Monthly Archives: December 2009

ISSN search field in Solr

Posted on December 24, 2009 by

It’s fairly simple in the end, but took me a while to figure out as a Solr newbie. So I’ll document it here, in case someone else wants to do the same thing, or someone else finds it useful as … Continue reading →

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Combining information from catalog and link resolver kb

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

Our link resolver, branded Find It, powered by Umlaut backed up by SFX and other sources, aims to comprehensively answer the question “what library services can be provided for this known citation.” One of the more important services is electronic … Continue reading →

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debugging in a complex system of inter-related components

Posted on December 5, 2009 by

…which are under various parties control. Eric Hellman recounts the process of tracking down an odd hard to reproduce bug in a link resolver process, that he describes as a “funny joke”, and indeed the particular nature of the bug … Continue reading →

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improved google books search-within-book interface?

Posted on December 2, 2009 by

Some time since the last time I looked at it, Google Books improved their search results interface, for books which are not viewable in full. Or at least they did for some books, at least as viewable by me. I … Continue reading →

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