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Bonnie Tijerina | 1 Feb 17:52
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ER&L Conference Keynotes Announced & Registration Deadline Approaching

Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007: thinkdigital_
February 22-24, 2007
Global Learning and Conference Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
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*Keynotes*
ER&L is pleased to announce our keynote speakers: Rick Luce,
Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University and Jane
Burke, VP of ProQuest Information and Learning, and General Manager of
Serials Solutions.

*Just added*
Welcome Reception - Wednesday, February 21st, 6-8pm
Join the GA Tech Library & Information Center, latest winner of the ACRL
Excellence in Libraries Award, for a Welcome Reception including tours
of recent renovations of our Library Commons and digital projects space.

*Topics*
ER&L2007's 47 sessions fall under 10 timely topics including:
e-resources delivery & promotion, users & usability, collaboration in
managing e-resources, and digital initiatives.
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/course/category.php?id=21

*Registration ends February 7th*
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/index.php?pid=12

*Wondering where attendees are coming from?*
Check out our interactive real-time map:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=501
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Susan E. Edwards | 1 Feb 22:23
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Two Librarian Positions Open at Amherst College

LIBRARIAN OPENINGS AMHERST COLLEGE LIBRARY, AMHERST, MA  

Amherst College is a liberal arts college committed to creating a
community diverse in background (without regard for ability to pay) and
to fostering a balance of intellectual and community engagement.
Amherst College Library has outstanding research level collections and
resources but is small enough for individualized work with students and
faculty.  As part of the Five College Consortium, students take classes
and borrow materials from three nearby colleges and the University of
Massachusetts/Amherst.

Amherst College Library seeks two enthusiastic librarians strongly
committed to undergraduate education and to the active support of
faculty and student research to join its Public Services. Successful
candidates will be expected to contribute to Library initiatives that
further the College's commitment to diversity and inclusion.

ACCESS SERVICES LIBRARIAN

The Access Services Librarian will lead a team of at least eight staff
and sixty-five student employees responsible for circulation stack
maintenance, reserves, and direct loans among the Five College
libraries. The Access Services Librarian will play a key role in the
evaluation and management of modules in a new integrated library system
(Ex Libris) and represent Amherst College Library on Five College
committees overseeing the new system. The Access Services Librarian must
be able to plan long term for the effective organization and maintenance
of collections and the allocation of space in light of changing
technology and new forms of scholarly communication. S/he will also
participate in general reference and instruction, providing individual
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Andrew Hankinson | 1 Feb 23:40
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FRBRized Digital Collection Software

Hi folks,

I'm looking at implementing a FRBR-ized Digital Collection*, and was
wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions for software to use.
 I have looked at Greenstone, but it may be a bit too much for what I
want.  This is also for a school project, so it would have to be OSS,
if at all possible.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Andrew

*Digital Collection = a collection of digital objects (images of pages
of a book in my case); as opposed to digital surrogates of physical
items...
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Luis Gutierrez | 2 Feb 00:55
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Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence ~ February 2007

Dear friends,

May I invite you to see the current issue of the following free
e-newsletter:

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence
Volume 3, Number 2, February 2007
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv03n02.html

This issue includes:

* Analysis of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals
      o Focus on Goal 2: Universal Primary Education
* Review of UNICEF's "State of the World's Children 2007"
* Web site review of "Facing the Future" (K-K16 educational materials)
* Knowledge organization model for our growing links directory
* Another view of the prayer-study-action model of human development
* Reflection on approaching the 40th anniversary of "Humanae vitae"
* Brief meditation (poem) on tolerance by John T. Baker

See also the "invited article" ....

"Will women ever govern the Roman Catholic Church?"
by John Wijngaards
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv03n02wijngaards.html

Please notice the call for papers and the upgraded resource directories.

Feedback is always welcome.
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Tara Calishain | 2 Feb 01:59
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Re: Custom Search Engines

At 12:10 PM 1/31/2007, Mark Costa wrote:
>All,
>
>I am trying to compile a list of web sites, library preferably but others
>will do, that use CSE. I am primarily interested in sites that use Google
>CSE, but others are welcomed.
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>If you have knowledge of, or are responsible for, an implementation of a
>CSE, please send me the URL. You can reply to me off list. I will compile
>the list and make it available to the members of the listserv.

You can find CSE's that use Google's tool by searching Google for: 

inurl:cse site:google.com inurl:coop

add keywords to narrow down the flavor of what you're getting. 

Tara
ResearchBuzz
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Carlos Rodriguez | 2 Feb 02:49
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Job Posting: Dean of the University Library (Sacramento, CA)

Apologies for cross-posting...

California State University, Sacramento is conducting a search for Dean
of the University Library.

For more information, please see the position description and call for
applicants: http://library.csus.edu/content2.asp?pageID=477

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J. Carlos Rodriguez, MLIS
Director, Library Systems & Information Technology
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J Street
Sacramento, California 95819-6039
916-278-5659 (office) - 916-278-3891(fax)
carlos@...

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Dr. A.R.D. Prasad | 2 Feb 09:07
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Tutorial on EPrints at ICSD-2007

Dear Professionals,

We are glad to inform that there will be a tutorial on EPrints at the International Conference on Semantic
Web & Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007) by Dr. Leslie Carr, Researcher at Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Unviersity of Southampton, UK . 

Please check updates of ICSD-2007 at (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd)

Date: February 21, 2007
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Conference venue: NIMHANS Convention Centre, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences
(NIMHANS), Hosur Road, Bangalore

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Paul Miller | 2 Feb 14:20

Talis webinar: Building Union catalogues with the Talis Platform

Over on the Panlibus blog, I recently reflected [1] on current interest in
the humble - and much maligned - union catalogue. To demonstrate some of the
ways in which the Talis Platform can power current and future union
catalogues of various types, why not set aside an hour in your calendar to
join your peers in a Talis-hosted webinar on the topic?

Building Union Catalogues with the Talis Platform
Thursday 22 February, 1500GMT - 1600GMT

The business model, attitude and technology behind the Talis Platform
fundamentally shift the proposition around the construction, maintenance and
use of union catalogue-type applications, from the formal groupings
prevalent today through to a new breed of ad hoc unions capable of cheaply,
rapidly and sustainably meeting the needs of non-traditional institutional
groupings or even individuals.

- Freely shared - yet adequately protected - bibliographic or holdings data
- Freely exposed basic Directory information about a library and its
capabilities
- Open, extensible and web-strength apis.

Put them together to push library information in front of users of Amazon
and LibraryThing. Put them together to raise the profile of your holdings in
Google Scholar. Put them together to build an 'application' such as Project
Cenote in a matter of days. Put them together to power your existing union
catalogue more scalably, affordably and extensibly than ever before. Put
them together to build a union catalogue you've never been able to afford or
justify before, or painlessly build several and meet the varied needs of
your different audiences.
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Kathy Gaynor | 2 Feb 16:32
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Recommendations for form-making software

We are currently using some software called FormPal to create simple forms
we can use on our web site.  It's not the easiest software to learn to use
but some of our staff have gotten the hang of it over the years.  We use
these forms to take reference questions, room reservation requests,
interlibrary loan requests, etc.

We would welcome, however, recommendations of other (and newer) software
that you have found to be helpful for this purpose.  We are looking for
something that a non-programmer can learn to use fairly easily.

Thanks so much.

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Drew, Bill | 2 Feb 20:34

Finding Google Custom Search Engines

Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz pointed out this tip for locating Google
Custom Search Engines (CSE) using this search string in Google:
inurl:cse site:google.com inurl:coop. It can be refined by adding words
to the search. The string initially gets you 3,360
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop&btnG=Search>  hits. Adding library to the string results in 88
hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+library&btnG=Search> . Changing library to libraries results in
70 hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+libraries&btnG=Search> . Changing to librarian results in 12
hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+librarian&btnG=Search> . Using librarians results in 15 hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+librarians&btnG=Search> . The real difficulty would be in
constructing a search to cover all variations on library. Using the
advanced search of Google to build this search string, inurl:cse
inurl:coop library OR librarian OR librarians OR libraries site:
google.com, I get about 103 hits
<http://www.google.com/search?as_q=inurl%3Acse+inurl%3Acoop+&hl=en&num=1
00&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=library+librarian+librarians+librari
es&as_eq=&amp;amp;lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as
_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=google.com&as_rights=&safe=images> . 

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Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
Morrisville State College Library
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