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Richard Cox RLCOX | 1 Aug 2007 13:31
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Database Administrator Position Opening, University Libraries, UNCG

The University Libraries (http://library.uncg.edu/) at the University of 
North Carolina at Greensboro (http://www.uncg.edu/) is seeking to fill a 
vacant position for a Database Administrator.

The position will:
1. Architect and develop locally produced enterprise database solutions 
that are available to a global audience via the Internet 
2. Administer local enterprise SQL Server database servers. 
3. Maintain and upgrade locally produced enterprise database solutions 
that are available to a global audience via the Internet. 
4. Consult with resource constituents to develop comprehensive, Web-based, 
database-driven enterprise applications. Enhance user access to Libraries 
and Libraries-hosted resources.   
5. As a member of the Electronic Resources & Information Technology (ERIT) 
Development Team, the position's duties will include the maintenance and 
development of existing web applications, as well as the updating of 
programming and architecture of those applications as needed. 
6. Under the supervision of the Digital Technology Consultant the emphasis 
of this position entails the maintenance, design, and architecture of 
enterprise database applications, as well as the ongoing administration of 
numerous Database Servers.   

We prefer candidates who have:

1. Experience in working with the Microsoft development environment 
utilizing either ASP or ASP.NET including Visual Basic. 
2. Familiarity with Internet Information Server 6 and a working knowledge 
of SQL Server 2000 or 2005. 
3. Experience in building front-end web interfaces including coding XHTML 
web pages using CSS 2.
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Andy Murdoch | 1 Aug 2007 14:19
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Developing a thesaurus for portal

Hi

I just joined the list and coincidentally I have a question for it, too. 

I an a librarian in a medium sized regional law firm. We have implemented Lawport, which is an intranet
portal that uses MS Sharepoint as its base. We've let a system of categories grow organically in the first
few months of using the system. The categories act like a thesaurus in that we can organize/control the
various postings and documents across the many pages through them. Now the number of terms are getting a
little unweildy and we need to mold them in a more systematic way. 

Has anyone built a thesaurus for a portal from scratch? Any good ideas on where to start? Also, anyone with
similar experience in a law library or specialized setting (academic or otherwise) would be ideal. 

The thesaurus will extend beyond the library to all parts of the portal. I suppose this is more of a KM
question, but I know this kind of planning ought to fall within the library's domain.

Thanks

Andy Murdoch
Librarian
McInnes Cooper
Halifax, NS

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HAZEL Margaret E | 1 Aug 2007 17:29
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RE: thesaurus for portal & MS wiki app?

I'm interested in your post for two reasons:

- The City of which we are a part recently implemented a Plumtree (now
BEA) portal, and realized, after the librarians got up in arms, that
they needed to work on their search engine, and one of the problems was
the thesaurus.  There is one, we're not sure if we can edit it, or even
what's in it.  Or how to decide what to add.  We're at least adding
keywords to pages, now, not just to documents linked to the site.

- The City, being a Microsoft shop, is uninterested in non-Microsoft
wiki apps, but think that Sharepoint might work as a wiki.  But they
don't have it high on their list. Do you or others on the list have
experience using Sharepoint as a wiki, and can you talk about pros and
cons?

Thanks!

-Margaret

Margaret E. Hazel
Principal Librarian, Technology
Eugene Public Library
Eugene, OR

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Stephen Meyer | 1 Aug 2007 17:45
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Job Posting: Metadata Librarian

For a full job description and information on how to apply, see:

http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_057030.html

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries seek a creative, 
experienced, team-oriented professional to serve as Metadata Librarian 
for the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC).

Working with UWDCC and other library staff and faculty, the successful 
candidate will coordinate the formulation and implementation of policies 
and standards for descriptive, structural, technical, and administrative 
metadata that are used to support the production and management of, and 
access to, the Libraries' digital collections. The Metadata Librarian 
will work with librarians, faculty, and other project partners to 
determine appropriate methods of developing metadata for the libraries' 
digital collections, train project participants in all areas of metadata 
creation, and collaborate with appropriate librarians and working groups 
locally and nationwide to advise on the application of current and 
emerging metadata standards to facilitate access to and preservation of 
digital content.

The Metadata Librarian is responsible for planning and overseeing the 
implementation of UWDCC's metadata strategies, profiling existing 
standards to meet current needs while also researching emerging 
standards for potential future adoption. This position will also 
collaborate in the development of metadata workflow processes; manage 
metadata entry, quality control, and data exports performed by UWDCC 
student and other staff; and coordinate production schedules with 
Reformatting Unit, ensuring efficient and timely workflows to meet 
project deadlines.
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Karen Harker | 1 Aug 2007 17:58
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RE: thesaurus for portal & MS wiki app?

We're implementing SP as an intranet portal for our Library staff (not the whole campus, which uses
Vignette).  The "wiki" site is not bad, but it's not as easy to use as the more specialized wiki services,
like PBWiki or JotSpot.  One very irritating aspect is adding images to a page.  You have to first upload the
image into the image library, then browse the library and select the image, then copy the URL of the image,
then go back to your page to edit it, and enter the URL in the "add image" input box.  For image-heavy sites,
like for procedures and how-to sites, this can be much more laborious than PBWiki, where the upload
function is embedded with the insert image feature.  

Another aspect that I have not figured out is creating a hierarchical page list.  At least in PBWiki, you can
fake it by manually creating a list of pages on the sidebar.  But I haven't figured out yet how to do the same in
SP.  I think it won't be hard...at the very least, you can put it on the home page.

Overall, though, the SP wiki is decent.  It's easy to create and edit pages (aside from the image part) with a
WYSIWYG editor.  Besides linking, I haven't really used any wiki-syntax, but then I was never really a fan
of that.  WYSIWYG is much better.

 

Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-8946
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/ 

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"HAZEL Margaret E" <margaret.e.hazel@...or.us> wrote:
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HAZEL Margaret E | 1 Aug 2007 17:57
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RE: interlibrary cooperation - web content

Are you talking about lists of links, or creating original content, Ray?

We are heading in the direction of not making very many lists of links,
or creating a lot of original content, unless it is specifically
relevant to our locality, and is not being done by someone else.

We do provide short lists of links to popular search engines,  free
email services, and basic web & email tutorials, however, for folks
using our in-house internet access PCs.

We just don't have the resources to do more, much as (some of) the
librarians would like to do so.  We refer, professionally, and are very
selective in what we add.  We have a collection of 500,000 items, and a
circ of over 2.5 million a year, 130 FTE.

Our current discussions are around creating a virtual branch out of our
website.  But that will require a reallocation of staffing resources.

-Margaret

Margaret E. Hazel
Principal Librarian, Technology
Eugene Public Library
Eugene, OR

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Sandra Cahillane | 1 Aug 2007 21:25

right margin won't show


Hello all,

Thanks to all who've responded to my cries for help.  I've got my page
looking almost exactly like I want.  I have two last tweaks I need to make
and that is to get the right margin to 1. not cutoff text on the second
level that pops out on mouseover on the left column and 2. figure out how
to scroll down the list of links without the page going wacky.

To see an example of this, mouse over the Faculty Services link.  You can
see that some text is cutoff on the right down to a certain point in the
list of links to choose from and then the section expands out.  I want the
section to expand out all the way up.  I thought it was an overflow issue
but have no overflow tags left to change.  Also, when you try to use the
mouse roller ball to move down the list the page goes all wacky.  I don't
know how to solve this problem.  I don't want to use overflow: auto or
scroll because I don't want another set of scroll bars to show up.

Here are the links to the page and style sheet.

http://library.baypath.edu/testpages/index-menu.html
http://library.baypath.edu/testpages/hatch_main.css

Thanks,
Sandy
Sandy Cahillane
Systems and Reference Librarian
Bay Path College
Hatch Library
588 Longmeadow Street
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Gerry Mckiernan | 2 Aug 2007 00:19
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Brief Survey of Social Networking Sites Presence of College and Research Libraries

Brief Survey of Social Networking Sites Presence of College and Research
Libraries

Friends/

For a variety of purposes, I have created a brief 10-question
SurveyMonkey survey on the presence of College and Research Libraries in
one or more of the more popular Social Networking Sites (Facebook,
MySpace, Orkut) 

I would most appreciate if my Friends (and/or Enemies) [:-)] take this
survey within the next 10 days

I have embedded the Survey Link within my posting on the survey in my
_Friends_ blog

[
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2007/08/library-presence-in-social-networking.html
]

The survey requests basic information about library and institutional
presence in any of the major Social Networking Sites, as well personal
and/or professional membership.

The survey should take no longer than 10-15 minutes (15-20 if you*re
over 50) [:-)

NOTE: Survey Ends on Friday, August 10, 2007 (a week from this Friday)

And Feel Free To Spread the Word About The Survey !!!
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Conal Tuohy | 2 Aug 2007 03:02
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Re: interlibrary cooperation - web content

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 16:00 -0500, Raumin "Ray" Dehghan wrote:
>    I'm working on creating content for our website - links with annotations
> etc.  I'm curious to hear of any experiences of librarians sharing actual
> content - the annotations themselves and the way they are organized.

Have you considered using Institutional Repository software[1] to do
this, Ray?

This kind of software is widely used for archiving and cataloguging
scholarly publications, and though typically such repositories contain
actual content objects (often PDF files and similar), they may also just
be metadata associated with external resources; that is to say,
annotated links. 

A notable feature of this family of software products is their universal
support for the Open Archive Initiative's Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH), which they use to exchange this bibliographic (or
webliographic) metadata in Dublin Core format. [2]

Finally there is software available (for example, the open source "PKP
Harvester"[3]) which will aggregate metadata from a number of
repositories and allow it to be browsed and searched, and republished as
RSS and OAI-PMH.[4]

>    This might lend itself to more efficiency and less reinventing of the
> wheel.  This might be similar to the open source movement, which is
> facilitating the sharing of technology - web design etc.

Also cf the "Open Access" movement in scholarly publishing.[5]
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sri priya | 2 Aug 2007 09:13
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IRISS conference Proceedings & some useful Links


  The IRISS conference brought together social scientists who are interested in the Internet, either as a
means of supporting and enhancing their work, or as a focus for their research and is based on the three
themes of skills, sites and social effects. 

  Full Conference Proceedings available:

  Links:  http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/archive/iriss/
  a
  Journals: http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Journals/

  Library Software: http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Software/

  A global directory of library home pages: http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

  Regards,
  S.Sripriya

       
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