Musings on library school, books, technology, and other things by a library school student, computer geek and bibliophile.
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 England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Aug 2nd, 2006
The seminar’s weekend was unscheduled free time for us participants. I know several people went away for the weekend, but I stayed in Oxford. I spent Saturday wandering around (many of my photos of Oxford were taken that Saturday), and I spent Sunday nursing a head cold (which you probably don’t want to hear about, [...]
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jul 17th, 2006
Friday was an eventful day at the seminar, with two scheduled presentations (one on preservation and one on emergency planning for libraries) and a tour of the botanic gardens. I also managed to get in on an unexpected tour… but I’m getting ahead of myself.
How to Have Fun in Libraries Without Killing the Collections: The [...]
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jul 16th, 2006
Thursday was our excursion to London to take a tour of the British Library, and it was interesting to see the contrasts between it and the Bodleian.
While both the Bodleian and the British Library are legal deposit libraries and both have major research collections (and to some extent, a similar focus in offering their research [...]
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jul 16th, 2006
Wednesday was actually a fairly light day for the seminar, there were only two presentations (although one was quite long and involved much group participation).
Overview of Qualification Routes for UK Librarians/Career Paths
The first presentation concerned qualifications for librarians in the UK and was officially presented by Gill Powell, Staff Development at Oxford University Library System, [...]
Posted in Allegedly Funny, Classification, Geekery, Libraries, Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006
So, what do geek librarians in training do on a rainy Friday afternoon? We translate the Dewey Decimal System into Binary, of course! (For those of you who are unfamiliar with binary numbers, the following article from Wikipedia will tell you more than you probably ever wished to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system)
So, here I present the much [...]
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jun 23rd, 2006
The second day of the seminar provided an interesting mix of presentations. We got to hear about how Oxford’s libraries are updating themselves for the 21st century, how to design a good library building, and got a crash course in how to use the somewhat antiquated electronic catalog for the Oxford University libraries.
Oxford Libraries in [...]
Posted in England Trip, History, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jun 21st, 2006
Hello all,
In preparation for posting more about the Oxford library seminar, I’m reposting my review of the first full day, newly edited and now with pictures!
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Like the first day of any class, the first full day of the seminar was mainly one of introductions. We introduced ourselves, and we also [...]