Some of the more interesting projects I've worked on (or am working on) at Simon Fraser University Library

• MOSST: Modular Online Software for Self-Paced Tutorials
• SFU Library Frequently Asked Questions database
• SFU Library Reserves scanning, URL requesting, and online requesting services
• jake2marc and cufts2marc
• The Doukhobor Collection
• SFU Library Ejournals Database
• SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection
• my.sfu.ca Library services (Restricted to SFU users)
• SFU Library Study Room Booking Service
• SFU Library Database Management Tool
• SFU's involvement in Our Roots/Nos Racines
• The Access 2003 Conference
• The SFU Institutional Repository
• The Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothhques de recherche du Canada's institutional repository harvester and search service and associated application profile
• The Lake District Collection
• CUFTS electronic serials management system
• PKP@SFU (Open Journal Systems, Open Conference System, and the PKP Harvester)

• Getting the MOSST out of Library Web-Based Tutorials (WILU 2000, London, ON, May 2000. With Sylvia Roberts)
• Evaluating Web Tutorial Learning Outcomes (Canadian Library Association 2000 Conference, Edmonton, AB, June 2000)
• Open Ejournal Linking Using jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) (Access Y2K, St. John's, NFLD, Sept. 2000. With Dan Chudnov and Todd Holbrook - 161k MS PowerPoint file)
• Linking to the Past: Digitizing Historical Collections (The Annual British Columbia Library Conference, Burnaby, BC, April 2001. With Bronwen Sprout, Wendy Godley, and Barb Adams - 12k PDF file)
• How does your library handle electronic serials?: A General Survey (Access 2001, Winnipeg, MB, Sept. 2001. With David Kisly). Updated version presented at the The Annual British Columbia Library Conference, Whistler, BC, May 2002 (55k PDF file). Article (Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 15.1 March 2002) available via Metapress.
• Managing online fulltext with jake: What jake can do for you and what you can do for it (Netspeed 2001, Edmonton, AB, Oct. 2001 - 269k PDF file)
• Try this at Home: Off-site User Authentication (The Annual British Columbia Library Conference, Whistler, BC, May 2002. With John Durno and Charles Hogg - 29k PDF file)
• Integrating New Formats Throughout the Library. Panel convenor and moderator, with panelists Melody Burton, Doug Kariel, Slavko Manojlovich, and Todd M. Mundle. (Canadian Library Association 2002 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, Halifax, NS, June 2002)
• OSS: a Real Option in Real Time (Access 2002, Windsor, ON, Oct. 2002. With Dan Chudnov)
• Thinking Outside the OPAC (Netspeed 2002, Calgary, AB, Oct. 2002 - 533k PDF file)
• Institutional Repositories: Facilitating a Community of Scholarly Information. Panel Discussion on Applications for Broadband Networks (3rd Annual BCNET Advanced Networks Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 2003. With Louis Fox, Shannon Kelly, and Mark Zuberbuhler - 109k PDF file)
• OAI FYI: All You Need to Know About the Open Archives Initiative (The Annual British Columbia Library Conference, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, May 2003 - 478k PowerPoint file / 492k PDF file)
• Developments in Online Journal Publishing: New Technologies; The Role of University Press Journals; and Journals and Libraries Making Common Cause. Panel, with Gwen Bird and Rowly Lorimer. Association of American University Presses Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2004
• Developing a Canadian Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories (Institutional Repositories: The Future is Now, Halifax, NS, October 13, 2004 - 871k PDF file)

Some groups/activities I'm involved in

• Former Co-convenor (2001-2003) of the Canadian Library Association's Emerging Technolgies Interest Group
• Founding Convenor (1999-2002) of the British Columbia Library Association's Information Technolgy Interest Group
• Former Chair of the Council of Prarie and Pacific University Libraries' Systems Group (2000-2003) and member of the reSearcher Steering Committee (Chair, 2001-2003)
• I am very loosely affiliated with Target Library and Information Services
• I am an occasional Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (most recent course: Developing Digital Collections)
• I have been an instructor in the Canadian Centre for Studies In Publishing's Journal Publishing Online Workshop and I am an Associate Member in the SFU Master of Publishing Program
• I was a member (2003-2006) of the Images Canada Steering Committee
• I was a member (2004) of the BCcampus Learning Object Repository Metadata Working Group
• I was a contributor to the databases section of the MARC/Perl tutorial
• I was a member of the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries Metadata Working Group (2004)
• I am the maintainer of digitizationblog (2004- ) and Drupalib (2006- )
• I am the maintainer of the Drupal module Search attachments (2006-)
• I am the author of a a book titled Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries (Chandos, 2006).

Some stuff not found anywhere else but of possible interest to others

• "A lexicon technicum for this present age": Scientific Satire in Defoe's Consolidator 1991 (My English Lit master's thesis - 689k PDF file). If you're into serious 18th Century English literary archana, you're in for a real treat.
• Advanced Degrees in Addition to the MLS: A Survey of Recent Hiring Practices in Canadian Academic Libraries 1995 (My library school graduating essay). Rejected by refereed journals because it too closely imitated their rhetoric.
• Cyclog, a cycling diary application for HandBase, a quasi-relational database for the Palm. The current version (2001-01-28) is fairly minimalistic -- date, distance, duration, maintenance, weather, and notes fields -- but is yours to use, modify, or delete. HandBase exports nofrills HTML, XML, MS Word, and MS Excel versions of its databases, which is a great feature in a Palm application.
• Connecting your PalmPilot to the SFU modem pool. I'm probably the only person in the world who had any interest in figuring this out. This is now a bit out of date since I've moved on to a new model.
• The Self-Education of Systems Librarians, Library Hi Tech 21.3 (2003). (140k PDF.) Available elsewhere, but made publicly available under Emerald's very fair copyright policy.
• Material from my course on Developing Digital Collections (University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, July-August 2004)
• An extremely simple JavaScript utility for removing line breaks in text. Useful for when you copy from a PDF and want to paste into a spreadsheet, etc. (which is its actual use in some digitization projects).

Some other people's content that I've repurposed

• A Palm .pdb (Doc) version of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, redistibuted here under the Creative Commons by-nc license.

Last updated 2008-02-24