Browsing by Author "French, Amanda"

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    Creation of a library tour application for mobile equipment using iBeacon technology
    Bradley, Jonathan; Henshaw, Neal; McVoy, Liz; French, Amanda; Gilbertson, Keith; Becksford, Lisa; Givens, Elisabeth (Code4lib Journal, 2016-04-25)
    We describe the design, development, and deployment of a library tour application utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy devices know as iBeacons. The tour application will serve as library orientation for incoming students. The students visit stations in the library with mobile equipment running a special tour app. When the app detects a beacon nearby, it automatically plays a video that describes the current location. After the tour, students are assessed according to the defined learning objectives. Special attention is given to issues encountered during development, deployment, content creation, and testing of this application that depend on functioning hardware, and the necessity of appointing a project manager to limit scope, define priorities, and create an actionable plan for the experiment.
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    How we went from worst practices to good practices, and became happier in the process
    French, Amanda; Kayiwa, Francis; Lawrence, Anne S.; Gilbertson, Keith; Lohrey, Melissa (2016-04-25)
    Our application team was struggling. We had good people and the desire to create good software, but the library as an organization did not yet have experience with software development processes. Work halted. Team members felt unfulfilled. The once moderately competent developer felt frustrated, ashamed, helpless, and incompetent. Then, miraculously, a director with experience in software project management and an experienced and talented systems administrator were hired and began to work with the team. People in the group developed a sense of teamwork that they had not experienced in their entire time at the library. Now we are happy, excited, and energetic. We hope that you will appreciate our “feel-good” testimony of how excellent people and appropriate processes transformed an unhealthy work environment into a fit and happy team.
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    Imagine a National Digital Library: I Wonder If We Can
    French, Amanda (2011-03-01)
    Keynote talk about the National Digital Public Library planning initiative given at the Electronic Resources and Libraries Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. The paper discusses the history of Carnegie libraries in establishing a public library system in the United States and the establishment of the Korean National Digital Library as a building as well as an online presence in Seoul.
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    Library Support for Liberal Arts Data
    French, Amanda (2015-10-20)
    A presentation given at an Open Access Week panel titled "Data and digitization for the liberal arts and human sciences" on the subject of collecting, curating, preserving, and publishing liberal arts "data," despite the unfamiliarity of that term in the liberal arts.
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    My Scandalous Future in Libraries
    French, Amanda (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2015-07-07)
    A short blog post on recent high-profile events at the Boston Public Library and the Library of Congress that led to the departure of library directors Amy Ryan and James Billington.
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