Posted on Mon 11 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I awoke around 4:48 am today. At the time, I thought it was just our baby kicking away excitedly. However, later this afternoon, I realized that it had been almost exactly a week ago, around 4:30 am on Monday, May 4th that I sent a broadcast email message …
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 01 March 2009 in Family • Tagged with Personal
Arik is just over eight weeks old now (and over fifteen pounds!), so I'm long overdue to post some photo updates of the family. The following photo was taken when Arik was about six weeks old. He loves the sling; so does his Mommy, and and so does his Daddy …
Posted on Mon 09 February 2009 in misc • Tagged with Personal, PHP
I was tagged by Lukas for the "7 things" meme, and meant to do something about it, but I've been kind of preoccupied with the new baby and the sprinting toddler and work. Anyway, it seems like a heck of a lot more reasonable than the evil Facebook's "25 things …
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 …