ITS

Josiah:
– Implemented Electronic delivery of journal articles from Library Collections Annex
– Automated item record creation for manuscript material at the Annex
– Assigned titles to funds in order to create links from Josiah records to e-bookplates – http://library.brown.edu/record=b3623076
– Ordered EDIFACT, SpellCheck, and setup for Monographic Holdings

Web Development:
– Configured Brown edition of LibX, a powerful Firefox extension that allows one to use Josiah, find it! and Google Scholar on ANY WEB PAGE that has book or article information. Demos for library staff, help page & camtasia tutorials
– Configured Windows Live Academic, Microsoft’s answer to Google Scholar, to display links to Brown holdings via our sfx (find it!) menu.
– Set up Brown xISBN bookmarklet by registering with OCLC’s xisbn service http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/tools/xisbn.html This technology will be useful for revamped new titles site.
– Discussion with SR on Library web site redesign
– Integration of e-resources web list and metalib maintenance tasks; database additions to LRGs automatically added to e-resources and metalib tables

SFX/MetaLib:
– Reviewed SFX management practices with SET and ACN to make better use of available administrative tools; used data loader to update vendor packages and statistics module to produce reports for serials review purposes; set up SFX A-Z list as a option for the future.
– Set up CrossRef target in SFX
– Proof-of-concept for adding to OCRA from databases and Josiah: http://sfx.brown.edu:8888/sfx_test?sid=III:innopac&pid=id=1857883616

Projects:
– ETD: Meetings with Grad School representatives to polish candidate and administrative interfaces
– Began work on Technology Projects Review methodology (jmr, rf, seb)

Collaboration:
– Worked with Tech Services on Serials Solutions & serials display options: created mockups, met w/SR folk
– Worked with SR folks to develop policy for multiple copies to be sent to annex, and pushed forward lost/missing books activities

Skill Development :
– AJAX, a technology for creating interactive web applications, which will be used in an improved New Titles display.
–
PHP templating system which will improve our programming and our productivity when working on one another’s code
– Camtasia studio which we are using for tutorials (LibX) and usability testing.

Technical Infrastructure:
– Implemented automated multi-versioned remote backups for the library wiki and birkin’s version-control code-repository.

Workshops, Conferences:
– IUG conference (bb)
– ELUNA (Ex Libris Users North America) conference (lj, jmr); Presentation on "Using SFX in Course Reserves" (jmr)
– Ex Libris Technical Seminar (jmr)
– Nercomp: Getting Data Out (bjd, jmr)

– 2006 NETSL Conference: Exploring the “Open” Universe: A Librarian’s Guide (jmr)
– Nercomp: The Horizon Report (jmr)

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