Sitting in the Short Loan collection in the main library at the University of Huddersfield, it doesn't really stand out as been any different to the other DVDs near it, but our copy of "City of God" is officially the most borrowed item from our entire collection (which is nearly 400,000 items) in the last [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2008’
Ooops – did I just delete the LMS database?
I'm always wary of doing bulk changes to the bibliographic records via SQL, so I tend to be fairly cautious. Anyway, we'd got nearly 100,000 bib records that need rejiggering (ISBN in the wrong field), so I knocked up a Perl script to do the deed. After it had changed a few hundred records, I [...]
Spot the difference
Here's a recent statement from SirsiDynix… “The Horizon 7.4.1 and HIP 3.09/4.13 releases are clear evidence that SirsiDynix remains committed to the Horizon platform,†said Gary Rautenstrauch, SirsiDynix CEO. “While SirsiDynix Symphony is our flagship platform for the future, SirsiDynix will continue to upgrade the Horizon platform for the next four to six years. “This [...]
God bless Google!
…in particular, the Google cache of web pages that it's trawled. Although Woolworths have removed the "Lolita Midsleeper Combi" from their web site, you can still find the product via the Google Cache… (BBC News: Woolworths withdraws 'Lolita' bed) I can't decide what amazes me more — that a company would name a product for [...]