BETA Is Here!

What a bodacious day today – actually, yesterday now – has been! I was up at oh-dark-thirty working on LIDA upgrades, and by midmorning I had posted an update. But of course, that wasn’t enough, so I kept going and kept going, feeling like the...

LABELS from LIDA – Should We?

One of my longtime friends from an online discussion group, Henry from North Carolina, applied this morning to join our beta test team. I was delighted, as I know Henry has done great work with musical groups in both Atlanta and North Carolina, and I have great...

Getting User Data Into LIDA: Type or Import?

One of the biggest things standing in the way of a person or organization using LIDA is how daunted they feel at the prospect of typing all their library’s listings into the system. Two people I corresponded with today told me they have 7,000 and 20,000 titles...

One More Field for LIDA

A day or so ago, I was looking at importing some information into LIDA from someone’s CSV file, and saw a field they had that we didn’t have in LIDA – the Price of the chart. This is important information for insurance purposes, because it, along...

How “Easy” Should We Make the Installation?

I got a call this morning (New Year’s Eve day, 2019) from Trevor, who is the person who caused me to pull the trigger on building LIDA. All of us should be offering up a round of applause to Trevor for getting this whole LIDA ball rolling. Trevor told me he had...