Category: Code4Lib Journal

Issue 5 of the Code4Lib Journal was published this afternoon. And if I do say so myself (as a member of the journal’s Editorial Committee, it’s another excellent one. Here’s the table of contents:

• Editorial Introduction – Issue 5 by Emily Lynema
• ‡biblios: An Open Source Cataloging Editor by Chris Catalfo
• User-Centred Design and Agile Development: Rebuilding the Swedish National Union Catalogue by Henrik Lindström and Martin Malmsten
• Reaching Users Through Facebook: A Guide to Implementing Facebook Athenaeum by Wayne Graham
• Affinity Strings: Enterprise Data for Resource Recommendations by Cody Hanson, Shane Nackerud, and Kristi Jensen
• Identifying FRBR Work-Level Data in MARC Bibliographic Records for Manifestations of Moving Images by Kelley McGrath and Lynne Bisko
• Rasmuson Library DVD Browser: Fun with Screen Scraping and Drupal by Ilana Kingsley and Mark Morlino
• Reviving Digital Projects by Dianne Dietrich, Jennifer Doty, Jen Green and Nicole Scholtz
• Generating Metadata on a Shoestring sans Programmer, with Our Good Friend, Excel (or Any Spreadsheet) by Jill Strass
• SPECIAL REPORT: Creating Conference Video by Noel F. Peden
• COLUMN: We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code by Dale Askey

Issue 3 of the Code4Lib Journal was published today:

• Editorial Introduction (Ron Peterson)
• Alternative Solutions for Off-Campus Authentication (Rebekah Kilzer, Elizabeth L. Black and James Muir)
• Distributed Version Control and Library Metadata (Galen M. Charlton)
• The Planets Testbed: Science for Digital Preservation (Brian Aitken, Petra Helwig, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lindley, Eleonora Nicchiarelli, Seamus Ross)
• Bringing Sheet Music to Life: My Experiences with OMR (Andrew Bullen)
• Building an Archival Collections Portal (Terry Catapano, Joanna DiPasquale, and Stuart Marquis)
• Developing an Academic Image Collection with Flickr (Jeremy McWilliams)
• Making Patron Data Work Harder: User Search Terms as Access Points? (Jason A. Clark)
• Collecting Virtual Reference Statistics with an IM Chat-Bot (Mason R.K. Hall)
• WordPress as a Content Management System for a Library Web Site: How to Create a Dynamically Generated Subject Guide (Joshua Dodson)

The second issue of the Code4Lib Journal is now available. Here is the table of contents:

• "Code4Lib: More Than a Journal" (Eric Lease Morgan)
• "Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides" (Edward M. Corrado and Kathryn A. Frederick)
• "Using Google Calendar to Manage Library Website Hours" (Andrew Darby)
• "Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library" (Chris Freeland, Martin Kalfatovic, Jay Paige, and Marc Crozier)
• "Toward Element-Level Interoperability in Bibliographic Metadata" (Carol Jean Godby, Devon Smith and Eric Childress)
• "Help! A Simple Method for Getting Back-Up Help to the Reference Desk" (Kenneth Furuta and Michele Potter)
• "Googlizing a Digital Library" (Jody DeRidder)
• "Participatory Design of Websites with Web Design Workshops" (Nancy Fried Foster, Nora Dimmock, and Alison Bersani)
• "Quick Lookup Laptops in the Library: Leveraging Linux with a SLAX LiveCD" (Dan Scott and Kevin Beswick)
• "The ICAP (Interactive Course Assignment Pages) Publishing System" (Margaret Mellinger and Kim Griggs)
• "Respect My Authority" (Jonathan Gorman)
• "Conference Report: Code4LibCon 2008" (Carol Bean, Ranti Junus, and Deborah Mouw)

Take a look — this issue is filled with excellent articles. (Disclaimer: I’m on the editorial committee for the journal.)