Tue 24 Apr 2007, 3:50 pm
Millennium Control Bar
Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar.
The Millennium Control Bar for the Macintosh client for Innovative Interfaces’ Millennium product is the best/worst (take your pick) example of mystery meat navigation that I have to deal with on a semi-regular basis.
Just what are those buttons supposed to mean? Sure, you can [...]
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Tue 19 Dec 2006, 10:09 pm
When I last wrote about Casey Bisson’s apparent plan to use the money from his Mellon award to pay for Library of Congress catalog records which he would then turn around and make freely available, you will recall that I was scratching my head a bit. Can he do that? And if he does, so [...]
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Mon 11 Dec 2006, 11:37 am
Time to expose my ignorance. That’s what blogs are for, right?
So we all know that Casey Bisson’s awesomeness has been institutionally confirmed and rewarded.
Subsequent to that announcement, I have now seen at least three blog posts (librarian.net, the goblin in the library, and Thing-ology) talking about Bisson’s plan to buy LC catalog records and release [...]
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Mon 4 Dec 2006, 9:28 pm
It’s a good day for the OPAC today, as Casey Bisson takes home a Mellon Award for his work on the WPopac; that’s the WordPress front-end on an Innovative Interfaces catalog, described by Casey in his post WPopac: An OPAC 2.0 Testbed.
In other OPAC news, Library Thing impresario Tim Spalding has a nice post on [...]
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Fri 8 Sep 2006, 1:53 pm
It would seem that I have Google bomb”>googlebombed my own catalog.
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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Tue 1 Aug 2006, 2:30 pm
Cowbell
Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre.
…my OPAC needs more cowbell.
The biblioblogosphere is bringing the funny today, I’ll tell you.
Now, I wonder where I can put this image on my actual OPAC?
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Thu 15 Jun 2006, 10:19 am
Edited to fix the paragraph beginning “My point is, the vendors..,” as I had left some words out, making the meaning the opposite of what I intended. Oops.
In The problem with the “ILS Bill of Rights”, Dan Chudnov takes ILS complainers (like me, I suppose, though his title refers back to John Blyberg’s ILS Customer [...]
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Mon 12 Jun 2006, 11:41 am
Apparently inspired by our exchange in the comments on A biblioblogger visits the local branch library, K.G. Schneider, my favorite gay, Christian, left-handed, MFA student / blogger / librarian / gadfly, has come up with a nice new piece of flair:
You can put it on your blog, or the home page of your institution (your [...]
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Fri 19 May 2006, 12:02 pm
A few notes on catalogs before attending the Innovative Users Group meeting in Denver.
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Wed 26 Apr 2006, 10:13 am
I have often thought that Library of Congress Subject Headings for fiction were kind of funny in they way they can reduce a complex work of art into a few words. And the “– Fiction” part just seems funny to me, as in “Middle-aged men — Fiction.”
So here is a a little quiz: nine classic [...]
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Sat 26 Nov 2005, 6:04 pm
From the ask-and-ye-shall-receive department:
So just the other day I was griping in this space that our online catalog won’t even do spelling suggestions, let alone the nifty “get more results with fewer keywords” suggestion from eBay.
Today in my email is a message from our systems librarian saying that our III catalog, Tiger, has been upgraded [...]
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