sortLC - Perl utilities for sorting LC call number
Released some Perl utilities (sortLC) for sorting Library of Congress (LC) call numbers.
Added: 3/27/2005
Discover Oracle-Perl Environment (dope.sh)
Released dope.sh, a shell script utility designed to help determine what different versions of Perl, Oracle, and Perl DBI and DBD::Oracle modules have been installed on a Unix (Solaris) system.
Added: 1/12/2005
Solaris package information database
A recent hacking experience has provided the impetus for re-examing our Solaris installation procedures. The Solaris package information database helps in identifying the relationships between Solaris packages and clusters and is meant to be used as a tool for planning a minimal Solaris installation.
Added: 7/27/2004
Legato Networker Training
Attended a Legato NetWorker course March 15-19 in Santa Clara, California.
Added: 3/22/2004
New WebVoyage "UTA Theses" search
Reference staff have long expressed the desire for a more user-friendly way to search the library catalog for UTA dissertation and thesis records. The UTA Theses search interface searches a file of extracted thesis and disseration records and provides link-backs to the record in the catalog.
Added: 3/8/2004
South-Central Voyager Users Group Meeting
The South-Central Voyager Users Group Meeting was held in Fort Worth, October 9-11. I did a presentation on the ShelfCheck application.
Added: 10/14/2003
New Books List 6.0 (the Unicode release)
The New Books List has been retooled for Unicode compatibility. A beta release is available for download.
Added: 8/8/2003
New Books List now has a Welsh user interface
Thanks to the translation division of the University of Wales Aberystwyth, the New Books List now has a Welsh language module and therefore a Welsh user interface.
Added: 11/21/2002
Windows port of New Books Released
The New Books List has been ported to Windows and a beta version was released today.
Added: 6/6/2002
Multilingual version of New Books List released
Version 5.0 has successfully completed beta testing at Mikkeli Polytechnic in Finland and was made available for general release today. Version 5.0 offers a multilingual interface.
Added: 4/8/2002
New Books List 4.0 released
A much enhanced and improved Version 4.0 of the New Books List is ready for release.
Added: 2/6/2002
Voyager/Access report workshop, Jan 7-9, 2002
Attended Alan Manifold s excellent workshops, "Using Access to Create Reports from Voyager" and "Beware of the Blob." I m not quite ready to call myself a Blob-master, but I sure know a heck of a lot more than I did.
Added: 1/10/2002
Gone to Indiana for the Holidays
I will be visiting family in Fort Wayne, the garden spot of Indiana, over the Holidays. I will return to work on January 2.
Added: 12/20/2001
Appointed to Voyager enhancement group
My involvement in the Voyager community has moved to the next level. I volunteered for, and have been appointed to, a two year term on the Technical group of the enhancement committee.
"These groups work closely with each other and with Endeavor to review enhancement requests, to analyze them for themes, to draw up problem statements that describe broad areas that need to be addressed, then to prioritize these statements as guidance to Endeavor s development plans."
Added: 12/13/2001
Voyager tutorial added: WebAdmin Debugged
WebAdmin Debugged is a short account of our library s experiences getting that Voyager utility up and running.
Added: 12/10/2001
Updated FAQ for the New Books List
I finally culled through New Books List email correspondence for material to add to the Frequently Asked Questions section.
Added: 12/4/2001
On vacation October 29 - November 9
I am taking a long-overdue vacation and will be away from Monday, October 29 through Friday, November 9.
Added: 10/25/2001
New Books List version 3.3 released
Version 3.3 renders diacritics! This is a first step towards internationalizing the New Books List. USMARC, FinMARC and MARC21-fin character sets are converted to Latin 1 (the Unicode base). Other changes accommodate non-USMARC conventions for ISBNs.
Added: 10/25/2001
South Central VUGM, Oct. 3-5
I'll be attending the South Central VUGM (Voyager Users Group Meeting) in Ardmore, Oklahoma from October 3-5. I'll be doing a session on Unix sysadmin for newbies.
Added: 9/27/2001
Site map added
As the amount of content of interest to the Voyager community has increased on this site, I thought that navigation might be improved with a site map. The redesign process provided the opportune time to create one, so here it is!
Added: 9/16/2001
Redesign of site per University style guide
This site was redesigned to conform to guidelines on design elements and required content for official University web sites. Although the guidelines do not apply to the personal pages of staff and faculty, they can be easily incorporated. Plus, the graphics and color recommendations were a great help to this aesthetically-challenged Unix system administrator. See the UTA Web Style Guide for more information.
Added: 9/15/2001
New Books List pages updated
The New Books List pages have been updated to include FAQ's and a user list. Version 3.2 of the program is now available. This is a minor version change that fixes some bugs.
Added: 9/10/2001
MARC.pm and Prebulk tutorial added to site
UTA Libraries used Perl s MARC.pm module and Voyager s Prebulk program to batch edit a file of bibliographic records prior to loading into the Voyager database. Our efforts have been documented in a new Voyager tutorial entitled MARC.pm and Prebulk.
Added: 8/5/2001
Away at SQL training Aug 6-10
I will be away from the office attending "Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL" training in Irving, Texas, August 6-10.
Added: 8/5/2001
New Books List 3.1 released
The new and improved version 3.1 of the New Books List was released to the Voyager community on May 29.
Added: 5/31/2001
VUGM sessions past and future
I just got back from VUGM 2001 in Chicago. The SSL on Apache session seemed to go OK. I am considering doing a session at the South Central VUGM in October. Two possibilites are a newbie Unix sysadmin session or a session on setting up the New Books List.
Added: 4/23/2001
Version 3.0 of New Books List in beta
The New Books List program has been redesigned to mimic the functionality as well as the look and feel of WebVoyage. It is also being rewritten to make it much easier for non-programmers to install. Release of the new version is anticipated for shortly after VUGM 2001.
Added: 4/3/2001
New Books List featured as Voyager Success Story
Endeavor Information Systems has selected UTA Libraries' New Books List to be the subject of a Voyager Success Story. It will be featured on Endeavor's corporate web site and will be included in material given to prospective Voyager libraries. For detailed information on how it was done, see the Automated New Books List page.
Added: 2/17/2001
Site search added
This site is now searchable, thanks to the SWISH-E search engine software.
Added: 12/6/2000
Cascading Style Sheets make an appearance
Labor Day was so darn hot -- 110+ degrees fahrenheit -- that I decided to stay inside and learn some new DHTML. I had recently bought the Lie and Bos book, Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, so I spent the day adding a rudimentary style sheet to this site.
-- Michael
Added: 9/7/2000
Version 2.0 of New Books List is available
The New Books List programs have been upgraded. New features include:
1) Sorting by author, title, or call number,
2) Choice of one to four weeks worth of items,
3) Keyword searching of author and title fields, and
4) Searching by call number.
See the demo at http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/newbooks.html.
Added: 9/1/2000
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