Posted in Library Systems, Social Software on Oct 7th, 2007 6 Comments »
Putting together my presentation for LITA Forum and another presentation I’m doing at the end of November, I started to think again about restrictive IT policies regarding desktops, firewalls, and filters and how such policies effect Library 2.0 type endeavors.
At UH we have (my opinion) a very restrictive and controlling set of IT policies regarding [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Library Systems on Jul 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
Lorcan Dempsey has a great post about how network are reshaping the library systems environment. Lorcan does a terrific job of describing the evolution of things and paints and interesting picture of where we might be going. What interests me the most about the article is his discussion of the need for unified access to [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Web 2.0 on Jan 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Over at Library 2.0 An Academic Perspective, Laura Cohen has a post commenting on my recent article in Computers in Libraries. She worries about the scale of 2.0 projects and how libraries can share what they’ve done so that we aren’t always reinventing the wheel. The project of remaking the Libraries site at UH may [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Tech Demons on May 5th, 2006 3 Comments »
I have a sinking suspicion that MPOW blocks IRC traffic (I recently confirmed this with campus IT). I can understand why this might be. Wanting productive employees and trying to keep the network secure. However, I have a legitimate use for IRC in my job. There is an IRC channel called #code4lib whose members have [...]
Posted in Library Systems, OpenURL on Feb 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Since Midwinter I’ve been thinking about a bunch of different ideas of how we can improved the web services we provide to our users. Many of the things I’ve been thinking about involve making it easier for library users to repurpose the content that libraries provide access to. It isn’t easy for people to find [...]
Posted in Library Systems, OpenURL on May 21st, 2005 No Comments »
God yesterday was a long day! The day started with problems with our interlibrary loan system. We had run a script to delink user records from items borrowed in order to protect user privacy. Unfortunately, while the script work the way it was written, it had some nasty unanticipated side effects. Ones I didn’t catch [...]
Posted in Library Systems on Mar 7th, 2005 No Comments »
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems
Andrew Pace has a fabulous article over at Library Journal discussing integrated library systems and their limitations and the need to dismantle them. This is something that I have been dealing with for the better part of four years. As it is my job to coordinate the library’s electronic presence, the integrated [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Usability on Jan 28th, 2005 No Comments »
The Evergreen project blog has an interesting list of
functionalities that web being included in the OPAC portion of that
open source library system.
There are some specific OPAC functionalities that I’d like to point
out. Note that we designed this OPAC using the focus group notes as
guidelines, and the vast majority of this functionality comes directly
from those notes:
Ability [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Library Systems on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Happy Vendor Experience
I'm been working on trying to get the data generated by our OpenURL
resolver and our online list of periodical holdings to be in sync with
one another. The reason I need to do this is that we use SFX for our
OpenURL resolver and have been using data from Serials Solutions to
create our list of [...]
Posted in Library Systems, RSS on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
SIRSI and RSS
Like many folks last week I was really excited when Jenny posted about
SIRSI's offering RSS feeds out of the catalog. The of idea that a
library vendor is catching on to this idea is very hopeful. However,
like Dave
I am still a wee bit skeptical. The idea that this may have to be an
add-on with [...]
