It’s a bad pun, but what can you expect from someone who neglects his blogs as much as I do?
I’ve been busy, somewhat, and one of my latest forays has been getting a grip on Python, an absolutely wonderful programming language. I actually enjoy writing code again, which is more than a bit scary. I [...]
I’ve been thinking about the biblioblogosphere’s reaction to Casey Bisson’s decision to use the $50,000 he was awarded by the Mellon Foundation for his work on WPopac to purchase LC bibliographic data and open it up to anyone who wanted to take a crack at it. Yes, this is a “Good Thing,” and valuable to [...]
The technical services world has been in an uproar lately, between LC’s decision to stop creating series authority records (particularly since they didn’t consult PCC members beforehand) and the fallout after Calhoun report. We might as well have another drink, because as librarian.net reports (along with several others), OCLC and RLG are about to merge. [...]