Terry’s Worklog

  • Halloween’s past

    A friend of mine gave this to me the other day — it’s an old picture of Kenny, probably around when he is 14 or 15 months, so we would have still been in Eugene at the time.  To see him now, you’d have to wonder where all that blonde hair has went to. 🙂…

  • Weekend in Disney

    After returning home from Vermont, I had to make good on a promise that I made back in June to my boys — so we packed up and heading down to Disneyland.  For Nathan and Kenny, this was their first time down at Disneyland.  In fact, for Nathan, it was his first time on an…

  • 6th annual ReadEx Digital Institute Summary

    As all good things must come to an end, so too has the ReadEx Digital Institute closed for another year.  Like always, this symposium offers an opportunity to connect with colleagues from various institutions and professional backgrounds to discuss some of the issues that we wrestle with as we work on developing and managing our…

  • Must the library live in perpetual beta to achieve agility

    An interesting question brought up by David Seaman here at the Readex Digital Institute.  David provided the opening keynote for the conference and in it, discussed a process that Dartmouth College went through this year to consider how the library can become more nimble within our networked world.  How the library can be given a…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5.2 available

    LibraryFind 0.8.5.2 has officially been tagged and posted to the libraryfind.org website.  You can get the tarball here: http://libraryfind.org/release-0.8.5.2.tar.gz.  This release has admittedly been a long time coming.  What’s held it up?  Well, primarily work that we were doing for people interested in using LibraryFind outside of the public view.  Of course, the result of…

  • R & R

    The past couple of days, I’ve been spending a few quite days in Vermont ahead of the ReadEx Digital Institute.  I’ve had the opportunity to be able to attend and speak at this little shin-dig for a number of years, and this year is no different.  I actually like this get together a lot for…

  • MarcEdit 5.x update notes

    I don’t usually post information about pending updates, but I want to prep users for an upcoming change.  In all versions of MarcEdit, the application installs all application and configuration files by default to the Program Files/MarcEdit 5.0/ directory.  To help make MarcEdit friendlier for Vista/Group managed XP systems, the next build is going to…

  • Just wondering

    I was at the Oregon State/USC football game last night (9/25) and have just one question:  Does mean that Oregon State is now The OSU?  I’m just saying… –TR

  • oai and sru gems updated

    In wrapping up the Libraryfind 0.8.5.1 update, I’ve had to make some modifications to a few gem packages.  These are the ones updated: oai: http://rubyforge.org/projects/oai/Changes:Prior versions of the oai component only supported the ruby libxml gem 0.3.8-.  In order to support the newer versions of the ruby-libxml (which does better memory management), I’ve updated the…

  • 100 foods

    Not library related but fun, I guess.  My wife sent me a list because she wondered what kinds of crazy things on this list I could say I’ve eaten.  Some of the things on this list, I honestly don’t even know what they are.  But, I’ll play the game.  I’ve bolded the items of things…

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