Snow time December 17, 2011
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Kudos to the WordPress team, who have been offering hosted blogs the snow-falling-in-your-browser-around-this-time-of-year for quite a number of years.
Thanks for that! Very nice.
Maybe Google thought that ‘let it snow’ would be cute as a (cough) Christmas Egg?
You heard it here first.
It’s time to retool the nature of Authority work October 13, 2011
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ORCID and ISNI are picking up a bit of steam. Good, because our IR’s have been up and running for some time.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we continue to labour over all this massively redundant, shared authorized headings information. For monographic works that are shared in umpteen similar collections. For headings identifying authors of monographic works.
We can’t seem to start to refocus our attention on authors — scholars? scientists? creators? contributors? — who are producing scholarly content in journals, or self-publishing venues, non traditional media, and so on.
We’re still too deeply ingrained in traditional workflows that do not consider the numbers of creators at our own home institutions who are generating other types of scholarly material.
Time Machine sent me back in Time…to Firefox July 12, 2011
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Wooot! After first backing up everything with our new Time Machine setup, and then upgrading my older PowerPC Mac to Mac OS 10.5.8, I discovered that a current version of Firefox is not supported!
So I travelled back in time and downloaded an earlier version of Firefox which is supported on PP Macs — 3.6.19 — and imported my familiar Firefox bookmarks. [Breathes sigh of relief]. You know how it is when your browser bookmarks are messed up or missing…
This should now hold me over until I get a totally new setup for my aging PowerPC Mac (which I love). This is my “other” desktop computer — but now I’ve decided to replace it with a large monitor and bluetooth keyboard, and spring for a MacBook Air which will do double-duty as the processor. The new MacBook Air is very nice, light, and I need something serious to replace my Mac Powerbook (which feels like I’m lugging a brick around).
After that, an iPad will complete the picture. Next year when my Rogers iPhone contract is up, I’ll move to the newer iPhone.
It’s Planet Apple over here. Always has been!
Release 2009B 1.3 Upgrade success July 5, 2011
Posted by Mia in cataloguing, Circulation, CLUES/WebPAC, Collections, ERM Module.comments closed
Successfully upgraded to r 2009B this morning in record time, with minimal disruption. Woot! A few glitches to be sure, but otherwise, quite smooth for day 1. The example set is looking pretty good, I must say, and things are being stabilized.
The actual library workstations need to be upgraded and re-imaged, but that is apparently being scheduled in as-we-speak. As we cycle through the staff modules, I expect will be some issues that will start cropping up.
Onwards and upwards.
Post-traumatic RDA testing implementation disorder June 21, 2011
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The eagerly awaited announcement concerning whether or not the primary test sites (LC/NAL/NLM) would proceed with RDA Implementation is out in the form of an executive summary:
This announcement is a thinly disguised non-implementation decision, since RDA would not be adopted anytime before 2013. The executive summary manages to state flat out that there is no sound reason [aka the "business case"] to adopt RDA.
In Facebook years, 2013 is light-years away. A May 13, 2011 announcement concerning the transition away from MARC — which is the real business case — has already emerged.
These two announcements have started to apply a steady but constant pressure on the library world, allowing some necessary lead time for reality to continue to sink in. By the time it does, and vendors are offering spiffy, sexy, replacement products and services, some decisions will just painlessly make themselves.
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