Thank you Lynn. You are my sun and moon and stars.

One of the relatively frequent questions that I run into with Evergreen is "Does Evergreen have an academic reserves module?" And the answer is: well, yes, and no. There is no official academic reserves module that is part of the standard Evergreen package that you download and install from http …

Back in early May, I was in San Francisco for Google I/O. I had booked an extra day with the hopes of either doing some site-seeing or meeting up with the OpenLibrary team. After firing off an email to find out if anyone there was interested on working on …

Since the announcement of the new v1 Google Books API, I've been doing a bit of work with it in Python (following up on my part of the conversation). Today, Google announced that many of their older APIs were now officially deprecated. Included in that list are the Google Books …

If you have been through an Evergreen upgrade, you know that the days after the upgrade can be painful. Users complain that the catalogue doesn't work right, there are mysterious glitches that happen on some machines and not others (even though the browser and operating systems are identical on each …

On the subject of the new Google Books API that was unveiled during the Google IO 2011 conference last week, Jonathan Rochkind states:

Once you have an API key, it can keep track of # requests for that key — it’s not clear to me if they rate limit you, and …

I'm at the Evergreen 2011 conference in balmy Decatur, Georgia... which wasn't a sure thing yesterday, given that the day started with an eight hour delay at the Sudbury airport due to fog - not to mention having to fly through the storm that spawn a tornado in Alabama. After all …

tldr version: the Evergreen project now has a continuous integration server and build farm and needs testcases to make the best use of that infrastructure to help us provide higher-quality releases in the future.

In the past couple of days, two people have written me email essentially saying: "Dan, this File_MARC library sounds great - but I can't figure out how to create a record from scratch with it! Can you please help me?"

Yes, when you're dealing with MARC, you'll quickly get all …

Back in early 2010, I responded to the call for proposals for the OLA SuperConference with the following proposal for a session called Evergreen 2.0: What doesn't it have?:

The first release of the Evergreen library system in September 2006 brought circulation, cataloguing, reports, and a modern OPAC. Evergreen …