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2018-stuff.md

stuff i did

(april-2018 through march-2019)

code...

• easyAccess -> hosted-ILLiad migration
  • implemented completely different process for checking-user, creating-new-user, submitting book and article-requests
  • updated bib_ourl_api_project -- an essential part of the illiad work
  • updated aspects of easyA for migration
• easyAcess other
  • illiad patron-type update -- implemented ongoing auto-updates and updated 30,000+ patrons
  • made landing/info page and article landing pages accessible and style-compliant
  • improved citation-form shortlinks
  • better-handled long-book-titles -- problem exposed by mysql upgrade
  • added display of hay-items when ezb 'Request' button is present (w/reading-room qualification)
  • added display of ebooks when ezb 'Request' button is present
  • improved info landing page
  • experimented with xisbn resurrection
  • moved bib references to new-josiah
  • replaced old internal book-locator to use the one that new-josiah uses
• bul best-practices tracker
  • added github-vulnerability tracking
  • added email-admin-on-error tracking
  • lightning talk at code4lib-NE
• iip-development project
  • numerous maintenance-tweaks and improvements, including enabling story and static-page editing
  • supported student-developer work
  • created proxy for student-dev wordcount work
• updated xslt-transformation service
• experimented with ted's fast-reconcile service for Hay staff
• call-number service improvements (powers newtitles)
  • upgraded to python3 & updated packages
  • simplified login for librarians
• ils/code-mapper app (location-codes, status-codes, display-codes)
  • full upgrade to python3 & modern django
  • enabled modern shib-login to admin
• ils/annex data-mapper app
  • also full upgrade to python3 & modern django
  • also enabled modern shib-login to admin
• new-titles
  • made queries work with upgraded solr-7
  • major upgrade of django version
  • improved caching
• sierra
  • fully-implemented robust sierra big-exports powering blacklight
    • (some experimentation in march 2018 but bulk of work afterwards)
  • updated transfer_annex_pageslips code based on sierra migration
  • major re-write of annex_process_email_pageslips code based on sierra migration
• major re-write of availability-api used by easyBorrow
  • upgraded to python3 & modern django
  • utilized wrapper around python2 z39.50 module, w/all parsing/prepping in modern webapp
  • extracted hay items from response for easyBorrow improvement
  • added caching
  • added stats-feed
• site-checker
  • made public-page accessible and style-compliant
  • made login via shib, into admin, much easier
• usep github-listener
  • upgraded to python3
  • modernized loading of settings
  • made minor improvements to usep web-app
• easyRequest-Hay
  • improved accessibility
  • implemented auto-deletion of personally-identifiable-info, a successful pilot-project for how this can be handled in other apps
  • implemented stats-api
  • improved aeon; implemented auto-request via millennium for many aeon items
  • added js-code to new-josiah to expose services
• ran a bell-gallery ingest w/B.C. last summer.

misc...

• assisted K.H. with print-slip solution for Hay staff using javascript and bookmarklet
• on search-committee for Human-Resources Director
• on search-committee for Deputy University Librarian
• participated in ivies-plus BorrowDirect committee
• showed H.N., new ivies-plus director, Brown's use of BorrowDirect
• supported, with J.M., bdr requests while J.R. & B.C. were out
• attended CIS Academic-Support planning meetings w/A.C. re python bootcamps
• troubleshot, w/J.M., serials-solution link360 issue; brought issue to their support-tech's attention
• participated in Atalanta project meetings
• showed K.H. how to provide environmental variables to certain urls for code-security
• shared ideas with library diap group
• finished a years-long project of dismantling an overloaded very-early-version django project by spinning off required services into their own apps and retiring others.
• organized zoom meeting with S.S. of Yale re his authentication-service
• helped A.C. with some learning-python questions
• helped P.M. at Annex & GFA troubleshoot an issue
• facilitated ebsco October presentaton on eds/folio
• helped in H.C.'s C4LibCon solr workshop

dev meeting sharing...

• showed some possibly-useful items from sierra export processing: last-bib, and export-tracker urls
• jupyter notebooks
• unpaywall
• schematron
• trio: python concurrency library
• first use of programmatically accessing and parsing email (for annex-requesting)
• improved forced-shib-login (answer: force a behind-the-scenes shib-logout first)
• running flask locally
• useful branch & version check
• useful email-admin-on error check
• real-world implementation of removal of P.I.I.
• github web-hook listener testing
• localdev email server simulator
• code update script issues
• minimal django installation testing without db
• logging django db calls
• django lazy-evaluation
• lightweight api-usage solution
• new availability api for easyAccess to work-around original "single-bib" limitation
• django testing: "html assertions"
• isbn validation
• easyAccess Hay info improvement
• TinyMCE & Gutenberg editor info
• code4lib 2019
• web augmented-reality

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