reckon it's about time

[jeerudoesntknow]

I've rejoined the ranks of the working stiffs after not working an honest day in, what, just about six months? Yes, being geeknanny was work, but, you know, not real work.

Anyway, say hello to the new web guru for Nashville Public Libraries. Awwww yeah. I get to work downtown, not two miles from my apartment. It's an easy drive-shuttlebus-walk in

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[jeerudoesntknow]

you can always email or call if you're curious, you know ;)

yeah, nashville is pretty cool. lotta music, and occasionally some that's not country even. i know of no industrial dance nights, it would surprise me to learn of any, but you never know. where would you be taking a job?

[jeerudoesntknow]

What's the club, maybe I'll go check it out. I still get my goth on every now and again.

Yeah, my number's still the same. No real reason to change 'em in this day and age, as far as I can tell.

Cool!

[metaball]

Say. That's a nice bike....

Rock on with the library tech work. It's not so bad. While it is true that Microsoft has done some crazy brainwashing, the damange isn't permanent. In my time here at the UL I've gotten more than few co-workers away from IE and into Firefox, have been slowly seeping out Apple fandom, and generally getting the word out that MS may not actually be the sole provider of all things computing. Linux is still a foreign country, but we're getting closer. Once I get into actual systems work I can really get things going. (Or I'll be ground down by dozens of poorly designed Access databases.)

Re: Cool!

[jeerudoesntknow]

it's not necessarily the microsoft thing that's so irritating, actually. it even sort of makes sense from a sustainability point of view, although that may be more than offset by the average quality of developers and administrators... but that's another discussion. the thing that irks me the most so far is our OPAC - Milllenium III - the one y'all are using too. they have this attitude about our data stored therein - namely, that it's their data, and we're lucky enough to be able to access in the ways they want us to, forget building cool services on top of their product. it's a dumb, counterproductive attitude, and only increases my desire to move us to an open source ILS system.

Re: Cool!

[metaball]

Oh yeah, we use Innovative Millennium. Don't even get me started. They screwed up our data transferring to the new system, screwed it up in a different way fixing it, and have been generally a pain to deal with.

Of course, as a lowly member of the library support staff I don't know how much of the annoyance is our own tech support's fault.

We have the same "you should just be grateful that we made a program that holds your data" problem with our e-reserves software. All it does is maintain pdf document links to courses with built-in functions for submitting copyright requests. Yet they made the most mind-boggling decisions: you can display some data but you can't search on it, all their web code is designed for IE, etc. etc.

All this really shows that library software is in desparate need of improvement all around. Something like Apache, mySQL, or Linux for the OPAC.

Re: Cool!

[jeerudoesntknow]

Check out Evergreen ILS. Georgia Public Libraries wrote their own ILS software and just migrated over to it. It looks pretty sweet.

[discolemonade]

yeah, man. welcome back.

[rhyminanstealin]

Yay for biking to work!