Posted on Fri 04 March 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
In the past couple of days, two people have written me email essentially saying: "Dan, this File_MARC library sounds great - but I can't figure out how to create a record from scratch with it! Can you please help me?"
Yes, when you're dealing with MARC, you'll quickly get all …
Posted on Sat 05 February 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Back in early 2010, I responded to the call for proposals for the OLA SuperConference with the following proposal for a session called Evergreen 2.0: What doesn't it have?:
The first release of the Evergreen library system in September 2006 brought circulation, cataloguing, reports, and a modern OPAC. Evergreen …
Posted on Wed 19 January 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
The official announcement for the Canadian Library Association (CLA) Emerging Technology Interest Group (ETIG)-sponsored Access Conference for 2011 went out back in November, announcing Vancouver, British Columbia, as the host. Note that the schedule has changed from its original dates to October 19-22!
I've told a number of people …
Posted on Fri 26 November 2010 in Family • Tagged with Amber, Arik
The orange hair gel didn't make my hair very orange, but it did a great job on my face. Don't ask me what I'm supposed to have been; I was just there for the yuks.
Daddy's side of the jack'o'lantern.
Amber's side of the jack'o'lantern, transferred from her conceptual drawing …
Posted on Wed 27 October 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I'm posting the following instructions for testing the ports required by
Ariel interlibrary loan software. I get requests for this information a few
times a year, and at some point it will be easier to find on my blog than to
dig through my email archives from over 3 years …
Posted on Fri 22 October 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
When I was preparing my Access 2010 presentation about social sharing and aggregation in library software, I came across Chilifresh, a company that aggregates reviews written by library patrons from across libraries that subscribe to the company's review service. I was a bit disappointed to see that the service almost …
Posted on Sun 17 October 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Earlier this week, I had the honour of speaking at the Access 2010 conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The title of my talk was rather unwieldy, but what it boiled down to was:
Posted on Wed 29 September 2010 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen
Sometimes forking a project is necessary to reassert community control over a project that has become overly dominated by a single corporate rules: see OpenIndiana and LibreOffice for recent examples. And in the world of distributed version control systems, forking is viewed positively; it's a form of evolution, where experimental …
Posted on Mon 27 September 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
On October 13th, a very special event is happening: the Access Hackfest. A tradition since Access 2002, the Hackfest brings together library practitioners of all kinds to tackle challenges and problems from the mundane to the sublime to the ridiculous. If you can imagine a spectrum with three axes, you …
Posted on Mon 20 September 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2010-09-28: Fixed link
The home page for ***Information Technology and Libraries*** states:
*Information Technology and Libraries* ( ITAL) (ISSN 0730-9295) is a refereed journal published quarterly by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association.
The September 2010 issue of ITAL contained an article …