Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
I feel like I never left
The real bummer about working late is coming in the next morning. I feel like I should just pitch a tent in reference and camp out there over night.[LibrariansHappen]
This quote brought such a smile to my face when I read it. The last two weeks have been like this for [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Library Web Chic builds own XML Blogging Tool - Film at 11
URL: Library Web Chic builds own XML Blogging Tool - Film at 11 Thanks Steven for the plug. I forgot to mention on this site that a discussion of my XML-based blogging tool is part of my presentation “Library Web Site Applications Using XML” [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 26th, 2004 No Comments »
XML Experiments
Argh! Major frustration today. I am trying to use this nifty tool I found for Radio that is supposed to export my posts as one big RSS feed. Of course it isn't working and I have read and re-read the instructions at least twenty times. I sent off an email to the person who [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
I just wanted to say after today's flurry of posts that I am sane. It's just that I am catching up on my reading while sitting at the reference desk wishing I were outside digging in my garden (finally, it stopped raining here). I have logged three hours of Saturday reference seeing only one person [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
What Web Standards Has Taught Me For one thing, web standards has taught me that it is important to keep everyone in mind. Web standards teaches us to follow a set guideline to achieve the best results. If you adhere to those guidelines, you please the majority of the people that view your website. [CSS [...]
Posted in CSS, Usability on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
Print Stylesheets and User Expectations
There is a great post over at Man in Blue about how the behavior created by print stylesheets confound users. The basic idea is that user expect when they print to get the what they are seeing on the screen and when they don't they are puzzled. So there are suggestions [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
Infolit weblog Just came across a nice infolit blog at http://k-stateinfolit.blogspot.com/ which is K-State InfoLit (Kansas State University), which started up in June. “Keep updated about efforts at Kansas State University to ensure we produce graduates that are information literate and ensure that our faculty and staff are too.” (OK, I came across it because [...]
Posted in Blogging, XML on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
An XML-based Blogging tool So I have spent most of this summer working with a consultant developing an XML-based blogging tool for our library. The project is nearing completion and I can't express my joy in words. I would have to say that this was one of the more difficult projects I have decided to [...]
Posted in XML on Jul 20th, 2004 No Comments »
An XSLT for Furl XML
A while back I mentioned the fact that I was using XML from Furl to drive the “Resources” portion of my site. I decided that since other people might want to do this and don’t know how I should probably post the code. To do this transform you need a couple [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 18th, 2004 No Comments »
Job Shift
So I have a new title and job description at work. I am now the Electronic Services Librarian, which in addition to being a shorter title (I was fka the Information Technology and Instruction Librarian), formally acknowledges a bunch of stuff that I have taken on over the course of the last 3 1/2 [...]
