Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Help me figure out what to buy
Okay, I am following Jenny's lead
from a couple months ago and asking my readers for advice on purchasing
a laptop. I've narrowed it down to a tablet PC or a Powerbook. I've
never owned a Mac before and all my stuff is PC stuff. Plus I work in a
PC office, which [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Ironies of Job Hunting
I had to smile a little when I read the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Raising my Standards” about one librarians experience job hunting. The quote which inspired the smile was “Then a former supervisor told me that she had received a telephone call
from a director of one of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
Library Lectures for the Car
Over the course of the last week or so I've download five MP3s of library and information science lectures. Three of them were Greg Schwartz's and Karen Schneider's podcasting efforts the others were Clifford Lynch's from LITA National Forum 2004.
I've intended to listen to them but hadn't found the time. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
EZProxy Lessons
This week has been filled with unexpected tasks to distract me from
my ongoing projects. It all started with our subscriptions to JSTOR and
ARTSTOR refusing to be proxied. I assumed that it was a problem with
our config file for EZProxy and started troubleshooting from there. The
problem with troubleshooting anything involving off-campus access is
that you really [...]
