I returned from a week of vacation to land solidly in the middle of a discovery layer selection process -- not for our library, yet, but from a consortial perspective clearly having some impact on possible decisions for us further on down the road. As the systems librarian, I was nominated …
Posted on Thu 02 August 2007 in misc • Tagged with Libraries
As a laundry-list systems librarian, my responsibilities run the gamut from crawling under desks connecting cables, administering our ILS, getting an institutional repository up and running, and contributing to open source projects. Maintaining staff workstations is part of the gig. Now, I'm pretty lenient when it comes to personal workstations …
You've heard of the SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) before. This morning we were treated to the SCO (Sudbury Comedian Observatory) project; while walking through the Farmer's Market, Lynn spotted a familiar face at a table. It turned out that this single table had Deb McGrath, Robin Duke, Teresa Pavlinek, Jayne …
I recently insulted Richard Wallis and Rob Styles of Talis by stating on Dan Chudnov's blog:
To me it felt like Talis was in full sales mode during both Richard's API talk and Rob's lightning talk
I must apologize for using the terms "sales mode" and "sales pitch" to describe …
Posted on Fri 23 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with Personal
In a post on the priorities of Canadian academic insitutions on academics vs. sport, Ted Schmidt wrote a number of words that I agreed with, among which were:
200 spectators watching a beautifully coached University of Toronto team take on the Laurentian Voyagers in the biggest city in Canada. 200 …
Posted on Wed 14 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with Libraries
I made a mistake, or several mistakes, a few weeks back.
Yes, shocking to hear me admit that, I know.
Here's the set up: one night a week, I'm the LibrarianTM on reference duty. In practice, this means that I continue to sit in my office working on library …
So here's the first of two posts based on purely wild conjecture. In a lengthening chain of trackbacks, Ryan Eby mentioned Christina's observation that Springlink has started displaying Google ads, presumably to supplement their subscription and pay-per-article income. Ryan goes on to wonder:
Will vendors continue with the subscription model …
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Personal, PHP
2006 was a year full of change - wonderful, exhausting change. Here's a month-by-month summary of the highlights of 2006:
Sirsi Corporation merged with Dynix Corporation in June 2005. Now SirsiDynix has announced that Vista Equity Partners is investing in their company.
Let's take a look at Vista's investment philosophy:
*We invest in companies that uniquely leverage technology to deliver best-of-class products or services.*
I wonder if Vista confused "most …
I gave up on trying to get Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to run ejabberd today; it looks like there are some fundamental issues going on between the version of erlang and the version of ejabberd that get bundled together. That was a fairly serious setback to my "Evergreen on …