The Digital Librarian

Here are the steps I went through to install Django on Mac OSX Leopard: First, I followed the steps on this page to get IDLE support (which I may or may not use, but I figured couldn’t hurt). I then downloaded the latest official version from http://www.djangoproject.com/download/ and followed the instructions for installing from the [...]

OCLC has announced that it is moving forward with a strategy to provide most if not all of the services that current integrated library systems provide (i.e. circulation, acquisitions, license management, etc.). I won’t go into the details (you can read them yourself), but for a little more information beyond the official announcement, see Andrew [...]

The latest issue of the Code4Lib Journal has an excellent article by David Tarrant et al detailing the use of OAI-ORE to enable the transferrence of repository objects from one repository solution to another. This, IMHO, is the first write-up of a compelling use case for OAI-ORE; the ability to migrate repository collections from one [...]

Last week I attended the CNI Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis. I look forward to CNI meetings, as generally the programs are quite strong and diverse – usually there are at least two or three sessions that I find extremely useful, and this time was no exception. Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, [...]