Category Archives: Library Tech
Primo Searches
Eleven weeks in two things are clear: 1) use of Primo is increasing 2) researchers begin winding down a week before Spring Break and appear to need another week to get back into the swing of things. Seems … Continue reading
Posted in Desktop Software, Library Tech
update…
Spent the past few days watching everyone move out of the area (due to impending construction of a new wrap-around expansion of Fenwick Library, various offices are emptying ahead of construction). I’m still inside the office to the right (with … Continue reading
Posted in General, Library Tech
Beefing up Discovery
In preparation for tomorrow’s launch of inPrimo, we just added an important new service to the system: the ability to discover from within inPrimo whether any library in the WRLC holds a particular journal in their collection(s). A few screen grabs will … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, General, Library Tech
Discovery = Disaggregation = Disruption
Now that we’re about done with our Primo implementation, I thought it might be useful to share a few observations … It’s Ready We resolved the last of the show-stoppers about six weeks ago and announced to staff that our … Continue reading
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What are they e-reading?
I often wonder who reads the e-books we link into our catalog. While I love reading on my Kindle I can’t go more than few “pages” into a web-based e-book before my head starts splitting. Of course, I have to … Continue reading
Posted in Library Tech
What different sort algorithms sound like
from andrut: This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There … Continue reading
Posted in Desktop Software, General, Library Tech
Fun with the 245 tag
Over the past few months I have, on more than one occasion, found myself making a full extract of the bibliographic (MARC) records in our library’s catalog. Turns out, this sort of thing happens frequently when you run your own … Continue reading
Posted in Desktop Software, General, Library Tech