Are we slackers or are we tough cookies? Can we really be both? What am I talking about? I just read this article from Fortune on Attracting the 20-something worker. One minute I’m happy to be a 20-something (even if I am closer to 30 than 20 now) – and the next I want to [...]
Yesterday we had a meeting with a vendor – I should clarify – we had a meeting with a non-library vendor. When asked if our peers were using this new product, the vendor asked a pretty straightforward question, “Well, who do you consider your peers to be?” What’s your answer? Other libraries? That’s what I [...]
There is an interesting discussion going on at Cataloging Futures. The question is how do we upgrade our Cataloger’s skill sets? How do we prepare them for cataloging of digital collections? Most catalogers have the important skill set already: experience with structured data and standards, good analytical skills, the ever necessary discipline of being attentive [...]
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Of course I didn’t see this over the weekend when I could fix it – but it looks like images in my posts aren’t displaying with this new template. I’ll see if I can figure it out later today. [update] Okay, it’s not the template. Somehow, when I downloaded a copy of my site I [...]
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Meredith has a lively discussion going on over at Information Wants To Be Free about friending people on social networks – feel free to weigh in.
I just read that Google is considering buying FeedBurner. At first it didn’t really surprise or worry me – but then I read this: With this deal, Google can integrate both AdWords and, soon, DoubleClick into FeedBurner’s feeds as well as create more sophisticated RSS search tools. I have just one thing to say – [...]
I found this on the OPAL list of events today (which hasn’t had much of interest to me lately) and wanted to make sure you didn’t all miss it!! Wednesday, June 6, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT: Interview with David Weinberger, [...]
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and figured it was time to upgrade my template as well (the one I had was very very very old). I keep meaning to do something custom, but I just don’t have the time – or the design skills necessary. So, bear with me while I make customizations. And [...]
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