Posted on Tue 02 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I've been working on automating the delivery of electronic documents to our patrons; most of the work over the summer was spent in ensuring that we had our legal and policy bases covered. I read through the documentation for Ariel, our chosen ILL software, to ensure that everything we wanted …
Posted on Tue 02 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Ooh, yes, I remember writing that now. Not about Evergreen, which has book bags and format limiters and facets and whiz-bangy unAPI goodness whose potential for causing mayhem has barely been scratched - but about Fac-Back-OPAC, the Django-and-Solr-and-Jython beast that Mike Beccaria and I picked up from Casey Durfee's scraps pile …
Posted on Mon 17 September 2007 in Databases • Tagged with DB2
I took a walk down memory lane this evening. I thought I might as well bore you with the details.
One of my first forays into the open source world was to participate in the Linux Documentation Project (TLDP). At the time (circa 1999), I was working for IBM as …
Posted on Sun 09 September 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yesterday, over on the Evergreen blog, Mike announced that I am now a full committer to the Subversion repository for Evergreen. (It was blog post #100 for Evergreen, by the way - two milestones in one!). The road to getting here was pretty standard fare for open-source projects: submit patches that …
Posted on Fri 31 August 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Karen G. Schneider has a great post on Enterprise Open Source on the ALA TechSource blog:
But the truly significant activity in LibraryLand technology hasn't been vendor-driven. It has been the maturation of what I call "enterprise open source": products such as Evergreen and Koha that are robust, well-implemented library …
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 …
Posted on Wed 01 August 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I had been getting anxious about the lack of news on the Access 2007 conference front, but just saw in my trusty RSS feed that the draft program schedule is now available. I'm already looking forward to Jessamyn West's opening keynote and Roy Tennant's closing keynote. They always bring …
Posted on Tue 24 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, I'm finally back from Atlanta and the Evergreen AcqFest. I'll apologize right off the top for not providing more blog updates over the course of the weekend, but the requirements and design discussions were pretty intense so I didn't want to risk continuously missing subtle but important details and …
Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
Bill Denton, you are a genius!
So, my colleague Bill Denton recently landed a job as the Web Librarian at York University. While chatting idly with him, err, strengthening my professional network, I related a tale of mock woe and bitterness about how York had turned me down for a …