In my earlier post I failed to mention two of my personal favorites: Urban
Tigers and the (conveniently titled) Urban Tigers Two. These are fictionalized
anecdotes from the author's experiences working at a veterinary hospital
devoted exclusively to feline practice. If you liked James
Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky's. Strings attached : life lessons from
the world's toughest teacher . New York : Hyperion, c2013.
This is an easy read, but a fascinating biography of Jerry Kupchynsky. His
life was at once terribly tragic and yet at the same time somewhat triumphant.
As a practicing professional Cataloger and programmer Wannabe, I can say that
it is a huge advantage to know how to work from the DOS prompt in Windows. I
greatly regret not having had time to gain at least a similar a
seat-of-the-pants level of expertise with Unix. There is inevitably some
Hi Chris,
In this case the size of the collection and the amount of data to be ingested
and output really make all the difference. Part of the trick is scaling for
your future ambitions. Even if you are starting small, you don't want a system
that isn't designed for the entirety of your
I think I'm coming from the opposite end from most of the group. I have an MLS
and got into cataloging. I was always looking for better ways to tidy up the
catalog. I somehow got on Code4Lib or and joined up with another Code4Libber
for a project. I was hooked; I even managed to get a one
I also vote NO. I want so see first hand what the marketable skills are
that I should be acquiring. I can always delete the ones that are way above my
head, but at least I've some idea what terms to look up!
JJ
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about Persian, I don�t
know if there�s any part of his methodology you could repurpose for Persian.
Sorry I can�t be of more help with this issue.
JJ
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From: Han, Yan [mailto:h...@u.library.arizona.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:14 PM
To: Jacobs, Jane W; Code
If you want to work with MARC records, you can use MARC::Detrans
(http://search.cpan.org/~esummers/MARC-Detrans-1.41/)
The trick is you will need a config file for Persian. You also have to decide
whether you want to use MARC-8 or UTF-8 before you construct the config file.
We�ve done
I've been lurking on this thread, but I really like the poster and the theme it
embodies. I think it would also be great to acknowledge our code fore-mother,
Henriette Avram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Avram) Unfortunately, a
quick Google didn't spot any photos of her with a
Hi Library-Coders,
My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for
Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're
looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In
particular we'd like to know what encodings
Hi Folks,
Is anyone out there using authority records in MADS with their digital
asset management system?
We have VITAL, which is basically VTLS's front-ended Fedora system. I'm
still trying to master the basics, despite a couple of training
sessions. We're having all sorts of adventures
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