Terry’s Worklog

  • University fundraising campaigns

    Wow — I was reading MSNBC today and found an article from Newsweek on higher education fundraising campaigns.  4 billion dollar campaigns…wow.  OSU is looking at doing a fundraising campaign — though our goals are much more modest — I believe the last stated goal was somewhere in the 400 million dollar range.  Still lots…

  • First frost

    Ah, enjoyed the first frosty ride of the morning today.  It was 37 degrees at my house and ~31-32 our on the highway (its actually interesting, I’ve found that temperature can vary by almost 10 degrees once you get out into the farmland) making the farm land a very sparkly white.  Fortunately, I grabbed some…

  • Random Google Thoughts

    I was following a thread today talking about some of the legal wrangling’s related to Google and their Google Books project.  The message that made me laugh was a series where someone had commented that Google had long since forgotten their ‘do no evil’ philosophy and have become pure evil.  Of which, someone said it was…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Quick update to MarcEdit 5.0.  The following has been updated: Support for .pac files in the Z39.50/SRU client I think that this works.  We don’t use pac files anymore — so lets just say that if the documentation that I have was correct — it should work.  Corrected problem with Find function.  (The program wouldn’t…

  • NW IUG 2006 — Day 2

    Well, I got off to a bit of a slow start today.  I stayed with my brother and sister-in-law in Vancouver, WA and had to make the trip across the river back into Portland.  The sessions started at 9:30 am, so I took off around 9 figuring that 30 minutes would be plenty of time. …

  • An Opac Alternative? AquaBrowser and Millennium

    David Wasserman, King County Library System A discussion of why and how the King County Library brought up AquaBrowser.  AquaBrowser is an interesting application, but I’m not sure what to think about it to be honest.  However, what I did find interesting was how they sync. data between AquaBrowser and III.  I have a lot of methods that I use to extract…

  • MARC Holdings

    Sion Romaine and Linda Pitts, University of Washington (Linda Pitts) This session focuses on the implementation of MARC holdings within III and the UW’s process converting their free text holdings into MFHDs.  The presentation gave a very quick overview of the MFHD format as well as some information relating to the problems that they have…

  • NW IUG 2006

    Thank god, this should be the last of my travel for some time.  Thankfully, this is a local conference — the Northwest Innovative Usergroup.  I’m actually presenting two topics, one related specifically to III’s products and one where I’m going to be doing a little evangelism for open access within our ILS (good luck, I…

  • Goodbye Ottawa

    So for me, Access 2006 has come to a close.  Thank you Ottawa for the night terrors (courtesy of the ghost walk :)), the Art Center, the gorgeous weather (the rain made me feel like home) and a fantastic group of speakers and topics over the past 3 days.  There was Roy’s talk on the…

  • Access 2006, Day 2

    Sadly, I think I’m starting to wear down a little bit from all the travel this month.  Morning sessions (and morning bike ride) — great.  But its 5:30 now and I’m definitely tired.  If it wasn’t for the Ghost Walk, and a chance to chat with a few folks tonight, I’d probably just grab my…

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