Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
My preconference workshop with Jason Clark on AJAX in Libraries today went really well. I always enjoy working with Jason because he knows his stuff and is willing to let the presentation be a conversation between us and the audience. We changed up the presentation a little bit at the last minute so I wanted [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
After a long day of travel Friday, I arrived safely in Monterey for Internet Librarian. I’m co-teaching a preconference workshop on Saturday again this year and then co-presenting a session with Michelle Boule on Tuesday.
There is something great about Internet Librarian that always keeps bringing me back to this conference even though there are lots [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
Last weekend my external hard drive decided to go on the fritz. Under normal circumstances this is a bad thing. My external hard drive has all my MP3s and photos on it and losing those would be very bad. However, with my month being as insane as it is, I have very little time to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
My portfolio for Continuing Appointment is due on November 2nd and so I’ve been working on and off on it the entire month of October. The problem is that I’m actually gone Nov 2 and the whole week before to give presentations at conferences. So I have to finish what I’ve jokingly been referring to [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Oct 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
Yesterday was not been a particularly good day. I thought I’d try something new and do one of my upcoming presentations in GoogleDocs. I’ve never used the presentation creation functionality before and thought it would be a nice way to learn. Everything started out well. I was able to add nifty pictures to my slides [...]
Posted in open source software on Oct 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
Over at Circulatable in response to my Open Source Software Pet Peeve post Steve ponders
Is it better to release something half-baked, in the hopes that it will be useful, or to keep it purely internal and let someone else solve the problem?
The answer in my opinion is to release the thing and let the community [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
Lifehacker has a great post about how to share your Mac printer with a Window machine without using Samba. The trick is using something called Bonjour, which has a Windows client and is a snap to get working. The even better part as I’ve extolled before is that you can use an Airport Express to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 14th, 2007 10 Comments »
Hey readers,
I’m writing show final chapters for a book I’m co-authoring on blogging in libraries and needs some help. I’m looking for good examples of blogs being used for internal purposes in libraries: Distributing news, gathering ideas, holdings discussions, etc. Typically the kind of blogs I’m looking for is part of an organization’s intranet and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, open source software on Oct 12th, 2007 13 Comments »
I’ve been working to install some open source software for collecting reference statistics this week. The software is very straightforward and should have been easy to install but the developers neglected to mention that you need to have a particular PHP PEAR module installed to make things work. The module is a piece of cake [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Probably the biggest thing I’ve been working on since I came to UH Libraries has been the move from a centralized to decentralized model for web content management. Much of this has been a technical challenge. No tools existed when I started 2 years ago for library staff to maintain their own content. However, to [...]
