On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Seth Robbins wrote:
> Which brings me to my original reason for posting: Is there, at present, a
> publicly available subject guide for librarian coders that anyone knows of?
> and would anyone be interested in collaborating on such a guide even if
> just to give fe
Hi all,
I'm a first year library science student, also interested in programming.
As an assignment for a class I recently designed a pathfinder/subject guide
on computer science for librarians and library students. After watching
this thread for a couple of days, it dawned on me that, hey there mig
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Alexander Johannesen
wrote:
> No argument there. For example, why are we having this conversation? ;)
Well, Anne was looking for advice on skills to pick up, when starting
out a career as an application developer fresh out of library school.
Hence, I was advisin
Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> Starting with data modeling is like trying to learn a new spoken language
> by focusing on grammar [...]
Hmm. It seems that a lot of people are, shall we say, somewhat
misguided to what data modelling is, even mighty WikiPedia who makes
it into a formal process of sorts, and
> > Your task should rather
> > be to understand the why, who, how, when and the thenceforth of data
> > models, and everything else will follow.
>
> Ye good gods, no, no, no!
>
> A more productive task is to understand the who, how, when, and
> thenceforth of what tasks actual people want to accom
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Alexander Johannesen
wrote:
Hi,
First, I should apologize for my tone a bit. It's been an odd day,
and, yeah, email. Sorry to be overly flippant.
> Understanding this is not disconnected from designing data models
> *right*. It's the same thing. By extension I s
what you want to be doing, just like you're doing now,
don't stop.
Best of luck to you.
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Michael Friscia
Manager, Digital Library & Programming Services
Yale University Library
(203) 432-1856
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From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LI
Hiya,
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Nate Vack wrote:
> A more productive task is to understand the who, how, when, and
> thenceforth of what tasks actual people want to accomplish with their
> computers
Understanding this is not disconnected from designing data models
*right*. It's the same
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Alexander Johannesen
wrote:
> Your task should rather
> be to understand the why, who, how, when and the thenceforth of data
> models, and everything else will follow.
Ye good gods, no, no, no!
A more productive task is to understand the who, how, when, and
then
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> Having a playground where you can experiment aggressively is useful. I'm a
> fan of Amazon EC2 because you can create servers in minutes for pennies per
> hour and try things you'd never want to do with real hardware. It's nice
> when you ca
I could give you tons of advice, most of it specific to some
technological domain or another, but over the years I've more or less
settled on one thing that beat out all the other ;
Data models.
Once you grok data models, what they are, how they work, and all the
extended family (schemas, ontolog
I was wondering what skills/programming
> languages/experience you think I should be seeking if I want to be able to
> develop (good) interactive online resources/digital collections for library
> patrons and/or staff.
>
I agree with the advice given so far in this thread. One of the most useful
Probably the most important thing you can do is simply play around
with the technology. Get some ideas of what you want to play around
with. Then try to do it or see if someone else has already done it.
If someone else has done it, try to figure out how (open source for
the win).
When I was star
r Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Anne
Gresham
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:08 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?
Hi code4lib folks,
I'm in my final semester of library school and my first year as a baby
librar
Hi Anne,
Not quite an answer to your question, but you might take a gander at a
blog post Dan Chudnov wrote a little while back:
http://onebiglibrary.net/story/advice-to-a-library-school-student
Best of luck, and btw, the fact that you're already posting to
code4lib means you're already wel
Hi code4lib folks,
I'm in my final semester of library school and my first year as a baby
librarian. At school, I focused on systems and technology, and I'm currently
running a desktop and mobile site at work. I'm fine with HTML and CSS, and I
can fumble around in PHP, but I feel very under-prepar
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