Monthly Archives: June 2009

As much as I’m sometimes frustrated by our common inherited legacy cataloging practices, I actually do think the cataloging theory developed by Lubetzky, Svenonius, Cutter, and others is still useful — sometimes you just need to ‘translate’ it to the … Continue reading →

NYU has gone live with Umlaut. I’m holding my breath hoping that nothing will go wrong with their installation that’s my fault. :) Hi all, We’ve deployed Umlaut to our production Primo environment at NYU. Umlaut is available through the … Continue reading →

If there’s one MARC field that needs an over-haul, it’s the 856. Roy has already talked about how it’s pretty much impossible to tell what the url in an 856 represents with relation to the item cataloged. But here’s a … Continue reading →

“J Sakai” is a name describing at least two people. “J Sakai” with the “J”, so far as I know, standing for nothing in particular (likely a pseudonym) is the name of a revolutionary leftist theorist. “Sakai, J”, apparently short … Continue reading →

I’ve been using ISBNdb.com to provide a link from library pages for a known item book to a vendor-independent way to buy a book online. I don’t like letting Amazon or any other particular vendor get a monopoly. ISBNdb.com provides … Continue reading →

The COinS generator at http://generator.ocoins.info/ is useful for, well, generating COinS. We like to include COinS in Code4Lib Journal article citations to materials not available on the web.  You can see more about COinS and how/why we use them if … Continue reading →

From Casey Bisson, someone elses mock-up of a suggestion for what an Amazon results page should look like, to actually give the user the context on the result page to know which items are of interest: [Oops, my blog layout … Continue reading →