Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 15th, 2004 No Comments »
There is a really interesting article
that talks about the tension between personal weblogging and work
responsibilities and/or the interest of your employer. Most employers
are concerned that employees will divulge trade secrets, confidential
information, or criticize his/her employer. It is a challenge to try to
balance these issues when you have your own blog.
I want to be able [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
I got a really neat email last week from an LIS student asking about my
weblog. It seems that she is using my site as an example of blogging in
her writing for the LIS profession class. I am elated to see this type
of interest in blogging from LIS students and glad to see that the
topic is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
No, It's Not Our Own Damn Fault
“In response to my rant about integrated library system vendors, Peter Rukavina says that it's our own damn fault.
'When
you outsource the administration of your data to someone else (whether
it's an OPAC vendor or a university computing department or some guy
down the street), you're also outsourcing any chance you have [...]
Posted in CSS on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
There is a fabulous , article
on CSS trick over at Evolt.org There are three tricks described here
that were new to me. My favorite was getting things to align vertically
using CSS. This was something that was easy with table-driven layout
but I hadn't figured out how to do using CSS. Another good quick tip is
that you can [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 5th, 2004 No Comments »
University at Buffalo Library School gets grant to train librarians how to make accessible websites
Part of me wants to cheer about this. Part of me is sorely
disappointed. Web accessibility is a critical issue for library
websites and it is really important that MLS students get this type of
training. The more librarians and library webmasters that are [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 5th, 2004 No Comments »
So much to say so little time
Do you ever feel like you will never be caught up with stuff? Steven at Library Stuff post entitled “Catch Me If You Can”
is sort of on that theme. I've been feeling the same way of late
myself. I post a bunch of stuff and then find even more that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, RSS on Sep 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
Users Trump Library Vendors Again!
“Everyone is (rightly) talking about Peter Rukavina's homegrown RSS
feeds for what he has checked out from his library (and new DVDs). I am
overjoyed to see this, but saddened to see that once again users are
having to route around library services because we're not providing the
service ourselves (Your Honor, the prosecution submits [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Sep 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
Servers, viri, no power oh my!
Well this week has certainly been exciting in the library. The week
started with assorted server problems. We were trying to clean old
stuff off one not knowing who stuff belonged to when another server
decided it needed to misbehave. Next we lost access to our servers
completely when there was a power outage [...]
Posted in CSS, General Thoughts on Sep 1st, 2004 No Comments »
Absolute and relative positioning
There is a great article at http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0904news.htm#feature
which discusses the positioning (relative and absolute) in CSS. The
author suggests that absolute and relative positioning can be used in
conjunction to create very flexible and interesting layouts.
Typically I use relative positioning in my layouts because this
makes the design more flexible for different browsers, screen
resolutions, and monitor [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, RSS on Sep 1st, 2004 No Comments »
Feed to JavaScript - Yet Another Easy Way to Display Feeds on a Web Page
“I have mentioned many of these tools in the past. Basically, they are
very easy ways to display RSS Feeds on a page. This one happens to use
Javascript. Also, as I have mentioned before, these tools run on
third-party servers, so you are [...]
