Marshall Breeding has published the results of the "Perceptions 2007: An International Survey of Library Automation" and I doubt they'll make comfortable reading at SirsiDynix HQ (unless Scribe has got it right!)…
The products of SirsiDynix, Unicorn and Horizon, received low satisfaction scores from libraries responding to the survey. Unicorn, the company’s flagship ILS performed somewhat [...]
Posts Tagged ‘horizon’
International Survey of Library Automation
Horizon — the five stages of grief
Well, I finally passed through the "denial" stage yesterday evening (which was partly why I didn't post the information I knew until the formal announcement), slipped in "anger" overnight (good job I can never remember my nightmares!), which I guess puts me firmly into the "bargaining" stage today…
I wonder if I rang up SirsiDynix and [...]
HIP XML Parser (v0.01) – search parser
Okay folks – here's the companion piece of code to the bib parser I posted a few weeks ago!
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/xmlparser/search.pl
As with the previous code, this is alpha at best and should be treated as such. However, if you have any suggestions then please feed them back to me.
As well as specifying your own $url, you can [...]
HIP XML Parser (v0.01)
This is some code that I've been meaning to make available for public consumption for weeks, but we've been up to our necks with our RFID tender at Huddersfield recently.
The basic idea is to convert the XML output of HIP 2 and HIP 3 into a Perl data structure, which you can then use to [...]
Live OPAC search terms display
Another shameless hack inspired by the "Making Visible the Invisible" at SPL.
I've tweaked HIP to cache keyword search terms and then put together a couple of pages that display successful searches (in tasteful shades of purple and lilac) and failed searches (in gruesome greens).
IE has a nice CSS blur, so I've coupled that with Ajax [...]