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We had a new product manager join my group in October. Nathan Guinn is a veteran of other local technology companies (Word Perfect, Novell, and the embedded open source company Lineo Inc.), but he's new blood to us. Having Nathan on board has reminded me how good it is to bring in fresh perspectives, fresh energy, and new ideas from time to time. Nathan is working on the web services offerings we

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Several people I’ve talked to lately wish they could do collection development with information they can’t easily get right now. Here’s a sampling from the “wish I had” list: Listings of the most highly reviewed or recommended titles from social networking sites like Goodreads, LibraryThing, or Chilifresh to guide new title purchases A report that indicates likely candidates for re-location

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Flying home from ALA, I’m reflecting on how much a face-to-face meeting still means. For all our electronic mail, our twittering, webcasts, blogs, video chats, and teleconferencing, there is no substitute for a handshake and a talk around a table. In just 10 minutes of personal interaction with a handful of customers, I can learn more about how our new release of SirsiDynix Enterprise is being

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Cloud Computing. Now there’s a buzzword with a happy ring. It sounds like computing above the work-a-day fray. It conjures up visions of flight—it sounds light and effortless. The cloud computing experience actually has some of those aspects for most users. It means buying access to almost unlimited computing power and never worrying about power outages, hard disc failures, port conflicts,

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It was great to get out of the office on some customer visits earlier this month. While a colleague who shall remain nameless elected to explore Alberta via the commercial airlines, another colleague and I have a much better sense of the geography between Edmonton, Lethbridge, and Calgary via our many hours in a flex fuel car. We also gained a strong appreciation for daylight until 11 p.m

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Last weekend we in the St. Louis office of SirsiDynix were saddened to learn of the death of Jim Michael. Many of the former DRA Classic customers will remember that Jim was one of the founding partners of DRA. Jim was the librarian in the group of people that started the company.Jim had a significant impact on library automation and on my career! During the time that Jim worked in the library

SirsiDynixnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6274484129689018454.post-79266262503904006982009-05-22T17:09:00.011-06:002009-06-12T18:54:15.575-06:00

When I was writing code for a living, I loved working with open source products. I loved being able to download a tool and get it running without having to lobby for a purchase order. I loved the fact that when I encountered an error using one of those tools, I could step through the code and see where the problem started. I was fascinated by the proliferation of open source projects and by the

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So. Spring is finally making a convincing appearance around here and the kids are counting down the days until the pool’s open, school’s out, and most exciting, the possibility of a road trip looms. That brings us to a key element in road trip success: the roadmap.Anyone remember my second favorite Far Side cartoon? It features the “Rand McNally Situation Room”, with the premise that geographical

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In these trying economic times we pulled together a list of features in SirsiDynix Symphony software that might be used to save time, save money, and even make money. We couldn't believe what we could come up with in just a few minutes so I'm passing this partial list on and challenging you to add to it!SIP: If the staff didn't have to spend so much time checking out materials they could spend a

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Welcome to the "Sustainable Development" blog from a few of us at SirsiDynix. We are excited to communicate with you in this manner and hope it is beneficial to you.Throughout the next several posts, we hope to convey a little of what we are planning down the road, thoughts we have on upcoming technology, and insights into the development of current and upcoming SirsiDynix products.We hope you

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