Alaska Bush Library Service

     I have to admit to getting tired of Marc records.  I worked on records for about ten hours over the weekend.  I am glad that summer is coming and I won’t be sitting in front of my TV because the weather outside is bad.  The goal is still to be able to update the records in a comprehensive format by the end of the summer, but I think I need to take a week and not work on them at all.

I see MARC records as a puzzle.  How do we put it together so that our users get the most from our resources.   Right now I have spend 10 hours a day working on the records to delete unnecessary information, correct the item types, and remove extraneous information.  Last night my problem was that the program I am using wouldn’t make new reports for me.  Without the reports, I couldn’t continue fixing things.

That was a wake up call for me.  I had spent my whole weekend in my house.  The weather outside is above freezing.  It would have been easy to do lots of things, but I chose to work on the records.  If that doesn’t say, you need a life, I don’t know what will.

This morning I answered a phone call and emails from a district that is converting to Koha.  I was trying to explain why I didn’t use LibLime as they are planning on doing.  The best explanation that I could come up with is that I don’t have a life and wanted to learn something new.  LibLime is a great company that has been helpful in answering my questions and would be a good alternative to going it on your own.