Posted on Tue 31 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Final entry in publishing my own hastily jotted Access 2006 conference notes--primarily for my own purposes, but maybe it will help you indirectly find some real content relating to your field of interest at the official podcast/presentation Web site for Access 2006. Contents include:
Posted on Fri 20 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
In my continuing series of publishing my Access 2006 notes, Roy Tennant's keynote on finishing the task of connecting our users to the information they need is something to which every librarian should pay attention.
If you don't understand something I've written, there's always the podcast of Roy's talk. In …
Posted on Thu 19 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
My continuing summaries from Access 2006. Thursday, October 12th was the first "normal" day of the conference featuring the following presentations:
Posted on Wed 18 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
So, I think I read somewhere on #code4lib that Dan Chudnov, the most excellent host of the Library Geeks podcast, refused to make human-readable links to the MP3 files for the podcasts available in plain old HTML because he had bought into the stodgy old definition of podcasts (hah! "stodgy …
Posted on Mon 16 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Following on my plea for access to Access presentations, I'm in the process of posting the notes I took at the CARL instutitional repository pre-conference and Access 2006. I probably should have posted these to a wiki so that others (like the presenters) could go ahead and make corrections/additions …
Posted on Sat 14 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
It's a bit late now, but as the guy in the corner with the clicky keyboard desperately trying to take notes during the presentations (when not stifling giggles and snorts from #code4lib), I would be a lot more relaxed if I was certain that the presentations were going to be …
Posted on Tue 10 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
The bulk of the Access 2006 conference is being held at a hotel-that-shall-not-be-named-for-reasons-that-will-become-apparent-shortly in Ottawa this week. I was at the CARL Pre-Conference on Institutional Repositories today and a kind man (Wayne Johnston from the University of Guelph) tipped me off that the hotel's pay-for-wifi system is a little bit …
Posted on Tue 26 September 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
On the always excellent Techessence, Dorothea Salo posted Hiring a systems librarian. The blog post warned against libraries who put together a “laundry-list job description” for systems librarians:
Sure, it'd be nice to have someone who can kick-start a printer, put together a desktop machine from scraps, re-architect a website …
Posted on Fri 08 September 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
Update 2007/01/02: The wiki you are looking for is at http://futurelib.pbwiki.com/ -- sorry for not updating this earlier.
Update 2006/09/10: I have been informed that while my effort was appreciated, Karen and Eric Lease Morgan are working on setting up their own wiki instead …
Posted on Fri 25 August 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
Earlier in the month I asked for feedback on the super-alpha MARC package for PHP. Most of the responses I received were along the lines of "Sounds great!" but there hasn't been much in the way of real suggestions for improvement. In the mean time, I've figured out (with Lukas …