Author Archives: Rick Mason

Koha 3.0

The Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) has just released version 3.0 of their software.  This New Zealand-based open source project is quite mature and provides many libraries cost-effective means to run their operations. The release notes for this version show … Continue reading

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Death of a Blog

Not the death of this blog, but of the ending of The Patry Copyright Blog, which has been consistently informative, educational, and timely.  I truly hope that William Patry returns to blogging at some point, as I can only guess … Continue reading

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Changes and more Change

In the time it has taken to transfer the domain, I have been thinking about the blog, especially what its focus is and will likely be. I am, as of three minutes ago, changing the name of the blog from … Continue reading

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ISEN -or- All Your Databases are Belong to Us

The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) is a fantastic idea.  On-line databases would be assigned their own, unique number, similar to an ISBN or ISSN, which would identify them as a resource.  This would aid tremendously in organizing and ultimately … Continue reading

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Scrabulous and Copyright

Disclaimer: I have been an avid user of Scrabulous for several month (Stats:  70 wins and 3 losses, best bingo at 158 points), and am sad to see it go.  I am not posting because of this, however, but because … Continue reading

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If you can read this…

If you are reading this, then something has gone right!  I fought with the backup for nearly a week before giving up, and have rebuilt the blog from another method entirely.  This resulted in many duplicate entries, and it really … Continue reading

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