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McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] | 5 Aug 19:18
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New Additions To The Mobile Libraries Blog | July/August 2009

Colleagues/

It May Be Shark Week On The Discovery Channel, But Here At The _Mobile
Libraries_ Blog  ... It's E-Book Week (More And Less) ... [:-)

/Gerry 

>>>R ead An E-Book Week | March 8-14 2009 

http://tinyurl.com/ktzbzd 

>>> Sony Cuts Prices on E-Books / Introduces New Readers 

http://tinyurl.com/mu8fq8 

>>> Twitter Biomedical Journals 

http://tinyurl.com/nlf7kn 

>>> dMob Mobile Metrics Report: June 2009 

http://tinyurl.com/nuyqk9 

>>>EQ > A Campus-Wide E-Textbook Initiative 

http://tinyurl.com/lu46tj 

>>> MobilizedTV: Content On Mobile Devices 

http://tinyurl.com/l8d23u
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Loren Fantin | 5 Aug 19:18
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Re: New Additions To The Mobile Libraries Blog | July/August 2009

I am away from the office until Monday August 17.  If you require immediate assistance, please contact Jess
Posgate, Our Ontario Coordinator at jposgate <at> ourontario.ca or  647 288-0254.  

Loren Fantin
Project Manager, Our Ontario
Knowledge Ontario

50 Wellington Street, Suite 201
Toronto, Ontario M5E 1C8
Phone: 647 288-0254 or 1 866 873-9867
Fax: 416 941-9581 or 1 800 387 1181
Email: lfantin <at> knowledgeontario.ca
Web: www.knowledgeontario.ca
Web: www.ourontario.ca
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Jennifer Bowen | 5 Aug 22:23
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ALA Linked Data "Grassroots" Program Slides available

Slides from the following "Grassroots" program at ALA Annual:

"From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0"

are now available via the ALA Annual wiki at:

http://wikis.ala.org/annual2009/index.php/Grassroots_Programs 

The four presentations are:

Eric Miller (Zepheira), "Linked Data and Libraries" 

Diane Hillmann (Information Institute of Syracuse; Metadata Management
Associates), "Are Libraries Ready for Linked Data?" 

Jennifer Bowen (University of Rochester), "Defining Linked Data for the
eXtensible Catalog (XC): Metadata on the Bleeding Edge" 

Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), "Controlled Vocabularies as Linked
Data on the Web" 

Jennifer Bowen
Program Chair
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Corey Harper | 7 Aug 18:55
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Job Posting: ILS and Discovery Systems Specialist, NYU Libraries

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ***

ILS and Discovery Systems Specialist

The NYU's Division of Libraries seeks the ideal candidate for the ILS
and Discovery Systems Specialist position. This position will play a
lead role in implementing new technologies for both inventory control
and discovery systems. The selected candidate will collaborate with the
Metadata Services Librarian, Web Development team and Database
Administrator to develop workflow and criteria for importing and
exporting data and metadata to/from various systems including the
Integrated Library System (ILS), web-based discovery system, federated
search tool and open URL resolver. This newly created position plays an
integral role in supporting both virtual and physical access to the
Libraries collections, irrespective of format or location.  This
position reports to the Metadata Services Librarian

Initially, the position will be focused on stabilizing and optimizing
the ILS environment. The successful candidate will perform data analysis
on metadata record structures in various applications, databases and
external formats, including ExLibris and III catalogs, federated search
tools, DSpace, Luna, ARTstor, SOLR, flat files (.txt, .xml, .csv),
spreadsheets, Archivists Toolkit, etc. as well as design and implement
routines, scripts and methods for record extraction and transformation
into various output formats (MARC, XML, .txt, etc.).

Additionally, the work will contribute to the development of new ILS
functionality, implementation of upgrades and extend the scope and reach
of library search interfaces. The ideal candidate will contribute to
research and development, prototyping and implementation of initiatives
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Frances Dean McNamara | 7 Aug 22:08
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Re: Integrating with your ILS through Web services and APIs

Marshall,

At the University of Chicago Library, we are using the SirsiDynix Horizon ILS for Cat, Serials, Circ and HIP
opac.  We use III for Acquisitions and pass data to Horizon.  We wrote an interface to take the III voucher
output file, load to a Sybase db, approve and send to the Comptroller's system for load to replace the paper
vouchers we used to send.  We use Aquabrowser for a new discovery tool and pass data from Horizon.  We have
moved Course Reserve off of Horizon and on to a hosted Atlas ARES system.  We wrote our own interface to
update the location/collection information in Horizon so that physical items show as being located in
Reserve and have the shorter duedates and larger fines, etc.  Electronic reserves, scanned chapters,
etc. no longer have records in Horizon and are only in ARE
 S, they are about half the Course Reserves.  ARES has a building block for Blackboard and that is how people
get to their course lists now.  We took Special Collections circulation off of H!
 orizon and moved it to the Atlas AEON system.  This required only modifying the user interfaces to pass
requests to AEON.

  
 - Do you feel like you can pretty much do anything you want with the system, or do you feel constrained? 

	We can do most of what we want (which we try to keep to minimal) with Horizon.  We can do nothing with III which
is a black box, except that we insisted we be able to write our own loaders for records from YBP, Cassalini,
Harrasowitz, etc.  III trained us to do that.

 -Are the APIs offered able to address all the data and functionality within the ILS?  

	No APIs for Horizon but the fact that it is a Sybase db means we can access the data directly and use as we wish. 
We sometimes use a stored procedure of the Horizon app to do what we want.  We always wrote our own borrower
load programs and did not use the simple one provided.  The only reason this ILS has worked here is that we
could access the db directly and add features like email notices before the vendor had added them to the
base system.  We try to keep such customizations to a minimum, but we have added a URL checker, and various
other peripheral things over the years as needed.  III has no APIs.  For HIP and Aquabrowser we get at the xml
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McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] | 10 Aug 22:59
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Jrnl American Chem Soc (JACS) -Beta > Mobile > Table Of Contents / Articles

Colleagues/

Thanks to an Anonymous Post on My _Mobile Libraries_ Blog I Have Learned
That The American Chemical Society (ACS) Has Begun A Major
Mobile-Oriented Initiative For Its Publications >

The First Is A Mobile Project Involving The Journal Of The American
Chemical Society (JACS) >>>

Mobile Table of Contents (TOC) 

The goal of this beta project is to create the most useful and enjoyable
mobile experience possible. Specifically, this project focuses on
browsing Tables of Contents.

[snip]

So we have created a TOC that allows you to mark the articles you're
interested in for viewing later on your desktop or laptop computer. 

Mobile Article

The goal of this beta project is to create the most useful and enjoyable
mobile experience possible. Specifically, this project focuses on
formatting an article for viewing on a mobile device.

Supported Devices

All mobile devices with a web browser should be able to view both the
Mobile TOC and the Mobile Article, but the full functionality of the
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Fran Rosen | 11 Aug 04:02
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Frances K Rosen is out of the office.

I will be out of the office starting  08/07/2009 and will not return until
08/17/2009.
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B.G. Sloan | 11 Aug 16:01
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Odd article about library technology

 
Sort of an odd article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Wired Campus" blog...sounds like it could
have been written 30 years ago. Maybe I'm missing something?
 
The article discusses a "new system" which librarians are supposedly calling "the first of its kind".
With this "new" system patrons can "request items directly from online catalogs". Librarians "can
also better monitor statistics thanks to histories that track patrons and items and generate analyses."
 
Here's a sample paragraph:
 
"Before, Mr. Miller said, users who wanted to request an item from any of the university’s collections
had to first register with a paper form and then request each item -- even those in the same collection --
with additional paper forms. For his library, the system has saved time by streamlining that process in a
database, which allows librarians to process requests faster and eliminates the need for paper records,
which take up 'enormous time and space.'"
 
Full text of article at:
 
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Online-Request-Software/7635/
 
Bernie Sloan
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Leslie Johnston | 11 Aug 16:07
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Re: Odd article about library technology

The article really isn't clear about this — the Aeon product is meant
for Special Collections and Archives.  It's a request module that links
up to EAD finding aids and OPACs so patrons can request that containers
or items be pulled for them.

I saw a demo of this tool in its early stages about 2 years ago.

Leslie

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Leslie Johnston
Digital Media Project Coordinator
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress
202-707-2801
lesliej <at> loc.gov

>>> "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 <at> YAHOO.COM> 8/11/2009 10:01 AM >>>

Sort of an odd article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Wired
Campus" blog...sounds like it could have been written 30 years ago.
Maybe I'm missing something?

The article discusses a "new system" which librarians are supposedly
calling "the first of its kind". With this "new" system patrons can
"request items directly from online catalogs". Librarians "can also
better monitor statistics thanks to histories that track patrons and
items and generate analyses."

Here's a sample paragraph:
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Sharon Foster | 11 Aug 16:07
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Re: Odd article about library technology

I've done ILL borrowing for a public library, and a lot of the process
is still on slips of paper filed in a "shoebox."

Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Librarians bring order out of chaos.
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, B.G. Sloan<bgsloan2 <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sort of an odd article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Wired Campus" blog...sounds like it could
have been written 30 years ago. Maybe I'm missing something?
>
> The article discusses a "new system" which librarians are supposedly calling "the first of its kind".
With this "new" system patrons can "request items directly from online catalogs". Librarians "can
also better monitor statistics thanks to histories that track patrons and items and generate analyses."
>
> Here's a sample paragraph:
>
> "Before, Mr. Miller said, users who wanted to request an item from any of the university’s collections
had to first register with a paper form and then request each item -- even those in the same collection --
with additional paper forms. For his library, the system has saved time by streamlining that process in a
database, which allows librarians to process requests faster and eliminates the need for paper records,
which take up 'enormous time and space.'"
>
> Full text of article at:
>
> http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Online-Request-Software/7635/
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
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