“Where do I find that?”: creating a central shared documentation system for publishing staff using Google tools at the University of Michigan Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Alix Norton
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Central Area ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Robust Solution ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Library System ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Purpose – This aim of this report is to summarize how Google Sites can be used as an open-source, intuitive, and robust solution for designing an intranet system for a unique library department. Michigan Publishing is a department within the University of Michigan (U-M) campus library system that also includes a revenue-based operation as the U-M Press. The need for a central documentation system has become apparent to organize and streamline policies and procedures in this unique library department. Google Sites was chosen as a solution to compile departmental documentation and serve as a collaborative space for the many units within Michigan Publishing. Design/methodology/approach – One librarian and one graduate student intern worked on this project for 5-10 hours a week over the course of three months. Michigan Publishing managers created an inventory showing all existing informational resources in the department, and were then interviewed about these resources. An initial “landing page” was created for this Google-based site, and more comprehensive content has since been migrated from existing informational resources to this central site. Findings – A specific Google Sites Staff Intranet for Michigan Publishing has been an integral solution for providing a one-stop, central area for current internal resources. It also fosters a sense of departmental identity and community, since there are many separate units within the department, each with a different focus and place within the larger library system. This site provides an online forum for collaboration, communication and policy codification. Originality/value – This report summarizes how Google Sites can be used as an open-source, intuitive, and robust solution for designing an intranet system for a unique library department.

Implementing the Koha integrated library system at the Independent University, Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 642-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Ahammad
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Private University ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Library System ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Independent University ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how the author carried out the implementation of the Koha open-source integrated library system (ILS) at the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) Library, stated how much easy it is to implement Koha in a library and encouraged library professionals to implement Koha in their libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the author’s practical experiences regarding implementation of the Koha open-source ILS. Findings – Koha has those functionalities which can fulfill the library automation need of the IUB Library. That is why Koha is selected. Other librarians can easily implement Koha in their libraries. Practical implications – This paper will help librarians to implement Koha in a practical way to their libraries. The author implemented Koha at the IUB Library within three months, and the author used migrated data from Computerized Documentation System/Integrated Set of Information System to MARC-21 for books and made new MARC-21 records for movies. Originality/value – The author is the youngest library professional who implemented Koha at a private university library in Bangladesh. This will influence librarians to learn Koha and implement it in their libraries.

A case for open, viable print accounting

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 515-526
Author(s):  
Michael Kalochristianakis
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Combine Management ◽  
Level I ◽  
The University

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the design and business characteristics of the system pertaining to efficient and viable public services, the technical perspective and also usage results from the productive prototype. When the academic library of our institution turned to consider cost-effective solutions that would combine management and accounting for both printing and photocopying, it was realized that there are no open-source or enterprise platforms that can support such characteristics. Instead of relying on commercial solutions, the construction of a service was planned by means of integrating community-based projects and developing any missing components. Design/methodology/approach – The implementation of the system was based on the identification of appropriate open-source modules and on the development of ones that do not exist but are necessary to realize business procedures for credit reception, control and billing. Thus, the system integrates software for the management of printers and print tasks, for accounting for printing tasks, for user catalogues, for authentication modules and for the control of low level I/O operations. The aforementioned systems were integrated along with the following new modules that were developed to create a complete service. Findings – Our prototype has been operating at our University since May 2011. The system was installed at four sites in reading rooms of the library. Three of them are located in different departments within the University campus, while the fourth is located in the last reading room that has not yet moved within the campus. In two years, more than 28,000 pages were printed and charged. The steady rise in the number of served requests leads us to the conclusion that the system can cope with the heavy use of photocopying machines. Originality/value – The prototype described in this paper is a complete productive platform that is capable to accept money or credit over the counter or by using money receivers and provide billing and management for printing and photocopying. The system does not depend on any vendor technology, offers control, monitoring, receipts and reports and because it relies on open source can minimize the total costs of ownership. Scrutiny of the bibliography and market did not find any systems that could meet the aforementioned characteristics.

scholarly journals The Kansas story: a sea of Koha green on the plains

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Robin Hastings ◽  
Heather Braum ◽  
Harry Willems ◽  
Crystal Hutchinson ◽  
Gail Santy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library System ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
Rare Instance

Purpose Three of the seven regional systems in Kansas report on the history and use of the open-source Koha integrated library system (ILS) in their regions. Design/methodology/approach Each of the systems wrote up their experiences and then they collaborated on sections that discussed how they work together to achieve success with this product. Findings Each of the systems will continue to use the Koha software, and there are a few stand-alone instances of Koha already in place in Kansas. Development and advocacy of the product will be continued by all three of the systems. Originality/value This is a rare instance of three separate consortia coming together to work on improving everyone’s experience with an open-source ILS. The authors feel that the experiences they have had with this software are of value to anyone considering making use of it.

Do not perish outdated CDS/ISIS data: ABCD ILS from the same family is there to make it alive

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 1095-1113
Author(s):  
Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb ◽  
Md. Mukhlesur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library System ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Information Communications Technology

Purpose This paper aims to outline the migration of outdated computerized documentation system/integrated set for information systems (CDS/ISIS) database in to fully functional Web-based Automatización de Bibliotecas y Centros de Documentación (ABCD) integrated library system (ILS), which is derived from the the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO) CDS/ISIS software technology. Design/methodology/approach The existing integrated set for information systems (ISIS) tags were needed to be remapped as per the tag of MARC-like or structured bibliographic format database by editing integrated set for information systems print formats. Moreover, a sequence of tasks was required to complete the whole process. The major procedures were accomplished as exporting ISIS data into .iso format, creating ABCD database and uploading .iso file into the new database. The next part was configuration and connection with the Web interface after editing PFT. Findings CDS/ISIS users who have data in the international organization for standardization format on old versions of CDS/ISIS software applications now have the opportunity to migrate their data into the new application. The detailed process had been outlined not an only successful method of migrating outdated valuable records, also creation of ABCD database. Originality/value This paper may help the users of CDS/ISIS or WinISIS to migrate for ABCD and not to expire or give up their valuable data. This is one of the best ways to migrate ISIS data to ABCD with proven functionality. A specific aim of Automatización de Bibliotecas y Centros de Documentación Integrated Library System is to offer a tool for librarians, rather than information communications technology technicians, which is achieved by taking library and information science principles.

John Jacob Abel, 1857 - 1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 577-585 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
College Course ◽  
High Regard ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

By a sad coincidence, the official notification to Professor Abel of his election to the Foreign Membership of the Royal Society was delivered on the day of his death, 26 May 1938. It is a loss to the Society, that one who was justly held in such high regard by workers in Pharmacology and the neighbouring fields of medical science, in his own country and widely beyond it, should thus never have been effectively of the distinguished company of our Foreign Members. It is known, however, through his friends, that the news of his election had reached him, and had given him pleasure, during his last, brief illness. Abel was born on 19 May 1857 on a farm near Cleveland, Ohio, into a family which came originally from the Germ an Rhineland. There is nothing recorded of his ancestors to suggest an inheritance of qualities making for eminence in science. It seems probable that his university training was won largely by his own determination and enterprise ; for it is on record that he interrupted his college course; for three years, during which he acted as head of a high school in Indiana and taught a wide range of subjects—Latin and mathematics, as well as physics and chemistry. He ultimately graduated as Ph.B. at the University of Michigan in 1883. In the same year he married Miss Mary Hinman, whom he had met as a fellow school-teacher. Mrs Abel was his devoted helper and comrade for the rest of their active lives, winning the warm regard of the many whom Abel taught and inspired, and dying a few months before him.

Rollin'On the River: Race, Elite Schools, and the Equality Paradox

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 527-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The People ◽  
Majority Students ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Lempert, Chambers, and Adams's superb new study of the careers of minority and white graduates of the University of Michigan Law School will come as welcome news to those who value diversity on this nation's college and professional school campuses. Alongside the Bowen-Box study (1998), to which the authors link their work, the Michigan data provide powerful evidence of the many benefits of affirmative action for both minority and majority students, as well as for a constituency that is often overlooked in the debate over affirmative action—namely, the people these aspiring professionals are intended to serve. More important, the authors' careful analysis reveals what many have long suspected. LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs “seem to have no relationship to success after law school, whether success is measured by earned income, career satisfaction, or service contributions” (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000, 401).

scholarly journals Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Bruce H. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Ab Initio ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Law School ◽  
Early America ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The articles in this issue are drawn from the papers delivered at the conference “Ab Initio: Law in Early America,” held in Philadelphia on June 16–17, 2010—the first conference in nearly fifteen years to focus on law in early America. It was sponsored by the Penn Legal History Consortium, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Society for Legal History, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Minnesota Law School, under the direction of Sarah Barringer Gordon, Martha S. Jones, William J. Novak, Daniel K. Richter, Richard J. Ross, and Barbara Y. Welke. For two days, fifteen mostly younger scholars presented their research to a packed house, with formal comments by senior scholars and vigorous discussion with the audience. That earlier conference, “The Many Legalities of Early America,” which convened in Williamsburg in 1996, had illustrated the shift from what was once trumpeted as the “new” legal history to something that never acquired a name, perhaps because it was less self-conscious in its methodology. “Ab Initio” offered the opportunity to ask how the field has changed in the years since.

scholarly journals Process mapping as organizational assessment in academic libraries

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Barbrow ◽  
Megan Hartline
Keyword(s):  
Process Mapping ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Organizational Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Institutional Knowledge ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
The University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the value of process mapping to libraries as a first step in promoting a culture of organizational assessment. In addition, this paper offers a case study of the University of Michigan Library’s experience in building up a process mapping skill set and the workflow improvements resulting from these efforts. Design/methodology/approach – This case study is a description and assessment of a program to train library employees on process mapping. Findings – Process mapping in library settings empowers librarians and staff to identify and implement elements for improvements in routine work. When given the tools to assess processes, employees at the University of Michigan made several such improvements. Practical implications – While library staff tend not to be familiar with process mapping, these skills are critical for retaining institutional knowledge, training staff, and identifying areas for improvement in common and rarely used workflows alike. Originality/value – Process improvements were identified and implemented at the University of Michigan Library when the staff mapped the processes of their daily work.

scholarly journals Global text project: new horizons in textbook marketing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leyland F. Pitt ◽  
Deon Nel ◽  
Gene van Heerden ◽  
Anthony Chan
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Original Product ◽  
The Many

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the global text project (GTP) case. The unique developments of the case provide insight of the many challenges and opportunities created within the open source movement.Design/methodology/approachA case study was used to illustrate some of the most pertinent and interesting developments in the field of marketing, alluding to the open source environment. A Wikibook was created in collaboration with all the participants of a graduate course and the development of this offering initiated a project called the GTP.FindingsThe open source movement has created new ways of thinking and acting. The contributions, modifications and improvements by all users to the original product provide a platform of continuous improvement and development.Originality/valueThe value of the paper lies in the lessons and challenges learnt from the case especially by those managing the GTP.

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