A group of GPLS staff was invited to Windsor to speak at the Future of the ILS Symposium. In attendance from GPLS was David Singleton, Deputy State Librarian; Julie Walker, newly appointed Assistant State Librarian for Technology Services; Mike Rylander, database guru extraordinare; and myself. Of course, the most difficult part of the entire trip … Continue Reading about Future of the ILS Symposium →
Behind the Curtain
In about every meeting or presentation we participate in, we’re asked about the PINES/Evergreen servers, what they are, where they live, how many there are… basically, what is behind the green curtain? Some PINES librarians that attended the focus group meetings we held in February got an opportunity to take a tour of the datacenter … Continue Reading about Behind the Curtain →
Autohorntootery
The whole 2.0 meme tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth, and when used by the more — shall we say, vociferous — proponents of the principles behind the title it has been known to cause me to suffer a bad case of the dry heaves. That being said, and noting that he … Continue Reading about Autohorntootery →
OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review
As has been mentioned before on this blog, OpenSRF relies on Jabber for it’s communication layer. Jabber is an instant messaging service much like AIM, Yahoo messenger, and the like. The advantage of Jabber, of course, is that it’s an open spec (see xmpp.org) and there are a number of open source server implementations, allowing … Continue Reading about OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review →
Sometimes good enough is better
There has been quite a saga unfolding slowly over the last couple months in the #code4lib IRC channel regarding the use of Amazon’s OpenSearch technology and it’s use for searching across cooperating libraries’ catalogs. Everyone there seems to agree, on a basic level, that OpenSearch is a useful search interface and that it benefits everyone … Continue Reading about Sometimes good enough is better →