It's not often that I'd consider adding pure "eye candy" to the OPAC, but I couldn't decide what would be the best way of making this tag cloud functional. So, I made an executive decision and decided it shouldn't be functional If you run a keyword search on our OPAC, at the foot of the [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Library and Information Show 2008
A big thank you to everyone who came along to my OPAC session at the Library and Information Show last week! If you're looking for the presentation, it's available on SlideShare (I've finished adding the comments to the slides). During the afternoon, I snapped a few photographs… Owen Stephens has already mentioned the funky "Smartblades" [...]
RIP: Edward Lorenz
Very sad to see that Edward Lorenz, one of the founding fathers of Chaos Theory, has died. There can't be many people who aren't familiar with the concept expressed in the title of his 1972 paper "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Lorenz was awarded [...]
Tweet Clouds
I have a confession to make — I grew bored of Twitter after a couple of days. However, I felt obliged to keep on Twittering something… anything… so I hooked our OPAC into the feed instead. Every 5 minutes, a bit of code checks to see what the most popular keyword(s) used on our OPAC [...]
Another one bites the dust — RIP SirsiDynix EPS Rooms
Wow — looks like another flagship SirsiDynix product has been shelved. According to reports from attendees at the SuperConference, the company is dropping Stephen Abram's beloved EPS Rooms product. Never mind, "shift happens". At the conference, the company also announced their version of Primo/Encore (branded "Enterprise"). Curiously, this will be a SaaS only offering. RSS [...]
Calling all Librarians, Calling all Librarians!
Okay — I have a reference question that might just need the awesome combined power of the biblioblogosphere to answer! A few minutes into the 1960 film "Psycho", we get to see the following painting hung on the wall of George Lowery's office… (click to view larger version) Firstly, is it a Picasso? If not, [...]