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Patrons as Developers
By now, you’ve probably read about SirsiDynix’s “position paper” on open source, first posted on WikiLeaks. It’s kind of funny that almost exactly 11 years to the day after the first Microsoft Halloween document was leaked, SirsiDynix has
It’s not a private club if everyone can join
I was chatting with some coworkers today and they told me about a discussion about Evergreen on the AUTOCAT mailing list. I decided to sign up because I had previously considered it and, really, what’s one more mailing list to join and then ignore?
After signing up, I had to laugh when I received the confirmation [...]
Copyright Consultation
The Copyright Consultation organized by the Government of Canada has come and gone. Last year’s Bill C-61 caused a bit of an uproar, which prompted the government’s new Industry Minister to take a different approach. The result was a public
Canadians: We Love Our Privacy
We’ve had a Privacy Commissioner here in Canada for decades now, but the office has become much more visible since January 1, 2001, when the first phase of PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) came into effect. Since January 1, 2004, the Act has applied to all organizations that collect and use personal [...]
CLA Open House
The Canadian Library Association is holding an Open House event in two weeks’ time, and I’m hoping to drop in. Unfortunately, this seems to only have been announced through the listserv, with no mention on the CLA website, so here are the
Backup Recovery Testing
We have a new addition at work – a server for testing and development (mercifully, my suggestion to name it “dev-ergreen” didn’t stick). There were some initial ideas for this new server, including:
allowing staff to test out new
The Piece of Paper
It has barely been three months but school seems so far away. Or it did, until my diploma arrived in the mail.
I know it’s just a piece of paper and that my graduation was never really in doubt…but it’s comforting to have it in hand all the same.
III Linking Policy
I was recently going through Innovative’s web site and, out of curiosity, clicked on the small “Legal Notices” link at the bottom of their front page. It instructed me to “PLEASE READ THESE ‘TERMS OF USE’ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB SITE”. It occurred to me that, if they truly wanted all visitors to read [...]
Export to RefWorks from Evergreen
At my place of work, we signed up for a site-wide license to RefWorks last fall. We’ve also recently moved to Evergreen for our new ILS (press release). Naturally, there was a request from library staff to add a function in Evergreen to export citations from the OPAC directly into RefWorks.
I was happy to discover [...]
Net Neutrality Town Hall
Information about a Net Neutrality Town Hall just came my way through a CLA mailing list. It features some interesting speakers: Michael Geist needs no introduction, and Charlie Angus has recently tabled a Net Neutrality bill in Canadian Parliament