Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 31st, 2006 1 Comment »
Yipee! Reading TechCrunch today I discovered that Skype for Mac now has video! Its a beta/preview so it still has bugs, but I’ve been waiting for this since the Window version got video. Very cool! Maybe I’ll buy that iSight sooner rather than later. I also messed around enough to discover that I can participate [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
Dorothea has a nice post in response to Rachel’s query regarding what is being (publicly) said and not said about the gender issue in systems librarianship. Karen continues this thread with a great picture from her days in the Air Force. Both ladies points out that in private people are willing to say much more [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 18th, 2006 2 Comments »
I’m not typically a big picture taker at ALA. However, many of my conference friends like to take pictures at conference. The problem with pictures at ALA (and other conferences) is that often the rooms that presentations take place in are dark. This creates a whole host of problems for taking pictures. You can use [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 14th, 2006 4 Comments »
Rachel Singer Gordon has chimed in with her thoughts on the gender imbalance in system librarianship issue. She makes some terrific points that I failed to mention. I think Rachel is very right when she says there are many factors as to why there seems to be lack of women in library tech. Techie women [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 3rd, 2006 7 Comments »
I talked in a previous post a little bit about my experience at code4lib in reference to a general lack of super techy women in librarianship. I got a comment and linked to in reference to how to make code4lib better and would like to address that as a post for several reasons.
First, I want [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 1st, 2006 12 Comments »
So I’m hoping you’ve seen Karen, Jane, or Dorothea’s posts (prompted in part by LITA’s Top Tech Trends lack of women) about techie women in the library profession. I want to raise my voice in support for exactly what they are saying. Dorothea nails it on the head when she say:
So there isn’t just a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 1st, 2006 No Comments »
So of people might forget from reading my blog that web design isn’t all about tech. In fact, some days for me are very low tech or no tech oriented. Thursday and Friday of this week were like that because we are working on a header/banner for the Libraries website face lift.
In many respects this [...]
