Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 8th, 2006 1 Comment »
The last six months here at MPOW have been bumpy to say the least. However, today, looking at the pre-alpha version of the CMS we are in the process of building I’m starting to believe that it will all come together. The system we are building in extremely flexible. It is based on the concept [...]
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Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 8th, 2006 1 Comment »
Yesterday I listened to my first library audio tour being put out by the WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) library. What is cool about this tour is that it has activities that educate users how to use the library as part of the tour. It is also neat because it isn’t just a single person talking. [...]
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I was terribly distressed to hear about Karen Schneider’s resignation from ALA Council. It is another thorn in my side in terms of how I have been feeling about ALA. (Meredith and I have similar complaints.) It wasn’t until recently, when I become more active with LITA, that I got to meet Karen. However, I’ve [...]
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I’ve been super busy the last three weeks, both at work and at home. In addition, to being in the middle of a MAJOR project at work, I’ve also trying to get my stuff together for Computer in Libraries which is in two weeks. I’m giving a presentation and teaching a post-conference workshop. Putting the [...]
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Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 6th, 2006 4 Comments »
One issue that I’ve been having of late with the feeds I read is that I love to tag and flag things in Rojo. I see something. I want to read it later. So I flag and/or tag it. The problem is now I have amassed 100+ things flagged/tagged. Plus there is a plethora of [...]
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