The Evergreen MARC editor uses abbreviations in the interface for fixed data. I was having a hard time figuring out what the abbreviations meant and page at OCLC appears to have most if not all of those abbreviations.
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Evergreen-ILS Research: SIP2 media types
25 January 2010 – 5:41 pm
I’m working on a migration to the Evergreen ILS and encountered a sip2_media_type field in the config.circ_modifier table. It’s a text field but the example data in the schema file has numeric codes like ‘001’. There didn’t seem to be any reference to what the valid values might be for this field, or what the […]
MTS, Rogers shared wireless network looks promising
17 September 2009 – 11:05 pm
I missed this story when MTS and Rogers first announced their deal to co-operate on 3.5G wireless, but they’ve recently received regulatory permission for the plan. According to the original MTS release, MTS’ investment in the partnership will be about $70 million and the new network will cover “the majority of the population” by the […]
New Ubuntu User Interface
Almost all of my personal computers run Ubuntu as the main system software. As the next version of Ubuntu will be released soon, I have been running a test install in a virtual machine. I’m really not sure what to think about this release. There are some interesting initiatives from the projects commercial sponsor, and […]