My colleague at the University of Manitoba has inspired me to tweet about the Summon implementation at the University of Manitoba Libraries. Tania Gottshalk is tweeting about  Electronic Health Records.

At the University of Manitoba Libraries we are just in the middle of implementing the Summon discover layer from Serials Solutions. We have our catalogue records loaded, connections to our journals and A&I databases that are “summonable” working. What’s not working yet is links to our catalogue and the proxy links are dodgy (more testing required!)

I’m working with SerSol (Serials Solutions, SS has nasty connotations) on usability testing, and this week we’ve completed tests with three students. My plan is to publish the results of the testing.

My past twittering has been from my personal life, which frankly, isn’t that exciting (but in case you’re wondering we won our curling game last night).

So if you’re wondering how the Summon implementation is going at UML, follow me.

Leslie had his first paid babysitting job  last night, came home with $35 bucks and a big smile. Thanks Mirium! Rod is forcing me to think about Christmas presents, so later today we’re going shopping. Me. Shopping in November for Christmas. What’s next? Picking my clothes off the floor? Which has got me thinking about what I really want – a rustic pine table to match my chairs. The table we have is serviceable, but needs restoration, and was a wedding present from my first wedding in 1983. Time to move on, don’t you think?

Rustic Table Karen Wants

As a treat for my celiac son, banana bread is in the oven . . .

Hodgson Mill – Gluten Free Banana Bread.

• used canola oil instead of butter
• mesquite flour instead of soy
• added dried cranberries

 

Reese’s Inspired GT Cake

Originally uploaded by karenkeiller.

Inspired by Baking for John blog post

I made the cookie part into a bottom crust and decoared with Reese’s candy instead.

Thanks Paul Peters at University of Manitoba Libraries for the great idea!

Inspired by the the red laser app, could we create a mobile self-checkout with an iPhone app?

With red laser you hold up your iPhone to a barcode (say you’re shopping for an expresso maker and you found one in Costco but you’re wondering if you can order somewhere else cheaper) and voila you get price comparisons. In the screen shots I used a book from our library’s new book shelf.

So what if you could create an app that did the same with your library barcodes? Find reviews of the book you’ve got in your hand? Check it out? (I know what about security, let’s ignore that for now). Sounds like a great idea for Hackfest at Access 2010 in Winnipeg.

Thanks to Mike Ellis at University of Manitoba for showing me red laser!

University of Winnipeg Library has launched a new look. Built with Plone, it matches the look and feel of the main campus site, without using the same content management system. Congrats team!

Groover’s Paradise: I Just Want Some Affection.

A song about a librarian named Karen!

And how’s your library web page look on a small screen? Developed an app to search your stuff yet? Demanding that vendors are smartphone friendly?

Evette Atkin – good contact for Manitoba, big issue is breaking out of the vendor / customer culture.

Just getting going here, first impression is the staff at equinox are painfully young-then literally the future is here.

Stand by me

First international evergreen conference, Lamar Veatch introducing.

I doubt you would feel this much positive energy at a vendor user group meeting. Take control. Partners with commercial, but does this remind anyone else of library automation in the sixties, but the big difference is the “environment” supporting open source.

150 people here

Joe Lucia, villanova university

Exiting turbulent challenging environment.

DRUPAL BOF Blog entry