Almost 2 years ago, 729 of you generously took time to fill out a survey about OPACs (archived here). You can find a selection of blog posts about the results here. I'm pleased to say that a follow-up survey is now being conducted by Bowker and I'd encourage as many of you as possible to [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Mashed Libraries — "Mash Oop North"?
I'll try and make some time to blog about the excellent dev8D event, but on Thursday morning I had a chat with Owen Stephens about running a Mashed Libraries event in Yorkshire. Earlier on in the week, the name "Mash Oop North" sprang into my head[1]. With a name like that, it'd be rude not [...]
JISC Developer Happiness Days (dev8D)
For my sins, I'm going to be facilitating the OPAC Community Meeting at the JISC Developer Happiness Days event in London next week. Although we've got "OPAC" in the name, I think the session should include anything to do with library catalogues, library usage data, MARC records, federated search engines, revelancy ranking, facets, etc We'd [...]
It's raining squirrels
Squirrels falling out of the sky isn't something that's unheard of in Huddersfield — see this BBC News story about an inventor who suffered whiplash from a falling squirrel — but I'd not seen it happen until yesterday. Late yesterday afternoon, we ventured out into the snow and had a little wander through the local [...]