Re: [CODE4LIB] Wolfram Alpha (was: Another nail in the coffin)

2009-05-26 Thread marijane white
was kind of impressed when I asked it what the circumference of the head of a 6-month-old female is (which is something i've had to look up when knitting baby hats for friends): http://bit.ly/6tp73 Marijane White, MSLIS marijane.wh...@gmail.com On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Mike Taylor m

[CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-05 Thread marijane white
Greetings Code4Lib, Long time lurker, first time poster here. I've been turning over this question in my mind for a few weeks now, and Joe Hourcle's postscript in the Online PHP Course thread has prompted me to finally try to ask it. =) I'm interested in hearing how the members of this list

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-06 Thread marijane white
. marijane white wrote: I may have worded that poorly, abstract reasons to choose a language was exactly what I was looking for. Your suggestion matches my natural inclinations, I think I just needed some reassurance that taking the time to explore wouldn't be a waste of time. Thank you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-06 Thread marijane white
some other stuff I've left out. Our experience at Stanford Libraries is that the common conventions of Rails give us a lot more ease in reading each others' code. - Naomi On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:04 PM, marijane white wrote: Greetings Code4Lib, Long time lurker, first time poster here. I've

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-07 Thread marijane white
about the problems you're having. We've set up Blacklight on a bunch of non-Marc Solr indexes here. - Naomi On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:32 PM, marijane white wrote: I've read about Blacklight's ability to run on any Solr index, but I've struggled to make it work with mine. Honestly, I've been

Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

2010-02-12 Thread marijane white
FogBugz seems really fabulous. In my previous career as a QA engineer, my team was planning to try it out, but our employer went out of business before we had a chance to pilot it. -marijane On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Boheemen, Peter van peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl wrote: We have chosen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Class Registration System

2010-07-13 Thread marijane white
Is Moodle overkill for your needs? On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Bell, Mike (Libraries) mb...@library.rochester.edu wrote: One of my teams is considering building a system for handling library class signup. That is, for one-time classes such as How to Search Pubmed, not for enrollment

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems Tracker

2010-10-01 Thread marijane white
I believe Marshall Breeding's Library Technology Guide covers some of what you're looking for. http://www.librarytechnology.org/ -marijane On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dave Bretthauer dave.brettha...@uconn.eduwrote: Hello LITA and Code4Lib colleagues, We at UConn Libraries find

Re: [CODE4LIB] simple,flexible ILS for a small library.

2010-10-02 Thread marijane white
I don't know about an ILS that would do this, but there used to be an open-source software package called The Distributed Library Project that was geared toward this kind of sharing model. Alas, I can't find any downloads of the software online anymore, but I did find two instances of it running:

Re: [CODE4LIB] linking catalog records to IMDB

2011-04-27 Thread marijane white
To confirm some of what Jonathan said... As the maintainer of a collection nearing 20,000 DVDs, I can confirm that DVDs rarely have ISBNs. When they do, it's usually educational, instructional, or musical content. I don't think I've seen a feature film DVD with an ISBN. IMDB does have UPC data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Precision and Recall

2011-06-03 Thread marijane white
I think that's quite possible. Here are a couple references I am familiar with. Walker/Janes/Tenopir's Online Retrieval is a bit dated but it does discuss the subject of precision and recall in bibliographic database searching.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any Experiences with In-House Training and Development?

2011-07-19 Thread marijane white
taken one of their trainings has had great reviews, I highly recommend checking them out to see if their offerings might meet your needs. Marijane White Media Librarian Gracenote, Inc. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Nordstrom, Kurt kurt.nordst...@unt.eduwrote: Hey folks, had a topic come up

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-26 Thread marijane white
into say, iOS application development, it's a great idea. marijane white On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Lepczyk, Timothy tlepc...@wustl.eduwrote: Hi All, I work in a digital library and am transitioning to something more like a programmer and less like a librarian. My strengths are in xslt

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-28 Thread marijane white
Am I the only one who thinks that's a great example of pie chart abuse? If they had selected a bar chart instead it would be both a cool search interface *and* a useful visualization. On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Margaret Anderson ande...@tc3.edu wrote: Take a look at a visualization of