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OJSOur library is OJS-curious these days, so I thought I’d set up a test instance so that we can kick the tires. This post is a quick […]

6 days ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

Code4Lib 2025The annual Code4Lib conference was earlier this week, and as always, it was inspiring and motivating. This was my 5th Code4Lib, […]

7 days ago

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Mark Eaton replied to the topic OJS at CUNY

Thanks, Jojo. I will reach out with more details by email!

9 days ago

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Mark Eaton replied to the topic OJS at CUNY

Installing a test instance is a good idea! We are not prepared to self-host a production version at Kingsborough, so we would be looking at the hosted option instead. But we are totally prepared to install a test so that we can kick the tires. It would also be a super interesting way to get more perspective on what is happening under the hood.…[Read more]

10 days ago

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Mark Eaton replied to the topic OJS at CUNY

Thank you both! This is helpful! We are OJS-curious at the Kingsborough library, so we are doing our research

10 days ago

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Mark Eaton replied to the topic OJS at CUNY

Interesting! Thank you Stephen! So the impression I’m getting is that GC was self-hosting and that this became unworkable for a variety of (mostly technical) reasons. That makes sense.

All the best,

Mark

12 days ago

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Mark Eaton started the topic OJS at CUNY

Can anyone shed some light on why CUNY moved away from OJS in 2017? See: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/online-journal-system-ojs-service-discontinued

I have been trying to piece this together by reading old commons discussions and blog posts, but it is still not very clear to me what happened. Any insights are welcome.

12 days ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

PivotAs I get older, I recognize that my capacity to contribute meaningful code to librarianship is diminishing. For me, coding was […]

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Library Technology at Kingsborough

Obligatory static site generator postThis past week, the CUNY Academic Commons — the home for this blog — was offline for a few days, as they were migrating to new […]

2 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

LogOn Saturday, March 14th, 2020, the day after we were sent home on account of the plague’s arrival in New York, I started keeping a […]

2 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

Further into GitHub ActionsSince my last post, I’ve been moving more things over to GitHub Actions. It has been an interesting journey. Some things are […]

3 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

GitHub ActionsToday I moved some bots from PythonAnywhere over to GitHub Actions. This is a follow-up to my previous post about migrating the […]

3 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

Coding with those who show upThis week, I have a new paper out titled “Coding with those who show up: Two methodologies on technical committee work” in […]

3 months ago

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Eight months with DebianI checked the date of my previous post, and it has been eight months that I have been running Debian on this old HP laptop. Here […]

3 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

CUNY IT Conference 2024The past two days, I have been at CUNY’s 23rd annual IT Conference. It’s a conference I enjoy, even though it’s geared toward IT […]

3 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

Further thoughts on building AR projects in librariesCaroline Jedlicka and I recently published a paper in the Journal of Web Librarianship called “Creating a Homemade Mobile […]

4 months ago

Library Technology at Kingsborough

Thanksgiving challenge, bots editionIt is getting to be time for my annual post about the Thanksgiving Challenge. Previous editions of this post can be found here, […]

4 months ago