[CODE4LIB] Web Developer Position at Zimemrman Associates

2012-03-28 Thread Yvonne Rubin
Please post this job: POSITION SUMMARY: The Web Developer will build the operations end of the Goddard Library Websites and keep them running smoothly. This includes designing, building, and implementing new Web pages and sites, integrating sites with back end applications, migrating

Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff

2012-03-28 Thread Al Matthews
That seems to me an excellent answer, especially since my question was too broadly set. Thank you. I think what still bothers me is that it requires a trip to ebay, or a vm or two, and some maybe not-quite-trivial forensics generally, to establish whether there is worthwhile data on a disk (or

Re: [CODE4LIB] presenting merged records?

2012-03-28 Thread graham
Hi Michael On 03/27/12 11:50, Michael Hopwood wrote: Hi Graham, do I know you from RHUL? Yes indeed :-) My thoughts on merged records would be: 1. don't do it - use separate IDs and just present links between related manifestations; thus avoiding potential confusions. In my case, I

Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff

2012-03-28 Thread Sam Kome
Wait, what? The Sinclair ZX81 didn't take punch cards. It was solid state. You could bolt a cassette player to it. Had one. grumble Not only has hardware sharing not happened, the stuff is usually far more expensive than when it was new. Cheers, SK -Original Message- From: Code for

Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff

2012-03-28 Thread Matthew Sherman
Sadly that often is the problem in the archival setting, though it ends up being kind of a crap shoot.. In my experience as an intern at a university archive we often ran accross floppies that I would hand off to a fulltime archivist who had a backlog that would eventually require hunting down a