Monthly Archives: February 2010

I’ve been on ‘snow holiday’ all week, snowed in kind of trapped in my house. Gives you a lot of time to read the internet. Two articles on prison libraries, awfully important institutions. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/us/09bar.html A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched … Continue reading →

This is not your typical ‘why MARC must die’ post. It’s instead about very low level structural problems in a Marc21 binary file that my ILS outputs. It’s not about the semantics of MARC at all, it’s about the structural … Continue reading →

This might only be a gotcha if you’re a lazy guy like me. But in ordinary Solr, if you want to completely clear out your indexes, you can just delete the ‘data’ directory, no problem. It sounds weird, but several … Continue reading →