Connexion

Connexion allows you to add and extract records from OCLC Union Catalog, i.e., WorldCat. As of December 2006, WorldCat includes more than 73 million bibliographic records, 1 billion individual holdings, and 41,550 participating libraries.

At Yale, client is configured to export records in Unicode character encoding. "WorldCat supports cataloging in the Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil and Thai scripts."

Some tricks: search OCLC number from any search field by preceding with # sign; In all indexes, colon means keyword, while equal sign means left-anchored phrase (and use truncation). Alt-Delete deletes an entire field; edit-->Cancel changes brings it back. Control-E to invoke diacritics chart. SRA suggests using Connexion key mapping feature (rather than macro-express Scope tab) to make the same as Voyager. Derive record: Tools-->Options-->Derive record, to add 050 and 090 to list. Then Edit-->Derive new record-->Fixed fields transfered? Yes-->Make edition specific changes.
Control headings and assign call number on master record. These changes do not require enhance status. Do this, and then replace, before making local changes that will apply only to institutional record.

(This is where it starts getting interesting)

Possible to extract metadata from Web page. Cataloging-->Create-->Extract Metadata. Enter URL in text box. Quality of record dependent on quality of HTML markup.

Constant data. What is it? For fields that you use all the time, e.g., "Theses". If catalog lots of DVD's, than consider constant data record including all fixed field data. Cataloging-->Create-->Constant data-->Workform type (doesn't matter unless includes fixed field data)-->Action--Save record to online file. Use initials to make it name unique e.g., "thesis-dl". And "dsl" in "my status".

To generate constant data from pre-exisisting record try: Edit-->Derive-->New Constant data record.

Macros are related, allow you to string together commands, e.g., control headings + save record + export record. Constant data can be assigned to key stroke not directly but via macro. Need something open on screen. Tools-->Macros-->Manage-->New Book ("MyMacros")-->Record-->Name: "Thesis"-->applies thesis CD-->Edit-->Constant data-->Apply-->by name-->Apply macro to keystroke.

What about "text string". E.g., 949 fields, including some kind of Voyager processing instructions? Tools-->Text strings-->Add/Modify text String-->Includes bib references--504 Includes bibliographic references. (Insert blank line above. Indicators must be integers or spaces. Consider also initials).

The OCLC Research division develops tools for mining and repurposing the huge WorldCat database. A couple of blogs from research scientists are particularly worth tracking, e.g., Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog, Tom Hickey's Outgoing, Eric Childress's It's All Good, and Hanging Together (from assorted RLG Programs staff)

Digital Project Management

'Digital Project Management Basics' Cat21 one day train-the-trainer session offered though CLW "with the goal of preparing attendees to serve as project leaders and team members in digital library projects." Topics include: Creating a project management roadmap; Collaboration and team building; Grant writing and development of a feasible work plan; and Project assessment. A detailed outline has been posted (in ms-word).

Podcasts from Yale

Yale Tomorrow campaign launch on September 30th included Vincent Scully speaking on Phillip Johnson, Ernesto Zedillo on American Foreign Policy, Gaddis Smith on the Cold War, and lectures from other celebrated Yale faculty. Podcasts of the event can be download here as mp3 files.

List of Common Emoticons in Wikipedia

Here's the list

(Post is back-dated by a full year so it won't rise to the top).

MS Access (Level I)

Learning Center Course on Access 2003 Level I , taught by Sam Eskridge (help desk 5-3200).

First create folder in mydocuments, then copy 7 folders from Z:\Access\Access 2003\Level 1 to that folder. Open concepts.mdb from unit 1 folder in Access. [Problem with sound bleeding through from Pathways next door. ] Four objects to be covered in Level I: Tables, Queries, Forms, Reports. Pages and Macros come up in Levels II and III.

Modules are VB script, beyond scope of Access courses at Learning Center.

We're going to work with "Outlander Spices" retail database model. Primary key of table is product ID. These numbers are not recycled.

Database Window shows all objects in DB.

Menu-->View-->Task pane. New feature in Access 2003. Conext sensitive. Includes list of recently opened files.

Much of the first hour is exceedingly basic. More specific to Windows Office than to Access. How to use Menus, Office Assistant, etc.

Unit 2: Consider drafting process map or flow-chart before building database.

"Project" allows Access to be used as front end to MySQL or other backend databases. Try "From existing file" to modify pre-existing DB. Try "Templates" on "My computer" and Databases tab. --> "Order Entry". Rename "Order Entry1.mdb" to "Outlander_spices", save in Unit 02 folder by clicking "Create". Follow steps in "Database Wizard." Select ... Templates are fully developed databases, so may get you 80% of the way to where you want to be. Good option to consider.

My Company information form pops up during installation, see p. 2-6 in booklet.

Forms Switchboard ...

p. 2-7: Creating DB from scratch ... "CreateDatabase.mdb" . Access2000 file format allows the many non-upgraded users to work with dtabase. This is default setting.

Shift+Enter = Save, without moving forward, i.e., to avoid creating new record.

Design view (versus datasheet view):
includes columns on Data type (e.g., text, currency), field name, description, with data properties (including captions) displayed at bottom.

[10-minute break]

Create new DB

Use wizard--> click New in Design view. --> select "Table Wizard" to create populated DB. Business--> Sample Tables--> "Employees and Tasks". Single arrow pulls selection into "My new table". Double arrow pulls all fields over. Note importance of unique field names (system appends numeral 1 to end of duplicated field name).

Rename table: "tblEmployeeTasks". [This sets us down wrong path] "No I'll set primary key"--> EmployeeID-->Enter data directly into table. [By making Employee ID primary key, only able to assign one task to any given employee. Better: "Employee Task ID" representing the combination, allows one-to-one, one-to-many,many-to-one, etc. options. Switch to design view.

MS can generate autonumbers up to 1.4 billion.

Keep in mind that telephone and SS numbers, etc., are given datatype "text" not "number" since these are non-calculable numbers. Don't want dashes to convert to mathematical notation.

Field naming conventions indicate, but don't determine datatype. Not necessary to use, but can be helpful. Use captions in field properties in order to diplay more user-friendly names.

Memo-notes can store 30 pages of size-12 text.

Note smart tags, context-sensitive drop-down menus. Good for making global changes.

Second session: Nov. 9, 2006

Picking up at session 3, pg. 7, opening database page, tbEmployee table, looking at Dept column (field) with Dept. code (which will link to a separate Dept. table). Change AT code to AC. Several techniques to do this globally ... Click find button (binoculars icon) to open "Find and Replace" dialog box. "Look in field" will automatically fill-in where-ever insertion point was resting.--> Find AT--> Replace with AC--> Replace all. [Could be handy in case we change instances of department name in db-driven Web site]

Open tblDept, in this case, where codes and department names are arranged side-by-side, so they only have to be recorded once in db. For spell-checker, select entire field (becomes highlighted), and click button. But remember: "Dew knot trussed yore document to spell checque".

Shift + Enter. THen close table.

Open tblEmployee (includes names, HR#, earnings, etc.. ) "Horizontal Inegrity" principle means that re-sorting one field causes resorting of every field. This is unlike Microsoft Excel (so says Sam), which sometimes sorts single field only. But sorting thorugh database menu will impose horizontal integrity.

What happens when you select two columns and then sort? Both fields get sorted, with secondary one to right "mutual sort". If fields not adjacent, then possible to do same thing by constructing a query.

Filter indicated by funnel button. Select cell, then "filter by selection", to get extract from table.

Fildter by form. Selct any record ... Table replaced by search form ... note drop down arrow to get combo box, with list of all unique values in this field. Select one of these, then silver funnel button.

May also write criterion in form oneself, e.g., "Earnings" field: ">50000".

Deleting record button

Unit 4: Data Entry Rules

Note: "Record Navigator" is tool bar at bottom.
Setting field properties, changing these, e.g., "Required" will cause Access to test integrity of data in each record. But what happens whn property is required, but agent simply doesn't have data to put here (e.g., no fax number)? Then , "Allow zero length" property set to "yes." this is equivalent to N/A, just hit space bar.

"Field size property" and "Bounce tone".

4-10: Input-mask characters. e.g., enter 2034325660: Displays as (203) 432-5660. Punctuation is called "literal characters" and digits are called "values". "Input-mask characters" are given in table on this page. Set input mask for phone field: "(999) 000-0000;0;#". Input-mask field also provides "builder" button, which in this case activates "Input-mask wizard". Then tab, then "try it".

"Default values" property, e.g., "Portland" for "city" saves keystrokes for frequently used terms.

"Validation Rule" property: enter statement in SQL: "Like "* ox" Or Like "* lb" (for bulk chives record). Then add "Validation Text": Unit values must be oz or lb.

Unit 5: Create Queries

Query produces "Record set". Selcet "Make-Table Query" as query type in order to create entirely new (self-standing) table.

[BREAK]

Query -- double click fields from table, click red exclamation point to "run" . Extremely simple. SQL running in background of all db's, but Access can write it for us.

Unit 6: Using Forms

Section headers. Add form footers. Pull up or down like curtain. Click in Header, select Aa in toolbar. Place cross-haris where desired, and left mouse button drag to create desired area for label.

Easiest way to create a form: Tables page, select table, select New Object button arrow to right, click down arrow, and select "Auto form". Access will pull all fields from table and put into form.

Unit 7: Reports

Written off of tables or queries. Reports are updated dynamically when tables are changed. "Reports designed once can write themselves."

Yale to Make Select Courses Availale on Web

Thanks to a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, digital recordings of selected lecture courses are to be made available in the fall of 2007 to the general public. One slated for early release is Prof. Christine Hayes's highly-regarded "Introduction to the Old Testament". (Cf. Office of Public Affairs Oct. 21 news release)

Darwin on the Web

As reported on Slashdot 10/20/06, the University of Cambridge is mounting the collected works of Charles Darwin online. For example, the first edition of the 1859 Origin of species. Image of original book appears on right, with full text for scrolling on left. Project to be completed by 2009

"Senses of Religion" conference (Nov. 2006)

The Yale Department of Religious Studies is hosting a conference on the role of sensory experience in various ancient and contemporary religious traditions. The program, entitled The Senses of Religion, will take place on October 27th through the 29th in SSS rooms 405 and 410. The keynote speaker is Ronald Grimes of Raboud University who will discuss "Ritual Theory and the Senses: John Bourke among the Hopis"

William Hoffman on Library IT Transformation

William Hoffman, founding executive director of the Foundation for New Business and developer of University of Minnesota's MBBNet, led a SCOPA forum on the topic: "New Knowledge Frontiers in a Flat World: A Campus Perspective", with Tom Friedman's The World is Flat serving as conceptual backdrop.

Some highlights: Johannes Trithemius exhorted monks to continue tradition of copying manuscripts in his 1492 book In Praise of Scribes, but had the book printed to ensure wide distribution. See E. Eisentein's The Printing Press as Agent of Change.

Andrew Odlyzko, now at University of Minnesota, writes in his chapter of Open Access that 7% of university budgets are now going to IT department, with only 2% going to libraries. Cf. "Envisioning a transformed University" in Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2005. In order to survive over long term, libraries need to convey to visitors: "You have just entered a technologically superior facility." This article, by Duderstadt et al., came out of the Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities, a project of the American Academies that was formerly disbanded in 2006.

Urban Renewal?

Came across this document by G. William Domhoff on the UCSC Sociology Department's web site: Who Rules America: Who Really Ruled in Dahl's New Haven? Dahl's book was published in 1961, and seems to have captured the optimism of "urban renewal" that turned New Haven into a so-called "All-American City". Domhoff wrote his piece in September 2005, and so knows how things actually turned out: "Yale and its faculty members are islands of increasing privilege and isolation in a sea of misery," he writes. He cites a 2002 eyewitness account from the Manchester Observer, describing a tent village that had been set up on the New Haven Green following the closure of a homeless shelter. New Haven had by 2002 become the nation's 4th poorest city, the paper reported, even though it included Yale with an endowment worth $11 billion, and was situated in Connecticut, the nation's wealthiest state. According to Domhoff, Dahl had argued that Yale and the city's business elite were relatively helpless bystanders as politicians carried out the ill-fated urban renewal program. Domhoff re-analyzed the data, however, and found that Yale had tremendous influence. This was due, in no small part, to Prescott Bush's having been at the same time a trustee of the university and a member of the Senate Urban Renewal committee. Domhoff describes various ways in which Yale, along with local business interests, determined the course (and eventual failure) of the city's attempt at self-renewal. Fortunately, there are a few bright spots on the horizon. Certain parts of downtown (i.e., Ninth Square, Broadway, Chapel St.) have indeed bounced back. Let's hope this latest burst of renewal reaches beyond Yale's backyard and brings with it lasting employment and prosperity.

Dapper: The Data Mapper

Dapper: The Data Mapper

Stephen Greenblatt at yale

Stephen Greenblatt to deliver lecture entitled: "I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need": The Longing for Shakespeare's Portrait. Greenblatt is Kogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare .

Marc Andreessen on PHP

Listed to podcast of Netscape co-founder and Mosaic co-author Marc Andreessen from ZEND PHP 2005 Conference, cited in Phil Windley's Technometria and IT Conversations.

For past 50 years, importance of "wringing out every last ounce of performance" out of machine, and therefore coding in languages like "C" which were almost at level of assembly language. 1980's advent of LISP marked shift toward more programmer-friendly code, but caused too much slowness in CPUs of that time.

Then java introduced new programming model "Write Once Run Anywhere" (WORA) and "sandbox" feature where experimental script wouldn't infect other programs. Also: "virtual machine" and portability. Java began to displace C and C++, mid to late 1990s, server CPUs had grown so fast, so machine speed optimization could afford to defer to programming optimization. In addition to CPU breakthroughs, Web-platform provided opportunity for instant software deployment. Java applets in browser never quite made it, though. And Java was neglected on server side. In late 1990s Netscape's introduced javascript, as kind of bridge between java and html. Javascript now dominates Web sites (versus Java) on the order of something like 1,000 or 10,000 to 1.

PHP develolped over past 10 years in absence of javascript on server side. "PHP is to 2005 what java is to 1995" according to announcement by Sun that it would join ZEND board of directors. Java, like C and C++ before it had become too complicated.

Doraemon's toolkit

Yahoo! JAPAN - 大人のためのドラえもん特集

Google Operating System: The New Blogger

Google Operating System: The New Blogger

Optimizing Images for the Web

Summary of Optimizing Images for the Web (session led by Stephen Naron) is on other blog (excerpt: "Try to keep graphic files less than 35K in size. Standard resolution for Web graphics is 72 dpi. Aim for graphic not larger than 600 pixels. More than that may require scrolling on smaller monitors. TIF ideal for high-fidelity masters; GIF for text-heavy images; JPEG for downsized photographs.")

Note (12/13/07): at office workstation, use Irfanview for cropping, resizing, etc., but MS Paint for drawing.

Old Lyme

Bee & Thistle Inn built 1756 as residence for Judge William Noyes.

Florence Griswold Museum traces back to 1899 when Henry Ward Ranger arrives at Florence Griswold to draw landscape. Joined by other artists, Lyme Art Colony founded.

Summer exhibitions: "A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr."

and "The Freedom Business: Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith" featuring poems of Marilyn Nelson

Candy and Keith Green's Old Lyme Inn offers rooms and dining.

Hammonassett State Park 20 minutes south on I-95 in Madison.

Leary biography reviewed on WorldCat

Just posted my first review to worldcat.org ... on Robert Greenfield's biography of Timothy Leary.

2006 Annual Meeting

ASIST 2006 Annual Meeting to be held in Austin Texas, Nov. 3-8. Plenary speakers are Susan Dumais, Senior Researcher at Microsoft's Adaptive Systems and Interactions Group, and Albert Laszlo Barabasi, author of Linked: the New Science of Networks (2002), and professor of physics at University of Notre Dame.

ed2go online courses

ed2go Intro to PHP and MySQL

Treo 700p, Sprint, etc.

2006-07-19

Treo Cases: JAVOShield was bulky, and belt clips cheaply made (I broke 2 or 3 within a few weeks). Sena case is excellent, except flip cover hinges at the bottom, and magnets at the top are easily separated by brushing up against objects. Most comprehensive listings seem to be Treonauts, Palm Infocenter, and Everything Treo.

Yale Connect: Set up GoodLink account with Yale ITS.

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Service Plans: Currently have Treo 755p through Sprint. Press *2 to check term expiration: June 10, 2008. Current fee $67.99. "Simply Everything Plan" is $100 plus fee for second line.

Yale Workstation

2006-06-07
Software available through ITS

2006-04-27
Today began using ITS's Central Backup service. Followed instructions for Scheduler. Leave computer on overnight, and confirm tomorrow that backup took place.

Horde PHP-based Unicode-compliant IMPv4 (Internet Messaging Program) the new guts of Yale Webmail. Use account mangement tool for activiting email auto-replies.

[2005 07 25]
View Yale Library Calendars to find out what's happening at Mudd SCML, CCL electronic classroom, etc.

[2005-04-21]
SAC-FAST on mailman.yale.edu.

[2004-10-28]
meetingmaker (Java client); MM system status



[2004-11-04]
Windows 2000 Keyboard Shortcuts Reference See also Microsoft's own support page. Neither of these discuss how to switch field orientation. Also try this site, which includes specific key combinations for invoking language support features.

[2004 10 17]
Staff Center for Multimedia Learning (SCML) online calendar
ALCTS/SAC-PCC/SCT Joint Initiative on Subject Training Materials


[2004 08 13]
Endeavor Knowledge Base. See QuickWord for User ID/Password

[2004 10 28]

Computer seems to have died. Workstation Support Group keeps changing its name, so I have trouble finding their website on Google. I think they're now called "Web, Worksation & Digitial Consulting Services"(WWS). In any case, here's a link to their
Software & Hardware documentation.

Extreme Markup Languages 2006

August 7-11, 2006 in Montreal: a conference on (mostly XML-based it seems) Extreme Markup Languages,

Travel Notes

7/7/06: See Travel Web page

Yale workstation, Remote access
Yale Webmail has account mangement tool for activiting email auto-replies. Meeting maker accessable via Java client

Yale Travel
New policies and forms posted at LHR Web site. Reserve, where possible, through Orbitz. Leave copy of itinerary with department. Submit expense reports to EMS within ten days of return. Original receipts need to be submitted. (See also: official Yale travel policy PDF document).

AJL
AJL 2006 Convention taking place June 18th through June 21st at Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, tel: 1-888-421-1442. There's a Preliminary Conference Program online, and some people have started a convention blog.

Book Amtrak via Yale Travel. Actually, call Orbitz (no service fee) at 1-877-ORBITZ-1 (672-4891), since booking not yet automated through Orbitz website). Destination: Boston South Station (Corner of Summer Street and Atlantic Avenue, Dewey Square, Downtown Boston); then Red Line (southwest toward Alewife) from there to Cambridge. Kendall Station is closest to Memorial Drive (where, heading left (West) along Charles River leads to hotel). But still not very close.

ALA
[2005-03-03]
ALA New Orleans, June 22-June 28, 2006. Drive between Louis Armstrong Airport and Bourbon St. takes about 26 minutes. Stay at New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, phone: 504-581-1000. ALCTS: Events by Day and Time.


Makes sense to register this time as member of the press. ALA Conference site has some information on press credentials, but doesn't say how to submit application, or how much the press pass costs. Called Lara at ALA 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5043. She wants me to fax galley proof to 1-312-280-5274, plus send another email message.

[2005-01-03]
Suspend UPS delivery; And USPS. Mail will accumulate at Brewery Street station (50 Brewery St., 782-7000). This doesn't always work, but sometimes you can also suspend New York Times delivery via their Web site.

[2005-05-05]
Template for Administrative Travel reimbursement, and link to various LHR forms.

ALA 2005 Chicago. Club Quarters Chicago (Central Loop). Download reservation from Yale Travel Services, or Yale etravel. Phone 764-9200 or 432-9911 FAX 764-9215 96 Grove St. New Haven, CT 06510

Here's the government source for determing per diem rates for meals.

Get directions from Mapquest or Yahoo Maps

Stupid Engineering Mistakes (Wired)

These are disturbing

Canned Searches in Orbis

[2005-06-29]

ILTS documentation on constructing canned Orbis searches in HTML. Useful for providing examples when writing documentation. See also Texas A&M's Canned Search Generator .

Categories: Orbis, Voyager, documentation

Addison van Name

Trying to track down Addison van Name paper cited in "Proceedings of the Thousands Islands Conference of the ALA", published in Library Journal vol. 12, 1887, and cited recently by Judy Schiff. Yale copies of Library Journal don't go back far enough. Periodicals Index Online gives me a sufficiently detailed record to make an ILL request.

Grove St.

[2006-06-07] Missed Nooks and Crannies tour, but still want to visit the Center Church Crypt at some point. Some highlights from the Crypt home page: Theophilus Eaton (who's tabular stone is at Grove, Benedict Arnold's first wife Margaret, a few members of President Rutherford Hayes' family, Sarah Whiting, 1669-1726, “The painful mother of eight children of whom six survive.” She was described as “faithful, virtuous and weary.” For more information, see Bicentennial Publication (swf)


[2005-04-20]
Posted review of Curtis Patton talk on Diversity Blog.

[2005-08-20]
Keeping track of notes on Pantheon page.

[2005-08-02]
Aug. 2nd AP article on Japanese students visiting Dartmouth and Yale to learn about Kanichi Asakawa. Some details here I hadn't heard before, for example, "Asakawa translated the centuries-old 'Documents of Iriki,' which allowed English scholars to study Japanese feudal history. He donated 45,000 volumes of Japanese texts to the Library of Congress and more than 21,000 to Yale, forming the foundation of their Japanese collections."

Grove Street Cemetery home page, and list of notables with map.

[2005-05-27]

Note listings in Explore Connecticut Guide; also see Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution for list of patriots. Familiar names include Roger Sherman, David Humphreys, Israel Putman, and Nathan Hale.

Categories: Grove_Street_Cemetery, New_Haven, Yale

[2004-11-20]

Leonard Bacon Program with papers by Judith Schiff, David Musto, Howard Lamar, et al.

[2004-10-16]
Grove Street notables per Wikipedia(?) Would be good to develop Amistad thread, in context of larger discussion of abolitionism. (Primary documents are available through National Archives and Records Administration.) New Haven connection to events of 1839/1840 is compelling: Mende captives held in New Haven jail; New Haven resident Roger Sherman Baldwin was defense attorney (along with John Quincy adams once it got to the Supreme Court);

[2004-10-17]

Based on conversatons with members of the West Haven Historical Society (during today's tour led by Jim Niedermeyer), it sounds like I might be invited to talk with them about the Anatomy Riot of 1824(considering whence Bathsheba Smith's body was stolen).

The Medical School had an historical exhibition for Yale's Tercentennial celebrations in 2001. Portraits of Dwight, Smith, Stiles, et al., are included.

2004-10-15
Constitution Timeline (LC) with links to digitized broadsides. Here's John Trumbull's depiction of the signing of the Constitution



Here's an article recommended by Patricia Illingworth (12/1/03): Yellow Fever in New Haven, 1794 The Yellow and Scarlet fever epidemics in New Haven were part of what prompted James Hillhouse to propose and develop the Grove Street Cemetery.

Many of the instriptions on pre-1800 GSC monuments are illegible. Fortunately, many of them have been transcribed.

Here is a transcript of the poem Sachem's Wood, written by James Abraham Hillhouse, son of Senator James Hillhouse, in New Haven, 1838.

10/14/04
Tomb With A View's Guide to Gravestone Symbols

Connecticut Museums Open House Day

[2006-06-09]
Haruka mentioned that June 10th, 2006 is Connecticut Open House Day for museums, parks, etc. New Haven Museum and Historical Society, for example, has free admission through 5pm, Fair Haven Furniture has "complimentary refreshments".

Steven Colbert at White House Correspondents Dinner

Thanks to crooksandliars.com, here's Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner. And here's the transcript from editor&publisher.com (thanks, Ellen!)

Digital Media Tools

2006-04-28
I was a half-hour late, but still managed to catch the tail end of the DCF (Digital Conversion Facility) Large-Format Scanner Demo. I asked question about whether it's possible to print out facsimile copies. Derek Merleaux said no, but suggested that Digital Media Center for Arts (DMCA) could probably do it for less than commercial reprographics shop. Speaking of the DMCA, it occurs to me that they may offer workshops relevant to digital libraries.

Also note today's announcement about Google's 3D modeling program: SketchUp, a 3D modeling program. Phil Shapiro suggests, "this might be an excellent tool for youth and adults to describe the ideal library they would like to use. what shape would this library be in? and what services would be offered in the different rooms of the library?"

Web Developers (Yale)

2006-05-10
Jeff Barnett on Yulib (in response to official announcement): "What I created is referred to by Firefox as a "search plugin", not a full fledged helper application or conventional "plug in". Documentation on how to build more like it is at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/deepdocs.html. The heavy lifting is done by the search engines themselves (in this case Orbis). The search plugin's role is simply to format the query in a standard way, and provide a way of identify the search engine to Firefox and to the user."

2006-04-27
Julie Linden mentioned Jeffrey Barnet's (POG-inspired) Orbis bookmarklet for Firefox. I downloaded it from mozdev.org. Possible to tweak so that search defaults to title rather than keyword? Check Mozilla plugin documentation.

[2005-02-22]
Per Karen Reardon memo, note in particular list of current ILTS projects , including, among many other items, a link to Yale Library International Database. Also note ILTS's Digital Library Research and Planning Wiki


Some action items from yesterday's meeting:
-WW&DCS will investigate technologies to enable a 'printer friendly' output button for pages using the FD templates that might need to be printed.

-We will create and maintain a list of current projects and technologies being explored with contact information for interested parties. Note that some of this is already listed in the ILTS project plan;
See also Electronic Library Initiatives (ELI).

-PIC will consider wording and placement of links to MetaLib (PIC is already doing this - results will be publicly posted.)

-We will investigate any possibility of 'web ssh' access to servers. If there were other topic I may have forgotten, please e-mail me. We will post updates to these issues as they happen."

2006 Metadata Workshops

JCDL 2006 workshop -- Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories: June 15, 2006, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Chapel Hill, NC

Unicode Implementation in Libraries: 2006

March 16, 2006 position paper:Unicode Implementation at the Library of Congress. Good to read in conjunction with MARBI Discussion Paper 2001-DP05 and MARC21 Bibliographic Appendix D which defines Model A (paired fields) and Model B (simple multiscript) for creating multiple script records.

Comments on position paper:
Bullet 5: There's already a precedent for including "small quantities of non-Latin data in Latin script records (e.g., single characters, words , phrases)", namely the three Greek symbols alpha, beta, and gamma, and some other characters, which are currently allowed outside of 880 fields (cf.: Accessing Alternative Character Sets, Technique 1).

Bullet 8: Difference of opinion on how to interpret "Model C" in MARBI Discussion Paper 2001-DP05. One interpretation is that non-Roman script alternative forms would be included as 4xx's as long as they conform to the "context" of a particular agency's catalog (in our case, an English-language, AACR2/RDA, research library environment). 7xx fields would be provided only for alternative headings (regardless of script) that conform to other catalog contexts and for which separate authority records have been corrected. The other is that, in model C, non-roman script variants of roman script headings would *only* appear in 7xx fields. The examples illustrating Model C seem to support this, since non-roman script variants in these examples appear only in 7xx fields. Try to get clarification on this from Joan Biella and/or Barbara Tillett.

Barbara Tillett has proposed a Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). OCLC is also working on a VIAF.

Also, keep track of ALA Task Force on Non-English Access

For bibliographic records, note that LC invokes DCM B5 App. 6 to determine whether original script fields are warranted: "Input a record into RLIN if the language is a JACKPHY language and most of at least two of the following areas are in nonroman script regardless of the language of the script": 245, 250, 260, 4XX (App.6:B5.11.3)

Yale Computer Store

Visit Computer Equipment & Supplies, and select "Role: Staff--Personal" in upper left corner. Log-on to GovConnection.

Lehmann 2006

Sixth Annual Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book. See notes on Yale Weblog.

Getting back
Take SEPTA from hotel (13th and Walnut St.) or from Workshop (5th and Walnut): walk to Market East Station (12th and Filbert Sts.) then R8 train two stops west to 30th St. Station (toward Chestnut Hill). See map of SEPTA train routes.

Japan Travel

Itinerary
May 12 (Fri) 8:00-8:15am Driving to JFK

• 12:47pm Leaving New York (JFK)

May 13 (Sat) 3:35pm Arriving Narita Airport

• Eve.: Dinner
• Yaesu Fujiya Hotel (near Tokyo Station) (tel: 011-81-3-3273-2111)
  

May 14 (Sun) Tokyo

• AM City bus tour in English (Sunrise Tours)
  
• PM
• Yaesu Fujiya Hotel (tel: 011-81-3-3273-2111)

May 15 (Mon) Full day excursion English bus tour

• Tour No.F300 Nikko – World Heritage Full day by Motorcoach
• Yaesu Fujiya Hotel (tel: 011-81-3-3273-2111)

May 16 (Tue) Full day excursion English bus tour

• Tour No. F900 鎌倉　KAMAKURA WALKING TOUR
• Yaesu Fujiya Hotel (tel: 011-81-3-3273-2111)

May 17 (Wed) Tokyo

• AM
• PM
  
• Yaesu Fujiya Hotel (tel: 011-81-3-3273-2111)

May 18 (Thr) Leaving to Kansai by a Bullet Train

• Either AM Tokyo sightseeing  PM leaving to Kyoto (2.5~3 hour train ride)
• Or AM leaving to Kyoto  PM Kyoto sightseeing?
• Kyoto Hotel Granvia (near Kyoto Station) (tel.: 011-81-7-5344-4333)

May 19 (Fri) Kyoto

• AM City bus tour in English
• PM Kyoto Hotel Granvia (tel.: 011-81-7-5344-4333)
  

May 20 (Sat) Kyoto

• AM
• PM
• Eve.: leaving to Osaka
  
• Osaka Hotel Swiss Nankai (tel: 011-81-6-6646-1111)
  

May 21 (Sun) Osaka

• AM
• PM
• Eve.: leaving to Kawachinagano
  
• Kawachinagano-so* tel.: 011-81-7-2162-6666 (Japanese style)

May 22 (Mon) Driving to Kobe / Awaji Island / Arima hot spring resort

• Arima Taketo-tei (traditional Japanese inn) (tel.: 011-81-7-8903-0221)

May 23 (Tue) Driving to Miyajima (World-Heritage site of a big torii, shrine gate) /

• Hiroshima (Genbaku Dorm, an atomic-bomb site and peace memorial park, etc.)
• Hotel: Riga Royal Hiroshima (tel. 011-81-8-2502-1121)

May 24 (Wed) Driving to Okayama Korakuen (traditional Japanese garden) /

• Kurashiki (traditional Japanese townhouses)
• Kurashiki Hotel Nikko 011-81-8-6423-2400
  

May 25 (Thu) Driving to Himeji (most beautiful samurai castle) ~

• Back to Kawachinagano
  
• Kawachinagano-so* tel.: 011-81-7-2162-6666
  

May 26 (Fri) Nara and/or Wakayama

• Kawachinagano-so* tel.: 011-81-7-2162-6666

May 27(Sat) AM: Kawachinagano (1:30pm driving to Kansai Airport)

• 5:55pm Leaving from Kansai Airport
• 4:03pm Arriving Chicago
• 5:50pm Leaving Chicago to Hartford
• 8:53pm Arriving Hartford

Yale Workplace Survey

Here's an article about the Yale Workplace Survey

RAM Upgrade

Wikipedia: "DDR2 SDRAM or Double-Data-Rate [2] Synchronous Dynamic [RAM] is a computer memory technology. It is a part of the SDRAM family of random access memory technologies, which is one of many DRAM implementations." The Kinston Technology site seems to recommend a special path for Dell Inspiron 5100: namely: KTD-INSP8200/512 x 2, but (see below) I'm deciding to go with the "Kingston Value RAM" (i.e., generic) chips.

I've been struggling with infernally slow booting, skipping playback of music, etc. Maybe it's the RAM. Currently I have 384 MB.

Boosted RAM to 768 MB. Misinformed by supercilious Circuit City salesman that KGT KVR333SO512R costs $100. In fact only $34.99 (i.e., $64.99 - $30.00 rebate). This is the 512 MB 333MHz Kingston chip, not the 512MB 533 MHz. New module definitely made the Inspiron 5100 run more smoothly. Second module: accidentally picked up the KVR400SO512R, i.e., 400 MHz version, 5/9/06. Will this cause compatability problems with other 333 MHz module?

International Library Programs

International Associates Program

Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, based at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, include information regarding international library associates and programs. Here's a list of items related to international programming.

Live Theater in New Haven

2006-04-21

Renew subscription (2006-2007) for Long Wharf Theatre? Deadline for preferred rate is April 29th. Mainstage Package is 4 plays, targeted to the "Enthusiast - loves blockbuster hits and the social scene, expects excellence" and includes the plays: Rocket to the Moon, The Cocktail Hour, Man of La Mancha, TBA", and costs "Ranging from $102 - $194*"

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Check availability for Brundibar. According to Yale Rep Performance Calendar there's a 2pm performance on Sunday March 5th.

Brazzis is clostest restaurant to Long Wharf for dinner before After the Quake. Call 498-2488 t to make 5:45 reservations.


[2005-11-19]
Playing on Long Wharf main stage through November 20, 2005. Frank Rizzo wrote a review for Variety.com.E. Kyle Minor in CTCentral.com didn't like it; but some people in TownTalk discussion boardcertainly did (e.g., "Tristan" wrote, "The night I was there, the audience - without hesitation - stood up as one for a rousing standing ovation.")

Shi no otome (2005)

Shi no otome (2005), or "Loft", directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. To be screened March 25th as part of Kinema Club VII Conference.

More OSS meetings

OSS for Libraries on Friday, March 16, 2006, in Middletown, CT. Documentation for course is available on Brian Kysela's Web site.

3/17/06: Only 2 partitions: Linux 5000MB and Linux swap 500MB. Add user: DSL. Open GUI desktop with "startx".

NOTE: 198 total MB of RAM. Brian writes, "For the swap space I generally use twice the amount of RAM", so I guess I'll use 400. Problem: "No free sectors available"

NETSL 2006 Bibliographic Conference entitled: Exploring the 'Open' Universe: A Librarian's Guide in Worcester, Mass

Decline of Yiddish

2006-06-10
Yahoo News (from AP) describes efforts by scholars and students to sustain Yiddish as a spoken language. 102-year-old Yiddish scholar Itche Goldberg told the AP, "You can't possibly see a future Jewish life with the disappearance of a 1,000-year-old language and with it a 1,000-year-old culture."

Hosted Wikis

Wikihost Wiki is about as simple as it gets. How stable though? And what would I use it for? Cataloging documentation? (cf. Britta's wiki). Or personal stuff? Presence of advertisements and uncertain long-term viability makes it perhaps more useful as a personal 'sandbox'.

code4lib 2006

[2006-02-29]
Accessing code4lib IRC channel via Visual IRC. Server is chat.freenode.net and Channel is #code4lib. List of common commands can be found at this irchelp.org page. Simply to sign in, enter: "/join #code4lib".

Here's the conference schedule.


My Notes

Dan Chudnov helped organize the conference. By talking with him and reading his blog postings on the subject, it became clear that this was a great opportunity to make connections and find points of common interest between catalogers and library Web developers.

I was especially interested in going as a member of the Public Interfaces Committee (PIC) and chair of the Catalog Department Vision and Direction Task Force (VTF).

The VTF charge contains several elements, but most relevant right now is the bit about “helping to engage cataloging staff in discussions of new vision and promoting new expanded vision”.

Given that staff size is unlikely to increase, while staff responsibilities continue to expand, there will necessarily be an increasing reliance on information technology as a way to increase productivity. Moreover, the library OPAC is facing increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc. (or ‘Amazoogle', if you prefer), and libraries need to do a better job of providing popular features like “Search within a book”, spelling correction/”did you mean” suggestions, relevancy ranking, and book reviews, if they want to stay competitive. We also need to master link-resolving standards such as OpenURL, which is key to metadata interoperability and seamless digital libraries; and FRBR ideas on the deepest level (e.g., exploiting power of citation analysis for relating digital objects and relevancy rankings), i.e., what our users really want and need from us. Persistent unique context-sensitive identifiers underlie the whole enterprise of semantic interoperability.

Another part of our charge is “assessing staff needs and building new expanded expertise in existing staff”. Attending these kinds of conferences can help built our expertise in non-MARC metadata standards, and the way in which they are being used to provide new library services.

Here's the rationale as I put in my travel requisition:

In my capacity as chair of the Catalog Department Vision and Direction Task Force, I have been studying the rise of non-MARC library applications, metadata interoperability, and the growing convergence of traditional cataloging with Web-based information technology. The code4lib conference engages these developments in a highly authoritative, direct, and practical manner, ranging from a visionary keynote address by OCLC's chief research scientist, to hands-on exercises on new metadata tools led by some of the profession's most intelligent and creative practitioners. The goal of my task force is to analyze current metadata trends and opportunities, and provide the best possible support to my department head as she prepares her staff for the future. I believe my participation in the code4lib conference will help me achieve this goal.

In general, I believe that collaboration with information technologists and Web developers will be key to our success.

What Kind of Conference was This?

The first ever code4lib conference was held February 15 through 17 th , 2006 in Corvallis , Oregon . It was worthwhile for several reasons. Most importantly, it brought together many of the best innovators currently working in library software development and systems administration.

I was impressed with the way the conference was organized. The whole event (from initial call for proposals through the 3-days on the ground in Oregon ) was planned within a 3 month period, on a shoe-string budget, and largely by means of a dedicated code4lib IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel .

The format of the conference was unusual. The two 45-minute keynote addresses, fifteen 20-minute presentations, and two 1 ½ hour break-out sessions were familiar enough, but the 3 groups of 5-minute “lightning talks (where perhaps 30 speakers each gave 5 minute presentations) was something I hadn't seen before. I liked the fact that people could sign up to deliver their lightening talks literally at the last minute. Since there were only 80 persons altogether in attendance, and a substantial number of them ended up standing on the stage and presenting their ideas, the whole event became much more interactive, generating an unusually high level of audience ‘buy-in' and commitment.

Selected Topics of Interest

Evergreen Team

The keynote address for the first day was given by the team developing Evergreen open source library system for the PINES consortium in Georgia . Starting out as a Y2K bug correction project, the goal then changed to fostering a completely open-source ILS, independent of commercial vendors. Why important? The PINES consortium decided to break its dependency on commercial software vendors. This means they can more rapidly implement customer driven features, and re-purpose their data without first having to ask permission. Having access to all source code means they can forge ahead with R&D and adopt plug-ins as needed. Collaboration with cataloging staff would be ideal, I think, because decisions about how to structure metadata will have a great effect on what can be done later by programmers and database administrators.

Dan Chudnov imagined Connecting Everything with unAPI and OPA . Stated that “Remix culture is unstoppable.” Invoked metaphor of the dial tone, always there when you pick up the phone, doesn't matter what model of phone you have, everyone is connected. Hoping to do something similar with APIs, so that copying and pasting from one Web app to another becomes effortless. Sort of like a desktop ‘clipboard' but on the API level (?). Wants to start off by developing ‘copy' function. What is unAPI? It's a 2 page spec, based on ROGUE 05 rules, with emphasis on code that works. The idea is to provide URIs for microformats for identifying objects on Web pages, with <link> for auto-discovery, i.e., HTML-embedded URI metadata . Example given was FLICKR page with concert ticket stub images, parsed in OPA, multiple choice somehow allowed for MODS role in FLICKR. Dan sees this as possible replacement for COinS PMH.

Jeff Young discussed the OCLC WikiD (Wiki/Data) project. With emphasis on need for exploiting OpenURL 1.0, which “gives us a single consistent API for performing any and all services that reference these items”. See WikiD demo at http://alcme.oclc.org/wikid/ ; project page: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/wikid

Jim Robertson
In one of my favorite presentations (partly because I think I actually understood most of it), Jim Robertson of the New Jersey Institute of Technology addressed the topic: Lipstick on a Pig: 7 Ways to Improve the Sex Life of your OPAC . He talked about his efforts to tweak the NJIT Voyager implementation to include: (1) book covers; (2) book reviews, (3) live circulation usage history, (4) recommendation engine (e.g., “others who borrowed this book, also borrowed the following titles ….” ), (5) RSS of journals tables of contents, (6) live librarian support (integrated into OPAC), (7) shortcut, durable links (PURLs) to specific items. This is done partially through Cold Fusion and lots of data imported en masse from Amazon. (Amazingly, Amazon doesn't seem to mind. And there are books that teach you how to exploit them for all their worth, e.g., O'Reilly's Amazon Hacks . One slide exclaimed: “Don't catalog. Resolve!”

Robby Robson
of EduWorks Corp. discussed Standards, Reusability and the Mating Habits of Learning Content – I didn't get much out of this one. Something about need for SCOs (Sharable Content Objects), and SCO editor that can convert XML into DHTML, converting motion pictures into still shots? Get things released from Adobe format lockup (e.g., as illustrated through helicopter example?).

We then spend 1.5 hours in various Breakout Sessions . I attended the one that extended on Dan Chudnov's talk. Asking for help meeting ROGUE 05 deadline, getting new release of unAPI out to the public. Mostly interested here in improving ‘copy' feature. Heavy lifting seems to be based on HTTP Status Code 300 (“Multiple Choice”). This may be the closest I came to a hands-on learning experience, but mostly I was confused during this session.

Lightning Talks also had a hands-on quality to them. Some of the 5-minute talks were simply demos of solutions to coding problems. CoiNS (ContextObjects in Spans) were discussed, and fact that Open WorldCat is to have them by March. Other things I didn't quite understand. Raymond Yee talked about Scholars Box that allows users to build personal collection and create simple slide shows out of disparate digital objects. LITA journal editor invited article submissions; Edward Corrado talked about the fact that patrons are not necessarily patronizing our OPACs, so we need to bring catalog data to where they already are, e.g., courseware, portal, rss 23.0, generated from catalog via PERL script, e.g., streaming data about new books via RSS, push technology.

Thom Hickey
Chief Scientist at OCLC ( http://hickey-to.oa.oclc.org.8080 . , spoke about 1,000 Lines of Code, and other topics from OCLC Research . www.errol.oclc.org/laf/n82-54463.html , lightweight OAI harvester in 50 lines of Python really works. Idea Hickey was exploring: “Google Suggest” anticipating your intentions as you type, dynamically. Trying to apply to VIAF?; Project w/ Phoenix Public Library w/FRBR, collecting records into works, VIAF browser, matching phrases following model of Google Suggest, with top categories generated from Dewey XML. . Increased speed achieved through data placement in memory tables (though this is not scalable).

Colleen Whitney
discussed Generating Recommendations in OPACs: Initial Results and Open Areas for Exploration – Basic idea: “patrons who checked this out also checked these other things out”, based on analysis of circulation records, with possibility of weighing faculty data more heavily. 3 to 5 recommendations returned considered most useful. Underbelly consists of AJAX , PERL, etc. Limitation of of circ analysis technique is that only useful for 25% of collection that actually circulates. Project is Mellon-funded. Doesn't catch STM circulation stats, since usage is largely online and through article aggregators, not tracked. through circulation module. Also problem that only 30% of bib records have ISBNs.

Ryan Chute of LANL dissected the Anatomy of aDORe , and discussion of “XMLtape, i.e., concatenation of valid XML content. This is lower level repository, i.e., the ‘plumbing' the result of us shouldn't really have to worry about. Highly technical discussion of largely (for me) unfamiliar territory that still manages to hold my attention.

Raymond Yee
on Teaching the Library and Information Community How to Remix Information . Yee is Technology Architect, Interactive University Lecturer, School of Information at UC Berkeley, and developer of Scholar's Box. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu:8000/academics …; and importance of “learning by doing”; Step one: “Learn one application really well”, then move onto to remixing projects. Project =based learning is important. Flickr chosen for class projects because it has great API, and is poster child for Web 2.0. See Flickr hacks book just published. FLICKR gmap button grabs map then use flyover button (via Google Earth). Mentioned that Ann Arbor has catalog within xml wrapper.

Roy Tennant
The Case for Code4Lib 501c(3) – i.e., registering with the IRS as a tax exempt, charitable organization, would facilitate applications for Mellon, ILMS, etc. grants, and provide some liability protection. Drawbacks include lots of paper work, regulations, IRS scrutiny. Topic continued in Breakout Sessions , where consensus seemed to be to practice benign neglect for the time being. Jeremy opines, better to wait until water is boiling before throwing pasta into pot; right now, it sonly simmering, better to wait. Also asked to consider partnership with ResCarta (John Sarnowski), or Cooperative structure such as OCLC. In breakout, there seemed to be much enthusiasm for something based on the Rare Book School model .

Lightning Talks 2 included info on bookmarklets that pair soft cover with hardcover ISBNs, ask Jeffrey Young for more information ( FRBR application?) ; another (Aaron) on using vendors to give us more access to our own data to perform our own metrics; renegotiate relationships, access to vendor subscription databases, such as what Ryan says he already has with Thompson Elsevier. ; NJIT's Jim Robertson on exposing faculty research via Scopus DB, where vendor allowed modification in contract, win-win situation, good publicity for Scopus and good for faculty.; Keren Combs talked about branding issues, Cold Fusion, MySQL, WordPress, and adding pages to Moveable Type, user categories …; Sarnowski ( ResCarta ) on importance of standardizing image production and metadata storage for libraries and archives, whose work is sustained by a Gelatt Family grant. , mentioned that in 1995 3.5 million images were generated by the Making of American Collection, but different metadata formats are creating silos, and we're not using enough open standards. This foundation is trying to fill gap.; Also: Terry Reese on latest enhancements to MarcEdit , with default now I UTF-8, and ability to change language of interface (thanks to volunteers), and lots of cross walks. OAI Harvesting editor, new/enhanced Z39.50 utility. MarcEdit can be used as .net library. dchud on why we should support free software foundation (consider IRC on freenode.lib, which hosts code4lib IRC for free.

Tigran Zargaryan
Yerevan State University, head of Automation, spoke on Practical Aspects of Implementing Open Source in Armenia – localizations of open source software, such as Mozilla, Open Office 2.0, Moodle (learning mgmt system), Greenstone , phpbb (?), ILIAS (Learning mgt. system) KDE 3.5.1 desktop environment (i.e., instead of Windows), etc. Nicely done presentation, and inspiring, given what he's accomplished with limited resources.

Casey Bisson on What Blog Applications Can Teach Us About Library Software Architecture – “I love Open Search”. Amazon API leads to substitute OPAC; His choice is WordPress OPAC. taking advantage of entire WordPress API, so easy to COinS, plus Amazon and Delicious info , into the mix.

Lightning Talks 3 including Hickey's announcement of open source software for libraries context. Also “Native-xml database demo from Al Cornish, supporting XPath and indexing, Northwest Digital Archives Project, See Ronald Bourret's Web site for more details.

OSS for Libries (Middletown)

Signed up for workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries (3/17/2006) at Middletown Library Service Center Computer Lab. Instructor is Brian Kissela, systems administrator at Mt. Holyoke College Library. Need to remember directions to Middletown Service Center.

Decline of Science in U.S.

BBC article on Bush administration hostitliy to science, slashdotted 8/24/05. Bush Robert Samuelson (Newsweek, Feb. 24, 2006) thinks fears of U.S. decline are exaggerated.

Gift ideas

ThinkGeek catalog; Cool watches from Skagen. Harmony catalog has some nice things, like composters, but they're not cheap, and not exactly appropriate for birthdays.

Japanese

2005-02-26
Japan Times Book Club

2005-09-17
Yamasa Language Institute: fees for short intensive language acquisition courses. Teaching Japanese through music. JLTN (Japanese Language Teachers Network) Quarterly. National Council of Japanese Language Teachers, see esp. links page.

12/02/04
Handed out during LL: est. 14 hours to fill out conjugation practice sheet that will count for 20 percent of final exam.

Yahoo Japan during lab: Video News

10/14/04: JPN100 language lab. Not using Lab Recorder. Instead, playing with Web Subject Contents, or something. Practicing verbs. Genki CD set costs 18,000 yen (ca. $180). Later in the session we're encouraged to practice kanji here. Another good practice site, which actually seems a part of genki, is this.Reproduction in Modern JapanBeginning Japanese (J115) is to be taught at Yale by Michiaki Murata (in charge), Mari Stever, and staff. I need to email Murata-sensei to see if I may audit. There's an email directory on the East Asian Languages and Literatures website Here's the information: EMAIL: michiaki.murata@yale.edu SPECIALTIES: Japanese Language; Japanese History. PHONE: 2-8609 OFFICE: 432 Temple Rm. 302. HOURS: Mon & Tues 3-4. One can apply to be a Yale Special Student, and gain course credit, but then each course costs around $7,000. Maybe worth reconsidering the program at Southern even though they say the intro class is already filled beyond capacity. There's a bit more information in the course catalog. [Aug. 13, 2004:]Wait for email confirmation, then check back with Registrar Page to enter user ID and password for online registration. My SCSU is modified version of "Pipeline," and allows certain kinds of transactions to take place online (emailing professors, etc.). I can't seem to find any mention of what textbook to purchase. Also, I have no idea where the class is supposed to meet. Here's the website for SCSU's Dept. of Foreign Languages. Maybe I'll find some clues there. SCSU Audio Online will become important once sensei has the materials finished. Yoshikawa-sensei recommends kanachart in the mean time. Also recommends Hiroko Sato's Japanese page at Rice University website. Jerry Anne suggested I check Yale's Digital Audio Website to see what kind of Japanese language resources might be available there.

Green Card

[20060131]

I-797C Checklist

• Interview Notice and your Government issued photo identification.
  


• Completed medical examination(Form I-693) and vacination supplement in a sealed envelope (unless already submitted).
  
• Completed Affidavit(s) of Support (Form I-864) with all required evidence, including the following, for each of your sponsors (unless already submitted):

• Federal Income Tax returns and W-2s, or certified IRS printouts, for the past 3 years

• Letters from each current employer, verying current rate of pay and average weekly hours, and pay stubs for the past 2 months;

• Evidence of your sponsor's and/or co-sponsor's United States Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident status.
  

• All documentation establishing your eligibility for lawful Permanent Resident status.

• Any immigration-related documentation ever issued to you, including any Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and any Authorization for Advance Parole
  

• All travel documents used to enter the US including passports, Advance Parole docs (I-512) and I-94s (Arrival/Departure Document)
  


• Your Birth Certificate.
  

• Your petitioner's Birth Certificate and your pertitioner's evidence of United States Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident status.
  

• If you have children ...
  

• If your eligibility is based on your marriage, in addition to your spouse coming to the interview with you, bring:

• A certified copy of your Marriage Document issued by the appropraite civil authority.
  

• Your spouse's Birth Certificate and your spouse's evidence of United States Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident status;

• If either you or your spouse were ever married before, all divorce decrees-death certicates for each prior marriage/former spouse;
  

• Birth Certifcates for all children of this marriage, and custody papers for your children and for your spouse's children not living with you;
  


• Supporting evidence of your relationship, such as copies of any documentation regarding joint assets or liabilities you and your spouse may have together. This may include: tax returns, bank statements, insurance documents (car, life, health), property documents (car, house, etc.), rental agreements, utility bills, credit cards, contracts, leases, photos, correspondence and/or any other documents you feel may substantiate your relationship.
  

• Original and copy of each supporting document that you submitted with your application. Otherwise, we may keep your originals for our records.
  

• If you have ever been arrested ...

• A certified English translation for each foreign language document. The translator must certify that s/he is fluent in both languages, and that the translation in its entirely is complete and accurate.
  

[20050326]
Complete list of forms and fees direct from source: Some, e.g. G-325A (Biography data), can be filled-out electronically. Most of the others (for us, all of the others), must be filled out by hand: I-130 Petition for Alien Relative and I-864 Affadavit of Support and I-485 Petition to Adjust Status.

[2005-03-14]
Per shusterman.com, G-325 Biographical Information to be filed along with I-485 Green Card application. See also official list of service fees.

[2004 10 03]
Jacqui Bucar is an immigration attorney and a partner at Tyler Cooper & Alcorn. New Haven office is at 205 Church Street, a.k.a. the First Union Building. (8/31/04)

Important to have physical examination by INS-approved physician, e.g., Dr. Racuglia at 2 Church St. in New Haven.

Good information is available on Yale Office for International Students and Scholars

Need to make fingerprints.

Sarasota

Staying at the Jamaica Royale in Sarasota, Florida.

Continuing problems with United Airlines, which seems to change flight schedules once per week.

Now they've eliminated our final flight from Chicago to Newark. I specifically told them only to change the piece from Tampa to Chicago, for which we paid $220. Here's the latest itinerary from Travelocity:


UA649 18FEB DEPARTS NEWARK AT 245P ARRIVES CHICAGO OHARE AT 410P

UA1568 18FEB DEPARTS CHICAGO OHARE AT 710P ARRIVES TAMPA AT 1046P

UA1423 25FEB DEPARTS TAMPA AT 811A ARRIVES CHICAGO OHARE AT 1000A

Still, better I think to call United (1-800-864-8331) than Travelocity (888-709-5983, trip ID: 767490767780), since they're the ones I spoke with. United gives only busy signal, though, due to snowstorm possibly. Trying Travelocity now, left on hold for very long time. Pick up after about 10 minutes, told by agent to call again tomorrow afternoon, after things calm down. She understands problem and will look into it in the mean time.