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Today in the #Code4Lib channel: [1:36pm] jrochkind_lunch: woohoo! NYU is moving forward with Umlaut. [1:40pm] edsu: nyu++ [1:41pm] mjgiarlo: jrochkind++ [1:42pm] rsinger: awesome [1:43pm] rsinger: jrochkind++ [1:43pm] jtgorman: jrochkind++ [1:43pm] charper joined the chat room. [1:43pm] rsinger: more_suckers++ [1:43pm] rsinger: oops [1:43pm] rsinger: i mean… [1:43pm] rsinger: nyu++ [1:43pm] charper left the chat room. (Client…

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So, Amazon seems to have thrown their hat in the ring to compete head to head with both Yankee Book Press and OCLC.  Except you’ll only need one purchase order.  Nice. I noticed the presence of LCSH in the Amazon Web Services requests a couple of weeks ago (which I happily consume in the ümlaut),…

Dan has written (twice now) about the ‘ILS Bill of Rights’ and its complete lack of perspective. He’s right in his equation (or lack thereof) of the OPAC to “Free Speech” and “lack of Government Oppression regarding which religion I choose”; however, I disagree with him about the ability to be able to freely change…

One of the cool things about having our TiVo hooked up our (really crappy) broadband connection (no thanks to you, Comcast) is the seemingly random shit that just comes to us. Yesterday I was, on a whim, flipping through the TiVo menus and I saw that I could subscribe to Rocketboom on it. On an…

This may be the first implementation of the (proposed) openurl context set for cql. MARC field 490 $v, y’all. Granted, the openurl context set might not be approved (or might change radically), but I think this shows a compelling use case.

The ‘biblioblogosphere’ expands exponentially.

Code4lib 2006 day 1 went exceedingly well.  Much better than I had expected (only because I am one of the “organizers”), in fact. I was nervous about starting off with a “virtual keynote” (PINES, literally, just phoned in their presentation), especially since I was the goob that had to advance their PPT when they made…

Fairly recently on the Web4Lib mailing list, a thread started by Jim Campbell (of UVA) and David Walker (of Cal State San Marcos) (and others) prompted me to ask what the role of OPAC is in the modern library. Outside of “Inventory Control System”, I don’t feel like I got a very good or meaningful…

I notice a lot of the ‘blogs I read regularly have recently had a similar posting to this one: Wow, it’s been so long since I last posted. Well, it’s time to catch up. I suspect for many, summer is the busy time of year. This is when you have to pack in all of…