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Walt Crawford | 1 Jan 2008 19:34
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Cites & Insights 8:1 available

For perhaps the first time, the January issue that begins a new volume of
Cites & Insights is available in...January.

Cites & Insights 8:1 (January 2008) is now available for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i1.pdf

The 30-page issue (PDF as always, but HTML separates for each essay are
available at http://citesandinsights.info/ ) includes:

* Announcing Cites & Insights volumes 6 and 7 in book form - Cites &
Insights Books at Lulu.com (http://lulu.com/waltcrawford/) now offers
these volumes in paperback form, $29.50 each, with a bonus in each case
(and full-color cover photos). The bonus for Volume 7 is Cites on a
Plane, the phantom issue from January 2007. For Volume 6, it's a brief
preface including "where are they now?" notes on liblogs studied in 2005
and 2006 that have either moved, changed names or apparently gone
silent.

* Bibs & Blather: Thinking about Leadership - Some thoughts after a few
weeks working on the PALINET Leadership Network, including my current
take on "Who's a leader?"

* Perspective: Discovering Books: An OCA and GBS Retrospective - A full
year after the previous coverage of Open Content Alliance and Google
Book Search, it's time for some updates, but also a quick retrospective
of C&I coverage of these projects.

* Perspective: A Time of Limits? - Does "everybody" actually use
Netflix? Have we all become upper middle class? Is there some limit to
disposable income--and are some of us disposing of income we don't
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Kraemer, Beth | 2 Jan 2008 15:30
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Digitization Programmer position

Position announcement from the University of Kentucky Libraries.

Position Available: Digitization Programmer

Description: The Digitization Programmer position is a full-time UK Server Administrator/Programmer I
position working in the Library Information Technology Division and with the Digital Programs Department.

Responsibilities: The Digitization Programmer will work primarily with Digital Programs to create
programs to improve work flows in the creation of digital images.  The programmer will examine digital
conversion work flows and create automated processes.  Implement standards and specifications for
metadata creation according to XML, METS/ALTO, MARC and other formats.  Validate data for digital
repository ingest.  Application development.  Produce scripts for work with commercially produced
software.  Database creation and management. Maintain troubleshoot, update and customize server applications.

Required Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar field plus two years related
experience.  Master's degree preferred.

Salary and Benefits: Salary and rank within the University library system commensurate with experience
and qualifications; $35,554 minimum. Full-time appointment within the UK Libraries system. Standard
fringe benefits; 15 days annual leave; TIAA/CREF, Fidelity and Twentieth Century Annuity plans. Visit
http://www.uky.edu/HR/benefits/ for additional benefits information.

Library:  The University of Kentucky Libraries system includes the main William T. Young Library, Medical
Center Library, Law Library, Special Collections & Digital Programs, Agricultural Information
Center, Fine Arts Library, Design Library, Education Library, Engineering Library and five science
libraries.  Combined holdings total more than 3 million volumes.  The system has a staff of 80 librarians
and 109 support staff and serves a student body of 28,000.  The UK Libraries use the Voyager integrated
library system.  Library membership includes the Association of Research Libraries, SOLINET, ASERL,
and the Center for Research Libraries, and is a regional depository for government publications.
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Fisher, Joseph | 2 Jan 2008 16:08
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LITA Internet Resources and Services IG Midwinter meeting

The LITA Internet Resources and Services IG (IRSIG) will hold its annual
Midwinter meeting at the following time and location:

Sunday, January 13, 10:30 - Noon 

Westin Philadelphia Hotel

99 S 17th St. at the corner of 17th and Chestnut

Google Map
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=99+
S+17th+St.,+philadelphia,+pa&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.592876,68.90
625&ie=UTF8&ll=39.951612,-75.168779&spn=0.004688,0.008411&z=17&om=1> 

We will discuss plans for the third "Ultimate Debate" to be held once
again at the upcoming ALA Annual Summer Conference.

We will also hold an election for an IRSIG Vice-Chair. This is a
two-year commitment that involves planning and organizing the annual
program event at the ALA Summer Conference for the first year and then
taking over as Chair for the second year. 

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone to "get involved" and lend a
hand in helping to present what has been an enormously popular program
these past three years and hopefully for years to come.

If anyone has any questions, please email me at the address below.

Joseph Fisher
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Primarydat | 2 Jan 2008 16:37
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Last Call to take the survey of library relations with Mega Internet Sites


Primary Research Group (_www.primaryresearch.com_ 
(http://www.primaryreserch.com/) )  is planning to publish a survey of library use of and relations with  
mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and 
others.  The survey closes on Jan 7,  2008. Academic, public, and special libraries 
are eligible.  This is an international survey open to  libraries of all 
countries. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the  estimated 100-page report. 
Data is broken out by type and size of institution  for easier benchmarking.  
To take  the 40-question survey, follow the link below:  
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zl7d93oFsyP7vW_2fmkhdxcg_3d_3d

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Thomas Dowling | 2 Jan 2008 17:09
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End of the line for Netscape

<http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/>

> ...we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded 
> browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users 
> to adopt Firefox

> Q: What will this mean?
> A: We'll continue to release security patches for the current version 
> of the browser, Netscape Navigator until February 1, 2008. After 
> February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 
> 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape 
> v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and 
> Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.

Requiescat in pace.  Without ever really liking any of them, I 
downloaded and used every version of Netscape's browser from 0.9 to 8.0 
-  I suppose I should get a copy of 9.0 for completeness' sake.  If you 
don't remember a time when 90% of the browsers out there were Netscape, 
they were going to change the world (and arguably just made the mistake 
of saying so before they actually did it).

--

-- 
Thomas ("Hey, Firefox 3.0b2 looks pretty good") Dowling
tdowling@...
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Jeremy Frumkin | 2 Jan 2008 17:22
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Code4lib registration opens January 7

Registration for the 2008 Code4lib conference will open Monday, January 7,
at 10 am PST (1 pm EST). We have a great program for this year's conference
- our keynote speakers are Karen Coyle, Brewster Kahle, and Jon Udell. The
complete schedule, with links to talk descriptions, can be found at
http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/schedule.

Also, this year there will be three separate pre-conference sessions - one
on Evergreen, one on LibraryFind, and the final one on Zotero.

I will send out a reminder of the registration opening date this weekend.

(My apologies for not posting this to web4lib earlier, as previous messages
had listed today as the day registration originally was scheduled to open.)

-- jaf

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Jeremy Frumkin
Head of Emerging Technologies and Services
121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University
Corvallis OR 97331-4501

Jeremy.Frumkin@...

541.602.4905
541.737.3453 (Fax)
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" Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. "
- Emerson
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Thomas Dowling | 2 Jan 2008 21:17
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LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group at Midwinter

[Apologies for duplication.]

LITA NGCIG Meeting at Midwinter: Three Next Generation Catalog Projects

The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Sunday, 
January 13, from 4:00 to 6:00pm in the Hilton Garden Inn (conveniently 
located just outside the convention center), in Salon A/B.

We will have presentations and discussion about three locally developed 
and/or open source catalog projects.  Ross Shanley-Roberts of Miami 
University will discuss their SolrPac project; Bess Sadler of the 
University of Virginia will discuss their Project Blacklight; and Chris 
Barr and Andrew Nagy of Villanova will discuss their VuFind project.

A brief business IG business meeting will follow the discussion.

See you in Philadelphia.

--

-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling@...
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mfrances | 3 Jan 2008 00:06
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Re: End of the line for Netscape

Thanks for the update Thomas - Netscape was my browser of choice for a
while - and it's a good reminder to all of us librarians on the ephemeral
nature of the web - now if we could just get IE to fold ...

Melodie Frances

> <http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/>
>
>> ...we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded
>> browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users
>> to adopt Firefox
>
>> Q: What will this mean?
>> A: We'll continue to release security patches for the current version
>> of the browser, Netscape Navigator until February 1, 2008. After
>> February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator
>> 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape
>> v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and
>> Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.
>
> Requiescat in pace.  Without ever really liking any of them, I
> downloaded and used every version of Netscape's browser from 0.9 to 8.0
> -  I suppose I should get a copy of 9.0 for completeness' sake.  If you
> don't remember a time when 90% of the browsers out there were Netscape,
> they were going to change the world (and arguably just made the mistake
> of saying so before they actually did it).
>
>
> --
> Thomas ("Hey, Firefox 3.0b2 looks pretty good") Dowling
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Tom Peters | 3 Jan 2008 18:02
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Announcement: Free online OPAL programs in January

Happy New Year, Everyone.

There's a great slate of free online programs scheduled for January, beginning this evening (Thursday,
January 3rd).  New programs are added continually.  For current information about upcoming OPAL
programs, please visit:

http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm

Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, 7:30 Central, 6:30 Mountain, 5:30 Pacific, and 1:30
a.m. Friday GMT/UTC/Zulu:

Meet the Author: Jim Hoy 

Meet and chat with Kansas Notable Book author Jim Hoy and discuss his featured work, Flint Hills Cowboys:
Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie. The Kansas Center for the Book identifies up to 20 notable books annually,
books by Kansans or about Kansas. Titles have been published in the previous year. A list with brief
descriptions of all the 2007 Kansas Notable Books can be found here. 

Upcoming author discussions (always on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Central Time) in this series include: 

Jan. 10 - Susanna Pitzer, author of Not Afraid of Dogs 
Jan. 17 - Lois Ruby, author of Shanghai Shadows 
Jan. 24 - Steven Hind, author of The Loose Change of Wonder 
Jan. 31 - George Brandsberg, author of Afoot: A Tale of the Great Dakota Turkey Drive 

Host: Johnson County Library 

Location: OPAL Online Auditorium 
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and
7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:
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Cox, Christopher N. | 4 Jan 2008 16:53
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Call for Manuscripts - Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Is your New Year's resolution to publish in a peer-reviewed journal?  Are you currently using web
technologies to deliver services and enhance the experiences of your users?  Have you conducted a study or
analyzed a trend concerning the use or application of web technologies in libraries?  Consider
submitting a manuscript to us!

Internet Reference Services Quarterly (IRSQ), a peer-reviewed journal published by Haworth/Taylor and
Francis, welcomes the submission of manuscripts for its next issue.  Don't let the word "reference" in the
title fool you.  IRSQ highlights the theory and practice behind emerging Internet services, sources and
resources in all areas of librarianship.  Research-based studies, case studies of successful services
or programs, and authoritative articles highlighting best practices are welcome.

Topics of interest include:  tags and folksonomies, social bookmarking, wikis, mash-ups, XML
applications, digital copyright law, open source solutions, next generation catalogs, electronic
resource management systems, Facebook and MySpace modules and interactions, personalization of
library products or services, search engine technologies, information services for cell phones or
iPods, podcasting and YouTube-ing, Internet gaming and virtual worlds, Internet security, plagiarism
in an online world, virtual reference, web-based instruction and streaming video and audio.

Submissions should follow the guidelines for manuscript format and preparation available at
http://www.haworthpress.com/journals/instructionsforauthors.asp.  All submissions should be
accompanied by a Manuscript Submission and Copyright Transfer form, available at http://www.haworthpressinc.com/pdfs/jmanuscript.pdf.

All accepted manuscripts will be published in the journal's next issue, Volume 13, No. 4.  The due date for
submission of manuscripts is February 1, 2008; however, we are always looking for good submissions and
would consider manuscript at any time during the year.  For more information or manuscript submission
questions, please contact Christopher Cox at
coxcn@...<mailto:coxcn@...> or at the
address below.  We look forward to reading your work and having the opportunity to share it with other librarians.

Sincerely,
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