Oh my…please tell me this is a joke.
AHHHhHH!
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At GenCon
So this weekend is my annual pilgrimage to Indianapolis to GenCon. This may be my last until Eliza gets big enough to want to go with me…but it’ll be great if that happens!
I know that Josh Neff has done the GenCon thing…with all the rage around gaming librarians, any other librarians hitting the largest gaming convention in the world?
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Preparing for the onslaught
So the relative blog silence has been brought on by the frenzied preparation for the beginning of the semester. We’ve updated our ILS, which brought about a TON of unforeseen changes (doesn’t it always?). Our vendor, VTLS, pointed out time and time again that our installation was a bit odd…it was originally done by someone very familiar with the software, and he took lots of liberties with the install. This means a LOT of things don’t work for us…directory structures are all wrong, so stuff just often falls apart when you try to run it.
As a consequence of moving to a more standardized install, the URL for our catalog changed.
I’ll say that one more time. The URL to our catalog changed.
Do you have any idea how many freaking things depend on that URL? I certainly do now.
*sigh*
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Twitters from 2007-08-04
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Building a Library 2.0
I’m not sure if that title actually comes across with the meaning I’m after. It’s not Building a….Library 2.0. It’s Building a Library….2.0. 🙂
Is anyone aware of a building project being managed via 2.0 tools? MPOW has been funded for a new library, and we are currently in the project planning phases. I’m pushing for us to be completely transparent about the process…we are a state school, and everything we do is more or less subject to sunshine laws. Might as well put it right out there.
As a part of the project, we’re going to be managing it with a wiki (still under construction due to new server being purchased), probably sharing documents with Google Docs, and we’ve already started our Flickr Pro account for photos of site visits. We’ve got two video visits that will probably go up on YouTube.
Is there anyone else out there doing this? I know there aren’t many simultaneous builds going on, especially of academic libraries, but surely someone has done a “transparent build” before. Our plans involve letting the community comment on the wiki, and gathering feedback from as many of these sources as we can to inform our build plan.
Anyone out there have suggestions for the process that the 2.0 technology might improve, other than the things I’ve mentioned? This is new for me…it’s going to be an interesting few years.
Consider this the first of a few blog posts on transparency. More exciting news coming later this summer. 🙂
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Twitters from 2007-08-03
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Twitters from 2007-08-02
- @ijastram: holy shit! police first, then inventory, then change locks… #
- @ijastram: and then email or im if you need to talk #
- More ILS problems this morning…the upgrade borked everything, including my URL (which borks OpenURL resolver, which borks article search.) #
- Heading out finally: going to visit GTech and GA State tomorrow in Atlanta. #
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Twitters from 2007-08-01
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Twitters from 2007-07-31
- Up early, heading to doctor visit, then ILS hell all day. #
- I has been censored! http://tinyurl.com/yrczyb #
- @smalljones: not for me (or others, it appears)…try again. #
- Hypothetical question of the day: Should one include Google Pagerank in CV? #
- Alrighty then…some good stuff done today: updated CV, troubleshot EZProxy hackers, collection development. Tomorrow: ILS goes back up! #
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Twitters from 2007-07-30
- Back to work, big ILS upgrade day. Pray for me. #
- Just discovered that @infosciphi and I are from the same area of KY. Small world. #
- @cindi: I’m from Carter County, far eastern KY, half-hour from the WV border on I-64. #
- Who else on Simplify? Add me: griffey Is there a list somewhere of Library Simplify names? 🙂 #
- oracle problem, ils upgrade delayed but moving forward #