Embracing politics
“It’s just politics.” This is a common enough phrase, and the usual implication of it is dismissive: if it’s just politics, it’s not about anything really important. It’s grandstanding, it’s just more...
View ArticleThanks for the tip
I wasn’t one of the people viscerally affected by Google’s announcement of the forthcoming shutdown of Google Reader, since so far I’ve relied on a combination of standalone RSS clients and...
View ArticleA pause to reflect
Libraries are sneaky, crafty places. If you walk into one, things may never look the same when you walk out. Libraries are dangerous places. If you open your mind in one, you may be forever changed....
View ArticleSharing is for curmudgeons, too
CC-BY photo by Nancy Sims It’s always neat to find out that somebody whose work you follow in one context has done something interesting in a completely different field. Nancy Sims, who is an attorney...
View ArticleConservation of enthusiasm
One of the tightropes I must walk on as the current release manager for Koha is held taut by the tension between the necessity of maintaining boundaries with the code and the necessity of acknowledging...
View ArticleSecuring Z39.50 traffic from Koha and Evergreen Z39.50 servers using YAZ and TLS
There’s often more than way to search a library catalog; or to put it another way, not all users come in via the front door. For example, ensuring that your public catalog supports HTTPS can help...
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