Category: Innovative Interfaces

  • Can my ILS be added to MarcEdit’s ILS Integration?

    This question has shown up in my email box a number of times over the past couple of days.  My guess, it’s related to the youtube videos recently posted demonstrating how to setup and use MarcEdit directly with Alma. Windows Version: https://youtu.be/8aSUnNC48Hw Mac Version: https://youtu.be/6SNYjR_WHKU   Folks have been curious how this work was done, and if…

  • Why history and messaging are important: thinking about III and Sierra

    Over the past few months, I’ve fielded a lot of questions from colleagues at libraries either looking for or starting the process of selecting a new ILS system.  It’s a good time for it — as all the major vendors in the ILS space are shopping new systems and currently trying to court customers from…

  • Thoughts about the SkyRiver/OCLC lawsuit

    So this is what it has come to…two iconic (III and OCLC that is) library software vendors wrestling in court.  Not that I think this is all that surprising…too bad…but not particularly surprising.  In fact, I think that many folks in the library community probably seen this coming.  For me, the canary in the mine,…

  • Tidbits from the NorthWest Innovative User group meeting

    I’m running a little bit behind here, but the 14th annual NWIUG came to an end on Friday and a couple of interesting tidbits came out of it.  Probably the most welcome tidbit to come out of the conference came during Betsy Graham’s Keynote early the first morning when detailing the changes that will be…

  • For the record, no, I’m not at IUG this year

    Funny day.  Great story.  I’ve been hanging out in Minnesota attending DLF and got a funny message.  Apparently, my absence at this year’s IUG was noticed and a few folks wanted to know if Innovative had somehow banned me from attending.  I found this an odd statement for two reasons.  First, I’m not sure what…

  • Mainstreaming R&D

    I’ve become more and more convened over the past year talking to directors that for OSS development to be accepted as a part of the library community, it’s going to have to become a mainstream service.  Too much R&D in libraries is done as part of an individual, student or demo project.  To a large…

  • NW IUG 2006 — Day 2

    Well, I got off to a bit of a slow start today.  I stayed with my brother and sister-in-law in Vancouver, WA and had to make the trip across the river back into Portland.  The sessions started at 9:30 am, so I took off around 9 figuring that 30 minutes would be plenty of time. …

  • An Opac Alternative? AquaBrowser and Millennium

    David Wasserman, King County Library System A discussion of why and how the King County Library brought up AquaBrowser.  AquaBrowser is an interesting application, but I’m not sure what to think about it to be honest.  However, what I did find interesting was how they sync. data between AquaBrowser and III.  I have a lot of methods that I use to extract…

  • MARC Holdings

    Sion Romaine and Linda Pitts, University of Washington (Linda Pitts) This session focuses on the implementation of MARC holdings within III and the UW’s process converting their free text holdings into MFHDs.  The presentation gave a very quick overview of the MFHD format as well as some information relating to the problems that they have…

  • NW IUG 2006

    Thank god, this should be the last of my travel for some time.  Thankfully, this is a local conference — the Northwest Innovative Usergroup.  I’m actually presenting two topics, one related specifically to III’s products and one where I’m going to be doing a little evangelism for open access within our ILS (good luck, I…