I got a little over-zealous with my spam management and I think I accidentally unapproved and deleted just a few comments. If your legitimate comment was zapped, I do apologize. On a related note, I’m not getting notifications of legit comments at the moment, so, although I’m logging in here a lot more, it may …
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Tee Hee
Do you want to see library blog posts about potatoes? Of course you do! Why the laughter? Folks, my posting has been so light I have to Google my Gmail for “wordpress” every time I want to login here, yet somehow I’m not last on the list.
Something old, something new
No, it’s not a wedding; it’s a job change. In December, I became a systems librarian at the Harvard University Library. Back to academia for me. I’ll be working with Aleph and Verde for the foreseeable future – either of which could be old or new, depending on your perspective. I have never supported Aleph …
You Can’t Spell Absence without Ab
My spouse and I have a running joke concerning all the words you can’t spell without ab: abnormal, fabulous, flab, absent… you get the idea. I certainly didn’t intend to go the better part of a year without posting, that’s for sure. Sorry for leaving you all with a cliffhanger. It turns out that ERM …
Contact Form
I’ve added a long-overdue contact form on the home page. I’ll be tweaking the sidebar, too, to make the form easier to get to. Drop me a note!
What to Expect When You’re Expecting an ERM
One of the hardest things I’ve done professionally was to document and transfer to someone else the work of being an e-resources librarian. I knew what I did; I had e-mail and spreadsheets and gray hairs to prove it. But to set it all out for other people, to include the exceptions and asterisks, and …
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Some Links, and Bunnies Theatre
At a recent training session, some of the attendees got a little restless and found the “just for fun” links off the student gateway page. Since I was conducting the training, I didn’t have the luxury of checking the sites out myself, so it was not until today that I finally experienced the 30-Second Bunnies …
Woe Is Me…
for I have returned from an offline vacation just as the NY Times article is making the rounds of the blogosphere, and it is standing between me and all the quality blog posts further down the page. I have no further comment, except to say that things are looking pretty good for the American League …
Newsflash: Librarians New “It” Girls
Librarians are totally the new “It” girls! Fred Flare says so.
Copy Windows Error Messages
Did you know this? I sure didn’t. For all you techie troubleshooters out there, Apparently since Windows 2000, you’ve been able to copy the entire error message to your clipboard by hitting the universal copy shortcut, Ctrl-C (who knew?!). No more SnagIt just to get a copy of the text. Post via LifeHacker.