Monthly Archives: October 2010

MARC records created according to RDA vary somewhat from MARC records created according to AACR2.  Otherwise, what’s the point of RDA, right?  Although in fact they don’t seem to vary very much, which is not neccesarily a bad thing, as … Continue reading →

Sometimes I have some APIs that should only be accessible by certain specifically listed trusted internal clients. I had been protecting these at the apache layer with client IP restrictions and/or HTTP basic auth. Neither of these are actually secure, … Continue reading →

The Government Printing Office tells us: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released MetaLib <http://metalib.gpo.gov>, a federated search tool that is a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. The initial release of MetaLib contains fifty-three Federal Government … Continue reading →

In order to index our Marc records in Blacklight, we need to export them from the ILS, and then send them to the indexer (currently SolrMarc) to map them to the Solr index. We sometimes do this with our entire … Continue reading →

Hmm, it kind of looks like Google Scholar may have accomplished something I’ve been trying to figure out how to do for quite a while — linking a published citation to an open access pre-print found somewhere. Am I understanding … Continue reading →