Laurie N. Taylor, Librarian

See the most recent items: https://dloc.com/new  For this month, newly loaded items include: Pan Caribbean Sankofa Interviews: https://dloc.com/results/?t=pan%20caribbean%20sankofa  Pan Caribbean Sankofa is an outreach, research, education, and advisory group to organizations and individuals interested in the history, culture, and diaspora of Caribbean people and their descendants in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States – focusing on Panama, the Panama Canal, and Panama Railroad from the 1800s to the present. Archivo histórico de Vieques, Puerto Rico, fotos: https://dloc.com/vieques/new  About the collection: https://dloc.com/AA00081727/00001  More newspapers continue to load with the current CLIR grant, with some new titles and other titles with new issues, updated listRead More →

About the LibraryPress@UF The LibraryPress@UF publishes scholarly, educational, and creative works, with an emphasis on promoting public access to scholarship and ethical practices in scholarly publishing. The Libraries’ publishing initiatives complement the work of the University of Florida Press (UF Press) to collectively contribute to the shared missions of the Libraries, Press, and UF. Note This blog entry cross-published on the LibraryPress@UF site and on Laurie Taylor’s website.Read More →

We have an awesome opening in an awesome unit, in an awesome department, in the totally awesome Libraries at UF! See the full job posting on the Libraries’ HR site.   From the job posting: POSITION VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT POSITION: Digital Library Application Programmer – Application Programmer 1 REPORTS TO: Head, Digital Development SALARY: Minimum annual salary at $57,396.50; Actual rate will reflect experience and credentials REQUISITION #: 516586 DEADLINE DATE: June 14, 2021 – applications will be reviewed as received JOB SUMMARY As a member of the Library Technology Services Department, Digital Development Unit, the Digital Library Application Programmer performs duties related to the creation andRead More →

In the Libraries at UF, we are working to mature our project and project portfolio management processes. One critical part of this is to have a Definition of Done, or the acceptance criteria for how each project/sprint will be evaluated for completion. Having a Definition of Done ensures mutual understanding and agreement for what project completion means, so it defines the acceptance criteria. Related to a Definition of Done (DoD) is the Definition of Ready. The Definition of Ready (DoR) is created prior, with the collaborator/stakeholders, to provide the foundation that allows work to start. Agility.im explains common elements in a DoR: Actionable – Is theRead More →

See a fantastic community school course by the always amazing Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler from We Here: Library exhibitions: beyond book covers with Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler (cs013-101), from 60.00; Thursday, June 10, 3-Hour Seminar: 12pm PT, 1pm MT, 2pm CT, 3pm ET USA Libraries and archives are increasingly establishing exhibition programs as a way to highlight collections and engage visitors, beyond the traditional book cover display. But what are the best ways to plan exhibitions? What should you consider before embarking on storytelling and interpretation? This seminar will focus on a programmatic approach to library exhibitions, including policies and procedures, capacity building, and best practices as they relateRead More →

Jason Fried and David Hinemeier Hansson. Remote. New York: Crown Publishing/Penguin Random House, 2013. 37: on how remote workers save organizational money, with example from IBM 38: “And the savings aren’t just for the company. Whil;e the firm’s owners get to save on office space, the employee gets to save on gas. HP’s Telework Calculator shows a savings of almost $10,000 per year for an SUV driver who spends an hour a day communting ten miles round trip. Cutting back on commuting also means huge savings for the environment. The same IBM study showed how remote work saved the company five million gallons of fuelRead More →

I’m working on explaining and getting people to feel/understand MVP as minimum viable product. We need this because the UF Digital Collections include components that are on older technologies, so old that UF will cease support in 2023. That means we have to move before 2023. With a firm deadline, we cannot be flexible on features, so we have to work from MVP. I’ve been explaining this in a quicker (and incomplete) manner with bridges, but now we need a longer story to deal with more of the actual complexity, and we still need it to be a story that peopel can visualize-see so thatRead More →

In the Libraries at UF, we’re getting ready to move from local SAN folders for people’s person file spaces to OneDrive. This will provide the exact same functionality (looks like a mapped network drive, secure for user files) plus a whole lot more: can access with any web connection (no need for VPN+remote desktop or UF machine), can share files/folders if wanted, supports added functions like tips and reference files in Outlook. In speaking with folks about the planned move to OneDrive, we received interesting questions on the general nature of OneDrive and cloud storage. Also, we learned that many people think that cloud storageRead More →

For this month, newly loaded items include: dLOC guides in French, by Stephanie Chancy: https://dloc.com/contains/?t=%22Chancy%2c+M.+Stephanie%22&f=AU More newspapers continue to load with the current CLIR grant: Port of Spain Gazette (Trinidad), now 1900-1921: https://dloc.com/UF00094730/05733/allvolumes Many new issues of current newspapers: https://dloc.com/cndl/new US Virgin Islands materials from Wallace Williams: https://dloc.com/contains/?t=%22Wallace+Williams%2c+Digital%22&f=AU ========================== CLIR newspapers noted from last month: The Independent Press, 1843-1844 (Saint Lucia): https://dloc.com/l/AA00079431/00001/allvolumes The Voice of Saint Lucia, 1885-1924: https://dloc.com/l/AA00079434/00001/allvolumes The Trinidad Gazette, 1820-1822: https://dloc.com/l/AA00079432/00230/allvolumes San Fernando Gazette (Trinidad), 1850-1881: https://dloc.com/l/AA00079373/00958/allvolumes The Nassau Times, 1874-1894: https://dloc.com/AA00079430/00001/allvolumes The Royal Gazette and Bahama Advertiser, 1804-1837: https://dloc.com/l/AA00079433/03171/allvolumes The Bahama News, 1899: https://dloc.com/l/AA00079435/00001 The Bahama Herald, 1849-1863: https://dloc.com/l/AA00079017/01030/allvolumes Dominican, 1842-1907:Read More →

Fried, Jason and David Heinemeier Hansson. It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. Pages: 8:  “When we say crazy, we’re calling situations crazy, not people.” 56-58: “Office hours” 57: “Imagine the day of an expert who frequently gets interrupted by everyone else’s questions, The may be fielding none, a handful, or a dozen questions in a single day[…] You can’t plan your own day if everyone else is using it up randomly.” Covers that people with questions must wait (not email, not call, wait) for office hours for questions, and it works fine. 71: “writing monthly ‘heartbeats.’ Summaries of the workRead More →