Posted in Notes from the Field on Sep 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
E-Matrix - NCSU Library E-resources Management System
presented by Andrew Pace and Stephen Meyer
Andrew started by giving an overview of the ERM landscape. DLF wrote a paper on ERMI that describes the problem, outlines existing solutions and efforts, and several appendices. Lots of vendors are working on ERM products and many libraries are developing ERM. There [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Sep 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Googlezon, Episode VI: Return of the Librarians
Roy Tennant is always as hilarious. In the first five minutes of his talk he made five jokes and complemented bloggers who were blogging the session. He had a great little video to show the developments over the last ten years that have dramatically impacted libraries. The amazing thing [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Sep 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Leaping, bounding joy! I’ve arrive in San Jose and the weather is spectacular. Pleasantly cool which is nicer that Houston which has been brutally hot the last week. First order of business when I got to the hotel and dropped off my stuff was to sign up for wireless access and get on the wireless [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Sep 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Today begins the conference madness because I’m off to LITA Forum with Jane. I decided to go at the relatively last minute and have been recovering from that decision every since. I’m sort of grateful that I’m not presenting at this one. Although it looks like it is going to be a great show. I’m [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 30th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve sort of been out of touch with the move and new job. So I just noticed that my old job at SUNY Cortland is now available and being advertised. You can check out the job description on SUNY Cortland’s HR site. However, it doesn’t talk about why Cortland is a great place to work.
In [...]
Posted in CSS on Sep 28th, 2005 No Comments »
There is a great article over at A List Apart which discusses multi-column layout support that is being built into CSS3 by the W3C. The proposed new CSS properties are:
‘column-count’, to determine the number of columns into which the content of the element will flow.
‘column-width’, to describe the optimal width of each column.
‘column-gap’, to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 27th, 2005 6 Comments »
Recently, I’ve been considering trying out a collection manager like Library Thing. However, I trying to figure out if it will suit my needs exactly. Currently, I keep what I refer to as my book spreadsheet that helps me to remember what I read, when, and how much I liked it. I also keep books [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 26th, 2005 No Comments »
As many of you know, I moved to Houston about 2 months ago. Last week I got to experience my first hurricane evacuation. UH was great in that they gave all of their employees leave and I spend my last day before departing helping to get the library systems ready for the storm. The experience [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 16th, 2005 No Comments »
Yesterday afternoon I got a surprising phone call from a writer for the UH student newspaper, the Daily Cougar. She was looking to interview faculty at UH who blog for an article in the paper. She had been given my name as a faculty member who was blogging and wanted to interview me today for [...]
Posted in Usability on Sep 15th, 2005 3 Comments »
Today I had an interesting conversation on the bus to work. For a while I’ve seeing the same UH faculty member on my morning bus ride. We’ve exchanged pleasantries but I hadn’t really talked to him for very long. This morning I had a chance to talk to him at length on the ride in. [...]
