At 09:40 AM 03/25/2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>It is a pleasure and an honor to be able to introduce this, the
>second issue of Code4Lib Journal:
>
> http://journal.code4lib.org/
>
>
>Something for everyone
Eric,
Congratulations on putting together such a meaty issue.
David
>Each article in this issue has a little bit of something for all who
>call themselves a librarian or work in a library. Each identifies
>some sort of library problem to be addressed, and offers one or more
>solutions.
>
>For those of us who enjoy cataloging and metadata issues, Jonathan
>Gorman outlines how he modified VUFind to exploit Wikipedia and
>cataloging authority records to enhance information about authors in
>a library catalog. Chris Freeland, Martin Kalfatovic, Jay Paige, and
>Marc Crozier illustrate a different use of Library of Congress
>Subject Headings by integrating place names with Google Maps. Carol
>Jean Godby, Devon Smith and Eric Childress describe a technique for
>crosswalking just about any metadata format into just about any other
>metadata format.
>
>For example, people in public service may be interested in Edward M.
>Corrado and Kathryn A. Frederick's review of database-driven subject
>guide applications. Kenneth Furuta and Michele Potter describe a
>simple help system that brings librarians running to the reference
>desk. Margaret Mellinger and Kim Griggs explain how library resources
>can be organized into course pages without the need of HTML knowledge
>and yet sport Web 2.0 features. Nancy Fried Foster, Nora Dimmock, and
>Alison Bersani shed light on participatory design.
>
>For the systems librarian in you, Dan Scott and Kevin Beswick share
>how they used Linux live CDs customized as kiosk browsers to provide
>laptops as 'quick lookup' stations at their library. Andrew Darby
>takes advantage of the Google Calendar API to easily manage the
>display of library hours. Jody DeRidder exploits Google sitemap
>technology and static HTML pages to make content in the "deep Web"
>more accessible. We hope you find these articles useful, stimulating,
>and relevant to your daily working lives.
>
>--
>Eric Lease Morgan
>University Libraries of Notre Dame
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