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Linda_M.Schwartz | 1 Jun 15:37

Document Repositories

I am working with a group in the early stages of developing a hospital-wide
document repository of clinical practice guidelines, interdisciplinary
guidelines, etc. and providing access to these documents via our intranet.

Since the nursing department is experimenting with what they are calling "mini
Google" (and I am assuming is really the Google Mini product), it was thought
that the new project should simply reside with those documents instead of
creating another document "silo."

I have been asked to review the Google search tool for use in searching the
document repository.  While Google has its pros and cons, what concerns me
more is the bigger picture of creating DOCUMENTS that are searchable and will
continue to be searchable as we migrate in future to a content management
system. I'd really like to be able to save us time in the future by
recommending good document creation from the beginning.

Right now the nursing pilot program has HTML and PDF documents. I will be
suggesting 1) embedding metadata (probably XMP for the PDFs) into the
documents and 2) creating a style guide for the formatting of documents. I
want to make sure, however, that I'm not overlooking other facets that are
equally important.

Can anyone point me to a definitive article or two that outline the basic
considerations for creating searchable documents? I've found articles on the
mechanics of HTML/XMP markup but am looking for the broader sense of creating
documents in formats that transition well among applications.

Thanks!!

Linda
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Eric Lease Morgan | 1 Jun 16:41
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senior programmer analyst


Notre Dame is hiring a Senior Programmer Analyst, and if you have any  
questions about the position do not hesitate to drop me a line.

Job Description

The Digital Access and Information Architecture Department of the  
University Libraries of Notre Dame is seeking a Senior Programmer  
Analyst. This position will have three types of responsibilities: 1)  
write and maintain object-oriented Perl programs, 2) provide systems  
administration services for a number of Linux-based platforms, and 3)  
actively participate in the general workings of the Department.

The goal of the Department is to help the Libraries implement digital  
library collections and services. Some of the short-term projects  
this position provides support for may include: creating a "portal"  
for Catholic research materials, enhancing services applied against  
an institutional repository, supporting the campus-wide search  
engine, implementing a method for creating and disseminating the  
content of TEI files, supporting a local LOCKSS host, exploiting Web  
Services-based computing to acquire and disseminate information,  
developing and supporting an open source software digital library  
system called MyLibrary. The ability to write Web-based computer  
programs in object-oriented Perl is a must but other programming  
languages are desirable. The successful candidate must also know how  
to design a (MySQL) relational database, write a valid XML file given  
a DTD and/or XML schema, and securely administrate small- to mid- 
sized computers running the Linux operating system.

The Department is small, project-oriented, and collaborative in
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Louise S. Sherby | 1 Jun 17:24
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ACRL President's Program in New Orleans


Come hear a great debate on the tenets of Information Literacy at the 
ACRL President's Program in New Orleans!

When:   Monday, June 26, 2006, 1:30-5:30pm (ACRL reception follows program)

Location:       New Orleans Marriott, Carondelet Room

Title:          The Emperor Has No Clothes: Be It Resolved That 
Information Literacy is
                 a Fad and Waste of Librarian Time and Talent.

Moderated by James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and 
University Librarian, Columbia University, two teams composed of 
Stanley Wilder, Associate Dean in the Library, University of 
Rochester, Jeff Rutenbeck, Associate Professor and Director Digital 
Media Studies, University of Denver, Julie B. Todaro, Dean, Library 
Services, Austin Community College, and Gary P. Radford, Professor of 
Communication Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, will debate 
the relevance of information literacy as we know it. Is information 
literacy a concept created by academic librarians to make themselves 
more relevant to the curriculum or is it one of our most important 
roles? Is information literacy critical thinking in disguise or is 
there a real body of knowledge to be communicated? Does civil 
society's dependence on life-long learners require the acquisition of 
information literacy skills? Can libraries justify the expenditures 
they've made on teaching information literacy or do the data suggest 
otherwise? This debate
will test our assumptions and beliefs about a core element of the 
academic librarians' role in the educational process.
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Taro Tezuka | 1 Jun 22:26
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ICADL2006 Deadline Extension

*****  ICADL2006 DEADLINE EXTENSION *****
(Apologies for cross postings)

The deadlines for the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) 
have been extended. 

The new deadlines are: 

Submission of abstract           Jun 20, 2006
Submission of paper              Jun 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance       Aug 20, 2006
Submission of camera-ready       Sep 10, 2006
Conference date                  Nov 27-30, 2006

Below is the final CFP.

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Call For Papers

The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006)

November 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan

http://www.icadl2006.org/

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an
annual Asian event of international participation focusing on digital
libraries and related technologies. Inaugurated in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL
has since been hosted in Taipei, Taiwan (1999), Seoul, South Korea (2000),
Bangalore, India (2001), Singapore (2002), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2003),
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John Fitzgibbon | 2 Jun 13:00
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capturing web statistics

Hi,

We have thirty branch libraries all connecting to the Internet using
DSL. All these machines have a Juzt-Reboot card which wipes all changes
from the PC each day.

How can we capture data on Internet usage? Is there a router we can use
that will store this data from day to day or do we have to route all
Internet traffic through a firewall? If so, is there a subscription
service available or would we have to purchase our own firewall?

Regards
John

John Fitzgibbon

p: 00 353 91 562471
f: 00 353 91 565039
w: http://www.galwaylibrary.ie 

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Tá eolas atá príobháideach agus rúnda sa ríomhphost seo 
agus aon iatán a ghabhann leis agus is leis an duine/na daoine
sin amháin a bhfuil siad seolta chucu a bhaineann siad. 
Mura seolaí thú, níl tú údaraithe an ríomhphost nó aon iatán 
a ghabhann leis a léamh, a chóipáil ná a úsáid. 
Má tá an ríomhphost seo faighte agat trí dhearmad, 
cuir an seoltóir ar an eolas thrí aischur ríomhphoist 
agus scrios ansin é le do thoil.
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Roger Fenton | 2 Jun 13:11
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OPAC task success rates

Do members have any target success rates for various OPAC tasks? I read 
figures in the literature such as 67% of participants successfully 
completed the task of finding a copy of The Red Pony in the OPAC in 
under 2 minutes, but I have yet to find a statement as to whether or not 
that's considered acceptable or warrants further work on the interface, 
except by implication when a report states that XYZ was changed as a 
result of the first round of testing. I have also been unable to find 
any benchmarking figures of this type.

-- 
Roger Fenton

Swyddog Prosiect
Adran Gwasanaethau Casgliadau
Is-adran Systemau
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU
Cymru

http://www.llgc.org.uk/ 
Ffôn: +44 (0) 1970 632800 est. 368
e-bost: roger.fenton@...

Dydy'r uchod ddim o reidrwydd yn cynrychioli polisi'r LlGC

Project Officer
Department of Collection Services
Systems Section
National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU
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David Kane | 2 Jun 13:37
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Re: OPAC task success rates

Hi Roger, 

Interesting post.  We have never done such tests on our OPAC, but would
be interested in doing so - to improve our level of service here at WIT.
 Is there a documented protocol that we can follow.  If you are doing
these tests, we could follow your protocol and add to your data?

Best,

David Kane
WIT Libraries
http://library.wit.ie/
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Dale Irving | 2 Jun 16:52

Re: user access

Hello Hon,
As someone else mentioned shared user accounts have serious drawbacks, 
however, in some situations they may be desirable.  Although you don't 
mention your server or client operating systems the setup I use on our 
Win2003 server/XP client network can probably be applied to most networks.  
We use individual, administrator level user accounts for the library 
director, assistant director, and information systems (me) users.  These 
accounts have access to all network resources, although not necessarily full 
control of the server.  Other staff are given either individual accounts or 
access to shared accounts depending on their jobs: for example; the 
reference librarian gets an individual roaming account with limited access 
to network resources (essentially only her own and shared-staff folders).  
Computers used for circulation, technical services, and the staff work room 
are given machine-specific accounts with access to all staff-wide and 
personal folders (such as Circ 1, Circ 2, etc.). This prevents circ staff 
from having to repeatedly log on and off these workstations.  I asked these 
staff members if they wanted passworded personal folders - none did, but 
this would be fairly easy to implement.

Dale

Dear friends, 

  The library I am working with currently allow all the subject
librarians to access the library web server using the same
username/password combo as the webmaster's. Everybody basically can not
only manage his own folder, but also possible to mess up other people's
folders. It has been working in this way for years and occationally bad
things happened when somebody accidentally messed up our library
homepage. I am wondering how you guys manage your sites to set up
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Pons, Lisa (ponslm | 2 Jun 17:16
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FW: Re: user access


-----Original Message-----
From: Pons, Lisa (ponslm) 
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:15 AM
To: 'Dale Irving'
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Re: user access

 
Our librarians use Contribute, which limits the damage. In addition we
use templates, so that further limits the damage. Lastly, each person
has their own individual account and password. 
Lisa

>   The library I am working with currently allow all the subject 
> librarians to access the library web server using the same 
> username/password combo as the webmaster's. Everybody basically can 
> not only manage his own folder, but also possible to mess up other 
> people's folders. It has been working in this way for years and 
> occationally bad things happened when somebody accidentally messed up 
> our library homepage. I am wondering how you guys manage your sites to

> set up permissions to allow the subject librarians to access the 
> server. Do you create acccount for each individual librarian to access

> the library server?
> 
>    
> 
>   Many thanks,
>
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Jackie AlSaffar | 2 Jun 18:47

Asset Management software

Fellow listers:

We are needing software to centrally manage assets posted within our
online courses.   These "assets" include such things as:
bibliographic and persistent link info for all articles within
databases course information pertaining to each assetpermissions info
associated with copyrighted works locally-produced Sharable Content
Objects Here's a short-list of what we would like ideally:  such a
database would be web-based; several people need read/write access;  
would be nice to have the ability to pull in data from online databases
to populate fields of Item Information (akin to EndNote or RefWorks
functionality);  need the ability to sort by course and term, need the
ability to search by author, title (of short work & longer work) ;   
need the ability to include attached files (permissions letters,
denials, other correspondence and tracking info); need the ability to
run reports to catch dead links, expiry of embargo period on an article,
 etc.

If you can make any recommendations, I am all ears.  We're thinking
this might have to be a home-grown database, but that would be our last
resort.   Certainly if anone has developed or knows of any open-source
management tools that might do the trick, let me know.  
 Jackie AlSaffar
Reference Librarian / Centers Liaison
Buena Vista University Library
610 W. 4th Street 
Storm Lake, IA  50588712.749.2089
877.288.2240
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