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Me, my orange shirt, desk, and Sanford Berman.

Me, my orange shirt, desk, and Sanford Berman. Today is Friday. Many businesses have something they call "casual Fridays." The library is always pretty casual — but I like to have fun with ties and dress up and stuff. I … Continue reading

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Google Books Script Gaining

The Google Books script and Superpatron are getting ample attention now…First on the Official Google Blog, then during the Symposium in the only portion of the webcast not archived, and now today in Library Journal. The more ubiquitous it becomes … Continue reading

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Scholarship and Libraries in Transiton : A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization (Shorthand Notes)

Most of this has already been covered here (first post, reverse chronological), here, and here. Offical Symposium Weblog – the webcast should be available soon…I’ll post here when it is… With the copious amounts of documentation available there, why should … Continue reading

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WSU (Wayne State University) Googlebooks Greasemonkey Script

The googlebooks script I ran for the Farmington Community Library was turning out to be pretty pointless in that the FCL collection is miniscule in comparison with the amount of books available through Googlebooks. In comparison with the Wayne State … Continue reading

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More Adaptations of Superpatron's Greasemonkey Scripts

So, I still haven’t figured out how to get the holds working in the Greasemonkey FCLlookup script . Regex’s and scripting aren’t exactly my forté. But — I’ve now adapted Ed’s adaptation of the moviedudescript for the Farmington Community Library: … Continue reading

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Amazon FCL Linky Lookup

Ok… So I’ve scraped together the Amazon FCL Linky for Greasemonkey. Based off Edward Vielmetti’s Amazon AADL Linky which was based off of Udell’s Library Lookup. I’m not keen to the holds variable yet, and have to find a book … Continue reading

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Greasemonkeyed GoogleBooks

Late last night, too late to get a good night’s sleep for today’s shift, I was “google talking” with Edward Vielmetti of Superpatron fame. Earlier in the day I had seen a post on Jessamyn’s librarian.net talking about Google Books … Continue reading

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The Oprah Effect

Survived my first Oprah-effect day. Though I had read somewhere earlier in the day that Oprah had chosen a book that has been required reading for most high school students in the past decade as her new “Oprah bookclub book,” … Continue reading

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Alaskan Librarians Tell Their Tales

Having Willishrinx stationed in Girdwood often makes me wonder what it would be like if I were to try to manage my as yet to begin librarian career in the shadows of the howitzer hungry slopes of Alyeska. Based on … Continue reading

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Wayne State University is Weird, Just the Way I Like It…

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