Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 29th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been following the bloggers at ALA and wishing I was there with them. My in-laws live in Chicagoland and the last time I went to ALA was in 2000 when it was in Chicago and I was finishing my MLS. I have great memories. Additionally, there looks to be lots of good session going [...]
Posted in Podcasting, RSS on Jun 29th, 2005 4 Comments »
So I got home last night and my computer had downloaded the newest version of iTunes with podcast support. I’ve been using iPodder to keep track of my podcast subcriptions. Ipodder adds things to iTunes after they are downloaded and it seems the latest version adds the “Podcast” grouping to them. I really want to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 27th, 2005 No Comments »
My library has been using ILLiad for a couple years now and we initially chose to host it on a server on our campus. However, with recent changes in the library and internal staffing resources at the library and IT stretched, we have decided to host ILLiad off campus with Atlas Systems. At first, I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 27th, 2005 No Comments »
Dave “tagged” me but its taken me a while to answer. (
Read the previous post and you’ll know why)
Total volume of music on my Mac:
- 7-8 Gbs worth… most of it is CDs I own that I’ve made into MP3s since I got my iPod
Last CD I bought:
- Lost in Space by Aimee Mann
Last song [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 27th, 2005 4 Comments »
I write very little about my personal life on this blog because that just isn’t what this blog is about. However, when my personal and professional life overlap, it is difficult to talk about one without talking about the other. In May, my husband had the opportunity to apply for a really great job in [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 27th, 2005 5 Comments »
The Distant Librarian has a couple great posts about how to integrate and link to library content into course management systems. One post discusses how to integrate information literacy content (TILT) into course management systems (specifically Blackboard). The second post discusses how to create persistent links to library content (TILT) within a course management system.
Because [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 20th, 2005 1 Comment »
There is a great post over at Catalogablog that talks about someone talking about doing transformation from RSS into MARC. With sites like LII, Resource Shelf and others doing a good job of making metadata about new Internet resources available (and providing RSS feeds), this may be a viable solution to the adding Internet links [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 17th, 2005 No Comments »
I just had to post this link to Open Access Haiku that I saw on It’s all good. The library webmaster and I have a Haiku fascination (our library 404 page has a haiku) and these just made me smile with delight. A couple of my favorites are
Libraries are caught:
High prices, tight licences,
profs who demand [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 17th, 2005 2 Comments »
Digitization 101 has a link to a good Library Journal article on a recent disputes between UCSD and publishers over e-reserves.
In recent years, electronic course reserves have become a staple at campus libraries, large and small, public and private. But publishers, uneasy with the practice in which libraries scan portions of their collections—whether books or [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 16th, 2005 5 Comments »
I got asked about the code we use at SUNY Cortland to show whether or not a chat reference assistance is available (ie. someone is logged in to AIM). So I am posting the relevant code below:
<img border=”0″ src=”http://big.oscar.aol.com/yourAIMusername?
on_url=http://library.cortland.edu/images/im_online.gif
&off_url=http://library.cortland.edu/images/im_offline.gif”/>
Your AIM username goes in the spot that says “yourAIMusername”. Additionally, you can use whatever graphics [...]
