Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
I visited Amazon.com for the first time in a week or so. (I’ve stayed away lest I be tempted to buy more books and annoy my spouse.) When I visited I discovered that when you look at records now in Amazon you can add tags. Below is a screenshot I made of it.
It is really [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Jane tagged me and since I’ve been away at Code4Lib I haven’t had a chance to respond until now.
Four jobs I have had in my life:
Museum tour guide
Grocery store cashier
Title Insurance Researcher
Florist assistant
Four Books I could read over and over: (I changed this one from Movies)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Speed of Dark by [...]
Posted in Web Services on Feb 21st, 2006 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about how I link to books I cite on my blog and really wanting to have an easier way to create these links. How I do this now is to open a new tab and go do an Amazon search for that I want then copy and paste the url from Amazon [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, Ongoing Projects on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I spent time today and Code4Lib listening to Dan Chudnov talk about unAPI both in a formal presentation and in a breakout session where people talked about and created a draft specification for it. Before coming here I really didn’t know much about the unAPI idea. I’d kind of been following what Dan had been [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Notes from the Field on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Art Rhyno
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
why should I care?
we are all impacted by these kind of systems
Do you really want to recreate these types of functions (acquistions, etc)
Spend a lot of time on workflow
rules engines
OSS ERP
GNUe - python-based, still emerging
Compiere - java-based, oracle for persistence, recently added sybase
ERP5 - zope-based, add-ons for resource calculations
OFBiz - java-based, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
Enhancing with external content
book review
usage statistics
list each loan, days borrowed, and returned, days our, renewals and borrower class
incorporate popularity into searching
Permalink for the book
book covers
random cover comes up on library’s homepage
virtual new book shelf
Link to local libraries connect to see if resource at available
search other remote resources
Google
RedLightGreen
is this available via fulltext via GooglePrint or snippets [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not really sure what exactly is wrong with the Internet access in my hotel room except to say that it is flaky. It works intermittently and I’ve been very cautious in creating blog posts to make sure I save what I’ve been working on frequently. I’ll ask at the desk later this morning what [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Late last night I arrived in Corvallis, OR for Code4Lib, the conference I’ve been looking forward to the most this year. Originally, I didn’t think that I’d be able to attend but I’m here and very excited. The conference experience started out good because I was able to catch a ride from Portland to Corvallis [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
There is a phenomenal post over at Creating Passionate Users about how organizations stop great ideas from being implemented, why this is bad and how good organizations can avoid this trap. One of the best things about the post is that it includes some terrific graphics that illustrate its point. At my new job, we [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 8th, 2006 1 Comment »
I just refound a post of Jenny’s on ALA TechSource entitled “Library 2.0 and the Real World” that talks about how Library 2.0 is manifesting itself in the example of NCSU’s new catalog and Casey Bisson’s work. I’ve talked about Casey’s work before and am thrilled to see it getting a lot of press. There [...]
