Posted in General Thoughts on May 26th, 2005 No Comments »
I always seem to be finding useful new Firefox extensions. One of the best ones I found recently is called SessionSaver and what it does it it remembers what was in each of your tabs if you close the browser completely. I think that it even caches a copy of the page, although I’m not [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
I discovered on a recent trip to my library that they now are making ebooks and digital audio books available. I had stopped in to get some read materials for my vacation and there was a nice big sign advertising the ebooks and digital audio books. I copied down the URL and went home [...]
Posted in CSS, General Thoughts on May 23rd, 2005 2 Comments »
The Librarian Way has a great post which lists a bunch of CSS resources and tutorials. W3Schools which is listed is a great resources for web design tutorial in general. They have materials on XHTML, CSS, ASP, XML, PHP and lots of other things a web designer might want to learn about. I’ve been [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 23rd, 2005 1 Comment »
So if you noticed I haven’t been blogging much of late… well, I’ve been swamped. First, I got an awful cold. Then I had a set of articles revision due. Next a bunch of end of the fiscal year stuff came up at work. If it sounds like an excuse, well maybe it is, but [...]
Posted in Library Systems, OpenURL on May 21st, 2005 No Comments »
God yesterday was a long day! The day started with problems with our interlibrary loan system. We had run a script to delink user records from items borrowed in order to protect user privacy. Unfortunately, while the script work the way it was written, it had some nasty unanticipated side effects. Ones I didn’t catch [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 18th, 2005 No Comments »
For all the fact that I’m a tech geek, my favorite reference questions are those about materials in our archives. I guess this is because I love history. Today, I was helping someone work on geneology for their family. A relative was a SUNY Cortland (then Cortland Normal School) graduate of 1915. So I went [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 8th, 2005 No Comments »
I just finished reading two really good articles about libraries and “millenials” or the Net generation of students. The first article was “Understanding the millennials” by Wendy Holliday and Qin Li appears in vol 32 number 4 of Reference Services Quarterly. This articles discusses a qualitative study done at the Utah State University libraries. Although [...]
