[CODE4LIB] Unix for Library Workstations

2008-10-15 Thread White, Jason
Someone at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens GA gave a presentation on a unix distro developed for managing public machines. Does anyone remember who gave this presentation or the name of the distro they discussed. Jason White Emory University Library This e-mail message

Re: [CODE4LIB] Unix for Library Workstations

2008-10-15 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM, White, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens GA gave a presentation on a unix distro > developed for managing public machines. Does anyone remember who gave this > presentation or the name of the distro they discussed. Amy Begg D

Re: [CODE4LIB] Unix for Library Workstations

2008-10-15 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Mark A. Matienzo wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM, White, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens GA gave a presentation on a unix distro developed for managing public machines. Does anyone remember who gave this presentation or the name of the distro the

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Job Posting - Archivists’ Toolkit Programmer Support Specialist, Atlanta University Center

2008-10-15 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
Position Announcement JOB TITLE: Archivists' Toolkit Programmer Support Specialist www.auctr.edu The Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc. is an organization undergoing dynamic transformation and is poised for excellence. Our uniqueness among academic libraries is ou

[CODE4LIB] filtering the elements of a marc record to exclude fields in z39.50 query

2008-10-15 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi All, We collect marc records to go with the books we archive. Our partners typically provide us with these records through z39.50 servers. One of our partners wants us to not retain some of the fields of the records. The best solution would be (i think) to fashion a z39.50 query so that the

[CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?

2008-10-15 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Anyone else noticed any problems with the GBS javascript api? It seems to have stopped returning hits for me for LCCN or OCLCnum, where it used to work. Seems to work now only for ISBN. Here's a URL call that used to return hits, and now doesn't: http://books.google.com/books?jscmd=viewapi&cal

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?

2008-10-15 Thread Custer, Mark
I haven't noticed any problems like that myself lately, but I have had some trouble/confusion with OCLC numbers and GBS in the past. If you do a search for OCLC number 2416076 in worldcat.org, you get directed to the book: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no%3A2416076&qt=advanced [which, of co

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?

2008-10-15 Thread Walker, David
>So, I would assume that the 2416076 record > was merged into the 24991049 record Or maybe this is an example of WorldCat's FRBR work set grouping at work? I've been struggling to wrap my mind around this recently. --Dave == David Walker Library Web Services Manager California

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for NE code4lib meetup location

2008-10-15 Thread Jay Luker
Sorry to leave you all in suspense all day. The results are in: 23 Boston, MA 18 Northampton, MA 14 Concord, NH 11 Portland, ME Michael Klein has said he will now check when a suitable space will be available at BPL. Then we'll update the WhenIsGood page and hope for some availability intersectio

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for NE code4lib meetup location

2008-10-15 Thread Tim Spalding
Free lobster if you change your vote! Tim

[CODE4LIB] FW: Logo vote

2008-10-15 Thread Roy Tennant
The results of the second logo vote are in[1], and Professional Option 1 was the winner: We accept Stephanie Brinley's kind offer, request a few different ideas, vote on those ideas to settle on one, and the final version is created from the winning idea. The results were: 75 Professional Op

[CODE4LIB] Satisfaction with free/open source software: survey invitation

2008-10-15 Thread Brenda Chawner
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and my research topic is an investigation of factors that influence participant satisfaction with library or information management free/open source software projects. Some library-re

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?

2008-10-15 Thread Xiaoming Liu
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Walker, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So, I would assume that the 2416076 record > > was merged into the 24991049 record > > Or maybe this is an example of WorldCat's FRBR work set grouping at work? > I've been struggling to wrap my mind around this recently