Musings on library school, books, technology, and other things by a library school student, computer geek and bibliophile.
Posted in Library School, Life the Universe & Everything on Dec 20th, 2006
I have two bits of news that I’ve been sitting on for a while, and it looks like I can finally announce both of them.
First newsbyte: For the spring semester, I will be interning at the library at the University of Arizona John E. Rogers College of Law. I’ll be helping one of the reference [...]
Posted in Customer Service, Librarianship, Libraries on Dec 18th, 2006
My User Interface and Web Site Design class this past semester allowed me to get reacquainted with an old web design site I’d lost touch with: Web Pages That Suck. And then when the updated, “Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015” article came out, I had a minor epiphany. Take a look at mistake number [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2006
Now that the semester’s over and I’ve had some time to think, I’m realizing that there are some odds and ends I’ve been meaning to mention and haven’t gotten around to. So, in no particular order, here they are:
Everybody’s slides from the SIRLS/LSO Symposium are now up on the web and can be found at: [...]
Posted in Life the Universe & Everything on Dec 9th, 2006
The end of the semester has come once again. This one just flew by, and since I didn’t have an final exams, just final projects and final bits of discussion, I’m kind of left feeling that it hasn’t really quite ended yet. One nice thing about final exams – you do get a wonderful sense [...]
Posted in Geekery, Life on the Net on Dec 5th, 2006
I like to think of myself as a computer geek and an internet geek. I’ve built computers and installed many different flavors of many different operating systems over the years. I’ve been on the internet so long that I remember what it was like before the web and all the pretty pictures (no, I’m not [...]