Evergreen Exposed: introduction to Evergreen development (OLA 2009)

Posted on Sun 01 February 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update 2009-02-19: uploaded diffs from Evergreen 1.4.0.2 (EG_exposed.tar.gz) for adding details to record summary; and Bill Erickson's slides and code examples are also available for download

The slides: Evergreen exposed, part 1 (OpenOffice)

My second presentation at the OLA SuperConference 2009 was Evergreen Exposed …


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Project Conifer update session at OLA SuperConference 2009

Posted on Fri 30 January 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

*Updated 2009-02-02 to add PDF formatted slides because the free and libre formats just isn't good enough for some people - heh*

The slides, up front and center:

Last year I gave a presentation at the OLA SuperConference 2008 on The State of …


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Adding a new metadata format to Evergreen in a dozen lines of code

Posted on Mon 26 January 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Just like my last entry, this is a preview of one part of my upcoming session at the OLA SuperConference, Evergreen Exposed: Hacking the open source library system. We know from the last entry that Evergreen internally converts MARC21 to MODS to support item display; and in fact it also …


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Fetching item availability from Evergreen using the OpenSRF HTTP gateway

Posted on Tue 20 January 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

This is a preview of one part of my upcoming session at the OLA SuperConference, Evergreen Exposed: Hacking the open source library system. In the Conifer implementation of Evergreen, at least one of the partners plans to use a decoupled discovery layer rather than the Evergreen OPAC. So we needed …


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Making Skype work in a Windows XP VirtualBox guest instance

Posted on Tue 06 January 2009 in misc • Tagged with Coding

If you, like me, install Skype in a Windows XP VirtualBox guest instance running on an Ubuntu host on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel 2300 dual-core 32-bit processor, it might throw Windows exceptions and generate error reports as reported in VirtualBox ticket #1710.

If you then go into your …


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Just in time delivery - Arik Nathan

Posted on Mon 29 December 2008 in Family • Tagged with Arik

image049 minutes before Christmas, Arik Nathan Kabaroff-Scott was born - much to the delight of his mother. Well, and father too, but some of us are pickier about avoiding holidays as birth dates than others... Arik weighed in at 8 pounds 11 ounces, and was 23 inches long, although his bulk …


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In which my words also appear elsewhere

Posted on Tue 02 December 2008 in misc • Tagged with Coding

I'm excited to announce the availability of my first post as an invited contributor to the More than Bookends blog over at the revamped Academic Matters web site. My fellow contributors are Anne Fullerton and Amy Greenberg, and I'm delighted to be included with them in our appointed task of …


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Presentation: LibX and Zotero

Posted on Tue 25 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

Direct link to the instructional presentation on LibX and Zotero at Laurentian University (ODT) (PDF)

I had the pleasure of giving an instructional session to a class of graduate students on Monday, November 24th. The topic I had been asked to present was an extended version of the Artificially Enhanced …


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Evergreen 1.4.0.0 RC2 and OpenSRF 1.0.1 are out

Posted on Fri 21 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

As I announced on the Evergreen mailing lists last night:

One month after the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.4.0.0, the

Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the availability of

Evergreen 1.4.0.0, release candidate 2, from

http://open-ils.org/downloads.php

A partial …


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Archive of OCLC WorldCat Policy as posted 2008-11-02

Posted on Mon 03 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

I noticed last night (Sunday, November 2nd, 2008) that the new and much-anticipated / feared OCLC WorldCat Policy had been posted. As far as the clarified terms went, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they were actually posted. I was first alerted to the freshly …


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