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.
Category Archives: Shoebox of Mystery
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 […]
Quote from The Rise and Decline of the State
12 July 2009 – 11:40 pm
I’ve started reading Martin van Creveld’s The Rise and Decline of the State. I haven’t made it too far in yet and I’m still reading through the section on pre-state political communities. Today, I came across a particularly fascinating fact about confidence in “public” treasuries. Simply put, the confidence in the government’s ability and willingness […]
Small Farms
4 March 2006 – 1:29 pm
This Small Farms business plan contest is interesting. (That website is a bit opaque; make sure to click through some of the image links for more info.) Living in an agriculture centred community as I do makes the ups and downs of the ag industry a part of my life even though I’m not a […]