Re: [IUG] What are you doing with perl?

["McGranahan, Jamen (Library)" <Jamen dot McGranahan at nashville dot gov>]

I would love to make use of perl and script some of my daily routines.
I'm able to do some with AutoIt in combo with Millennium Scheduler.  But
I think there's more I could do.  However, our IT Dept does not support
perl and I'm not comfortable enough with it to try to install it myself
on our webserver.  :-(  I've tried and have been unsuccessful.  Oh well.
If anyone knows of an easy install for perl, please let me know.  Thank
you.

Jamen McGranahan
Library Automation Specialist
Nashville Public Library
615 Church Street
Nashville, TN  37219
Jamen dot McGranahan at nashville dot gov
(615) 862-5726


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Subject: Re: [IUG] What are you doing with perl?


It is always very interesting to hear what people are doing with
scripts.  Alan, thanks for posting.  We'd like to be doing more of this.

The only place we currently use perl is for posting of Ariel document
delivery to a web server.  Some versions of those scripts can be found
at:   http://www4.infotrieve.com/ariel/webserver.html

John

 
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John Dillon
Assistant College Librarian
Library Systems and Technical Services
Geisel Library
Saint Anselm College
603.641.7349
jdillon at anselm dot edu
 



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>[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Brown, Alan
>Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:32 AM
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>Subject: Re: [IUG] What are you doing with perl?
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>At 21 April 2008 17:47 Phil Shirley wrote:
>
>> I'm doing a poster session at the IUG conference entitled "what perl 
>> can do for you".  The idea is partially to show people who are not 
>> using perl scripts at their libraries that perl might be a
>useful tool
>> for them, and partially to provide everyone with examples of
>how perl
>> is being used or could be used in libraries, especially in
>> relation to the III software.     
>
>Phil,
>
>I do a number of things here with perl
>
>1. I use a script to generate my own new items RSS feeds from create 
>lists. I wrote this before Innovative had their feed builder product 
>and this has saved my some cash. The script is in the clearing house.
>
>2. Another script I use along with MARC::Record, I use to reorder the 
>isbns in my new bib records so that the 10 digit isbn is first so that 
>I can still use amazon book jackets.
>
>3. Once a month I do a full extract of the marc bib data using data 
>exchange. I use perl scripts to;
>
>a) clean and separate data of the records to upload to other services 
>e.g. (unityuk, talis source), librarything for libraries.
>b) load all of the data onto a mysql database which powers a 
>rudimentary evidence based stock management tool (perl/mysql).
>This automatically generates a series of stock reports that we find 
>useful e.g. top issuing authors, a complete list of missing items, worn

>stock etc.
>
>Many of these things can be done with create lists but when I find 
>myself repeating tasks, I usually think "I wonder if I can get a script

>to do that" (I use an autoit script to create the lists for my RSS 
>feeds perl script:).
>
>I can't really recommend any books, but the perl documentation is 
>pretty good. In particular the documentation and tutorial for 
>MARC::Record is excellent.
>
>Regards
>
>--
>Alan Brown
>Library Systems Liaison Officer
>Resource Services
>Bury Libraries
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