The University of Hudderfield Library is entering into the 2nd phase of a 3 year refurbishment. Last year, it was the entrance floor, and this year it's the two subject floors above. Floor 5 is already cleared of stock, and floor 6 will be empty by the end of next week.
I couldn't resist [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
Where did all the books go?
2008 — The Year of Making Your Data Work Harder
Quite a few of the conversations I've had this year at conferences and exhibitions have been about making data work harder (it's also one of the themes in the JISC "Towards Implementation of Library 2.0 and the E-framework" study). We've had circ driven borrowing suggestions on our OPAC since 2005 (were we the first [...]
quick conference summary
Graham and Ian have already said many of the things I was planning to say, so just a quickie blog post and I'll try and add more later…
A big "thank you" to everyone who was involved in organising the conference — I think it's safe to say it was a huge success. A huge [...]
Southampton – day one
The presentations for day one of the conference have drawn to a close and there's only time for a quick blog post before we all head off for an evening of nautical fun and frolics on the "Three Rivers Cruise". Cross your fingers no-one falls overboard!
Unfortunately, for "personal reasons", CEO Gary Rautenstrauch isn't at [...]
Sexy SirsiDynix shenanigans in sunny Southampton
(Well, it'll be sexy in-so-far as I'm including some gratuitous nudity in my session on "RSS and Social Networking" on Thursday. Will I be stripping off and revealing all in the name of "2.0"? You'll have to come along and find out!)
I'm currently sat in Manchester Airport, waiting for a budget flight down [...]
new API from OpenLibrary
Great to see that OpenLibrary ("One web page for every book") now has an API!
There's an interesting debate going on via the Code4Lib email list regarding the API. Specifically, should they have used SRU or is exposing a simple API better? Personally, I'm all for simple APIs that non-library techies can pick up [...]
Nympho Librarian
Currently doing the rounds of email inboxes at our library is this little gem…
To paraphrase a conversation that occurred in the LSW chatroom last week…
Librarian 2.oooooooooooooooh!
Librarian 3.in.a.bed?
Librarian Phwooooar!
I like the way the poor patron is still trying to read his book!
Giving it all away
Fans of Chris Anderson might want to check out this article which appeared in today's Guardian newspaper in the UK: "The big giveaway"…
International flights that don't cost a thing? Books or music you don't have to pay for? Even companies handing out cars? Traditional business is based on the certainty that everything has a price. [...]
Scrum and Agile
I'm sure many SirsiDynix customers remember the terms "Scrum" and "Agile" being bandied around a few years ago during the development of Horizon 8.0. What I don't remember being as widely reported at the time was that half of the developers were based in Russia (the other half were based in Provo, USA).
Anyway, the [...]