User:JJU/portfolio/worklog

Co-Op Portfolio - Justin Unrau for 2011 Summer Work Term at Prosentient Systems in Sydney, Australia.

Global Center for IT and IFLA
making a workbook for parliamentary libraries for developing countries
want it to be a useful checklist for implementing ICT (/being an ICT based library) especially in the parliamentary sense

find representative Standards & Software for each of the Core Library Service sections in the document
write them up in the format shown. "Link - One sentence summary - EndNote reference"

set up the handbook's preliminary TOC and handbook contents as a wiki: http://handbook.intersearch.com.au/doku.php (this involved adding users, setting access control lists, installing plugins and formatting text) 5/16/11
IFLA ICT Handbook notes: http://handbook.intersearch.com.au/doku.php?id=justin:notes (previously here: IFLA ICT Handbook notes)
added some standards, and the CMS software sidebar to the handbook 5/20/11
added Reference Tracking links to the handbook 5/23/11
reformatted chapters as single wiki pages instead of breaking them down at the subheading level 5/30/11
added information on aggregate electronic resource providers (Summon, Zebra) 6/2/11

Prosentient has made a bunch of tweaks to Koha, it being open source and all
three categories of tweaks: 1 crossbrowser compatibility 2 generalizable functionality 3 library specific functionality (eg. JS for reordering news results)
on principle, PS stays a year behind main Koha branch to let the kinks get ironed out
But that means that the changes PS makes may or may not be integrated into the next form of Koha

learn some Perl
identify and highlight major changes to the koha code and reintegrate those fixes into the Koha community, especially at the 3.4.x level so it'll go into the next stable release
get involved in the Koha community to give something back and to increase PS's visibility (see marketing, below)

provided help with Authority settings to user on Koha mailing list 5/10/11
downloaded and began reading/doing the exercises in Beginning Perl http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ 5/13/11
sat in on Edmund making changes to scripts and templates in the course of bugfixing
reading up on github and how to integrate PS' code into the community 5/18/11
[koha enhancement candidate list]
setting up a way to search for local images before Amazon and Google is an issue that people in the Koha community (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1633) and Prosentient clients (Powerhouse mentioned it inre: booklists) would like resolved - might be a very good first project - requires us to set up a 3.4 instance of Koha for future compatibility
helped find a bug that was causing serials to expire early and notified the lists of Edmund's fix. 6/3/11

Koha's being used in a pile of special libraries around Australia, PS does training and tech support for those implementations.

sat in on Koha training session with Powerhouse Museum library staff 5/13/11
fixed a catalogue record for (misreported on Mantis) barcode searching bug for South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Library Service 5/18/11
helped a client set up catalogue reports over the phone 5/19/11
tried and documented the attempts to recreate NSW Parliament's duplicated records issue 5/19 - 5/20/11
tweaked settings for gsahs - will followup next week 5/20/11
worked on figuring out how to change the default advanced search options in Koha (for gsahs) 5/23/11
figured out sesiahs problem where renewals weren't being allowed changing circ rules 5/24/11
tried to solve serials accession problem for sesiahs, failed had to get Edmund to show how to add end dates to all the subscriptions. 5/24/11
discovered the problem with cloning fields for heart foundation was probably an IE7 javascript issue. 5/24/11
created an acquisition frameworks guide. 5/30/11
helped Karen at the Powerhouse Museum set up their Web Services guy as a Koha administrator. 6/3/11
wrote Koha initial configuration emails as prep for talking librarians through initial Koha configuration. 6/6/11 * edited and updated Koha configuration guidelines.docx to point to current versions of the Koha manual. 6/6/11

Show off the stuff that PS is doing
PS has done ads in journals and it didn't work very well, get more hits from marketing further services to existing clients

come up with some good ways to raise PS' profile and generate new business, possibly in the spheres of Twitter/Facebook/etc.

social media ideas
Created [Twitter account] 5/25/11
Informed clients of the Twitter account and of the new features User:JJU/portfolio/new title banners & refined searching. 5/26/11
Created Google Calendar for the office to sync their Outlooks with. 6/2/11