Re: [CODE4LIB] GDPR and your library website

2018-05-22 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
I haven't heard anything from our campus about steps to take for our library website. Last year we published information about our website privacy policy to let uses know we use Google Analytics to capture website usage data. That policy doesn't list specific outside sites but does indicate we d

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web Server Specs?

2018-08-02 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
I'm not a pro at this either. :-) Our campus base virtual machine includes the following: 2 Central Processing Units (CPU) 2 GB of Memory 1 Gigabit Ethernet Card 1 Operating System (OS), either Windows or Linux 200 GB of Disk space Adding to memory, disk space, etc. costs extra and we have had to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for the New Kid

2018-10-18 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Oh, you aren't the only awkward, curious newbie. ;-) I would agree with the points made so far: - If you don't need it for a specific project, job task, etc. getting a surface knowledge of a variety of things is probably going to be more useful than doing deep-dives into specific things. - You w

[CODE4LIB] Capturing referring URL for proxy problem?

2018-11-15 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Hi all, We are an EZproxy shop. If someone clicks a proxied link and gets directed to the needhost.html error page because the proxied link is not included in the configuration file we collect that link and allow the user to submit the problem to us to fix. What we would also like to collect is

Re: [CODE4LIB] [BEWARE-SUSPECTED SPAM]Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing referring URL for proxy problem?

2018-11-15 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
ull URI, for search referrals and was sometimes entirely empty (e.g. after going through our CAS login screen on the way through EZproxy). Good luck! Best, Eric On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:29 PM Pennington, Buddy D. wrote: > Hi all, > > We are an EZproxy shop. If someone clicks

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools in use for staff directory applications?

2019-04-04 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Our website is built on .NET and we use Oracle to store staff info. https://library.umkc.edu/staff-directory Buddy Pennington Head of Library Systems & Technology (Librarian III) Miller Nichols Library University of Missouri--Kansas City -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools in use for staff directory applications?

2019-04-04 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
edu/ “To dwell inside a well-functioning machine is to be largely unaware of its functioning. That’s its gift, and we accept it thoughtlessly, ungratefully, unknowingly." [cid:image001.gif@01D21575.36CE1C80] On Apr 4, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Pennington, Buddy D. mailto:penningt...@umkc.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Remote Work Policies

2019-04-18 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Our university policy on this is here: https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/flexible_work_arrangements Buddy Pennington Head of Library Systems & Technology (Librarian III) Miller Nichols Library University of Missouri--Kansas City He/him/his -Original Message- From: Code for Librarie

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

2020-12-03 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
We don't have a formal policy but we are putting our library video content on Panopto and we do captioning. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Koshoffer, Amy (koshofae) Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:47 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Vi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies?

2020-12-03 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
half Of Pennington, Buddy D. Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Video content creation policies? We don't have a formal policy but we are putting our library video content on Panopto and we do captioning. -Original Message-

[CODE4LIB] Web app to search XML files

2020-12-17 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Hi all, We're purchasing an XML dataset for the historical NY Times and I am curious about any suggestions to quickly build a web app to search and display those records for end users. Buddy Pennington Head of Electronic Resources & Systems University Libraries University of Missouri - Kansas C

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app to search XML files

2020-12-17 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
sk around for systems that support it out of the > box. > > cheers > stuart > > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 07:37, Pennington, Buddy D. > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > We're

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app to search XML files

2020-12-17 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
braries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Pennington, Buddy D. Sent: Thursday, 17 December, 2020 3:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app to search XML files Yes, lots of excellent suggestions from folks. I was actually looking at Basex earlier today as a too

Re: [CODE4LIB] Literature on the future of library systems

2021-01-19 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
The November/December 2020 Library Technology Report (https://journals.ala.org/index.php/ltr/issue/view/779) is on ILS consolidation. While it primarily covers the business side of things the last chapter does provide some observations about potential ILS integrations with other systems used in

[CODE4LIB] Background on library lab computers

2021-03-10 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
This might fall outside the scope of this list but I was wondering if anyone out there with public computers for student use in their library has implemented library-related background images on the machines. Ours are the standard Windows blue background and there is some discussion about changi

Re: [CODE4LIB] video to text

2022-10-21 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
There are a couple of options provided in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNCPj5jTWM. I personally haven't tried either so can't vouch for them. Buddy Pennington Head of Systems & Technology University Libraries University of Missouri – Kansas City (he/him/his) -Original

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems - to librarian or not to librarian?

2023-02-17 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
We are currently conducting a search for a systems librarian to support our recent FOLIO implementation. We debated the MLIS requirement but ultimately decided to keep it. Part of the position is working with different functional groups so we felt like the position having an MLIS would be a sign

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

2023-09-26 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Kayla, I don't know about Omeka Classic but Omeka S has a DSpace Connector module that might be able to be utilized for your use case. https://omeka.org/s/modules/DspaceConnector/ https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/modules/dspaceconnector/ We do not use it here so I can't speak to its functio

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] [CODE4LIB] IT Ticketing System Recommendations...

2023-10-27 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
We use Jira, and it is pretty popular. Very customizable in terms of forms and ticket fields for various different types of tickets and tasks. It is super easy to tag others for comments or updates. That said, as others have mentioned, it does cost $$. Buddy Pennington (He/him) Head of Systems

Re: [CODE4LIB] Marketing Ticket System

2017-01-18 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
We use JIRA (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira). It is geared for software development but is very flexible and can be customized really for anything. Buddy Pennington Director of Collections and Access Management University of Missouri--Kansas City 308 Miller Nichols Library 800 East 51s

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wanted: Good overview article comparing new authentication/access control options (Shibboleth, OpenAthens, SAML, etc.)?

2017-08-09 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Do vendors even directly support SSO? We use SSO to enable users to authenticate into EZProxy for IP-based access to our electronic resources. I didn't think cutting out EZProxy and just going with SSO was an option. Buddy Pennington Director of Information Technology and Strategy University of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open source repository system for audio, video, and photos

2017-08-15 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
I believe Islandora covers all those use cases. https://islandora.ca/ Buddy Pennington Director of Information Technology and Strategy University of Missouri--Kansas City Miller Nichols Library 800 East 51st St. Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 penningt...@umkc.edu 816-235-1548 UMKC Libraries -Or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online suggestion form or box

2017-10-24 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
We built our own in Drupal: https://library.umkc.edu/suggestions Buddy Pennington Head of Library Systems & Technology Miller Nichols Library University of Missouri--Kansas City -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Beth Goodwin Sent:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems Librarian / software developer

2017-12-07 Thread Pennington, Buddy D.
Lisa, I would love to see that. We have wrestled with how to merge programmer requirements with faculty librarian expectations. Buddy Pennington Head of Library Systems & Technology (Librarian III) Miller Nichols Library University of Missouri--Kansas City -Original Message- From: Code