Fun with our Traffic Counter’s API
We installed counters over all the entrances in Fenwick Library a while back. Smart little devices that offer an API as well. Click the image to check out this particular… Read more »
Category: Library Tech
What does local use of Sci-Hub look like?
Product bundling thrives in markets with few competitive options. Your cable company knows that and so do large academic publishers. For years, they’ve sold collections of e-journals at a… Read more »
You don’t always have to write code
Sometimes what appears to be a programming task doesn’t actually require firing up your editor. Consider this problem: Two fixed-length text files, one has 42,000 lines while the other has… Read more »
The OER Metafinder Origin Story
I am a relative newcomer to the topic of OERs (Open Educational Resources). Not unaware of the topic—our Mason Publishing Group has been working with faculty interested in affordable educational materials for… Read more »
Three Social Media Library Services
A local library made news in 2010, announcing that it would archive every tweet ever posted. With Twitter generating 500 million tweets a day, can we really be surprised that it’s… Read more »
wget -> WARC
Had an email exchange yesterday with a group that wants to archive a few of their online web projects in our MARS system. Due to what I hope is a… Read more »
A few Library-related RSS feeds
Not long ago I started using my RSS reader again. As expected, my back-to-the-future fling with RSS found that many of my go-to feeds had shuttered in the intervening years, but… Read more »
For your textual pleasure…
Earlier today I was running a few SQL queries against our local Voyager system–preparing for the upcoming metadata migration to a consortial implementation of Alma. My tool of choice for… Read more »
690,000 searches
This graph charts the 690,000 searches conducted on our Primo system since January 1, 2013. I am happy to see that vertical jump during the final week tracked… Read more »
Content Neutrality
Participated in a panel at ALA last Saturday: “Hiding in Plain Cite: The Growing Importance of Content Neutrality in Library Discovery Services” Roger Schonfeld served as moderator. Joining me on… Read more »