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For those who are interested, here are some more data that focus on the location and date distribution of matched titles. Distribution of publication dates Distribution of location of matched books location_name count(location_name) Cambria Press 1 Director’s Office 1 Docs Librarian’s Office 1 ER Librarian’s Office 1 ITC Collection 1 Philosophy 1 Romance 1 TLC... Continue reading “More on HathiTrust overlap” ›
Since ZSR library started looking at the HathiTrust as a potential source of out-of-copyright electronic texts people have been asking ‘how does our collection compare to HT?’ The short answer is (based on comparison of valid OCLC numbers) 366,800 out of 8.5 Million titles, or about 29% of our collection, slightly less than was recently... Continue reading “How much overlap do we have with the HathiTrust?” ›
The technology department has implemented the latest version of VuFind (VuFind 1.1) which is an upgraded version of our current VuFind (VuFind 1.0RC2). Although there were important back-end enhancements to VuFind 1.1, this blog post is going to discuss some of the new improvements that impact the front-end of the application. The new features include... Continue reading “New implementation of VuFind (VuFind 1.1)” ›
As I have been re-cataloging books in rare, I have come across many titles that even though they have call number slips in them, have no record for them in the catalog. It has gotten to the point when I am more surprised when a book is actually in the catalog than when it isn’t.... Continue reading “Finding cool things” ›
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the 2011 Administrative Professionals Conference at the LJVM Coliseum Annex. Our audience was made up of Administrative Professionals from WFU, WFU-Health Sciences, WSSU, UNC School of the Arts and Forsyth Technical Community College. We had approximately 240 attendees. I have been on the Administrative Professionals Committee for... Continue reading “Administrative Professionals Conference 2011” ›
On the evening of Monday, May 2nd, Wanda, Prentice, Angela and I were on deck to serve 325 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, bananas, grapes and water to our students! We arrived at 11pm only to be reminded that “Wake The Library” is such a well-planned event that there was little to do prior to the food arriving.... Continue reading “Monday Night’s “Wake The Library”” ›