Terry’s Worklog

  • I’m whole again and heading back on the bike 🙂

    I visited my doctor today and after a set of x-rays, found that my elbow has successfully healed. Restrictions have been lifted and I plan on celebrating tomorrow by riding the recumbent for the first time in almost 3 months. Today has been a very good day.

  • The Internet Generation

    Maybe it’s because I have two young children, maybe it’s because I honestly think that we don’t do as a good of a job as we think we do serving those so called digital natives…but I have a fascination with the Internet Generation.  Recently, I had read John Palfrey’s book Born Digital. The book is…

  • Living behind the paywall

    I wanted to highlight a series of articles currently published on Wired discussing the changing nature of the Web.  The articles are entitled: The Web is Dead.  Long Live the Internet The Web is Dead?  A Debate How the Web Wins Personally, I find these kinds of articles quite fascinating, as I’m constantly struck by…

  • Unicode Changes in MarcEdit

    This change was implemented in June 2010, but I wanted to draw users attention to it, especially since I just commented on this change via the MarcEdit listserv. As many people know, the state of Unicode usage in MARC, well, stinks.  While many systems utilize UTF-8 in their records, the UTF-8 notation that is used…

  • 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,…

  • MarcEdit update

    I posted a minor MarcEdit update this evening.  The changes were minimal, mostly cosmetic.  The main issues corrected were: Z39.50 batch file checking:  If the user file isn’t generated on install, the program would throw an error.  The program will now autogenerate that file if it is missing. Window cleanup:  When running the MarcEditor and…

  • Google and the future of search

    I was reading through my blog reader this morning and ran across Nicolas Carr’s somewhat snarky comment of an interview done by Google CEO Eric Schmidt (http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/08/brave_new_googl.php).  It made me laugh, but I wanted to actually read the interview since the Google folks lately have been making some very oddly un-Googlish statements regarding privacy or,…

  • MarcEdit update notes

    While I’ll have to admit that I haven’t had an opportunity to do a lot of major work on MarcEdit this summer, I have had the opportunity to make some very targeted changes.  One of those changes was long past due, but has been causing a little bit of trouble when upgrading so I thought…

  • Summer update

    Well, it’s been a bit of a busy summer.  So much so, that I’ve been neglecting my space here for a bit.  I’ve been keeping up with MarcEdit updates and primarily notify folks of updates through the new auto update tool, but other than that — I’ve gotten behind.  Lots of reasons.  Some of it…

  • WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative — initial thoughts

    So yesterday, a number of messages were sent out letting folks know that the OCLC Record Use Policy Council had completed their work and have provided a draft document to the OCLC member community for comment.  Sadly, I’m in the middle of doing other work (travelling mostly) — but I have had an opportunity to…

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