Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
LITA Forum 2007 was extremely interesting. David Lee King and Jeremy Frumkin’s keynotes were both thought provoking.
A big thumbs up on the no bits of paper to carry around. Every year I go to Annual I weep over the trees killed. A future conference planning chair said that she and several others missed the paper [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Social Software on Oct 7th, 2007 6 Comments »
Putting together my presentation for LITA Forum and another presentation I’m doing at the end of November, I started to think again about restrictive IT policies regarding desktops, firewalls, and filters and how such policies effect Library 2.0 type endeavors.
At UH we have (my opinion) a very restrictive and controlling set of IT policies regarding [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Future is Not Out of Reach: Change, Library 2.0 and Emerging Trends
David Lee King
People think about change in different ways
Positively
Negatively
Librarians and change
slow change
fast change
Transformation taking place in social networking world
Social networking is really taking off
Mentioned in mass media
patrons noticing and caring
RSS, RSS Reading, tagging, comments, mash ups, user generated content, friending
Comments
old way - one-on-one, [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Five Months with WorldCat Local: The University of Washington Libraries Experience
Jennifer Ward
uwashington.worldcat.org
Finding Time (YouTube video)
What does it search?
3 catalogs
Holdings in WorldCat
4 article databases
PubMed
ERIC
GPO
ArticleFirst
What doesn’t search?
Some serials
Certain Special Collections records
Records for on-order in process titles
Licensed third party record sets
Why test WorldCat Local?
Research shows that most [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
The October schedule madness has begun. Yesterday I flew to Denver for LITA Forum which is the first of three conferences I’m attending in October. Normally, three conferences isn’t a big deal. But my application for continuing appointment also happens to be due at the end of Oct, as is the book manuscript. So I’m [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
After having some folks here test my combination fixed width/dynamic width design, I discovered some problems. Luckily I was able to work them out and in the process discovered that given the right constrains IE 7 will recognize a min-width attribute. The result (I hope) is a design which now scales up in Safari, Mozilla-based [...]
Posted in CSS on Sep 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Honestly, at least 60% of being good at web design is sheet amount of experience. I’ve been working on a way to resolve resizing issues with the new library homepage (get smaller than a certain size and an image covers up text). Part of the solution involved setting a min-width. But since IE doesn’t understand [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 17th, 2007 5 Comments »
One thing that has come up with our site redesign at UH is that we switched from a fixed width layout to a dynamic scalable layout. What that means is that the new layout resizes depending on the size of the window it is open in. This has inherent pluses and minus. The plus is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 16th, 2007 4 Comments »
The last three weeks I’ve been thinking a great deal about the role of my department in fulfilling the Libraries mission and where the department needs to go in the next 3 years. Part of getting where we want to go has been this whole site redesign process. But not in the way most of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
The deadline for the book of blogging I’ve been working on is looming. So in order to get some uninterrupted writing time, I’m joined my husband in Santa Cruz while he attended a workshop for his work. This is both work and play. While the middle of the week I worked on the book [...]
