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Welcome Dorothea

Just a short update to let you know that Dorothea Salo has now joined our MARS project. Dorothea’s email address is dsalo *at* gmu.edu. She’s temporarily based in the Systems… Read more »

Moving a DSpace collection

Found out how you can move a collection from one community to another with just a couple of commands. This came up when we decided to make a sub-community under… Read more »

Deep link to an object on MARS

While the MARS system uses handles to give a persistent address to items in the collection, it is also possible to build a URL that goes directly to the bitstream… Read more »

RSS to your webpage…

I recently decided to freshen the Library Systems Office website, planning to integrate a few headlines from this weblog & add a few new RSS feeds. I was using some… Read more »

Firefox->Greasemonkey->Amazon->Mason

If you’re using Firefox (I’ve tested this using Mac OS X but it surely works with Windows), here’s an interesting experiment… First, go to http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ and install the Greasemonkey extension…. Read more »

Tiger Server Upgrade

Now that I managed to upgrade the server hosting the MARS system from 10.3.9 to 10.4 I thought I’d share some notes on the experience…not because they’ll interest very many… Read more »

Images from Amazon

Stumbled upon a website that explains the syntax needed to pull images from Amazon…with nothing more than an ISBN number (for a book, anyway): http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html Should be able to write… Read more »

The Six Stages of a Project

1. Enthusiaism 2. Dissillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the guilty 5. Punishment of the weak 6. Praise and Honors for the non-participants