Lifelong Learning, Libraries and 'Omics, Work and more...
Again much of the spare time (ha!) that I have been spent on readings and writings for Facilitating Lifelong Learning. As is my want, I've started to add this material to a Drupal book on my website. Feedback on my teaching philosophy statement was impressively comprehensive and positive, a credit to the unit co-ordinator. I have also taken some issue with Arnett's theory of "emerging adulthood"; would be delighted to find another scholar interested in putting together a stronger and longer critique of the idea (yes, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shehasathree, I am looking in your direction). On a distantly related topic, was provided an interesting scan of an article from New Humanist criticising much of the "self-help" industry, which has generated some discussion.
LUV has acquired a Motorolla LS2208 Barcode Scanner which just does the job. Have experimented with various library software today to find what is most suitable; Koha is awesome, heavyweight, and requires a bit of knowledge on how to install stubborn perl packages. Library Thing is quite popular for a webservice and includes most of the functionality that we'd need. GCstar provides a local install, excellent import and export, simple to install, and provides good templates. I think this one might be the path to take. In other LUV news, our meeting on Tuesday had an excellent presentation from co-worker, Dr. Dave Perkins, on the contribution of Linux to 'Omics (i.e., Proteonomics, Genomics, Variomics).
A fair chunk of worktime this week was taken up in the preparation and conducting of our internal audit; from all accounts it went well. Responses will be incorporated in time for our external audit at the end of the month for ISO 9001:2008 certification. Not much on the gaming front this week; the Pendragon session witnessed the appearance of a young Lancelot, who managed to annoy by his ability and personality. Second half of the session involved the beginning a rather interesting tangent of the Arthurian legend - his invasion of the Roman Empire (c.f., Malory V, 5-6; Geoffrey x,3-4). This evening's activities will be a housewarming with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wildilocks and _fustian).
shehasathree, I am looking in your direction). On a distantly related topic, was provided an interesting scan of an article from New Humanist criticising much of the "self-help" industry, which has generated some discussion.LUV has acquired a Motorolla LS2208 Barcode Scanner which just does the job. Have experimented with various library software today to find what is most suitable; Koha is awesome, heavyweight, and requires a bit of knowledge on how to install stubborn perl packages. Library Thing is quite popular for a webservice and includes most of the functionality that we'd need. GCstar provides a local install, excellent import and export, simple to install, and provides good templates. I think this one might be the path to take. In other LUV news, our meeting on Tuesday had an excellent presentation from co-worker, Dr. Dave Perkins, on the contribution of Linux to 'Omics (i.e., Proteonomics, Genomics, Variomics).
A fair chunk of worktime this week was taken up in the preparation and conducting of our internal audit; from all accounts it went well. Responses will be incorporated in time for our external audit at the end of the month for ISO 9001:2008 certification. Not much on the gaming front this week; the Pendragon session witnessed the appearance of a young Lancelot, who managed to annoy by his ability and personality. Second half of the session involved the beginning a rather interesting tangent of the Arthurian legend - his invasion of the Roman Empire (c.f., Malory V, 5-6; Geoffrey x,3-4). This evening's activities will be a housewarming with
wildilocks and _fustian).
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Yes, that's right. The general idea is to have the librarian (Wen) take only the books requested to the meetings - and collect them - rather than have to cart the entire box around.
... but that depends on something interpreting the barcode, right?
That's correct. The barcode scanner acts like a keyboard, and displays the ISBN number. GCstar then does a fetch from various sites (including, for example, Amazon) to work out what the product is.