt tags.




 Jonathan LeBreton
 Senior Associate University Librarian
 Editor:  Library  Archival Security Temple University Libraries 
 Paley M138,  1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia PA 19122
 voice: 215.204.8231
 fax: 215.204.5201
 mobile: 215.284.5070
 email:  lebre...@temple.edu
 email:  jonat...@temple.edu

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Cindi Blyberg
 Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:03 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

 Hey everyone!

 Not to turn C4L into Support4LibGuides, but... :)

 The infrastructure for all the APIs is in place; currently, the 
 Guides
 API
 and the Subjects API are functioning.  Go to Tools  API  Get 
 Guides to see the general structure of the URL.  Replace guides with 
 subjects
 to
 retrieve your subjects.  You will need your LibGuides site ID, which 
 you can get from the LibApps Dashboard screen.

 Word is that it will not take long to add other API calls on the 
 back
 end;
 if you need these now, please do email supp...@springshare.com and 
 reference this conversation.

 As for v1, we are planning on supporting it for 2 more years--that 
 said, we would never leave anyone hanging, so if it takes longer 
 than that to
 get
 everyone moved over, we're ready for that.

 Best,
   -Cindi

 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Nadaleen F Tempelman-Kluit 
 n...@nyu.edu

 wrote:

 Hi all-
 While we're on the topic of LibGuides V2, when will the GET subjects
 API (and other API details) be in place? 

Re: [CODE4LIB] [WEB4LIB] Interactive content for digital signage

[Sam Kome]

Does anyone have a working digital signage solution that includes Miracast?  
The objective being to send a phone/tablet/laptop desktop to the large display. 
 
I see ways to cobble it together from AirParrot and whatnot - just curious how 
well it works.

Thanks.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley 
Childs
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 11:26 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [WEB4LIB] Interactive content for digital signage

I am a big fan of xibo: Xibo.org.uk, we use it for the display in our lobby on 
a $500 Flat screen, we just hook up a laptop with an HDMI cable and set xibo to 
run on startup. we just have it running on an apache vhost. Even
better: they have a python based client that should work on the pi.

Riley Childs
Senior
Asst. IT Services Director
Library Guru
Charlotte United Christian Academy
Library Tech Cast (http://LibraryTechCast.com) ri...@tfsgeo.com 
http://RileyChilds.net @RowdyChildren

*Please Think before Hitting Reply All*

*I Do Web Development, Contact Me at http://RileyChilds.net/work
http://RileyChilds.net/work*



On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:35 AM, David S Vose dv...@binghamton.edu wrote:

 We will be installing interactive digital signs in our main library 
 this fall. One sign will be at our entrance and one will be in the 
 lobby. The draft plan is to provide interactivity that will allow 
 patrons to browse to floor plans, hours and schedules, directories, a 
 campus map, and an about the libraries section.

 I would be interested to learn what type of interactive content others 
 have found to be most popular and useful to students and what 
 interactive content did not turn out to be particularly successful.

 Thanks,

 David Vose | Geography, Data, Government Information, Law Binghamton 
 University Libraries, POB 6012, Binghamton, NY 13902-6012 
 dv...@binghamton.edu | 607.777.4907 | Downtown Center: 607.777.9275

 

 To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib

 Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/

 2014-07-18

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anonymizing address data

[Sam Kome]

I'm not up on HIPPA and I am not a lawyer.   
Years ago I created a system for anonymizing address data that passed muster 
with the FCC and US Census bureau. In a nutshell we had a third party create a 
unique hash to identify the record, and geocode to the US Census block group.  
We never handled let alone stored the name or address ourselves.  We had an 
independent auditor audit our outsource party and our datasets. Block group is 
the US Census standard for protecting privacy - it really depends on what other 
data you retain though as to being able to reconstruct identity.

Cheers!

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Simon 
Spero
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 2:38 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Anonymizing address data

This book might be useful (it's a year old)

Anonymizing Health Data http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do
Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started
By Khaled El Emam, Luk Arbuckle
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do#tab_03_0
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: December 2013
Pages: 212





On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com
wrote:

 HIPPA compliant data cannot include personally identifiable information, a
 category which includes address. The safe harbor approach where
 geographic subdivisions smaller than states cannot be used frequently
 renders data useless.

 The expert determination method is always an option and precompiling can
 work in certain cases, but I was wondering what other methods people have
 successfully employed? Thanks,

 kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections Browser Kiosk Software Options

[Sam Kome]

How about skip the pricey touchscreen and do a Johnny Lee: 
http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

I.e. use a Wii or Kinect controller to enable gesture functions on a regular 
screen.  It's on the to-do list I can never get to.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew 
Gordon
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:46 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections Browser Kiosk Software Options

Hi All,

We are looking into options for setting up a physical kiosk (touchscreen 
monitor and computer) in our lobby to allow visitors to our building to browse 
digital versions of some items from our collection. I see that Turning The 
Pages (e.g. http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/) provides a nice solution for 
this but I just wanted to see if anyone else had worked with something similar 
and might know of any other options (open source?) so that we can do a little 
comparing and contrasting. For some reason I am thinking there was a discussion 
a little while back about 3D digital collections browsing but can't seem to 
locate it and don't know it if was like the above scenario.

I think since it's a kiosk style implementation and we are looking for 
apples-to-apples comparisons, we are interested in the physical, touch-screen 
turning of the page interaction rather than a browser pointed at a more 
pragmatic digital collections browser, at least at this point in the 
exploration.

Thanks in advance for anyone that might have potential suggestions,

-d


Andrew Gordon, MSI
Systems Librarian
Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health New York Academy of 
Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY, 10029
212.822.7324
http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython?

[Sam Kome]

iPython is the only console to bother with IMHO, regardless of what chore I'm 
doing.  I've noodled with the Notebooks and they're wonderful but I am time and 
attention challenged and haven't progressed far.

Eric Matthes uses iPython notebooks to teach programming and has set out some 
excellent resources:

https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming

$.02
SK

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy 
Tennant
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:49 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython?

Our Wikipedian in Residence, Max Klein brought iPython [1] to my attention 
recently and even in just the little exploration I've done with it so far I'm 
quite impressed. Although you could call it interactive Python that doesn't 
begin to put across the full range of capabilities, as when I first heard that 
I thought Great, a Python shell where you enter a command, hit the return, and 
it executes. Great. Just what I need. NOT. But I was SO WRONG.

It certainly can and does do that, but also so much more. You can enter blocks 
of code that then execute. Those blocks don't even have to be Python. They can 
be Ruby or Perl or bash. There are built-in functions of various kinds that it 
(oddly) calls magic. But perhaps the killer bit is the idea of Notebooks 
that can capture all of your work in a way that is also editable and completely 
web-ready. This last part is probably difficult to understand until you 
experience it.

Anyway, i was curious if others have been working with it and if so, what they 
are using it for. I can think of all kinds of things I might want to do with 
it, but hearing from others can inspire me further, I'm sure.
Thanks,
Roy

[1] http://ipython.org/

[CODE4LIB] Marcive.com hosts are compromised

[Sam Kome]

Based on the pharmaceutical ads in their page sources and the fact that our 
Cisco Iron Port has blacklisted them, I have to regretfully report that 
marchive.com has been compromised.  Does anyone know the relevant contact(s) 
there to notify?

Sam Kome | Assistant Director, RD |The Claremont Colleges Library
Claremont University Consortium |800 N. Dartmouth Ave |Claremont, CA  91711
Phone (909) 621-8866 |Fax (909) 621-8517 
|sam_k...@cuc.claremont.edumailto:%7csam_k...@cuc.claremont.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Marcive.com hosts are compromised

[Sam Kome]

Sorry about that - I mistype 'Marcive' all the time. Despite that, it is the 
site I meant, sans 'h'.

It will resolve correctly but I wouldn't advise visiting - take precautions. 
Google search results also suggest it is compromised and the page sources 
contain pharma metadata.  
I emailed and then called the technical contact number.  Got a response on the 
phone, sounded like they were unaware but would look into it.

Our Collections folks report not receiving expected reports this month so the 
problem may be fairly old.

SK
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, 
Kevin
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:04 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Marcive.com hosts are compromised

http://marcive.com goes to the right place for me.  It is the one you mentioned 
in the subject line of your email.

http://marchive.com (note the h) goes to a domain squatter.  It is the one 
you mentioned in the body of your email.

Which one is causing you the issue?

Cordially,
Kevin


 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Sam Kome
 Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 2:07 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] Marcive.com hosts are compromised
 
 Based on the pharmaceutical ads in their page sources and the fact 
 that our Cisco Iron Port has blacklisted them, I have to regretfully 
 report that marchive.com has been compromised.  Does anyone know the 
 relevant
 contact(s) there to notify?
 
 Sam Kome | Assistant Director, RD |The Claremont Colleges Library 
 Claremont University Consortium |800 N. Dartmouth Ave |Claremont, CA
 91711
 Phone (909) 621-8866 |Fax (909) 621-8517
 |sam_k...@cuc.claremont.edumailto:%7csam_k...@cuc.claremont.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Speaking in Code summit, UVa Library Scholars' Lab

[Sam Kome]

Thanks Wayne and kudos to UVa on the inclusivity statement.

I would be interested to know who attends; that call* looks like a pretty fine 
filter.  If the list is ever made public I will immediately follow them all on 
[SocialMedia].

*http://codespeak.scholarslab.org/#call-for-participants

Sam Kome | Assistant Director, RD |The Claremont Colleges Library
Claremont University Consortium |800 N. Dartmouth Ave |Claremont, CA  91711
Phone (909) 621-8866 |Fax (909) 621-8517 |sam_k...@cuc.claremont.edu 

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Graham, 
Wayne (wsg4w)
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 1:41 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Speaking in Code summit, UVa Library Scholars' Lab

(Please excuse cross-posting, and help us get the word out about this 
opportunity for digital humanities software developers!)

We're pleased to announce that applications are open for Speaking in Code, a 
2-day, NEH-funded symposium and summit to be held at the UVa Library Scholars' 
Lab in Charlottesville, Virginia this November 4th and 5th.

http://codespeak.scholarslab.org/

Speaking in Code will bring together a small cohort of intermediate to 
advanced digital humanities software developers for two days of conversation 
and agenda-setting. Our goal will be to give voice to what is almost always 
tacitly expressed in DH development work: expert knowledge about the 
intellectual and interpretive dimensions of code-craft, and unspoken 
understandings about the relation of our labor and its products to ethics, 
scholarly method, and humanities theory.

Over the course of two days, participants will:

* reflect on and express, from developers' own points of view, what is 
particular to the humanities and of scholarly significance in DH software 
development products and practices;

* and collaboratively devise an action-oriented agenda to bridge the gaps in 
critical vocabulary and discourse norms that can frequently distance creators 
of humanities platforms or tools from the scholars who use and critique them.

In addition to Scholars' Lab staff (Jeremy Boggs, Wayne Graham, Eric Rochester, 
and Bethany Nowviskie), facilitators include Stephen Ramsay, William J. Turkel, 
Stéfan Sinclair, Hugh Cayless, and Tim Sherratt. A limited number of need-based 
travel bursaries are available to participants. The SLab particularly 
encourages and will prioritize participation of developers who are women, 
people of color, LGBTQ, or from other under-represented groups. See You Are 
Welcome Here for more info: http://codespeak.scholarslab.org/#inclusivity

This will be the first focused meeting to address the implications of tacit 
knowledge exchange in digital humanities software development. Visit the 
Speaking in Code website to register your interest! Apply by September 12th for 
best consideration.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stats and public wireless devices

[Sam Kome]

Funny you should ask.
We have an Aruba central wireless controller with 30 access points. The 
controller logs all access in great detail.
I just received 6 reports from a campus stats class that digests the logs that 
many ways from Sunday.

What exactly would you like to know?
I will have a gross summary Monday-ish.

SK

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Walter 
Lewis
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:11 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Stats and public wireless devices

I know this is more of a hardware question than a code question but I suspect 
that a few of the folks that have other systems roles might be able to steer me 
in the right direction.

We're looking to replace the public wifi in the library, by itself nothing 
remarkable.

The key requirement after reliable connectivity, is the ability to produce some 
level of statistics relative to usage.  (I know: lies, damned lies and usage 
statistics).  We don't run a proxy or any other system that the public need a 
login to use.  I expect a fair number of connections that would just be staff 
walking in with a smart phone or other device.

After the laughter subsides, any thoughts as to a suitable device?

Walter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

[Sam Kome]

+1
Male, coded in prehistoric times, now do more research and administration. Want 
to learn Pyramid just well enough to make really terrible web front ends for my 
really terrible python ETL scripts.

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph 
Montibello
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 6:55 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

Hi all,

I wouldn't want to crowd out women who are looking for this sort of mentoring, 
but I (and other men) might be interested in being a mentee[1].
The flip side of MJ's logic (which I agree with) is that no men in the pool of 
mentees means fewer opportunities for women to be mentors.

Just my two cents.
Joe Montibello, MLIS
Library Systems Manager
Dartmouth College Library
603.646.9394
joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu

[1] dumb aside on the word mentee - from Wikipedia, The person in receipt of 
mentorship may be referred to as a protégé (male), a protégée (female), an 
apprentice or, in recent years, a mentee. Protégé(é) appeals to me more than 
mentee, but maybe that's because my brain jumps from mentee to mentees to 
Mentos. I don't want to volunteer to be dropped into a bottle of soda! Also, I 
don't have enough linguistics/language history to know if protégée is a female 
derivative of the male form, which would probably be undesirable.

On 12/7/12 8:52 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote:

Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu
 Hi Rosalyn,
 I agree that we should encourage women to step up and mentor other 
women  at Code4Lib.  I also see the pairing of women mentors with 
women mentees  as fitting into an overall mentorship program, and I 
would be interested  in collaborating with you and others to help 
frame it out.

I think pairing would need to be done pretty carefully and I'm not sure 
that only pairing women with women, for example, would be a good thing.

Even ignoring my belief that it would be sexist, it could cause 
practical problems by creating a feedback loop: fewer women in the 
community probably means fewer women mentors available for women 
learners, leading to slower promotion of women into the community.

Hope that explains,
--
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer.
In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Chicago 2013 poster (subtler version)

[Sam Kome]

Would it be sacrilege to replace COBOL with CODE4LIB. On the one hand, 
Hopper. On the other hand, Cobol.  It burns!

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Doran, 
Michael D
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 6:34 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Chicago 2013 poster (subtler version)

Hi Bess,



 LOVE the poster idea!



Thanks!



 +1 to removing the male/female symbols, though, I agree with Jonathan

 that a subtler message is more effective.



Easily done, see the new subtler version below. (And higher res version 
available at http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/code4lib/2013poster.html)



[cid:image002.jpg@01CDD455.8EEF5290]



-- Michael



[1] Higher res at http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/code4lib/2013poster.html



 -Original Message-

 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of

 Bess Sadler

 Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 6:36 PM

 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Chicago 2013 poster



 LOVE the poster idea!



 +1 to removing the male/female symbols, though, I agree with Jonathan

 that a subtler message is more effective.



 Bess



 On Dec 6, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Jonathan Rochkind 
 rochk...@jhu.edumailto:rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:



  I like the picture a lot, but I'd take the male/female symbols out of

 it, I think they're cheesy and the point is better made more subtly and

 implicitly just by the image itself, rather than beating people over the

 head with it with the gender symbols.

 

  But I also have no idea why open up the door is apropos.

 

  On 12/6/2012 6:24 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote:

  I have come up with an unofficial Code4lib 2013 conference poster.

 It was inspired by the recent discussions exploring ways to be more

 gender inclusive in our community, to open up the door.

 

 

 

  Although often unacknowledged, women have been coders since the

 beginning.  The photo is from the Computer History Museum website, which

 states In 1952, mathematician Grace Hopper completed what is considered

 to be the first compiler, a program that allows a computer user to use

 English-like words instead of numbers. [1]  Props there!  The photo was

 actually taken in 1961 and shows Ms. Hopper in front of UNIVAC magnetic

 tape drives and holding a COBOL programming manual [2].

 

  [cid:image002.jpg@01CDD3D6.93CD2690]mailto:[cid:image002.jpg@01CDD3D6.93CD2690]

 

 

 

  Bonus points for knowing additional reasons why open up the door is

 apropos.

 

 

 

  -- Michael

 

 

 

  [1] http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1952

 

 

 

  [2] http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102635875

 

 

 

  Also see terms of use: http://www.computerhistory.org/terms/

 

 

 

  # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

 

  # University of Texas at Arlington

 

  # 817-272-5326 office

 

  # 817-688-1926 mobile

 

  # do...@uta.edumailto:do...@uta.edu

 

  # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/

 

 

 

 

 

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

[Sam Kome]

Also the most useless. 

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan 
Gruber
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:03 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie 
coders in a library?

Google is more useful than any reference book to find answers to programming 
problems.
On Nov 1, 2012 4:25 PM, Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote:

 Hi all code4lib-bers,

 As coders and coding librarians, what is ONE tool and/or resource that 
 you recommend to newbie coders in a library (and why)?  I promise I 
 will create and circulate the list and make it into a Code4Lib wiki 
 page for collective wisdom.  =)

 Thanks in advance!
 Bohyun

 ---
 Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS
 Digital Access Librarian
 bohyun@fiu.edu
 305-348-1471
 Medical Library, College of Medicine
 Florida International University
 http://medlib.fiu.edu
 http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation manager -- ??? -- BePress Bulk-upload Excel spreadsheet

[Sam Kome]

At some point bring it back to the list, please. Enquiring minds want to know...

Thanks,

SK

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy 
Tennant
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation manager -- ??? -- BePress Bulk-upload Excel 
spreadsheet

Mita,
A while back (I mean at least six years ago) I wrote some code to take 
citations downloaded from an index provider, reformat them into bepress 
spreadsheet format, and bulk upload them. The purpose of the project was to 
identify published articles by University of California faculty, email them 
that we had citations of their work in our system, and wouldn't they like to 
upload their copy of their article into the repository? I don't have the 
numbers on that project, but I recall that it did boost submissions.

Unfortunately, I think the code, which was likely crappy anyway, has long since 
moldered to dust on a server somewhere that I no longer have access to, but I 
can put you in touch with someone at UC who might be doing something like this. 
I'll email you off-list.
Roy

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Mita Williams mita.willi...@gmail.comwrote:

 We're trying to figure out a workflow for our BePress IR and was 
 curious if anyone in code4libland has developed something (an Excel 
 macro? a Zotero export function?) that could take formatted citations 
 and put them in the proper order so they could be bulk added to the 
 BePress bulk upload Excel spreadsheet.  Or perhaps there's an 
 altogether different way of going about collecting, formatting, and adding 
 such things for BePress.

 Everything counts in large amounts.
 Mita

[CODE4LIB] LC Class to OCLC Conspectus hash table? Anyone?

[Sam Kome]

Bueller?

We'll work with http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis/support/conspectus.xls 
unless there's something more rdbms/api friendly.  

Thanks!

Sam Kome | RD Librarian |The Claremont Colleges Library
Claremont University Consortium |800 N. Dartmouth Ave |Claremont, CA  91711
Phone (909) 621-8866 |Fax (909) 621-8517 |sam_k...@cuc.claremont.edu 

Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff

[Sam Kome]

Wait, what?  The Sinclair ZX81 didn't take punch cards.  It was solid state. 
You could bolt a cassette player to it.
Had one. grumble

Not only has hardware sharing not happened, the stuff is usually far more 
expensive than when it was new.
Cheers,
SK

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Al 
Matthews
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:09 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff

That seems to me an excellent answer, especially since my question was too 
broadly set. Thank you.

I think what still bothers me is that it requires a trip to ebay, or a vm or 
two, and some maybe not-quite-trivial forensics generally, to establish whether 
there is worthwhile data on a disk (or magnetic reel, whatever) for starters.

Archives are already in perpetual backlog, and based on some past work I'd say 
only a leading subset of these have sufficiently technical staff.

I'm surprised that hardware-sharing hasn't emerged as an initiative (assuming 
it already takes place as a service).

Thank you,

--
Al Matthews, Software Dev,
Atlanta University Center

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Uspal
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:53 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff

Al,

   I'm not an archivist by trade, but I had some thoughts on the subject, (and 
the person who sits behind me is, so I bounced my ideas off her to make sure 
I'm not talking inanities).  Anyway, here goes:

   I think when people look into archiving/storing digital media, they look at 
it as one question -- is it worthwhile to save/catalog/store this item?  To me 
though, there are really two completely separate questions being asked here:

   1.)  Is the data on the disk unique or special in a way that makes the data 
itself (i.e the ones and zeros) valuable.
   2.)  Is the physical object itself unique or special in any way (including 
it being a unique copy, marginalia, notable owner, etc) that makes the physical 
object valuable or makes the item an object d'arte.
   2a.) As part of two, if the object itself is not unique or special, is 
it part of a larger collection or set that is unique or special (a complete 
collection of first print Sierra games, a disk used in a Cray that was used in 
some big scientific discovery, etc)

   Answering yes to one of these will probably incur a completely difference 
response than if yes was answered to the other.

   Some generic examples:

1.) I have a 5 1/4 with some of my old high school papers on them.  In 
terms of data value, because it's the only copy of these items, the value of 
the data is high.  Since the disks are generic floppies without significant 
markings, I'd value the worth of the physical object as low.  Therein, best bet 
would be to transfer the data off using an old 5 1/4 drive and put the data 
into a more long-term archivable solution (cloud storage, steady state drive, 
etc).  You can see how this example can be used on university or corporate 
archival materials -- the physical object has much less worth than the data 
contained therein.
  2.) I have a first edition copy of Zork I on 5 1/4 disk (may even 
have box/instructions/box fluff).  Here, the data on the disk is of low value 
-- there are copies of Zork I all over the internet and I essentially download 
a copy to my hard drive for free (or even play on my browser if I so choose).  
On the other hand, its an original copy of Zork I with box/fluff, so the value 
lies not in the data but the physical object itself.  In this example, I would 
store the disk as per best practices (good tips found here:  
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/archives/preservation/magnetic/index.cfm).
  3.) I have a copy of a Final Fantasy cartridge for the original 
Nintendo.  Again, you can get the data pretty readily for a large pool of 
resources, so the data itself is of little value.  Final Fantasy carts are 
pretty common too, so the value of the object itself is pretty low.  On the 
otherhand, the cart is part of a complete collection of Nintendo cartridges and 
licensed merchandise, so the value in this object now lies in the fact that it 
exists within a collection, and has value due to that collection. (Plus, it's 
always better to play a game on the original machine than play it on your 
Android, loading screen times notwithstanding...)  A similar example would be 
blank punchcards for an old Sinclair ZX81 -- the cards themselves don't have 
value, but added to the Sinclair as a complete package they suddenly do.

Other items from your post:

Hardware: eBay is your best friend.  You can rebuild your Tandy 1000 from 
parts on eBay.  You can buy a complete and whole Tandy 1000 on eBay.  I buy 
used car parts all the time on eBay to keep my junkers running, same principle 
can be applied to most old machines (fun fact: you can 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Community google custom search

[Sam Kome]

Thanks! 
Also thanks for the human search engine answers via irc.  
-skome

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:35 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Community google custom search

So I was in #code4lib, and skome asked about ideas for library hours. 
And I recalled that there have been at least two articles in the C4L Journal on 
this topic, so suggested them.

Then I realized that there's enough body of work in the Journal to be worth 
searching there whenever you have an ideas for dealing with X 
question. You might not find anything, but I think there's enough chance you 
will, illustrated by that encounter with skome.

Then I realized it's not just the journal -- what about a Google Custom Search 
that searches over the Journal, the Code4Lib wiki, the Code4Lib website, and 
perhaps most interestinly -- all the sites listed in Planet Code4Lib.

Then I made it happen. Cause it seemed interesting and I'm a perfectionist, I 
even set things up so a cronjob automatically syncs the list of sites in the 
Planet with the Google custom search every night.

The Planet stuff ends up potentially being a lot of noise -- I tried to custom 
'boost' stuff from the Journal, but I'm not sure it worked. But I did configure 
things with facet-like limits including a just the planet limit, if you do 
want that. But even though it's sometimes a lot of noise, it's also potentially 
the most interesting/useful part of the search, otherwise it'd pretty much just 
be a Journal search, but now it includes a bunch of people's blogs, as well as 
other sites deemed of interest to Code4Lib community (including a couple other 
open source library tech journals) -- without any extra curatorial work, just 
using the list already compiled for the Planet.

I'm curious what people think of it. Try some searches for library tech 
questions or information and see how good your results are. If people find this 
useful, I'll try to include it on the main code4lib.org webpage in some 
prominent place, spruce up the look and feel etc. (Or try to draft someone else 
to do that, I think my time to work on this might be _just_ about up after 
staying until 9.30 hacking on this cause it seemed cool).

http://www.code4lib.org/custom_search/search_form.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?

[Sam Kome]

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/return-of-the-mobile-stylesheet


Also this is the finest review of significant mobile device capabilities
I've seen since 2003. Do take into account that we're back to the future
with rampant nit-picky differences between browser engines:
http://www.quirksmode.org/m/table.html



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Ken Irwin
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:55 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?

Hi all,

Forking off from the mobile-detection thread:

Does anyone have any favorite books, articles, websites, etc. for the
real how to business of building mobile-friendly websites. I have been
astonished at the apparent dearth of such books, and was delighted
earlier this year to discover Jonathan Stark's Building iPhone Apps with
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from O'Reilly (2010); he has an
Android-oriented version of the book coming out soon too. Although the
book contains a lot about designing web pages, the app-building
orientation of the book means that it gives short shrift to
cross-platform compatibility. What I really want to find is a good guide
to building simple websites that will work on any smartphone, yea,
verily, even BlackBerry. (I don't know about anyone else, but I have
found BB to not support a lot of things that work well on Droids and
iThings.)

For a shorter introduction, I belatedly discovered this article:
Mobile Websites With Minimum Effort.
Authors:Wisniewski, Jeff
Source:Online; Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p54-57, 4p

The number-one thing that I learned from Stark's book is something that
I had struggled for the longest time with: why does my iThing make all
web pages look tiny? The answer: iThings assume that all web pages are
980px wide, and you've got to disabuse them of that notion by the simple
expedient of defining a viewport in the page header:
meta name=viewport content=width=device-width
(there are several variations of this, and knowing the key word helps to
find the rest.)

Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work?

Ken

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

[Sam Kome]

Michael Stonebraker *is* the horse, and yet has pointed pointed out that RDBMSs 
aren't always the hammer you're looking for.  Next time you use a B-tree or 
R-tree (spatial search, anyone?), give him a toast with your favorite beverage.

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/32212-the-end-of-a-dbms-era-might-be-upon-us/fulltext

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jay 
Luker
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:38 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote:

 The thing is, the NoSQL stuff is pretty much just a key-value store.
  There's generally no way to query the store, instead you can simply look
 up a document by ID.


Schemaless != no way to query.

Key-value stores, like memcache,  are just one end of what most consider the
nosql spectrum. For instance, I can query my CouchDB instances through the
different views I create.

I thought this blog post had an interesting take on NoSQL, although this
guy, Mike Stonebreaker of VoltDB, obviously has a horse in the race.
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/50678-the-nosql-discussion-has-nothing-to-do-with-sql/fulltext

--jay