Posted on Fri 05 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I was fortunate to be invited to give a talk (OpenOffice.org Impress / PDF ) on Evergreen's progress on the
globalization front at the first ever Evergreen International Conference. My friend
Tigran Zargaryan from the Fundamental Science Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia gave a …
Posted on Wed 27 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yes, all of a sudden and rather quietly, Evergreen has serials support.
A few weeks ago, I finished hooking up a rudimentary serials holdings display based on David Fiander's MFHD parsing code to our production instance of Evergreen. We loaded our MFHD records from our legacy system into Evergreen and …
Posted on Mon 11 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I awoke around 4:48 am today. At the time, I thought it was just our baby kicking away excitedly. However, later this afternoon, I realized that it had been almost exactly a week ago, around 4:30 am on Monday, May 4th that I sent a broadcast email message …
Posted on Thu 07 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
The following was written in response to a faculty member's complaint that a review containing a negative statement about a book that the faculty member had authored was attached to the book record in our catalogue. The facult member asked that we delete the review from the catalogue because [i …
Posted on Mon 13 April 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
This Easter weekend I had the opportunity to play with someone's iPod Touch. Of course, the only thing I tried was the Evergreen 1.4 catalogue interface. Lo and behold, it came up just fine on Safari in all of its heavily dynamic JavaScript and less-than-XHTML-compliant glory - even sporting several …
Posted on Thu 19 March 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
In my most recent post over at the Academic Matters site, after a general discussion about "new books lists" in academic libraries, I tackle one of the dirty laundry areas for academic libraries: exposing how collection development funds are allocated to departments. Here's a relevant quote:
For 2008-2009, we decided …
Posted on Mon 02 March 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
It's hard to take good photos of these devices
Almost exactly a year ago, Jason Etheridge (the primary developer of the Evergreen staff client) and I managed to get our hands on a developer edition of the Nokia N810 Internet tablet device. It's a nifty little handheld computer that packs …
Posted on Sun 01 March 2009 in Family • Tagged with Personal
Arik is just over eight weeks old now (and over fifteen pounds!), so I'm long overdue to post some photo updates of the family. The following photo was taken when Arik was about six weeks old. He loves the sling; so does his Mommy, and and so does his Daddy …
Posted on Mon 09 February 2009 in misc • Tagged with Personal, PHP
I was tagged by Lukas for the "7 things" meme, and meant to do something about it, but I've been kind of preoccupied with the new baby and the sprinting toddler and work. Anyway, it seems like a heck of a lot more reasonable than the evil Facebook's "25 things …
Posted on Sun 08 February 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Updated 2009-02-25 00:29 EST: Corrected setuptools installation step.
Updated 2009-02-08 23:39 EST: Trimmed width of some of the <pre> code sections for better formatting. Created bzr repository for unicorn2evergreen scripts at http://bzr.coffeecode.net/unicorn2evergreen
I did this once a long time ago for the Robertson Library …