Month: December 2011
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Will publishers turn ebook readers into shiny paper weights
I’ve been meaning to write something about this because I’ve noticed the trend myself, but it took a post from Jonathan (http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/why-a-shift-to-ebooks-imperils-libraries/) regarding challenges libraries will continue to face with the shift to e-books that reminded me to get back to it. There was an interesting story in the Guardian the other day entitled, “The…
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Merry Christmas–MarcEdit 5.7 Available
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope that everyone has a safe, and happy holidays with their family and their friends. In what has become a bit of a holiday tradition, I’m releasing an update to MarcEdit, MarcEdit 5.7. Yep, this shifts from version number from 5.6 to 5.7, and there are some pretty good reasons why…
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Can libraries really be effective advocates for open data?
This is one of those questions that I ponder ever now and again, because I wonder how effective libraries really can be as open data advocates when our current practice demonstrates that we don’t fully believe in the concept. Well, I should qualify that — we have no problem believing that other people have a…
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MarcEdit MARCXML XSLT changes
I’ve been working on making a few changes to the way in which MarcEdit processes MARCXML data. In MarcEdit, XML metadata transactions happen via XSLT. This was done primarily to provide a great deal of flexibility in the types of XML transactions MarcEdit could preform. It also meant that others could create their own XSLT…