Guide to Electronic Resource Management
Ross, Sheri V. T.
Book – 2016
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Tag: library services
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Cataloging and Classification
Cataloging and Classification
An Introduction
By Chan, Lois Mai
Book – 2016
Librarians who want to know all about RDF and AACR2 can start with this book. At 750 pages, it is not a quick read!
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Machiavellian Librarian
The Machiavellian Librarian –
Winning Allies, Combating Budget Cuts, and Influencing Stakeholders Book – 2013
This collection of essays is required reading if your career depends on the health of a university library. As the world converts everything away from paper towards electronic storage, and all materials go online, the challenges are great for the leaders in libraries. I suspect this change has the potential for great gains too. Librarians become more important as navigation becomes more difficult “can you drink from the fire hose?”. I do not work in a university, so I might have this all wrong. If you do work or study in a university, please comment.
The collection was compiled and edited in 2013, so it is somewhat dated, and it is not clear when the individual essays were written.
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Librarian’s Guide to Online
Librarian’s Guide to Online Searching Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction By Bell, Suzanne S Book – 2015
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Future Now Archives
The Future Now Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory : A Report of the Royal Society of Canada’s Expert Panel on the Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives By Royal Society of Canada Book – 2014
Dry reading about Library Archives Canada, with a brief mention of Canadiana.org. You can also read this online. It is better online because you will want to do searches within the text.
Only a year old, and out of date already! No change in LAC policies or funding, but many changes in online web systems.
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RDA and Serials
RDA and Serials Cataloging By Jones, Ed Book – 2013
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Certified!
Canadiana.org, where I worked, has been certified to be a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) by Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
What? A TDR has computer storage systems used to archive historical information. In Canadiana’s case, this includes things like the correspondence of Prime Ministers, historical journals, and many other things. The name TDR applies to the whole organization, including the people, the systems, and stakeholders.
Who? CRL is the authority on this sort of thing.
When? The verification process took several months, concluding in July 2015.
How? CRL staff visited Canadiana’s facilities several times. They interviewed key staff, reviewed policy and procedures, and verified that their standards were met. They compared Canadiana to the other TDR’s (fewer than 10 so far) and scored us highly in their report. There was a fee paid to CRL, so there is some conflict of interest.
Why? Why is this important? Because Canadiana’s stakeholders will have great confidence that we are meeting our goals, and Canadiana will likely get more interest from universities and government departments which want their archival materials preserved.
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BiblioTech
BiblioTech
Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Palfrey, John G.
Book – 2015
With the shift to digital books, there are huge changes in the library world. This excellent book by an insider at the DPLA discusses public policy : the needs, the challenges, the benefits, and some successes.
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Coding for Librarians
Coding for Librarians – Learning by Example By Yelton, Andromeda Book – 2015
What a strange book. Very thin, large format. It will be useful to Librarians who have not done much computer programming, and leads you through a few simple programming projects which could be useful in a library. Armed with this knowledge, and now having some programming skills, you are ready to attack larger challenges. There are many open source projects out there, take your pick!
The big problem with this book is that it does not list the code it is discussing. Its line-level comments “Lines 68-78 remove outdated files from ..” are not meaningful unless you are at your PC with the code on your screen. Worse, the Github project could have changed since the book was printed, so you would have to look back in old versions of the code. But the companion web site helps a bit with that (http://thatandromeda.github.io/ltr/).
Here are projects discussed in the book:
- in-browser text editor compose tweets with character counter: Javascript embedded in html
- ILS reporting10 Python scripts that do sql queries with sierra
- digital signage content queuePython that processes CSV’s
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staff communicationAn app for reading room monitors to keep helpful notes for each other.
Built with AngularJS using angular-seed. - simplified FTP workflow Perl script get_vendor_edi.pl gets something from an Oracle DB.
- microdata prototypeRuby: searches ElasticSearch for ‘resources’.
- preparing files for repository ingestJava: File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester – Ingest dspace
- automatically georeferencing imagesPython: A tool for ArcGIS 10.1 and up that georeferences large quantities of scanned maps and airphotos using an Excel Workbook index.
This tool is designed to work out-of-the-box, and requires and ArcGIS Desktop Advanced License to work. - faster institutional repositoryRuby: UC San Diego Library Digital Collections Public Access System.
A Hydra repository backed by DAMS Repository.
damspas/blob/develop/app/controllers/file_controller.rb shows how to access Solr from Ruby. - organizing LibGuidesJavaScript: Page organizing script for http://libguides.princeton.edu/politics
- checking file metadata fasterPython: Miscellaneous scripts for file management and digital preservation. Solr.
- converting MARC21 to BIBFRAME RDF graphPython: This small socket server wraps the Library of Congress’ marc2bibframe.
- more ..
Topics:
- Libraries Data processing.
- Electronic data processing.
- Libraries Automation.
- Computer programming Study and teaching.
- Scripting languages (Computer science) Programming languages
- (Electronic computers) Microcomputers Programming.
- Open source software Library applications.
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Library Management
Library Management for the Digital Age A New Paradigm By Todaro, Julie Book – 2014