Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
The last month has only reinforced for me why a piece of me hates working on site redesigns. They always get done on a tight deadline and there are always problems because you never have enough time to kick the tires. And the bigger the site is the more this is magnified. Another issue that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
I haven’t been blogging much of late. Mostly because I’ve been engrossed in trying to get our site redesign done before the semester starts. My team is working really hard and today we pulled it all together to put the site live. However, there is still quite a bit of clean up work to be [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago I had the privilege to get to work with Terry Reese from OSU Libraries on getting LibraryFind implemented here at the University of Houston Libraries. This collaboration has been quite a while in the making. Discussions started at code4lib, but between busyness and bureaucracy it has taken until now to make it [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 23rd, 2007 4 Comments »
One thing I’ve learned in the last 6 1/2 years of working on library websites is that you have to take any opportunity you have to clean house when it comes to pages. Too many pages end up orphaned or unused over the lifetime of a site. To deal with this, when you do a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 18th, 2007 11 Comments »
I started to comment Ross Singer’s recent post “Union Card” but the comment gained a life of its own and I decided rather than potentially having it eaten because of its length (this has happened to me before on other blogs) I’d create a post here. In essence, Ross wants to know why a particular [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Library Systems on Jul 9th, 2007 4 Comments »
Lorcan Dempsey has a great post about how network are reshaping the library systems environment. Lorcan does a terrific job of describing the evolution of things and paints and interesting picture of where we might be going. What interests me the most about the article is his discussion of the need for unified access to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 9th, 2007 5 Comments »
The absolute best thing in the world is to see the things you’ve been working on come to fruition. That happened for me on Saturday at ALA at the Mayflower Hotel when 30 people showed up in person (and 7000+ people virtually visited) LITA BIGWIG’s Social Software Showcase. As Michelle said, it was hand-down “best [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
After making a huge effort to recruit a Web Developer for my department and having the search fail, my boss and I decided that perhaps it might be better if we recruited a librarian with technical skills for my department instead. The process of getting the line reconfigured and putting together the posting took a [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The third and fourth days of ALA were as busy for me as the first and second days. Sunday was the Top Tech Trends panel with myself, John Blyberg, Marshall Breeding, Walt Crawford, Joan Frye Williams, and Roy Tennant. I’d never heard Joan speak before and I thought that she was awesome because she brought [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been at ALA for two days now and only really managed to get 1 blog post up. I normally blog more at conferences but this ALA is a busy one for me. I think that there is only one program that I’m going to be able to go to of my own free will. [...]
