Alaska Bush Library Service

Wow, It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving has now come and gone. I have so much that I am thankful for this year that I didn’t realize I would be at this time of my life. My family is doing great. I was really worried that I would miss being a mom when my [...]

The problem was a directory that hadn’t been installed. I posted my problem to the listserv for Koha today and found that information. Tonight Dan looked at the file and uploaded the necessary file and we are uploading MARC records. SirsiDynix put on a great webcast this morning entitled 25 technologies in 50 minutes. This [...]

Escape to the Library – Matilda Watch Video Clip

I read the article Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values  in the new issue of Educause.  A checklist is mentioned that would be good for libraries at all levels to ask themselves: What is your library doing to: Support the user’s affinity for self-paced, independent, trial-and-error methods of learning? – Are we putting [...]

Okay, I am back to work on Koha.  Setting up parameters is still thwarting me.  I need to look at what I have gained.  I know where my itemtype is listed in the MARC record (field 001).  I found this number by downloading one record and using textedit to look at the information.  It was [...]

I am getting tired of asking myself how I can get staff to use the Alaska Database better. The database is a collection of Ebsco and Fact on File databases with full text articles for EVERYONE. I was so happy five years ago when I learned that we were getting them. I LOVE the databases. [...]

I finished some of the set up for Koha and was ready to map items from the MARC records to the database.  I found as I looked at my item types that we haven’t been consistent throughout our different schools.  So today, I will work on the MARC records of three different schools aligning the [...]