One of the goals of the Library Technologies and Metadata department is to describe our work in more detail. This week, I'll look at technology in use with our conversion project, including perl scripting, APIs, and Microsoft's tools: Access and Excel. Taking a cue from our Metadata Librarian, Kim Sanderson's recent thought, "I’ll have to try that when I come across something particularly onerous…", one of the joys of working in library systems is automating parts of a project that are … [Read more...]
Systems Librarian Faces the Innovation Challenge
December 10, 2014 By
The library has begun a discussion about excellence in relation to innovation. Forty years ago, simply automating manual processes was innovative! Handling textual data was cutting edge. As libraries began to adopt this new technology, a new breed of librarian emerged - the "systems librarian." Keeping the "library catalog" (a euphemism for the integrated system that supports circulation, acquisition, and discovery of library resources) and the equipment to access the catalog up and running … [Read more...]
Is it Possible? Is it Worth It? Community Teamwork for the Library Catalog
April 3, 2013 By
On March 8th the library hosted a meeting for users of the (not so) new catalog: Webscale Management Services, better recognized to patrons as Davidson WorldCat Local. When we implemented in Summer 2011 we were pioneers, being among the first seven libraries to do so. In keeping with a pioneering attitude, this was the inaugural WMS Southeast Regional Users Gathering, in fact, the first on-site meeting in the WMS community. We asked the questions: Is it possible? Is it worth it? And the … [Read more...]
Maintaining Blog
January 14, 2013 By
Widgets Primary Sidebar: Title becomes Header of Sidebar section Links: Library Websites RSS: can pick up name of site as Header of feed section https://davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org/littlereflections/?feed=rss Originally set to 3, set to one now because it shows unpublished data Links: Blogs Around the D is currently only one Recent Comments: No additional Title given Currently set to 5, change? Archives: No additional Title … [Read more...]
