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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …