Documents to the People 50 'Round the Table www.ala.org/ala/godort ALA GODORT presents three majo... more Documents to the People 50 'Round the Table www.ala.org/ala/godort ALA GODORT presents three major awards to recognize achievements by documents librarians, one award designed to encourage participation in professional study or publication, and a scholarship for an individual pursuing a library science degree. Awards will be presented at the 2007 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., and will be selected by the Awards Committee at Midwinter in January 2007.
Discussions of a dues increase and several important resolutions dominated Council sessions at th... more Discussions of a dues increase and several important resolutions dominated Council sessions at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio. The proposed dues increase garnered the most interest and included support from the ALA Executive Board, BARC, and many Council members, who believe it is critical to ALA's financial future. The new strategic plan, ALA Ahead to 2010, outiines new advocacy and service initiatives that require additional funding for implementation. The amount of the dues increase would range from $8 to $30, depending on the type of membership, as indicated in the chart below. Because dues rates are set in the ALA bylaws, this issue must go to the membership for approval. CODORT members discussed the dues increase at length in the membership meeting in San Antonio and instructed me to vote to support the Council resolution that will send this to the members for a vote. I was also instructed to express our concerns that the additional funds be used as stated by the ALA leadership-to support additional advocacy for libraries and for member services. I expressed CODORT's concerns in Council Session III and noted that we will ask
Reviewed preservation metadata elements and standards. B. Copyright implications when digitizing ... more Reviewed preservation metadata elements and standards. B. Copyright implications when digitizing government publications.
To steer the UNT Libraries, several key guiding statements of the institution were developed and ... more To steer the UNT Libraries, several key guiding statements of the institution were developed and announced in the previous strategic plan. These statements have been updated for this strategic plan, and are listed below. An additional element regarding preservation and access to collections was added to the vision. The mission statement was slightly enhanced to better characterize the scope and range of the communities served by the libraries. The tagline was completely overhauled, reflecting changes to the overall branding of the university. The values shared and embraced by the library staff remain the same, and continue to inform the culture and decisions of the UNT Libraries.
This document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare L... more This document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). In order to transfer the content to the iRODS-based Chronopolis data grid, each archival unit needed to be extracted from the LOCKSS cache, and sent via use of the iRODS icommands client utilities. 1 In addition, it was imperative to monitor the transfer at all possible points to detect corruption and make certain that the integrity of the data was maintained. Finally, for the purpose of benchmarking and information gathering, time-based statistics needed to be recorded for each stage of the transfer. These processes were managed by a set of Python-based scripts and utilities that will be described below. As a preparatory measure, UNT had already solved the issue of extracting archival units from the LOCKSS cache and packaging them into BagIt files using their custom "lockssbagger" utility (see Appendix A: Pre-Transfer Preparation). However, this was only one utility in a larger suite of tools that would be needed to manage a successful automated transfer. Several additional steps needed to be addressed. For each archival unit it was necessary to do the following:
Documents to the People 50 'Round the Table www.ala.org/ala/godort ALA GODORT presents three majo... more Documents to the People 50 'Round the Table www.ala.org/ala/godort ALA GODORT presents three major awards to recognize achievements by documents librarians, one award designed to encourage participation in professional study or publication, and a scholarship for an individual pursuing a library science degree. Awards will be presented at the 2007 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., and will be selected by the Awards Committee at Midwinter in January 2007.
Discussions of a dues increase and several important resolutions dominated Council sessions at th... more Discussions of a dues increase and several important resolutions dominated Council sessions at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio. The proposed dues increase garnered the most interest and included support from the ALA Executive Board, BARC, and many Council members, who believe it is critical to ALA's financial future. The new strategic plan, ALA Ahead to 2010, outiines new advocacy and service initiatives that require additional funding for implementation. The amount of the dues increase would range from $8 to $30, depending on the type of membership, as indicated in the chart below. Because dues rates are set in the ALA bylaws, this issue must go to the membership for approval. CODORT members discussed the dues increase at length in the membership meeting in San Antonio and instructed me to vote to support the Council resolution that will send this to the members for a vote. I was also instructed to express our concerns that the additional funds be used as stated by the ALA leadership-to support additional advocacy for libraries and for member services. I expressed CODORT's concerns in Council Session III and noted that we will ask
Reviewed preservation metadata elements and standards. B. Copyright implications when digitizing ... more Reviewed preservation metadata elements and standards. B. Copyright implications when digitizing government publications.
To steer the UNT Libraries, several key guiding statements of the institution were developed and ... more To steer the UNT Libraries, several key guiding statements of the institution were developed and announced in the previous strategic plan. These statements have been updated for this strategic plan, and are listed below. An additional element regarding preservation and access to collections was added to the vision. The mission statement was slightly enhanced to better characterize the scope and range of the communities served by the libraries. The tagline was completely overhauled, reflecting changes to the overall branding of the university. The values shared and embraced by the library staff remain the same, and continue to inform the culture and decisions of the UNT Libraries.
This document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare L... more This document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). In order to transfer the content to the iRODS-based Chronopolis data grid, each archival unit needed to be extracted from the LOCKSS cache, and sent via use of the iRODS icommands client utilities. 1 In addition, it was imperative to monitor the transfer at all possible points to detect corruption and make certain that the integrity of the data was maintained. Finally, for the purpose of benchmarking and information gathering, time-based statistics needed to be recorded for each stage of the transfer. These processes were managed by a set of Python-based scripts and utilities that will be described below. As a preparatory measure, UNT had already solved the issue of extracting archival units from the LOCKSS cache and packaging them into BagIt files using their custom "lockssbagger" utility (see Appendix A: Pre-Transfer Preparation). However, this was only one utility in a larger suite of tools that would be needed to manage a successful automated transfer. Several additional steps needed to be addressed. For each archival unit it was necessary to do the following:
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