Keeping current, working with websites
One of my favorite things about writing for Computers in Libraries is that I now get a subscription to the magazine. All the blogs and RSS feeds and tweets in the world are really no match for being able to read “how to” stories from people working in totally different libraries than me. I feel like I pretty much get the issues involved with running rural, pre-OPAC, barely-online libraries and I hope I do a decent job showcasing them here to at least give people an idea of what’s involved and what’s at stake. However, I have never worked in a library with a self checkout system or a DVD service mach...
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librarian.net - February 3, 2008 Author: jessamyn Tags: libraries 501c3 cil computersinlibraries dreamhost
Let me be open with you ...
'open' is a word that usually needs to be qualified to be of any use in our conversations. Simply standing on its own it is not clear what it means. Unless qualified the word is like 'home made', 'new' or 'natural', a widely applied promotional label with little informational value.
The storm in a teacup around OpenTranslators is interesting in this context. This is a hosted service from Care Affiliates, working with Index Data and WebFeat. It is a nice idea.
OpenTranslators will allow libraries to use the federated search interface of their choice to access over 10,000 databases using SRU/SRW/Z39.50. The databases con...
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Lorcan Dempsey's weblog - February 3, 2008
Comment ajouter des flux RSS à votre Opac ?
1ere étape : créer des liens profonds.
J’ai déjà plaidé pour cela : ici.
Concrètement, ça veut dire quoi?
En général, quand vous “consultez un OPAC”, vous ouvrez une “session”. Le serveur génère un numero aléatoire qui vous permet de naviguer pendant une periode limitée de temps. Ce numéro a une durée de vie limitée et n’est pas ré-utilisable.
Donc, par ex, si vous surfez normalement, vous pouvez tomber sur le lien suivant : http://catalogues.toulouse.fr/web2/tramp2.exe/goto/A1ckc9ah.000?screen=ALL_New.html
Si vous copiez-collez ce lien, là maintenant, dans votre ...
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Des Bibliothèques 2.0 - February 1, 2008 Author: bibliotheque20 Tags: bibliothèque 2.0
What kinds of conversations can you have?
Some pretty neat ones.
I quickly posted on January 29th, “What are they doing right?” It was about the MCCL homepage. Which led to some lively comments. Some liked it. Some pointed to areas that needed improvement. Lisa, the web designer for the MCCL site responded about the design. Then something neat happened, one of the commentors, Brad, made a mock-up of the site as he saw it. Whether you agree with the new mock-up or the original site the larger point is: you’ve just seen how being transparent, being willing to do work and being willing to share ideas can lead in entirely new directions. Let&...
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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology - January 31, 2008 Author: Lee Tags: TTW Contributors
Why Do I Teach (Dialog) in LIS?
There’s a meme going around in the faculty blogosphere in which folks are talking about why they teach their subject; Barbara Fister recently talked about why she is a librarian here on this blog. I’ll write more about why our faculty colleagues teach in a future post, but the meme started me thinking about why I teach reference and advanced reference for Simmons GSLIS. In short, I teach because I love being a librarian and I want to pass that enthusiasm on to future librarians. I get excited by providing good service to my patrons (I’m chatting with one right now — multitasking!).
I also love the thrill of ...
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ACRLog - January 31, 2008 Author: Stephanie Willen Brown
substituts d’Opac
J’ai commencé au printemps et à l’été 2006 (par ex. ici) à parler d’outils se substituant à l’OPAC: les données sont tirées du système de gestion de la bibliothèque (SIGB), ramené à une fonction de gestion de workflow interne, chargées dans un second système qui retraite les données (bibliographiques) pour proposer une interface publique de recherche des collections.
C’est le principe.
Dans cette voie générale, une branche particulière semble peut-être plus prometteuse que d’autres: solr (dont je parlais ici en janv. 2007).
Aujourd’hui, l’université de Vir...
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/home/nicomo/pro/notes - January 30, 2008 Author: nicolas.morin Tags: Uncategorized blacklight facettes marc OPAC open source ruby xml
Blyberg on L 2.0 - a response
John Blyberg argues that Library 2.0 has been debased by (some) librarians and by vendors looking for a quick technology fix. This is really one of the best posts (and comments threads) that I’ve read in a long time. Really. Go read.
John’s post has sparked some intelligent reactions across the biblioblogosphere, which I’ll be noting in this and a few subsequent posts. I want to break my response up, because I think John makes a number of excellent points.
Firstly, I think John deserves enormous credit for the following:
How and where we interface with our users is where the rubber meets the road and shou...
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VALIS - January 29, 2008 Author: Simon Chamberlain Tags: library 2.0 social networks library catalogues web 2.0
GMILCS Gets Fresh
Last week, the Greater Manchester Integrated Library Cooperative System (GMILCS to its friends) became the first large library system to integrate Chili Fresh into its online catalog.
I talked about Chili Fresh last September, when I was helping with some initial testing and design. Unfortunately, my consortium was not in a position to pursue the product at the time, so I’m glad the progressive and flexible GMILCS was able to step in for final testing and be a beta site.
Chili Fresh is neat because it doesn’t require sweeping changes to a library catalog to bring about improvements. It is a plug-in that allow...
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herzogbr.net blog - January 29, 2008 Author: Brian Herzog Tags: Library Technology
Library Resident in Research and Instruction Services
State: New Mexico
The University of New Mexico Libraries has an opening (JR# 6409) for a Library Resident in Research
and Instruction Services. This is a fulltime,
12 month faculty position. The desired start date is July 1,
2008. The faculty rank will be Visting Lecturer III. This position may be extended by the University
Libraries for up to one additional year subject to program needs, library budget, and job performance.
The annual salary is $40,000.
Position Description
This postMLS
residency is designed for recent graduates of ALA accredited library and information
science programs. Prior professional experience is n...
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SLIS Careers Feed - January 29, 2008
Upcoming Opac Training Sessions
We will soon be invited to participate in training sessions on OPAC title, author, and subject searching. In preparation for these training sessions, please share what questions/problems you may have encountered in regard to searching the OPAC at service desks.
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K-State Libraries: General Reference - January 28, 2008 Author: Danielle
Blacklight, Another Opac Option
Blacklight, an open source OPAC using ruby on rails and solr, has now been released.A next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marc records, index them with the scripts provided, start up ruby on rails, and you're on your way to faceted browsing bliss.
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Catalogablog - January 28, 2008 Tags: OPAC Open Source
Google Generation JISC Report
Although I try not to go in for "you've seen it elsewhere, but anyway" posts, I can't not mention the recently released Google Generation report, which tries to get a handle on the information skills that the post-1993 generation have acquired.
I'm not sure how they've acquired this skills, though? From tinkering, presumably? I'm not sure the kids are doing much in the way of search skills development in school, and I suspect that many librarians would rather try to get people to use their arcane systems rather than help people use Google better, at least in the first instance...
the key point is that information skills h...
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OUseful Info - January 28, 2008 Author: ajh59 Tags: Library library2.0 elibrary JISC Google Generation CIBER
Google Generation JISC Report
Although I try not to go in for "you've seen it elsewhere, but anyway" posts, I can't not mention the recently released Google Generation report, which tries to get a handle on the information skills that the post-1993 generation have acquired.
I'm not sure how they've acquired this skills, though? From tinkering, presumably? I'm not sure the kids are doing much in the way of search skills development in school, and I suspect that many librarians would rather try to get people to use their arcane systems rather than help people use Google better, at least in the first instance...
the key point is that information skills h...
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OUseful Info - January 28, 2008 Author: ajh59 Tags: Library library2.0 elibrary JISC Google Generation CIBER
OvidSP Switch Coming Soon
The date is fast approaching where Ovid users will be required to use OvidSP. I wanted remind librarians using Ovid to contact their customer support person to ensure they have OvidSP defaults set up the way your library likes them. Your Ovid support rep. should be able to email you a PDF document listing the various "changeable" items.Important Note:Ovid's URL will change! The new URL will be http://ovidsp.ovid.com. People using the old address will be redirected to the correct address. But I am not sure for how long so it would probably be a good idea to start changing your links within your OPAC, web pages, etc. af...
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The Krafty Librarian - January 28, 2008 Author: The Krafty Librarian
Part.1: What are some ideas to be looking at?
Part.1 leads into Part.2 which is coming in a few weeks. Producing a video is not easy (at least for me it wasn’t.) More to come on this “walking the talk” tech thing in Part.2. Right now, we’re just going to talk about ideas. Let’s start with a persona to explore: free and open source software, texting, internet-enabled devices, surprising facts, and strategy. What do we see with all this? Here’s an experimental persona to tie the ideas together. We’re not concerned with what’s possible but with what’s not possible and then how to get there.
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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology - January 27, 2008 Author: Lee Tags: TTW Contributors
Another great leap for open source
I don’t where to begin with this. I have just read several different blogs/emails/releases all about this amazing leap for the open source ILS & other open source library tools.
Let’s start with Roy:
So anyway, here’s the skinny: IndexData, WebFeat, and CARE Affiliates have partnered to create a service they’ve dubbed OpenTranslators. In a nutshell, this service makes any of the some 10,000 databases for which WebFeat has developed search connections available to be searched through SRU or Z39.50. In [one] stroke, they have made all of these sources available for searching by any application...
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What I Learned Today... - January 27, 2008 Author: Nicole Tags: Library Open Source
They tried to make me go to FRBR, I said no, no, no
I just finished a major draft of the first soup-to-nuts literary essay I have written since spring 2006, when I was crankin’ ‘em out for MFA workshop homework assignments. (The essay, about local food, was on request, for an anthology.) Yay me! I hope it doesn’t suck, or at least that any sucking can be easily de-sucked. I now know a startling amount of information about Apalachicola oysters — that’s always useful (particularly since I’m going to turn around and take what I know to build a review for this week’s homework assignment in my food writing class).
To celebrate, I’m...
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Free Range Librarian - January 27, 2008 Author: K.G. Schneider Tags: Tallahassee Living This and That
ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting, January 12, 2008 - Summary
The ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group met on Saturday, January 12, 2008, from 10:30am-12:00pm. The program was well attended (about 115 people signed in, but the actual headcount was closer to 200), especially given the number of other programs occurring in the same time slot.
The topic of session was making e-resources more manageable and other issues related to records, in particular issues related to e-book aggregations and databases.
Our first speaker was Nicole Pelsinsky, who recently joined Serials Solutions as a product manager focused on the 360 MARC Updates service. Prior to joining Serials Solutions, Nic...
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Z666.7.L364 (www.jenniferlang.net) - January 26, 2008 Author: Jennifer Lang Tags: cataloging conferences electronic resources
ALCTS Electronic Resources Group Meeting Summary - January 2008
The ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group met on Saturday, January 12, 2008, from 10:30am-12:00pm. The program was well attended (about 115 people signed in, but the actual headcount was closer to 200), especially given the number of other programs occurring in the same time slot.
The topic of session was making e-resources more manageable and other issues related to records, in particular issues related to e-book aggregations and databases.
Our first speaker was Nicole Pelsinsky, who recently joined Serials Solutions as a product manager focused on the 360 MARC Updates service. Prior to joining Serials Solutions, N...
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ALA Weblog Service - January 26, 2008 Tags: general
The ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group met on Saturday, January 12, 2008, from 10:30am-12:00pm. The program was well attended (about 115 people signed in, but the actual headcount was closer to 200), especially given the number of other programs occurring in the same time slot.
The topic of session was making e-resources more manageable and other issues related to records, in particular issues related to e-book aggregations and databases.
Our first speaker was Nicole Pelsinsky, who recently joined Serials Solutions as a product manager focused on the 360 MARC Updates service. Prior to joining Serials Solutions, N...
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ALA Weblog Service - January 26, 2008 Tags: general
Uncontrolled Vocabulary, the Carnival, and the LC Working Group; or, the recognition of frustration
Back in December, a few days before the deadline passed for comments on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, I wrote a post called just that.
In it I expressed much frustration; with both the big picture issues facing bibliographic control and those of my daily frustration in trying to use the tools my profession supplies me to do so.
I was popping off in that post. Clearly. Heck, I even tossed out an f-bomb. I was (am) mad.
Well, thanks to Anna Creech (or so I believe. By the way, thanks, Anna!) that post showed up both on Uncontrolled Vocabulary #24 [revisited momentarily in #25] ...
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Off the Mark - January 25, 2008 Author: Mark Tags: Work Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Carnival of the Infosciences Classification Cataloging Librariana
Access Services Supervisor, C/W MARS, Inc.
C/W MARS, a 140-member library consortium headquartered in
Worcester, MA, is looking for an Access Services Supervisor
to manage our consortium's public services.
Our network's public services include:
-Innovative Interfaces OPAC web pages,
-CONTENTdm digital library services,
-Serials Solutions federated searching,
-Overdrive electronic media, and
-Website design and administration.
Specific duties include:
-Supervising a departmental staff of two;
-Participating on various internal staff teams and network
committee projects;
-Serving as a member of an eleven-person Library
Applications team that provides ge...
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MBLC Job Listings - January 25, 2008
Ruby-on-Rails/Solr Opac: Version.1 of Blacklight Released
Bess Sadler has released version .1 of Blacklight, an open source "next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine."
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DigitalKoans - January 25, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: OPACs Open Source Software
Ruby-on-Rails/Solr Opac: Version .1 of Blacklight Released
Bess Sadler has released version .1 of Blacklight, an open source "next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine."
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DigitalKoans - January 25, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: OPACs Open Source Software
Una bibliografica tematica 2.0
La nostra fervida attività di redazione ha messo qualche post in mezzo, ma non abbiamo scordato la promessa fatta qui e siamo pronti a farvi vedere come abbiamo costruito la bibliografia sul gaming che vi abbiamo segnalato.
Leggendo i Feed rss di Videloudica (attraverso Wizz RSS News reader), ci siamo imbattutti in questa notizia [...]
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biblioragazzi - January 25, 2008 Author: biblioragazzi Tags: Buone pratiche Curiosità Gaming Nuove tecnologie OPAC Strumenti bibliografie biblioteca 2.0 web 2.0
IL: ressources (25/01/08)
- L'invention des savoirs documentaires : les activités de recherche d'information d'usagers dits "novices"
"Cette recherche rend compte des grands courants de description de l'activité de Recherche d'Information (RI), pour souligner rapidement leurs cohérences, leurs divergences et leurs lacunes. La référence systématique aux activités expertes dans ces études sur l'activité de RI est spécialement analysée, pour montrer comment cette référence oriente les études, leur empêchant de voir la façon dont les «novices» posent les problèmes et inventent les solutions."
(Source: Formist)
- Library 2.0 Initiati...
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pintiniblog - January 25, 2008 Tags: Information literacy
Amazon's Top Reviewers and the fate of the literary amateur.
Slate Takes A Look at Amazon's "celebrity reviewers." As in any numbers game (tax returns, elections) OPACity abets manipulation. Amazon's rankings establish a formal, public competition for power—or its online equivalent, recognition—wherein each competitor follows his own private sense of fair play. Or not.
Like celebrity bloggers and Wikipedia "Gnomes," then, the Top Amazon Reviewer heralds the arrival of a curious hybrid: part customer, part employee. This feels like a loss. But perhaps it means that in the coming age, every writer will be a salesman: up past dark, sifting through the data stream for evidence that ...
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LISNews.org - January 24, 2008 Author: Blake Tags: Authors Book Reviews Books
General Collection books out of storage
The books that have been in storage on LS7 for these last couple of years are now all out in the open stacks! The storage request form for them is being removed, and the OPAC will be updated.
The bid is out for retrieving the pre-1975 periodicals, and those will be returned to LS tentatively by early March.
A reminder - The online floor maps are being updated daily with current General Collection locations -
http://www.library.gsu.edu/about/pages.asp?ldID=68&guideID=282&ID=1603
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Library Blog Collection - Georgia State University Library - January 23, 2008 Tags: Library News in Library News
General Collection books out of storage
The books that have been in storage on LS7 for these last couple of years are now all out in the open stacks! The storage request form for them is being removed, and the OPAC will be updated.
The bid is out for retrieving the pre-1975 periodicals, and those will be returned to LS tentatively by early March.
A reminder - The online floor maps are being updated daily with current General Collection locations -
http://www.library.gsu.edu/about/pages.asp?ldID=68&guideID=282&ID=1603
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Library Blog Collection - Georgia State University Library - January 23, 2008 Tags: General News in Library Transformation News
El blog de Gabriel Domínguez
Ya era hora de que uno pudiera reseñar que uno de sus amigos se abre un blog relacionado con la Información y sus tecnologías. Gabriel Domínguez, amigo y compañero mío desde el instituto, y también en los pasillos de la facultad lanza un blog en dominio propio en el que hablará de usabilidad, de tecnologías de información, de su relación con las bibliotecas y servicios de información, y además, de todo lo que le dé la gana. Bienvenido, Gabi.
Gabi y yo, en labores poco documentales - Carnaval, Cádiz (2007)
Se estrena con un post acerca de la Biblioteca 2.0 y de la imagen de marca de las bibliotecas. El tío ...
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Documentación, biblioteconomía e información - January 22, 2008 Tags: Fuentes y recursos de informaci ón Bibliotecas Tech
