http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9788 <pre>I am out of the office until 05/21/2012. Note: This is an automated response to your message "[NGC4LIB] Applications Systems Analyst/Programmer University of Chicago" sent on 5/18/2012 10:53:00 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. </pre> Fran Rosen 2012-05-18T20:01:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9787 <pre>University of Chicago Library has the following position posted: https://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp Requisition number: 089804 Applications Systems Programmer: Implement and customize the Metridoc reporting system for integration with Kuali OLE integrated library system. This is part of a larger project to implement and customize the Kuali OLE integrated library system as a replacement for current legacy library management systems. Responsible for other projects and participate in all aspects of implementation of the Kuali OLE system. Maintain existing legacy production systems during transition to use of Kuali OLE. Assist in the development of a library data warehouse based on open source MetriDoc for analyzing and reporting on Kuali OLE usage and other data, using MySQL, Java, Groovy, and other tools. Support and troubleshoot of the legacy Horizon Integrated Library System, Sybase database, TSM backup system, and Dematic SQL database . Check logs, run jobs, main</pre> Frances Dean McNamara 2012-05-18T14:53:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9786 <pre>(apologies if this is a duplicate, and feel free to forward.) Dear all, It is a pleasure for me now to announce, two FREE linked data/open vocabularies events: Linking and Opening Vocabularies (LOV) Symposium &amp; SKOS-2-HIVE Workshop (in Spanish and English), University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. Looking forward to have you in sunny Madrid in June. Best, Eva 18 June, 2012, LOV symposium. A day long-symposium to address challenges, solutions, and research specific to linking and opening vocabularies on the global web. Participation is free and open to all attendees, presenters, and general participants/viewers. Registration is required. Attendance can be in person or virtual. *Call for Participation: http://klingon.uc3m.es/hive-es/wiki/index.php/Symposium-en *Registration: http://lov-skos-2-hive.eventbrite.es&lt;http://lov-skos-2-hive.eventbrite.es/&gt; 19 June 2012, SKOS-2-HIVE workshop (in Spanish and English). The SKOS-2-HIVE workshop targets the use of semantic web technologies for representing</pre> Greenberg, Jane 2012-05-17T22:26:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9784 <pre>Sarò assente dall'ufficio a partire dal 16/05/2012 e non tornerò fino al 28/05/2012. Risponderò al messaggio al mio ritorno. </pre> Lucia Tronchin 2012-05-17T02:00:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9783 <pre>Please excuse the crazy cross-posting; we're just very enthusiastic! Will you be in Anaheim for ALA Annual? Has your TS department undergone some major changes in the past five years and are you now a proud survivor? If you answered "Yes" to all these questions, we want you! ALCTS' Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group is seeking panelists for our Annual meeting. We would like to discuss the restructuring of technical services departments in all types of libraries, focusing mainly on what the landscape looks like now that things have settled. We want to know: Is there still a place for professionals and if not, where did they go; what the pros and cons have been after the dust settled and work resumed; what tips or advice do you have after having experienced the shift? We want to know how the change came about, how it went down vs. how it was planned, and what does (perhaps formerly) TS look like as a result? When and Where: Sat, June 23, 2012 10:30 am - 12:00 pm</pre> Olivier, Erica K 2012-05-16T22:28:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9782 <pre>I apologize for sending a message incorrectly to the list. </pre> Kay Dunker 2012-05-15T13:38:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9781 <pre>Okay, now I'm confused. I thought for sure that we sat at the Summit meeting and said that conference attendees had access first, then a month later, the rest of the membership. -----Original Message----- From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB&lt; at &gt;LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Newcomer, Nara Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:41 PM To: NGC4LIB&lt; at &gt;LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [NGC4LIB] Discovery Tool Implementation and Selection e-forum, May 15-16 ALCTS e-forums are free and open to all! Please see below for full details. Discovery Tool Implementation and Selection May 15-16, 2012 Hosted by Nara Newcomer and Bill Walsh Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message. Each day, sessions begin and end at: Pacific: 7am - 3pm Mountain: 8am - 4pm Central: 9am - 5 pm Eastern: 10am - 6pm Description The discovery interface market is exploding, with current products including EBSCO Discovery Service, Serials Solutions Su</pre> Kay Dunker 2012-05-15T13:36:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9780 <pre>Apologies for cross-posting ********************** JCDL 2012 DEADLINES REMINDER Don't forget to register and book your hotel room for the 12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012). JCDL 2012, this year's premiere international conference on all things related to digital libraries, is only a month away. The program is loaded with a rich corpus of papers, posters, and demonstrations, and the conference is open to all. More information is available from the conference website, http://jcdl2012.info, including links to the registration form, hotel reservations pages, travel tips, and a full schedule of events. The conference themes of preserving, linking, using, and sharing are amplified throughout the conference program, including keynote addresses by Jason Scott of the Archive Team, Carole Goble of the myGrid project, and George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral. The venue is located in the heart of the U.S. capital city, with easy access to affordable accommodations</pre> Howard, Barrie 2012-05-14T20:31:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9779 <pre>ALCTS e-forums are free and open to all! Please see below for full details. Discovery Tool Implementation and Selection May 15-16, 2012 Hosted by Nara Newcomer and Bill Walsh Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message. Each day, sessions begin and end at: Pacific: 7am - 3pm Mountain: 8am - 4pm Central: 9am - 5 pm Eastern: 10am - 6pm Description The discovery interface market is exploding, with current products including EBSCO Discovery Service, Serials Solutions Summon, Ex Libris Primo Central, OCLC WorldCat Local, Blacklight, VuFind, Aquabrowser, and more. These tools (both vendor-supplied and open-source) promise faceted browsing as well as ability to integrate multiple content silos; some come with vendor-provided cloud indexes to articles, e-books, and other electronic content. The newest development is a cloud-based back end designed to replace the ILS, including OCLC's WorldShare, Serials Solutions Intota, an</pre> Newcomer, Nara 2012-05-10T18:40:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9778 <pre>&lt;snip&gt; &lt;/snip&gt; Interesting ideas. Laval's comment that each person sees search results that are individually personalized (based also on ip address) is absolutely correct and only emphasizes the problem. My intention was to focus on the library tools that try to ensure reliable results over the disputable terms "better" or "more useful". "Reliable" means an entire raft of things, from being able to find the resources I found last week, and find them in the same ways I found them back then, to making sure that the items still exist so that they can be found in the first place. For dynamic sites, perhaps the site will look different and even have different information, but that is another task. Searchers, I think, need to be assured that they can examine materials that they saw a few weeks ago or a few years ago. This should be a minimum. It's difficult enough now, but with "improvements" such as Google Penguin and Panda, it could be made so complex as to render it practically impossible. I didn't mention tha</pre> James Weinheimer 2012-05-10T12:32:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9777 <pre>I am out of the office until 05/14/2012. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: [NGC4LIB] Google Penguin and SEO" sent on 5/9/2012 3:18:49 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. </pre> Fran Rosen 2012-05-09T22:44:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9776 <pre> True, but it is also indicative of the fact that search results (like everything else, including customers and searchers) can be manipulated from a number of directions for individual advantage. The question then becomes how to manipulate manipulation to become egalitarian. Your comment is significant in placing emphasis on static assumptions and personal knowledge. We should instead be consistently questioning stasis and taking the "possibly" corrupting presence of reward and punishment systems as evidence of a need to explore how they can be supplanted by egalitarian (I'm starting to like that word) collaborative tools. Cheers! jgm John G. Marr Cataloger CDS, UL Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 jmarr&lt; at &gt;unm.edu jmarr&lt; at &gt;flash.net **There are only 2 kinds of thinking: "out of the box" and "outside the box." Opinions belong exclusively to the individuals expressing them, but sharing is permitted. </pre> john g marr 2012-05-09T19:18:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9775 <pre>James Weinheimer wrote : Now that rather depends, doesn't it, on ( i.a. ) the who and when and from where of the search ?  My Google search for "ebooks" just now yielded Project Gutenberg in the sixth place -- even after Kindle eBooks and Free-eBooks. ( Why ? ) Possibly not, but they always have been, and I don't know how they can be eliminated.   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland </pre> Laval Hunsucker 2012-05-09T17:55:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9774 <pre>The blogosphere has been discussing the latest updates to the Google Search algorithm, these called "Google Panda 3.5" and "Google Penguin" announced April 24 of this year http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html and Google Penguin has proven to be especially controversial. In essence, it is a step against some of the methods used in SEO (search engine optimization) that Google has deemed negative, or to use their terms "black hat webspam". What does this mean? The official announcement (above) discusses this in some detail, including terms like "keyword stuffing" and "link schemes" while Google cites its own "quality guidelines". Google punishes the websites it deems guilty by sending their sites farther down the list of results, and this can have devastating consequences for those involved. Google Penguin may have had human costs already. Here is a post from one SEO fellow who claims that he will be impoverished http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pengui</pre> James Weinheimer 2012-05-09T13:59:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9773 <pre>I am out of the office until 01/08/2012. Note: This is an automated response to your message "[NGC4LIB] Position Posting - Metadata Coordinator at UH Libraries" sent on 4/05/2012 3:35:24 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. ///////************************************************************/////////////// Parliament of Victoria . Important Disclaimer Notice: The information contained in this email including any attachments, may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete it from your system. Any unauthorised disclosure, copying or dissemination of all or part of this email, including any attachments, is not permitted. This email, including any attachments, should be dealt with in accordance with copyright and privacy legislation. Except where otherwise stated, views </pre> Stephanie McGlinchey 2012-05-03T18:00:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9772 <pre> Please excuse duplicate posting. _________________________________________ Metadata Coordinator Responsibilities: Reporting to the Head of Metadata and Bibliographic Services, the successful candidate will work closely with the Digital Services and Special Collections Departments to provide leadership and support in metadata creation, maintenance and enhancement for digital resources. This incumbent will also develop approaches to ensure the quality and consistency of metadata in core library systems; translate metadata among different formats and integrate metadata from a variety of sources; be responsible for exploring, evaluating and recommending alternative metadata and emerging technologies that can be applied in the libraries' broader discovery environment; participate in reviewing, developing and implementing metadata application policies and procedures; lead projects, workflow design and training involving metadata and use of metadata in digital repositories and other discovery systems; assist in</pre> Wu, Annie 2012-05-03T17:35:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9771 <pre>Mid-level LAMP Developer (Lower Manhattan) ========================================== Reports to: Associate Director of Libraries Status: Full Time/35 hrs. per week FLSA: Exempt Location: Lower Manhattan About Touro College ------------------- Touro is a system of Jewish-sponsored non-profit institutions of higher and professional education. Touro College was chartered in 1970 primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the larger American community. Approximately 19,000 students are currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions. Touro College has branch campuses, locations and instructional sites in the New York area, as well as branch campuses and programs in Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, Paris, and Florida. Touro University California and its Nevada branch campus, as well as Touro College Los Angeles and Touro University Worldwide, are separately accredited institutions within the Touro College and University System. For further information on Touro College, please go to: http://www.to</pre> Yitzchak Schaffer 2012-04-27T15:43:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9770 <pre>Associate Director for Technical Services and Library Systems (academic rank: Associate Librarian) *** Application deadline extended to May 21 *** The University at Albany Libraries (State University of New York, Albany, NY) invites applications and nominations for the position of Associate Director for Technical Services and Library Systems. Reporting to the Dean and Director of Libraries, this senior administrative position is responsible for all activities related to acquiring information resources for the Libraries' collections, and creating and maintaining access to collections in all formats. Responsibilities include oversight of the Acquisitions Services, Cataloging Services, Library Systems, and Database Maintenance, Processing and Bindery departments. As a member of the Libraries' senior administrative group, the Associate Director shares responsibility for developing and implementing the mission, goals and broad policy directions for the University Libraries. UAlbany is looking for a forwa</pre> Gunning, Ann M 2012-04-26T22:06:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9769 <pre>I'm happy to announce a new 'mashed libary' event focussing on cataloguing data. The event (#mashcat) will be held in Cambridge (UK) on 5th July, and is free to attend. We hope to encourage a mixture of developers, cataloguers and metadata specialists to come along, exchanging ideas and knowledge. The programme has not yet been finalised but is likely to be a mixture of talks, and time to pursue ideas, discussions and projects. Details of the event are available from http://www.mashcat.info/ and you can register at http://mashcat.eventbrite.co.uk/ #mashcat is being supported by DevCSI (http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/about/) I hope some of you can make it Owen </pre> Owen Stephens 2012-04-26T10:03:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9767 <pre>[This is a stretch. --ELM] If the discussion of "next-generation library catalogs" includes discussions of the content of a "catalog", then the following announcement of a symposium on Patron-Driven Acquisitions may be apropos: The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame is sponsoring a symposium on the topic of patron-driven acquisitions: * Who - Anybody and everybody is invited * What - A symposium * When - Monday, May 21, 2012 from 9 o'clock to 1 o'clock, then lunch (included), and then informal roundtable discussions * Where - Hesburgh Library Auditorium, University of Notre Dame * Cost - free Titles of presentations and presenters include: * Acquisitions and User Services: responsive and responsible ways to build the collection (Lynn Wiley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne) * Demand Driven Acquisitions: University of Notre Dame Experience (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012) (Laura A. Sill and Natasha Lyandres, Unive</pre> Eric Lease Morgan 2012-04-24T17:53:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/9766 <pre>&lt;&lt;&lt; No Message Collected &gt;&gt;&gt; </pre> James Weinheimer 2012-04-05T14:55:32 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib