Re: [CODE4LIB] Transport options from Charlotte to Asheville for c4l2010

2009-11-09 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
Charlotte to Asheville shuttles are not cheap - one Asheville-based company is advertising a $170 one-way rate. Obviously, if you were to split that, it would be cheaper. It's my understanding that Charlotte to Asheville driving time is about 2.5 hours - you may just want to get a group together t

[CODE4LIB] Transport options from Charlotte to Asheville for c4l2010

2009-11-09 Thread Mark Jordan
Hi, Can anyone recommend transportation options to get from Charlotte International Airport to Asheville? From my neck of the woods airfare to Charlotte appears to be a ~ $200 cheaper than to Asheville. TIA, Mark

[CODE4LIB] Blacklight release 2.4 is here

2009-11-09 Thread Naomi Dushay
Release 2.4 of Project Blacklight is now available in our new Git flavor! You can find the new improved flavor of Blacklight at http://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/tree/v2.4.0 In addition to our move to Git, we have listened to community feedback and have changed the installation

[CODE4LIB] preconference proposals

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
Hi all, It's time again to collect proposals for Code4Lib 2010 preconference sessions. We have space for six full day sessions (or 12 half day sessions (or some combination of the two)). If we get more than we can accommodate, we'll vote... but I don't think we will (take that as a challenge to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2010 Call for Proposals

2009-11-09 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Greetings, individuals! We've had five very good talks proposed so far; it'd be great to have even more. The deadline is this Friday, November 13th. As a reminder, you may submit your talk proposal at http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2010talks_Submissions. More details are below. -Mike On

Re: [CODE4LIB] ProQuest theses & dissertation xml gateway?

2009-11-09 Thread Ranti Junus
Ah so. Thank you for checking it. All I want is to just pull our own Theses & Dissertations. Well, I ended up calling them and asked for the records to be delivered to us. :-) thanks, ranti. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Witt, Michael C. wrote: > I stand corrected.  ProQuest apparently has an

Re: [CODE4LIB] ProQuest theses & dissertation xml gateway?

2009-11-09 Thread Witt, Michael C.
I stand corrected. ProQuest apparently has an SRU/W interface but requires you to contact them and request access on a user-by-user basis. I called their tech support this morning, but they wouldn't give me its baseURL without my signing a nondisclosure agreement (huh?). You may be able to ge

Re: [CODE4LIB] ProQuest theses & dissertation xml gateway?

2009-11-09 Thread Witt, Michael C.
To my knowledge, ProQuest does not have a web service that returns XML but you can use Z39.50 or ftp to retrieve MARC records and then flip them to XML locally. If you use Digital Commons (bepress IR product), it provides an OAI-PMH and SRU interface to the same records downstream as XML. Hope