Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Updating my blog

    I just finished updating my version of WordPress and rather than just doing an upgrade, I decided to do a new install. The main reason for this is that I’ve been running a really old version due to some limitations on the OSU web space (no MySQL 5). Well, we finally can support a current…

  • Reese Family 2011 Pumpkins

    So, I finished up working on the last of the 2011 Reese Family pumpkins.  We ended up doing 5 pumpkins this year, and I ended up being very happy with all of them.  I’ve posted the first two already, but I’m going include them here again, so I can put them all in one list.…

  • 2011 Pumpkin #2–Toothless the Dragon

    For those of you that don’t have kids dragging you to most cartoons released in the theatre, this is a picture of Toothless, from the movie How to train your dragon.  Toothless is what they call, a NightFury.  Anyway — here’s a picture of the dragon from the movie:   And here is our recreation…

  • 2011 Jack-o-lantern #1

    Around Halloween, the pumpkin carving usually begins in earnest.  Today, I completed the first of our 5 pumpkins.  This one is mine — and I decided to go with the OSU Beaver in honor of the whooping the football team put on Washington State this last weekend.  Hopefully it will display proudly through next weekend…

  • MarcEdit 5.6: MarcEdit Intellisense

    In MarcEdit 5.6, I’ve added support for a number of new mnemonic values.  This means that MarcEdit now supports a really long list of mnemonic values.  To make it easier for people using mnemonics — I’ve added an intellisense to the MarcEdit application.  When a user types { the application will automatically pop-up the list…

  • MarcEdit 5.6: New mnemonic values

    I’ve had a few people ask me to include some additional convenience mnemonics to MarcEdit to make it easier for people entering mnemonics in MARC-8 mode.  The mnemonic list now includes the following elements (see below): –TR aacute — á Aacute — Ã? abreve — ă Abreve — Ä‚ acirc — â Acirc — Â…

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