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Stephen Hedges | 1 Mar 03:27
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Re: Web Filters for Staff and Public PCs

You should look at http://libraryfiltering.org/.

Stephen

On 2/28/07, Lynda Rudd <lrudd@...> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> My library is currently researching the various types of filtering
> products, their costs and effectiveness, and staff/patron attitude
> toward them. Please feel free to respond to me off-list. Thanks in
> advance for your help.
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> Lynda Y. Rudd
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> Alexandria Library <http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us>
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Lin Light | 1 Mar 17:56

replacement question.

What policy or guideline do you all have in place to determine when is it
time to replace machines?
Yes, I know, if you can't turn it on or you have to provide your own markers
to paint you screen, it is time to replace it.
But how many have a performance benchmark or years of service cycle of
replacement? We have some machines that are close to 8 years old that work
OK for just accessing the web card catalog.  They are GOING this summer. But
I have some that are 5 years old (1.8ghz, P4, that just need a memory boost
) that seem to be performing well in the Children's Department.
I just don't want to say, yap, 5 years old out you go.

Lin

Lin Light
Head of Technical & Automated Services
Herrick District Library
Holland, Michigan
616.355.3727 Voice
616.355.1426 Fax
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julied | 1 Mar 18:19

Web4lib Digest, Vol 24, Issue 1

I will be out of the library until Wednesday March 7th.  If you have a reference 
question, please e-mail refdesk@... or call 651-296-8338.

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Mike Taylor | 1 Mar 18:28
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replacement question.

Lin Light writes:
 > We have some machines that are close to 8 years old that work OK
 > for just accessing the web card catalog.  They are GOING this
 > summer. But I have some that are 5 years old (1.8ghz, P4, that just
 > need a memory boost) that seem to be performing well in the
 > Children's Department.  I just don't want to say, yap, 5 years old
 > out you go.

Well, why would you?  What's wrong with an old machine, so long as it
works?  If it's installed to run a specific application, then demands
on the hardware won't be growing more intense with time, so there is
really no need to upgrade to get more CPU speed or memory.  Stick with
what works, would be my advice.

... for what it's worth, I am still happily running an 133 MHz PC that
I got in 1995.  The boys use it for games and for document processing.

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Jakob Voss | 1 Mar 18:57
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Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation

Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and
other people that may be interested! This call is also online at
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation

== Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation ==

=== About Wikimania ===

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also
open to the public and to scientists. Wikimania is a place for editors
and users of the Wikimedia projects around the globe (Wikipedia,
Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary, and Wikiversity) to gather,
to meet each other, to exchange ideas, and to report on research and
projects. This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in
Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center
<http://www.cyh.org.tw/center/center_bu.php?loginno=&buid=B>.

We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops, and
discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers and
speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note the
details below and be bold in your submissions!

=== Important dates ===

 * 1 March – 30 April: Submission
 * 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance
 * 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania

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Luis Gutierrez | 1 Mar 18:57
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SSNV Digest ~ March 2007

The item between dotted lines may be of interest to web4lib, and I would 
be grateful to get comments and suggestions.

Luis

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV)
Volume 3, Number 3, March 2007
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n03.html

This issue includes:

* Analysis of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals
     o Focus on Goal 3: Promotion of Gender Equality
* Overview of the United Nations' GEO Year Book 2007
* Review of the United Nations' "Women Watch" website
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* Updates of the knowledge organization & access directories
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* A reflection on the prayer-study-action process of human development
* A reflection on vocational gendercide within the Roman Catholic church
* A brief meditation (poem) on "long journeys" by Antonio Machado
* An invited article on "sacrifice, law, and faith" by James Alison
   http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n03alison.html

Feedback is always welcome.

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D.
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Popp, Mary Pagliero | 1 Mar 18:58
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Interested in reference and technology but want practical tips? Try this!


New Technologies for Reference Services

Join your reference colleagues for a day of focusing on new technologies
that can be used to enhance reference services!  Be challenged by new
ideas and ways of thinking!  Reinvented Reference: Emerging Technologies
for Reference Services is a preconference at the American Library
Association Conference in Washington this summer. It is sponsored by
RUSA MARS and RSS, and features an exciting group of cutting edge
experts.  Keynote speaker Michael Stephens (Graduate School of Library
and Information Science at Dominican University), author of the Tame the
Web blog, will address "Web 2.0 Technologies for Reference Services."
David Ward (University of Illinois - Champaign Urbana) will discuss
instant messaging and chat services for reference and what the future
holds in his talk "IM and Beyond."  The afternoon session features David
Free (George Perimeter College) and David King (Topeka and Shawnee
County Public Library) talking about podcasting and videocasting for
reference services.  Using blogs for reference services, marketing, and
outreach will be presented by Karen Coombs (University of Houston).
To conclude the day, Michael Stephens will provide a summary and
reflection of the day, and lead the panel in a discussion.  

Sponsored by CSA RefWorks, Docutek, Paratext, and OCLC QuestionPoint,
the Preconference occurs on Friday, 22 June, from 8:30am to 5:00 pm.
Morning and afternoon refreshments and lunch are included.    

For more information contact:  Carole Pilkinton (pilkinton.10@...)
or Nancy Huling (hulingn <at> u.washington.edu )

Hope you can join us!
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Dale Irving | 1 Mar 20:25

Re: Msg14 Replacement Policy and/or Guidelines

Hi Lin,
I work at a fairly small PL (with typical budget issues) and our
replacement policy and replacement guidelines tend to be ... very
different things.  Our policy calls for the replacement of staff and
public PCs every three years, however, we haven't attained that level in
the 8 years I've worked here, and I doubt if we will anytime soon.  From a
practical viewpoint I try and replace PCs when they no longer do the job I
need done in a reasonable amount of time with reasonable downtime.  Like
you we have older P4s in service, mostly with 512MB RAM at this point, and
I've replaced a few hard drives and power supplies to keep them running. 
I've retired older machines limited to 256MB as well as some without front
USB ports as soon as I could (although I kept a few as PACs for a while).
 We've had good luck with the Microns our town buys, and I blow them out
twice a year and do full-reloads on average every 1 - 1 1/2 years (less
often since I started using deepfreeze).

Dale

Dale Irving
Information Systems Librarian
Middleborough Public Library
Middleboro, MA
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> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:56:55 -0500
> From: "Lin Light" <holight@...>
> Subject: [Web4lib] replacement question.
> To: <web4lib@...>
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Pons, Lisa (ponslm | 1 Mar 21:06
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It department staffing figures


Hi all,
Could anyone point me to any surveys of number of IT staff in academic
libraries?  I am looking for numbers say based on FTE.

Thanks!

Lisa Pons-Haitz

Webmaster
University Libraries
University of Cincinnati
lisa.pons@...
(513)556-1431
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Andrew Hankinson | 2 Mar 00:08
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LibDB update

Hi folks,

As a project for one of my courses, I have decided to update the Drupal
module LibDB to attempt to come up with a fully-functioning FRBR digital
library implementation.  Obviously this is a very large job, but it is one
that I feel I can commit to over the long term (and not just the duration of
the course.)

As of right now, I've gotten it working (mostly) on Drupal 5, and have been
working on a database model that would fully implement the FRBR 'standard'
as outlined by the original IFLA document.  LibDB was abandoned (or at least
put on the back burner) by its original creator, and much of it is left to
do.

I have a fairly good knowledge of the internals of Drupal, but lack a good
sense of programming practices. (I could do it, but it would a) be a slow
process and b) be inefficient and sloppy code.)  If you're interested in
getting involved in this, feel free to reply to me (on or off-list) and I
will start putting things together.

Cheers,
Andrew
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