Terry’s Worklog

  • Beaver Cookies

    So, over this past year, I’ve watched the Beaver’s Football team go from awful (Stanford and Penn State) to great (USC) to inspired as they ran through the Pac-10.  In fact, like many season ticket holders, I was making my Rose Bowl plans because, well, all we had to do was beat a very flawed…

  • A Guide for the perplexed: libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement

    In case folks haven’t seen it, this came across my desk today.  It’s an analysis written by Jonathan Band, a copyright expert that does work with ARL.  The link to the document is here: http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml I think it’s definitely worth taking a look at. –TR

  • new shoes and dry feet

    A lot of folks know that cycling for me is a year round event.  Well, during the winter, the weather turns dark, cold and wet.  Now, it’s not nearly as cold as those folks that live in snowy weather climates, but it pretty much starts raining in Oct and then stops sometime around May.  So,…

  • Faust 2.0 (xkcd.com strip)

    I always look forward checking my feedreader on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays because I know that one of my favorites comics, xkcd will have a new strip to read.  I got a special kick out of today’s, http://xkcd.com/501/, in part because I think that most commercial EULAs are from the devil 🙂 and I simply…

  • A look at the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records revision

    OCLC has posted a revised version of it’s new policy for use and transfer of WorldCat Records.  This is a revision of the short-lived version of this document posted Nov. 2nd and taken down early Nov. 3rd.  Additionally, OCLC has significantly revised the FAQ’s for this document (which is important, since this is what most…

  • My next chapter at Oregon State

    Changes, changes.  One thing that is always true at an academic institution is that things just don’t stand still very long.  Jeremy Frumkin, my good friend and partner in crime here at OSU for the past 5+ years, has moved on to the University of Arizona, leaving some very big shoes for the library to…

  • What would it look like if OCLC was broken up?

    The other day, I posted what I seen as some very big concerns with OCLC’s revised policy (currently being reconsidered) on the transfer of records (two of which, I would consider deal breakers).  In this post, I made the argument that maybe it was time to consider breaking OCLC up to reflect what it has…

  • OCLC’s proposed new guidelines for the transfer of bibliographic records

    OCLC, today has made available their proposed new policy for the transfer of bibliographic records.  You can read the documents for yourself: Policy (general): http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/ Policy Statement (1987): http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/ worldcat/records/guidelines/default.htm New proposed policy (2008):http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/policy.htm FAQ: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/questions/default.htm   I took a sometime this morning to read through the proposed changes as well as the FAQs, and…

  • 2008 Jack-o-lanterns

    So, I got off easy this year  Unlike past years, when the boys have asked for pumpkin themes that took me hours to carve, this year, they picked fairly simple images (and patterns).  So here they are: Kenny’s Pumpkin   Nathan’s Pumpkin (a skull with spider webs — he picked it):   –TR

  • 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…

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