Salvete!
> While it's a really good idea to make sure your library's website is
> prominent on your institution's page (because I think that does send a
> strong signal, even to students, that your library is important to your
> campus), the really big question is how easily your students will be
Salvete!
Yo,yo,yo public transport is good enough for Sergey Brin and his google
glass. #justsayin
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/21/sergey-brin-google-glass-new-york-subway
Cheers,
Brooke
- Original Message -
> From: Chris Fitzpatrick
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND
Salve!
This is a welcoming community, and I won't have Michael objectified.
Cheers,
Brooke
>
> I mock that objection.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Michael B. Klein
> wrote:
>
>> I object to your mocking.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Ross Singer
>>
Salvete!
Tisn't necessarily Socialist to hedge one's bets. Look at what Wall St.
experts advise when one is unsure of whether to hold or sell. Monopoly is only
ever in the interest of those that hold it.
Short term the aquarium is enticing, but do you enjoy your collapsed
dorsal f
Salvete!
> [This also serves to illustrate why wikipedia has issues as an authority
> control system.]
>
I went ahead and strongarmed the templates away. Feel free to add your
thoughts on the talk page. :)
Wikimedians are very cool in person, and there's acknowledgement inside of
t
Salvete!
> Sorry, if I misinterpreted the source type, I was doing 1500 things, that was
> 1501...my bad I learned from my mistake!
>
It's about putting something up and having someone else come by and make it
better. The aardvark article history example is choice. :)
>> I'm the wikim
Salvete!
Welcome to the Roy4Lib discussion list. This list is intended to
facilitate discussion on Roy Tennant's new world library order,
> the role
of bacon (including kosher and vegetarian based varieties) in this
context, and the long, long, long, long, long drawn out
Salvete!
>> こんにちは皆さん。私の名前はマウラです。今年のCODE4LIBにいきます。日本のキットカットが大好きです！
>>
>> 私に日本からキットカットを買ってくれません？抹茶と紅いもの味を探していますけど、何でも味はいいです〜！
>> 会議である返金させていただきます。本当にありがとう〜！
>>
Both varieties are in stock at Amazon, too. >^^< The beni imo is quite
dear, and reportedly icky, though.
Cheers,
Brooke
Salve!
How many nuclear physics geniuses have you met? ;) Giuseppe Angilella has
been a Koha user for ages, and his early participation spurred a tonne of other
folks to adopt before OSILSs were cool. He probably doesn't consider himself a
coder, but there are many people that now participa
Salvete!
> We don't have cowboys in NC. :P
Pfft, y'all do. They've outhouses and eything.
http://www.highcountrycowboys.us/
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
> I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
> group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
> regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or Portland,
> unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local
Salvete!
*sneeze* Lexington Barbecue Festival *sneeze* That's a terrible sneeze. I
should really get it looked at.
Cheers,
Brooke
> It would be nice to do it though the Die-bold-a-tron, and do the planning on
> the
> wiki, that way we have a standard archive
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
>
Salvete!
Honestly, though, who all would even want to understand a Kiwi? They're
practically escaped convicts, since everyone in the Northern Hemisphere knows
that they're just tiny Aussies.* Also, I have to translate code for them, since
they cannot do for themselves. [1]
Ba dum cha,
Br
Salvete!
It sounds like you might want too much out of the box or at least a higher
degree of simplicity or usability than most stuff will provide. Usability is a
holy grail that most folks frankly don't feel like shelling out for so it
remains all shiny and out of reach. Should it? No, of
Salvete!
>> Seeing a big pile of postings in my code4lib email folder:
>>
>>
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0c2mpN1KIhI/TwYSqTCIPYI/C1Y/xnpv2cFoO5Q/s1600/IMG_3262.jpg
>>
>> Seeing it’s a long procedural conversation about code4lib doings:
>> http://i.imgur.com/2QHDoDH.gif
>>
>> (No o
Research Analyst I
Royt's Treehouse
The prestigious Tennant's Treehouse is accepting applications for the position
of Research Analyst I for the Juniper Club Library. A collaborative position in
nature, the Research Analyst I will indenture themselves to the library
duhrector artisanally collec
Salve!
Your golden search terms are
Music Information Retrieval
and one of the dudes your after is
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/jdownie
He should be able to answer your question, the question is but oh, will he?
(I think he might. :) )
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
>
>> I know I might be little youn but code4lib needs a bbs
>
> I can see it now ... someone re-writing TradeWars 2000 so you're an
> intergalactic bookmobile.
>
Pfft, NASA amateurs. Everyone knows that GalTrader is THE way to go.
http://www.gamingmuseum.com/gal-trader.html
C
Salvete!
> My first thought was a project-based contract, too. But there are few
> programmer projects that would require zero maintenance once finished. As
> someone who has had to pick up projects "completed" by others, there
> are
> always bugs, gaps in documentation, and difficult upgrade pa
Salvete!
Given that lawyers get heaps of money to sort this stuff out, and that
this is a technical mailing list, you are perhaps best served cross posting
this to a legal IP listserv. Budding lawyers are told that an ounce of
prevention in IP is worth a pound of cure. At very least, yo
Salvete!
I just wanted to add the point that there can very easily be a union
betwixt LITA and Code4Lib (and prolly is a substantial one, though I am
definitely guessing at the data). There is naught to make them mutually
exclusive.
Cheers,
Brooke
> Gates Archive has two open positions that may be of interest to the
> Code4lib community. We’re hiring a System Administrator and an Application
> Developer. Patrick Owens and I will be at Code4lib next week in Portland
> and would love to talk to you if you are interested in learning more about
Salvete!
>
> Join us for our next installment of CopyTalk, Thursday, March 5th at 11am
> Pacific/2pm Eastern Time. *We ask that you please watch as a group when
> possible as there are only 100 seats to the webinar (but an archived
> version will be available). *
>
And if y'all are keen on
Salvete!
I declare this scriptable and doable, just not by me, since I can't
programme me way out of a wet paper bag. (Well, I prolly can at gunpoint, but
yeah, that's what it would take.)
> So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
> finding a table that
Salvete!
> Is the Freebase data good enough for your purposes? It appears that it lists
> the
> most important characters first, but that may just be the order in which they
> were added. You may not be able to rely on that sequence.
>
> A Tale of Two Cities: http://www.freebase.com/m/09c55p
Salvete!
> The Open Repositories Steering Committee and Trinity College Dublin (The
> University of Dublin) are pleased to announce that the Eleventh
> International Conference on Open Repositories will be held at Trinity
> College Dublin, Ireland, the week of June 13th 2016.
>
*shameless p
Salvete!
Google often draws data from OpenStreetMap. If one wanted to, one could
simply edit the Library information there and watch it get picked up rather
quickly.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dlibrary
#justsayin
Brooke
Salvete!
I'm going to be exceedingly naughty in replying to this. I used to teach a
course on Koha for Rory, so obviously I'm heavily biased.
I taught twice, and as a fringe perq, he let instructors take certain
courses gratis.
I would say overall that you're in for a treat. Whe
Salvete!
What, no Disturbed? Or is that too olde for you kids these days?
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
>> People, people.
>>
>> Can we agree that "lib" is simply easier to say than
> "libe" due to the
>> shorter vowel sound?
>>
>> Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy?
>>
>> Therefore, "lib" wins. All you. "libe" mohubs can go
> call the
>> wah-wah-wahmbul
Salve!
> I'm forced to agree that arithmetic isn't math. In fact, I'd go
> further and
> say that arithmetic isn't even arithmetic. At best it's accounting.
> (Accounting, on the other hand, is way more than accounting, so please
> don't take offense if you're an accountant.)
http://xkcd.com
I just want to say that even if this isn't what you had in mind, Wikimedia
is very serious and very respectful about Indigenous cultural persistence and
language preservation. I can only imagine that sharing your data would be most
welcome.
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
Whoo eee, that was the way I used ta do things back when there were Y2K
problems, fella. Back en, I e'en took it further and hand compared vendor
prices after thumbing through ye olde listservs and booksales fer offers. Seems
ta me like Olde Man edsu mighta cooked up some sorta fan
Salvete!
> We've got $800 worth of filament which we expect will last us a long, long
> time.
> Rather than charge for prints, we are trying to create a different type of
> social contract in the space... we are encouraging heavy users to
> contribute back and donate time, expertise, and material
Salvete!
> Libraries charge to lend books.
Some, by no means all. It's also generally limited to newer materials. It's
universally stupid to do this, in my opinion. The folks that can pay are
already buying copies, and we're hurting the patrons that can't pay.
> Late fines are almost uni
Salvete!
> I am happy to announce that we have secured the venue and dates for
> Code4Lib 2014! The conference will be held at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel
> in downtown Raleigh, NC on March 24 - 27, 2014. Preconferences will be
> held Monday March 24, and the main conference on Tuesday March 25
Salvete!
> But please don't expect the conference itself to select the venue and
> complete conference package based on the sole requirement to keep room
> rates down.
I never suggested any such thing. I kindly suggested that someone might
wish to see if the hotel would come down on its pr
Salvete!
Hi there Code4Libbers. I've taught a wee distance course on choosing an
Open Source Integrated Library System twice in the last year. I like to update
my course materials, cause hey, I could be lazy, but I'm not. This is where you
all come in. :D
I initially selected 4 differe
Salvete!
> Agreed. It's much easier to face a preservation project of many terabytes of
> archival tif images that will never be used for presentation but must be
> maintained when you have an "endless supply" (wink wink) of storage
> out in the cloud rather than face everything that is assoc
Salvete!
Glad you started this thread. I <3 innovation. I also will note that you
avoided the innovation pitfall of thinking that things disperse because they
are higher quality.
> He provided an example of making content active through the area of big
> data. For those not familiar with
Salvete!
More importantly, am I the only one that sees a classic Highlander inspired
Code4Lib T Shirt in this? From the makers of the beating a dead horse graphic
and the OCLC seal of approval... Make it so!
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
Aedunno, it seemed like a pretty high bar for THATCamp, too. I applied
anyway and they let me sneak in. :) I had no regrets. I felt very welcome there
and there were some truly fascinating conversations with that slightly
different group. I would anticipate a few of the same faces
Salvete!
>G ood morning/afternoon!
> Does anyone know if KohaCon is going to have any of the sessions available
> via webcast?
>
I would hope so. In 2010, we definitely recorded things and then made
them available. I think folks hopped on IRC and put in questions in realish
time. (Thing
Salvete!
>As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!!
>Let's celebrate!
Yeah, I guess the website folks haven't yet got the memo.
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-A06.html
I suppose someone that's bored on this list might generate a who's up and
who
Salvete!
I've oft thought it'd be nice if there were more crossover betwixt CODE4LIB
and the GOVDOCLers. You should easily be able to hit
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
and get your details. :)
Cheers,
Brooke
Well, a faculty member approaches the repository
Salvete!
>
>I'd be interested. I'm in Boone... not too far a drive. :)
>
Amateurs! The real question to ask is who's bringing the 'shine OR(mebbe
even AND) 'que? But seriously, I think a lot of people might be interested
given ye olde wiki entries and Conference locale.
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
I second the policy suggestions about hours that were stated earlier. The
simpler hours are kept, the better.
I found myself in the position of having a Library with crazy hours due
to budgetary and scheduling constraints. My low tech solution to that was to
add the hours
Salvete!
Well perhaps trademark and patent law can really help every now and
again. :)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/230631/koha-trademark-case-won-by-nz
Cheers,
Brooke
g a bite to eat afterwards.
Hope to see some of y'all soon!
Cheers,
BWS Johnson
Salvete!
> This is insightful, Eric. The thrust of our justification to the Mellon
> Foundation was to help take open source from early adopt to early majority
> (on
> Everett Roger's Diffusion of Innovations scale). So while early adopters
> will want to scratch an itch I don't think the
Salvete!
Come out, come out, where ever you are for the code4lib Maryland, District of
Columbia, and great Commonwealth of Virginia meeting. It's
Tuesday, 13 September, 2011 10:00AM to Noon at the Arlington Public
Library, Central Branch
Feel free to mess with the wiki or consult it f
Salvete!
What's with the virtual fence? What are the benefits of limiting participation?
http://www.librariesthriving.org/learning-community-community-topics/application-for-the-fall-learning-community
Cheers,
BWS Johnson
Salvete!
> I wrote about an idea for an online service for small libraries when I got
> back
> from Kosovo. [1] It had the added (?) capability of social networking, where
> the
> social beings are libraries. It seemed to me that in many cases small
> libraries
> are more dependent on each
Salvete!
>I don't want to alarm anyone, but I'm sensing some hostility towards OCLC in
>this thread...
>
Not that I've said only nice things about OCLC, but I can bust out my
Boston Sucks t shirt for another go round.
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
> On 9/28/11 2:12 PM, "Karen Coyle" wrote:
>
>> I think a great question would be: what would you REALLY like to be
>> doing? And I'm meaning that professionally, not "I'd rather be
>> sailing/sleeping/drinking a beer." Pretend that the daily niggling
>> bits of the job are gone and
Salvete!
> I haven't followed this at all, so can anyone fill me in on what this
> actually means in New Zealand? That Liblime can sue the library to force
> them to change Koha's name?
>
> I now notice that Archivists' Toolkit, Archon, and Islandora are
> trademarked.
Before I say anythin
Salvete!
>T hat Paypal link gives an error. ("fatal error" in fact) - kc>
Mmm, despite me testing it first, the tinyurl busted after a few minutes.
(Hopefully from lots of donations. :) ) Try accessing it from this site:
http://library-matters.blogspot.com/
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
Just an alert that the next non OCLC sanctioned, deeply underground, seedy
meeting of the MDC Chapter of Code4Lib will be gathering
Tuesday, 10 January, 2012 10:00AM to Noon at The George Washington University
Gelman Library in Foggy Bottom, DC 2130 H Street NW Washington DC 2005
Salvete!
Not sure the bigger is worse dictum holds. Do Code4Libbers suddenly get
trolly when you have more of them about? Sure, a larger conference is a
different experience, but I wonder if what the organisational toll is for not
honouring folks' frustration in being left out in the cold.
Salvete!
> I disagree about the random registration concept. As long as the time
> is announced in advance (which was done this year) people should plan
> accordingly. You didn't need to register the first minute this year. I
> registered an hour after registration opened and while I was initiall
Salvete!
> Happy New Year all!
> I am interesting in attending this meeting. It will be my first!
> Do I need to RSVP?
> Just wondering if you need to know who is coming. We are in DC after all. ;-}
> Thanks,
> Loren
>> Just an alert that the next non OCLC sanctioned, deeply underground,
>
Salvete!
*Warning Ranty. Brooke's Ideas shouldn't actually be consumed by anyone,
ever.*
> Why are we so eager to 'protect the guilty' in discussions like this?
>
> Our reluctance to share info on problems with software we use (because of
> fear
> of offending the vendor?) means that i
Salvete!
Quick, pass em a TLSv1 Beast cookie!
Cheers,
Brooke
Looks like some MARC records I've seen.
>
>On Feb 4, 2012, at 16:19, Cary Gordon wrote:
>
>> Probably their cat… They need this: http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote
Salvete!
The Great Commonwealth of Virginia, and those other people in the District
and Maryland will be meeting
Tuesday 10 April 4-5 at The George Washington University Gelman Library.
We plan to hit a pub after the meeting. Folks that drink soda over suds are
certainly welcome, it's
Salvete!
Let this serve as a cautionary tale to those that would dare to post
vacancies without prior approval from OCLC.
Cheers,
Brooke
> It seems nobody can be qualified for this job (besides possibly the original
> Basecamp developer but I kinda suspect he's not going to apply).
>
>
Salvete!
>> This makes a lot of sense for archives and out of copyright stuff
I agree. I also think it was stated that folks are just scanning a single
page. If that's out of a prose book, it's prolly okay.
I'm not one of your big city lawyers, and I haven't asked Roy's permission,
b
Salvete!
> Hm. And if you collected and recorded the data for some period of time, you
> might be able to use it to convince Building Services (or whoever) to try to
> fix
> the problem.
I couldn't help but think that meteorologists and archivists should already
be doing this. Perhaps
Salvete!
> That's all I'm saying - that on the aggregate, there are probably
> patterns, although I would not say they are necessarily coherent or even
> well-thought out, I think patterns would emerge.
I concur, and would risk the rotten tomatoes sure to emerge by adding that
I think the
Salvete!
>> Since we already control the Bacon Stamp of Approval, baloney seems
>> like the next logical step.
>
> We should be thinking ahead to future use cases. I say go for a broader
> "Cured Meats" Stamp of Approval. Or perhaps "Charcuterie"
> to lend it some class. To do otherwise c
Salvete!
> Without asking permission of the list, I hereby assign this new category of
> things requiring OCLC oversight as "salami" on the charcuterie
> spectrum.
>
> Bacon == Seal of Approval
> Bologna == Seal of Disapproval
> Salami == Seal of No Approval Needed
>
This has so
Salvete!
>> Is it just me. or is there a problem the jobs.code4lib.org Web site? I
>> try
>> going there using different browsers - and even different operating systems
>> - and all I see is gibberish - as if the character encoding is Zapf
>> Dingbats.
>
>
> Is your ISP OCLC approved?
>
Salvete!
> What: code4lib MD/DC/VA
> Who: code4lib fans in the DC/MD/VA Greater Washington, DC/National Capitol
> area
> When: Wednesday, June 27th 4:30-5:30p meet, 5:30p-? Tasty beverages
> Where: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th and
> Constitution Ave. NW, Wa
Salvete!
Not to mention the advert is from 14 June. Surely even Edsu isn't so late.
The over / under on that originating from Thomas Edsall?
(https://twitter.com/Edsall) It could well be a Washington Post prank, but who
would be the perpetrator? Chris Cillizza, mayhaps?
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
> Despite the lawful and prudent endorsement of this thread by our
> official designee to the OCLC Off-Topic Cat Discussion Moderation
> Divisiion, I feel it necessary to point out that @mjgiarlo's post was
> in error. The K Street lobbyist does not handle kitty litter. The
> Congressper
Salvete!
Can't. Resist. Bait. Batman.
> Can anyone on the list help clarify for me why, in an academic setting,
> this kind of equipment and facility isn't part of a laboratory in an
> academic department?
>
I'd say that I hate to play devil's advocate, but that would be a patent
misr
Salvete!
> My current fav is Digital NZ
> http://www.digitalnz.org/
>
Can't. Resist. Plug. Batman.
Y'all are nerds, so undoubtedly, y'all prolly know this stuff already,
bttt
That started in part with Kete.
http://kete.net.nz/site/topics/show/329-kete-open-source-softwar
Salvete!
>Jonathan, I, too, like the use of facets. I wish we could do something a bit
>more "zing" with them, like present them as word clouds or something a bit
>more appealing than "term (number)" but I think the basic data is there.
>
>Facets, as we use them, though, function as set *narrowi
Salvete!
> https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/329305400|USAJOBS.gov
That was naughty for me until I abbreviated it to
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/329305400
Just sayin'. Y'all are prolly smart enough to have grokked that.
Cheers,
Brooke
Salve!
> One, it takes a good while for the maps to be approved. I actually uploaded
> ours
> at the end of last year before they approached us about being a pilot library
> but I re-uploaded them once we started that process. The re-upload was in
> August
> and they're still pending. The si
Salvete!
James++
Chad++
After a few extremely icky incredibly stoopid conversations I've had within
our otherwise lovely field populated by mostly smart people, it is with great
trepidation that I enter publicly into this fray. I'm mainly doing so since I
like you folks. People that don't
Salvete!
> Outreach Program for Women internships are available with a number of Free
> and Open Source Software organizations from January 2 through April 2, 2013:
> https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
The deadline for that is like NAO so don't delay.
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
> because they can't find an SO are outliers. C4l is a tech event. Do women
> really get treated that shabbily there?
>
I'm guessing this is a yes, since several brave folks have indicated it. It
doesn't mean that *you* are an offender, but it's clearly happening, or at
least kno
Salvete!
> So far some brave folks have indeed indicated that, but without specifying
> any
> particular incidents.
>
Mmm hmm. I'd assume that comes from a desire to not beat summat really
uncomfy to death. (Too late.)
> It seems to me it might be helpful if the actual incidents were r
Salvete!
Code4Lib's female bot Zoia beats Koha's male bot Wahanui any day of the
week.
I have to say, when I first saw this thread rev up, I thought "Heavens!
What are those ruffians teaching my darling girl?!" I think I've witnessed
irreverent quips from time to time, but I don't thin
Salve!
> I am uneasy about coming up with a policy for banning people (from
> what?) and voting on it, before it's demonstrated that it's even
> needed. Can't we just tackle these issues as they come up, in context,
> rather than in the abstract?
>
> Or has a specific issue come up, and I'm just
My fellow nerds,
I'm snipping *a lot* but in brief I definitely agree with Julie.
> Kyle’s main issue was really a question about what to do with
> private and anonymous feedback – not that we should avoid it, but rather we
> should discuss how that should be handled. For example, could
Salvete!
> We just designed our own responsive site at Multnomah County Library for
> digital collections that is also OAI-PMH compatible. We call it The
> Gallery. https://gallery.multcolib.org/
>
> Erica
>
I don't want to live in a world where "Pig War" doesn't return at least 74
resu
Salvete!
BBQ. That is all. +1
Cheers,
Brooke
> Chattown++
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Ross Singer
> wrote:
>>
>> BEST PROPOSAL EVAR
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mary Jinglewski
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On behalf of our proposal committee,
Salvete!
*lights match, positions gin based cocktail, and preps for incoming hate mail*
With all due respect Mr. Morgan, I wholeheartedly disagree.
Most Public Libraries are Rural Public Libraries. [IMLS 2013] Most
Academics are also small by FTE enrolment [ies of NCES 2012] So "we
Salvete!
So here's a straw poll for ye: How many folks that are talking about
personalisation are also running Mahara with Moodle?
#justaskin
Cheers,
Brooke
> The guides (LibGuides) are all tagged to match faculties and programs: the
> Biology guide is tagged sc/biol, so we know it's r
Salvete!
> We too see VR as an
> opportunity to pilot communities but we're not waiting to see if there is a
> justifiable need,
Not waiting until one is a proven dinosaur ++
Cheers,
Brooke
Salvete!
Please, Sir, may we have a fork? I can only imagine that the Gay
Cataloguing Mafia is with us wee folk.
Cheers,
Brooke
- Original Message -
> From: Galen Charlton
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal
My fellow nerds:
There is actually a question in here, I promise. Treat it like a treasure
hunt or quest.
Anyone that knows me knows how much I despise low level maths. As such,
this is largely anecdotal as usual.
I've been test driving a paid subscription recently. Let's say for
Salvete!
Anyone thinking about this might want to plug in 0wn the Con + Shmoocon
into the Google Machine.[TM] If anything, that's a larger Conference. They can
be very granular with technology needs. Just don't copy their fanboy
atmosphere, please.
Cheers,
Brooke
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