Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • If you need to reach me…

    So, at some point between now and the end of the month, Oregon State University will be cutting the cord and killing my terry.reese@oregonstate.edu address.  So, if you are someone that contacts me, make sure you use either my gmail address: reeset@gmail.com or my Ohio State address: reese.2179@osu.edu   –TR

  • MarcEdit platform testing

    Just a couple of notes.  I’ve been spending quite a bit of time as of late testing the current MONO builds against the current MarcEdit codebase.  It looks like the latest stable version works just fine with the program, while the 3.0.x branch has a few rendering issues (not sure if they are mine or…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Hotfix

    Sorry folks — apparently a hotfix Microsoft pushed out caused the setup tool I used to corrupt when working with 64-bit systems.  I’ve removed the hotfix and rebuilt both version (32 and 64) of the program and it looks like things are in good shape now. If you tried updating today and had trouble, give…

  • MarcEdit and Linux/Mac

    So, I’ve been having a few more questions asking about how to setup MarcEdit on Linux and a Mac.  In general, the program works very well on both platforms, but takes a bit of know-how to get them running.  This is primarily due to the Z39.50 components that I link to.  On Linux, installation is…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 update

    Here’s the final list of updates that I’ve been working on for this weekend: Enhancement: The MARCEngine will now allow users to embed mnemonics into a UTF8 encoded file and those mnemonics will be expanded into proper UTF8. This means that if you have a UTF8 file, and are working in the MarcEditor, you could…

  • Thinking about what’s not being measured by the Ithaka S+R Survey

    I’d posted some not so random thoughts on the Ohio State Libraries local IT blog.  If interested, you can find it here: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/it/thinking-about-whats-not-being-measured-by-the-ithaka-sr-survey/ In a nutshell, I’ve been struck this time around the very old-world view of the library the survey seems to be presenting to faculty.  Certainly, the survey has value, but I wonder…

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