I worked as a contractor for a large science-based US government agency that
had home built their catalog using OCLC numbers for barcodes. DO NOT GO THERE,
I BEG YOU! Our circulation, inventory, and barcode system was built locally in
an Access database and it was also a disaster. I moved the
We are happy to invite you to this year's SWIB (Semantic Web in
Libraries) conference in Bonn, 1 - 3 December 2014.
Take a look at the programme for SWIB14 here:
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You can register for the conference at
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We have
On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
Ok, so you want to access LC data to get Dewey decimal numbers? You need to
use a z39.50 client to pull the record, you can do it with marc edit but it
is labor intensive. You would need to roll your own solution for this or use
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Dear all,
A month or so ago I asked for recommendations for automation tools that people
used in libraries to help inform a session I was going to run. The unconference
event (Pi and Mash) ran this weekend, and I just wanted to share the materials
I wrote for the session in case they are of
I would second the prudence of taking advantage of wheels already invented if
you can.
One thing I missed, though, in the earlier parts of this thread was why you
wanted to use Dewey, Tom?
Depending on the nature of the items in the collection, you may be better off
going with LC
There are advantages and disadvantages to both, but in your case Dewey is
likely you best bet, I was always under the impression that LC worked better
on a large scale rather then a small scale, of course I am no librarian so
take the previous statement with a grain of salt.
//Riley
Riley Childs
We are a church with 1500 books we would like to put on our website, and
thought we would use this workflow:
1. Create barcode from isbn number and print label.
2. Acquire Dewey number from Library of Congress via z39.50, and
print that to a label.
3. Affix labels to the
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This is a long shot, I believe, but members of this group have answers.
On our Windows XP Pro student use computers, we have a custom screensaver app
that runs at the logon screen and displays graphics highlighting library
services and programs. As we migrate to Windows 7, new security
You can set Windows 7 to have a screensaver that is just a slideshow of
pictures tossed in a certain directory. Likely the easiest approach is to make
all those service ads into images, stick them in a directory on each machine
and then tweak your machine to use that directory for its
It is possible, but your best bet (as was just said) is to use the photoscreen
saver. It can all be done though GPOs
http://deployhappiness.com/setting-the-default-logon-screensaver-with-group-policy/
this will allow you to point it at a local path and have windows move files to
the local
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