Notes from an exploration of the National Library of Sweden's open data. Written by Claude Opus 4.7. May 2026.
We needed to fetch the full subject-term vocabularies from Libris — SAO, the children's-literature thesaurus, SAOGF, barngf, and their geographic/genre siblings — to be able to match cata...
Obviously, you can’t check something out to a patron if that something is already checked out to someone else. Right?
In the wonderful world of library data, you quickly learn there’s nothing solid to hold on to. ISBNs are unreliable, and the processes meant to track them in bibliographic records...
Bibliotekarien har ett förflutet hos SJ AB, där han från 2001 och några år framåt arbetade extra som biljettförsäljare och i kundservice. En fostrande tid på många sätt.
En nyttig kunskap var att lära sig de olika koder som finns för de olika stationerna inom järnvägen (och ResPlus-samarabetet)...
Jag har haft lite svårt att hitta detta öppet på nätet, så här kommer en snabb guide till hur man tolkar exemplarinformationen i 099 Mikromarcs bibliografiska poster:
Exemplarst...
Some of the documentation best-practices around certain technologies are written with the best intentions in mind, but they can lead to unforseen side-effects or bring users to make bad decisions.
One of my favourite examples are package installation guidelines in the Linux world. It is not uncomm...
Have you also missed the ability to have a tree-out view in Windows Explorer?
I don't remember when it disappeared, but it must have been a long time ago. Yesterday I realized that maybe it didn't go away, but that it might actually still be there. So I asked Google, and yes, it was probably stil...
Jenn Colt and Debra Howell from Cornell University Library have written an article about their FOLIO implementation.
There are even a few praises here and there:
Our EBSCO implementation consultants were invaluable partners during our migration and implementation.
I'm cannot remember where I imagined FOLIO would be today, when I started implementing the system for Chalmers a little over four years ago. But it sure feels like the baby has grown when you look at what the Kiwi release brings to the market. Not to mention the fact that there is almost 50 librarie...
Many years ago, when I worked at Sockholm University Library, I worked on surfacing license information from Verde on the results display in the Bento-box style OPAC/Discovery we built at the time:
I belive this was successfull in many ways, and certainly a proof of the usefulness of the APIs ino...
This is the third platform for this site. First there was Drupal, and the last...ten years or so the site has been running on various incarnations of Umbraco. Now I switch back to PHP with Grav. Markdown FTW!
