Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 31st, 2004 No Comments »
Can one be too popular?
Remember a while back I posted about newsreaders
being site bandwidth hogs? Well, much to both my glee and
consternation Library Web Chic has grown to the point of eating up enough
bandwidth that I may have to either pay or move to another home. Much of this is
due to the RSS feed, which [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 31st, 2004 No Comments »
Cell
phone use in library: $1,000 fine
I am not a fan of those sonorous theme song ring tones
echoing throughout the library. However, its obvious city officials haven't read
“Your
Next Computer” an article that describes how cell phone are becoming
the computers of the future. With Instant Messaging continuing to rise libraries
need to be prepared for the onslaught [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 31st, 2004 No Comments »
Creating
an RSS feed of the books you have checked out of the
library
From [Library
Stuff]
“Peter Rukavina has figured out a way to create an rss feed of the books that he has checked out of his library:
“The result is a Perl script that automatically connects to the
web-based Dynix (aka Epixtech) OPAC and grabs a list of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Another good CSS Design Site
I found another CSS Design site of interest. It is called StyleGala
and it has some great links to code examples, tutorials, and resources.
There is also an archive of designs using CSS. These are real sites
using CSS, which makes this site a little different from the Zen
Garden, in which people exhibit different [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Web development mistakes
This article
talks about some common but rather sloppy web development mistakes that even
experience web designers and professions have a tendency to make. Although the
list has a “pet web development peeve” tone, it is very useful and I have added
it to my “list of things our site must not do” aka another project for [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Aug 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Another
Forced Hiatus
Radio is
acting up yet again, for what is still apparently no good reason. I have three
big deadlines in the next two weeks, so I just don't have time right now to keep
messing it with it to get it to post what I'm writing. Even though I have a lot
I wanted to post about, it's [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects on Aug 25th, 2004 No Comments »
AWStats Up and Running
I got AWStats up and running at the end of last week after testing it
and deciding that it met our library's needs for a log analysis tool.
Honestly, I have nothing but positive things to say about it. The
install and configuration requires a degree of technical skill that
initially spooked me, but once I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 25th, 2004 No Comments »
The semester has started here and I am swamped with fun little tasks
like making sure all the new students are in our library management
system and interlibrary loan system as well as setting up some new
reports to run at the end of the month.
In addition, we are bringing up our home-built e-reserves system this
fall. We [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
I learned something new
I always get excited when I discover something I didn't know before. Today I was reading my subscriptions in Bloglines and I discovered a very cool thing. If you highlight something and then click on the Clip/Blog link you will get a window with what you have highlighted as well as a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 21st, 2004 No Comments »
Roy Tennant's Book
I just finished Roy Tennant's latest book, Managing the Digital Library. I wish I had this book 3 years ago when I started my career in e-Services
I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone in e-Services, library technology, library web services, or systems. Or, heck, anyone even considering entering any of these [...]
