Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit Wireframes

    I’ve been spending some time over the past week drawing up a few new wireframes for MarcEdit.  Part of this is because I’d like to update the program’s look and feel, part of it is that I’m moving some code around so if I ever get a Mac mini for testing, I can start working…

  • Code4Lib Journal Issue 21 Published

    Generally I wouldn’t note the release of the journal on my blog, but since I’m the Coordinating Editor for this issue, it seemed appropriate.  I’ve attached the announcement below: The Code4Lib Journal editors are excited to bring you this latest issue with ten articles.  You can find it at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue21; titles and abstracts below. Editorial…

  • June 2013: MarcEdit Top 25 Country usage

    One of the fun things about moving my content off the Oregon State network and onto my own domain is that I get to use my own statistics package and it’s allowing me to gather a little more granularity in my statistics, which is fun.  I always find it interesting looking at where MarcEdit is…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    For those of you in the United States, I hope that you have had a happy Independence Day.  Being our first in Columbus, my family spent last night watching the city fireworks and today with family enjoying time together.  In between last night and this morning, I completed work on a small MarcEdit update to…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update – ALA Edition

    While all you suckers are stuck in Chicago, I figured I’d take a few minutes between caving in Ohio and chatting with my parents whom are visiting from Oregon to push out a MarcEdit update.  Nothing earth shattering…few bug fixes and a few enhancements.  Here’s the list: Enhancement: Merge Record Function — enhanced editions check…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update Posted

    I just posted a new update.  The update includes a major rewrite of the merge algorithm, as well as a few bug fixes and small enhancements.  Here’s the list: Update: Merge Function — this is a rewrite.  The function was rewritten to provide a bit more flexibility, better performance, and a framework for exposing the…

  • MarcEdit Swap Field function updates

    I meant to post this earlier, but then got busy with travel.  Three weeks ago, I was sitting down to make a few changes to the swap field function in MarcEdit and realized after scanning the function, I couldn’t remember how it worked.  This doesn’t happen very often (I probably over document my code), but…

  • Libraries and cooking

    With my move to The Ohio State University Libraries, one of the things that I’ve been thinking a lot about is how to tie together a lot of seemingly desperate systems to start creating a coherent digital initiatives infrastructure.  It’s a fun problem to be working though…something I was trying to explain to a friend…

  • 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…

  • Northern California Technical Processing Group odds and ends

    This past week, I’ve been out in San Francisco doing some speaking.  One of the groups that I spoke to was the Northern California Technical Processing Group.  A fantastic group, that included a mix of people currently in libraries, as well as a bunch of bright, young, soon to be minted librarians.  So, a really…

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