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 …
If you, like me, install Skype in a Windows XP VirtualBox guest instance running on an Ubuntu host on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel 2300 dual-core 32-bit processor, it might throw Windows exceptions and generate error reports as reported in VirtualBox ticket #1710.
If you then go into your …
49 minutes before Christmas, Arik Nathan Kabaroff-Scott was
born - much to the delight of his mother. Well, and father too, but some
of us are pickier about avoiding holidays as birth dates than others...
Arik weighed in at 8 pounds 11 ounces, and was 23 inches long, although
his bulk …
I'm excited to announce the availability of my first post as an invited contributor to the More than Bookends blog over at the revamped Academic Matters web site. My fellow contributors are Anne Fullerton and Amy Greenberg, and I'm delighted to be included with them in our appointed task of …
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 …
Posted on Fri 21 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As I announced on the Evergreen mailing lists last night:
One month after the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.4.0.0, the
Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the availability of
Evergreen 1.4.0.0, release candidate 2, from
http://open-ils.org/downloads.php
A partial …
Posted on Mon 03 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I noticed last night (Sunday, November 2nd, 2008) that the new and much-anticipated / feared OCLC WorldCat Policy had been posted. As far as the clarified terms went, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they were actually posted. I was first alerted to the freshly …
I received the following email late last week, and took the time to reply to it tonight. I had originally been asked by a friend to help diagnose why his organization's site navigation wasn't working in some of his browsers. I noticed that the navigation bar was implemented in Flash …
Posted on Thu 30 October 2008 in misc • Tagged with Personal
I'm reasonably careful about the cookies I accept from Web sites - I don't want companies to be able to track every site I visit, for example, so that they can build a nice little profile about me. It's for the protection of the companies more than anything else: someone there …