Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 20th, 2004 No Comments »
Digital Camera Excitement
I got my first digital camera when I was in California for Internet
Librarian in November, so that I could take pictures on my trip. Some
of you may have seen some of the pics I posted here or on Pbase.
I don't own a photo printer because use most of what I take on the [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 20th, 2004 No Comments »
A desktop Search that might actually interest me
Because I am an avid (and somewhat rabid) Firefox user, this post from ResearchBuzz was of great interest.
Copernic Releases Firefox-Supportin' Copernic Desktop Search
For
those of you who aren't very excited by these desktop search products
because they don't search the cache of the browser you actually use,
check it out. Copernic [...]
Posted in BLeading Edge Thoughts on Dec 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Wouldn't it be nice…
If I could go from looking at a table of contents for a journal issue
on a publishers site to seeing if my library had it and if not
Interlibrary Loaning it? Being an avid reader of library journals I
have 8-10 tables of contents FURLed and I am constantly checking to see
if a new [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 17th, 2004 No Comments »
New blog I found
I found a neat new blog this week entitled “Making Links“.
According to the about page, “Making Links is a website created in
September 2004 to share information and to support librarians within
the OCUL consortium who are adapting their library services to two technologies new to OCUL: SFX and Refworks“.
While SUNY Cortland isn't a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 16th, 2004 No Comments »
Moving On
There is a good article at Library Journal
about assessing where you are in your career and if your current
positions still meets your needs. The advice which Rachel Singer Gordon
gives in this article is very helpful. As a gen X librarian, I have
gone through (and am going through) some of what the article discusses. I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 15th, 2004 No Comments »
More XML Lessons
I had a breakthrough last week involving XML. The usability of the
little orange XML button has been irritating me for some time and I
have been trying to figure out how to deal with it without redirecting
users to another page explaining RSS. The reason being that I want
people who know what RSS is, to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 11th, 2004 No Comments »
Early Christmas present
This week I got an early Christmas present. I have to renew my
domain
name soon and I haven't had much time to see if anyone has been reading
my blog. I have several ways I could figure this out including log
files I could analyze (if I could find the time). However, this week I
decided that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 10th, 2004 No Comments »
I am…
I am a web master. I am not tech support. This means I make
web pages look pretty. This does not mean I know why your computer is
suddenly hiding your files. That is handled by another department.
Thank you.
from playing in the library
I've felt this way many times over the last four years of working [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 9th, 2004 No Comments »
Yippee my article is out!
I was just surfing the web version of the Journal of Academic
Librarianship
and saw that my article is up in electronic format now.
The article entitled “Walking a Tightrope: Academic Libraries and
Privacy”, appears in the November issue of JAL and is my take on state
of privacy issues in academic libraries. It is my [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 9th, 2004 No Comments »
Open WorldCat Annoyances
I've been using the Open WorldCat Bookmarklet recently and discovered a
significant and seriously annoying difference between using it (but
really Open WorldCat in general) at work and at home. When I use Open
WorldCat at work, it knows that I am on SUNY Cortland's campus and I
get a “SUNY Cortland” version of OpenWorldCat with our [...]
