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About Us
Open to all library staff interested in the coding, deployment, and design of library software, systems, and web services. This local chapter of Code4Lib, known as Code4LibNYC, aspires to channel the spirit of the national organization. We were formerly known as the "Library 2.0" SIG at METRO. We want to provide a forum for software and web developers and programmers, who work at area libraries, to discuss their ongoing projects. We focus on development issues surrounding the following types of library services and tools: content management systems, web application frameworks, digital library systems, institutional repositories, subject repositories, federated search tools, and next generation OPACs. We look at the protocols and programming tools that power these types of applications. Many of our members have a strong interest in open source software. Group membership includes systems librarians, web services librarians, digital library developers, digital library managers, and systems-inclined library staff.
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Last Meeting
- Date and Time: Wednesday, November 12th from 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon at the METRO offices on 11th Street.
- Subject: Come to hear and discuss a series of lighting talks (5-10) by area library technologists on interesting projects and software. Topics to be discussed include a recap of the recent OCLC Hackathon and library applications for mobile devices see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkNlTNHZzE for an interesting example. If you are interested in presenting something please let us know ahead of time.
- All are welcome to attend and or present, please RSVP to Kevin Reiss at kreiss@gc.cuny.edu so we have an idea of how many people to expect.
Previous Meeting
- Notes from September 10 meeting are up!
- Date and Time: Wednesday, September 10th from 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon at the METRO offices on 11th Street.
- Subject: Code4libNYC Inaugural Meeting - Come to discuss a series of lighting talks (5-10) by area library technologists on interesting projects and software. Topics to be discussed include Drupal and the Archivists' Toolkit.
- All are welcome to attend, please RSVP to Kevin Reiss at kreiss@gc.cuny.edu so we have an idea of how many people to expect.
Earlier Meetings - VuFind: A Next Generation Catalog Case Study
- Date and Time: Friday, April 25th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the METRO offices on 11th street
- Speakers: Andrew Nagy and Chris Barr - Falvey Library, Villanova University
- Recent VuFind Presentation at Code4lib 2008 - http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/nagy
Contemporary libraries need state-of-the-art software to make their collections and services visible and attractive to Web users accustomed to the one stop-shopping aspects of Google and the customer-oriented features of commercial sites such as Amazon. Come join the METRO Library 2.0 SIG for a presentation of VuFind (http://www.vufind.org/), an open-source resource discovery portal developed for libraries by libraries that has harnessed the power of SOLR search technology to enable users to query and browse a library's resources in a simple yet sophisticated manner.
Andrew Nagy, Technology Development Specialist at Villanova University’s Falvey Library and lead VuFind developer, and Chris Barr, Design Specialist and VuFind interface developer, will discuss the motivation behind and the development of VuFind and give us a short demonstration on how to install and configure the system. Among the topics Andrew and Chris will address are: (1) how to create a unique look and feel for VuFind to suit the needs of your library, (2) how VuFind can integrate with your library’s existing ILS and workflows so that work of your technical services, acquisitions, and circulation departments is seamlessly integrated with VuFind , and (3) the challenges of designing VuFind to effectively index and display MARC data. Following Andrew’s presentation we will have an open question and answer session on VuFind and other Next Generation Catalog systems so please bring your own experiences and opinions to share.
For documentation, download information, and links to current installations of VuFind consult the VuFind website at http://www.vufind.org/.
Spring 2008 Program Survey
Please take a moment to vote for Spring 2008 program content. Library 2.0 Spring Program Survey
CMS Systems in Libraries
CMS Meeting Discussion Points Date and Time: Friday, March 14 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the METRO offices on 11th street
Come join the SIG for a discussion forum on the use of Content Management Systems (CMS) in the libraries. We will have a panel consisting of three short presentations from librarians at different points in the implementation cycle discussing their use of different CMS software.
- Joanna DiPasquale, Web Services Librarian Columbia University
- Joanna will discuss the planning and implementation of SCT's Luminis Content Management System.
- Caroline Fuchs, Special Collections Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
- Caroline will discuss her use of Wordpress to build a website and a community to promote the use of her special collections.
- Emily Molanphy, Web Services Librarian, NYU Medical Library,
- NYU Medical is in the midst of implementing the open source CMS Drupal for NYU's Consumer Health Libraries. Emily will talk about how she selected a CMS, some of the trials and tribulations along the way, and give attendees a look at the administrative interface.
The presentations will be followed by an open discussion of CMS systems in libraries. Please bring your own ideas and experiences to share at the meeting. RSVP to Kevin Reiss (kreiss@gc.cuny.edu) or Paul Albert (paa2013@med.cornell.edu) if you can attend. If you like some background on CMS systems you can consult to the CMS matrix to see a comparison of many popular CMS systems.
11-16 Meeting Library 2.0 Roundtable Discussion
Library 2.0 11-16 Program Notes
- Date: Friday, November 16, 2007
- Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Location: METRO Offices
Come join the Library 2.0 SIG for a discussion of Library 2.0 initiatives in progress, if you have implemented, or are thinking of implementing a 2.0 service please come and share your project or ideas with your colleagues. At the start of the meeting we will vote on which of the following four items to discuss first and see how many of them we get through.
- Social Networking Software In Libraries - Let's discuss the possibility of using or report on experiences using tools like Facebook, Myspace, and blogs in libraries. Gerry McKeirnan's Social Networking Blog Facebook Applications for Libraries
- Social Tagging and Next Generation Catalogs - Do we want to make use of user-tagged content in our libraries? If so, can libraries make effective use of this content, or is this still the domain of Librarything and Amazon?
- 2.0 Code You Can Use - Let's discuss any recent or planned 2.0 related projects we've implemented or are working on. Examples could be a Facebook application you've created, hacking del.icio.us in order to pull in relevant content to your library website, using an OCLC web service like xISBN, or a new library-related module you've created to interface with software like Solr/Lucene.
- Let's discuss the (relatively) new David Weinberger book, Everything is Miscellaneous, about strategies for dealing with digital disorder on the web. View a recent Weinberger presentation.
We also would be happy to add other topics to this list of possible discussion items, just send me the topic you'd like see added prior to the meeting. To get an idea of how many will attend please R.S.V.P. to Kevin Reiss at kreiss@gc.cuny.edu.
Please contact Kevin Reiss ( KReiss@gc.cuny.edu ) for information on this meeting or the SIG.
Past Programs
- September 21, 2007 - Reclaiming the Library Catalog Program Description | Program Notes
Convenors
Paul Albert Digital Services Librarian Weill Cornell Medical Library Weill Cornell Medical College Tel: 212.746.7541 Email: paa2013@med.cornell.edu
Joanna DiPasquale Web Developer Libraries Digital Program Division Columbia University Libraries Email: jd2481@columbia.edu
Kevin Reiss Systems Librarian Mina Rees Library CUNY Graduate Center Tel: 212.817.7074 EMail: kreiss@gc.cuny.edu
