Whoohoo! I was quite excited to stumble upon the news that the CARLI consortium here in Illinois is trying out the VuFind software as a new front end for its Ex Libris Voyager catalog. I had no idea they were doing this; I knew (thanks to one of my students) that they were also [...]

It’s a dark, rainy Monday and the weather matches my mood as I get back into the swing of things at work after a nice but short vacation. I really think I need to be more like Tigger and less like Eyore but it’s hard to fight years of pessimism.
We had a really good [...]

Last night I spent a lot of time figuring out how to use my WordPress categories to create a tag (technically, I guess, a category) cloud. I’ve tried doing this before but was never quite satisfied with the end result. Part of the problem is that I hadn’t used categories consistently, and also, [...]

I don’t pay as much attention to blog traffic for FML as I probably should. I know there are a lot of things I could improve if I paid more attention to the various details. Instead, I tend to look for trends and broad numbers and that’s about it.
This evening I checked summary [...]

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Oh, my. Thanks to Jay Datema for pointing out the above-mentioned blog posting from the Zotero wizards. Love it, love it, love it.
Ok, so back to reality, though. Fact #1: At my place of work, 99.9% of people [...]

Jay Datema posted a good writeup of his notes from the third meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control yesterday. I read it with interest because I wasn’t able to connect to the live webcast the day before. This morning, I read Mark Lindner’s (Off the Mark) reaction to [...]

These are my links for June 6th through June 11th:

COinS Generator - “This tool will take bibliographic metadata for a citation and produce a “COinS”, i.e. a snippet of HTML that can be placed on a webpage and processed by web tools.”
Scopus - A multidisciplinary database of citations to articles in the life, health, physical, [...]

Just discovered that friend Char Simser, new president of NASIG, posted her photos from the conference in Louisville last week to Flickr. Look carefully and you might see me in one of her photos! I brought my camera with me to the conference but took only a few photos; I don’t know why [...]

I have yet to standardize on one, single way to post to this blog. I never seem to find the perfect fit — if there is such a thing. And maybe it is ok to use multiple ways to post. Some of the editors and/or posting methods I’ve used include the following:

Log [...]

A lot has been written in other blogs, in conference reports, in articles and elsewhere about the growing technology gap between the “haves” and the “have nots.”  It definitely exists; what is debatable is how rapidly the gap is increasing.  I was interested to note on a TV monitor in my company’s cafeteria a brief [...]