Monthly Archives: June 2010

Josh Greenberg provides an interesting brief history of video store circulation. So here’s one interesting thing about that story to me. “since a VCR owner could watch a purchased movie countless times, individual cassettes were priced at dozens of times … Continue reading →

One of the goals of Umlaut, for a while now, has been to serve as a piece of back-end library infrastructure, a provider “known item services” in other web applications. We’ve had Umlaut integrated in our Horizon OPAC, and Xerxes … Continue reading →

cql-ruby is a ruby gem for parsing CQL, and serializing parse trees back to CQL, to xCQL, or to a solr query. A new version has been released, 0.8.0, available from gem update/install. “gem install cql-ruby”. The new version improves … Continue reading →

I can’t give you a “deep link” to search results, but go to catalog.loc.gov, choose “guided search”, select “LCCN number” and search for: 48006847 You get two results with the same LCCN, no? Is this an accidental LCCN collision? Is … Continue reading →

Mostly as a note to myself, but share it in case it makes any sense to anyone else. In the back of my mind, I’m continually thinking of how to implement a traditional opac ‘browse search’ in solr. Solr isn’t … Continue reading →