― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 December 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 28 December 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.gresswell.com/webprd_gress/product_block/D60/000001600.jpg
You could also try Librex, but they don't have an online catalogue you can look at.
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
― marianna, Monday, 12 January 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.gresswell.com/webprd_gress/product_block/D55/000001550.jpg
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
Wait... suss3x.ac.uk. Do you work in the Suss3x library Nick?
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 January 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
We just got one of these:http://www.gresswell.com/webprd_gress/product_block/D11/000002110.jpg
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 January 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/ISBN.html
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"holy shit!It's like the monks compliing the billion names of buddha or whateverIt's Armageddon!"
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
This was my thought. Sorta like new area codes post-cell phone population explosion.
I really don't deal much with ISBNs at all unless I'm sending in an order to our acquisitions department, so the change will be a bit abstract.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Imagine the OCLC upgrades...jesus.
It's not like it was for Y2K I don't think. Most of our newer systems are written in Java/Oracle and the fix is pretty simple. I don't know how many cobol (or whatever) systems still exist. (Around here, I mean.) The bigger institutions hopefully have switched to new technology and the smaller ones hopefully never installed much in the first place.
That's my guess.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't have AgeLine but I appear to have access to something called "Abstracts in Social Gerontology" though NB I never use these databases so I don't really have any idea what I'm looking at / doing - but if there's something specific I can search for in here let me know...
If you need AgeLine specifically, sorry, good luck!
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
I think I scraped together enough, but I may hit you up on that offer later. Thank you, very kind!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 27 March 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
no problem, good luck with your research paper!
I'm going to bed now (sorry if this is bad timing) but will no doubt be around tomorrow morning uk time if there is something I can try to track down for you.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
So these last few months my focus has been shifting from in-person access work to online, obviously -- but also to help our archivists here in some big projects. I'm currently engaged in others as well -- just finished up some work today with a big new one that should get a lot of attention when it is ready -- but here's a nice piece just published on our site about two of the other ones that have been completed:
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/new-ways-of-working-together/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Well, these next couple of days will be interesting:
https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sils
And as a result of that, as of a few hours from now, Millennium will no longer be used by us. Which is a weird kinda farewell -- to quote myself from FB: Since my first formal day of work at the UCI Libraries on January 2, 1997, I have used, one way or another, this piece of software up to the present day through my UCSF Libraries work. It went through updates, iterations, changes, but Millennium just chugged along, and like the name implied it really comes from a place in the mid-to late 90s Windows universe in particular, something that did the job but was often slow, clunky and weird. What felt vaguely half-futuristic rapidly wasn't, and as other programming approaches took hold it REALLY showed its age. Later today use of Millennium will stop as the entire UC library system is about to switch over in a long-planned move to a unified top to bottom entity via the Primo/Alma web-based software from ExLibris, and I'm sure there will be growing pains and quirks and so forth. I am really interested to see how that works out, THAT feels like the future in a fascinating way. But this clunky, slow, sometimes painfully annoying software did the work all this time, and I have no more romance to offer than that, certainly no melancholy or sadness. It'll just be weird never to see the darn thing again.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pSI-HOirM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 26 July 2021 04:47 (two years ago) link
We switched to Alma/Primo back in 2015. We were using Voyager before
― treefell, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
Ex Libris have a seriously dominant stake in Academic libraries now. It will be interesting to see how things develop with their latest ownership group
― treefell, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
I'm at a weird special library where we STILL use Voyager. But our IT/Systems team is seriously understaffed and under-budgeted so a migration is probably not in the cards for a while. That'll be a real headache.
Voyager definitely shows its age (particularly its OPAC) but it still does the job decently well for us.
― OneSecondBefore, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Different topic, but Anne Helen Petersen has some thoughts about the way the MLIS has evolved into basically a mandatory degree if you want a living wage in libraries: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-masters-trap-part-two-069
It’s not a question of being a lower-paid librarian or a higher-paid librarian; it’s a question of being a staff member who doesn’t make enough to live on or figuring out a way to fund your MLIS. And then, even if you do make it into a program, there are too many people with master’s degrees and too few jobs for them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 July 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link
in the end i bought two book hods (not correct term) from gresswell as advised by NickB q17 yrs ago and I still use them a lot, they do the job they are designed for!
sometimws ilx is good!
― mark s, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
ann helen petersen otm
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 26 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
the honest truth is that all graduate school and possibly all undergrad is a shakedown scam. if anyone asks me about graduate school (and no one does), i will tell them not to go, or to drop out if they're currently enrolled.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 26 July 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
I can see her point there. I've been happily able to live without an MLIS in the field -- and arguably I feel better all around because of it -- but then again my pay increases over time are the reasons why, thanks to both hanging in there and whatever quality and skill I have that's been recognized (including a full reclass in 2008 -- just before the recession, thankfully). And I've been working in it for almost a quarter of a century. Current entry level? *shakes head*
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link