Posted on Sat 10 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Friday, October, 9th, I had the pleasure of (along with Joe Lucia and Karen Coombs) speaking at the Lyrasis "Open Source in Your Library" conference at the Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. First, a note about Olin College - it is a very modern campus that makes an …
Posted on Sun 04 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2009-10-04 Added a title to the post; oops!
A long time ago, when I discovered that Evergreen was chewing up and spitting out Apache backends at a furious pace because Apache was being used to serve up static content like CSS, JavaScript, and image files, I suggested that using …
Posted on Sat 03 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
If you're working on or interested in working on the Evergreen open source library system, and you can be in the Toronto area on October 29th, 2009, you might want to spend $75 and register for the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) to be held at the Seneca@York …
Posted on Tue 15 September 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Most recently, the latest Software Freedom Law Show focuses on the subject of how to choose a license for your software project's documentation. The episode was a direct response to a dent I had sent to one of the hosts, Bradley Kuhn, suggesting the subject. I thought the Evergreen Documentation …
Posted on Mon 14 September 2009 in Family • Tagged with Arik
On the comfy handmade quilt that cousin Janet made for him
With the ever-hamming big sister
The ability to eat solid food is not necessarily a prerequisite for entry to university
Risque! Look for a similar pose from him in a centerfold in about 20 years.
The MEC double bike …
Posted on Wed 09 September 2009 in misc • Tagged with Personal
It's a running joke at the Linux Weekly News at the start of each year to predict that "this will be the year of Linux on the desktop". In our household, it's been Linux on the desktop for over ten years now.
A week or so ago, I received an …
Posted on Tue 08 September 2009 in Family • Tagged with Personal
When we moved to Sudbury, one of the draws was the wealth of trails available to us for hiking, biking, and cross country skiing. Between work and school and the arrival of Arik and Amber, however, it's somewhat rare for us to take advantage of those trails that are literally …
Posted on Mon 29 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
UPDATE 2010-03-10 See More granular identifier indexes for your Evergreen SRU / Z39.50 servers for some recommended enhancements to the target parser and Evergreen's identifier index capabilities
Laurentian University is part of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and a user of the centrally hosted Ontario Scholars Portal SFX …
Posted on Fri 05 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I was fortunate to be invited to give a talk (OpenOffice.org Impress / PDF ) on Evergreen's progress on the
globalization front at the first ever Evergreen International Conference. My friend
Tigran Zargaryan from the Fundamental Science Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia gave a …
Posted on Wed 27 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yes, all of a sudden and rather quietly, Evergreen has serials support.
A few weeks ago, I finished hooking up a rudimentary serials holdings display based on David Fiander's MFHD parsing code to our production instance of Evergreen. We loaded our MFHD records from our legacy system into Evergreen and …