Notes on: WorldCat Local
WorldCat Local is a commercial ‘next-generation’ library resource discovery platform, produced by “the world’s largest library co-operative”, OCLC. Its tagline: “Single-search access to 800+ million...
View ArticleNotes on: Ex Libris Primo
Primo is library software group Ex Libris‘s umbrella, “one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.” It’s used...
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On the “Z” list
My colleagues in e-Library Services at Lincoln have been spending the last few weeks updating our Library Management System (LMS) – SirsiDynix Horizon. This work included upgrading from v7.34 to v7.51b...
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EBSCO information day / Discovery update
I was south of the river (Thames, not Witham) yesterday for an EBSCO information day. As I blogged recently, we’ve just signed up for the EBSCO Discovery Service (which we’re branding as “Find it @...
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Getting intimate with the YAZ client
As part of our discovery and reading list projects, I’ve had to get even more familiar with Z39.50* as a method of retrieving MARC records from our Horizon catalogue. (*I can hear the groans even...
View ArticleZ39.50 setup changes, again
Because of the launch of our new website and the change to our catalogue URLs, the details of our Z39.50 setup have changed (for the second time this year). The new details are: URL:...
View ArticleWho’s using/storing our Z39.50 configuration details?
These sites either hold copies of our Z39.50 configuration, or else use our Z settings as part of an application. List updated 13th November 2012: Copac EndNote Find it at Lincoln (EBSCO Discovery...
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It’s son of Jerome! (Basic BibJSON in data.lincoln.ac.uk)
It’s been a while since we ran the Jerome project at the University of Lincoln, but it’s far from dead, and thanks to the recent leaps forward in establishing a proper data.lincoln.ac.uk (and...
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