Rachel Singer Gordon asks, “What do people read outside the library field?” dooce – “I’m Heather B. Armstrong. This is my website.” A List Apart – “For people who make websites” Church of the Customer – by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, authors of Citizen Marketers and Creating Customer Evangelists National Geographic News – Jurassic …
Author Archives: abigail
Writing for the Web
If you write for the web, you may find this tip sheet helpful. It discusses making your page easily scannable, optimizing for search engines, and (my favorite, as you may know) good reasons not to write “click here.”
Seeing the World through Dial Up
I’m all moved into the aforementioned apartment (can you believe it?), although not all unpacked. I plugged a phone in today and found a dial tone, so I got myself a dial up connection to use while I wait for Verizon to hook me up with the high speed. This means that I’m currently torn …
Site Updates
To cope with some serious anxiety while waiting for my spouse to come back from an interview and waiting to find out whether we’re getting the apartment we want, I added some stuff to this site. There’s a del.icio.us feed in the blog sidebar, and on my main page I’ve added my promised pre-print (come …
Talk Amongst Yourselves
My last day in the office is tomorrow and then I tackle the job of moving in earnest. I expect things will be quiet here for a while. I’m cleaning out my del.icio.us bookmarks as well as my files; here are a few pages for your amusement: Yahoo! vs. Google search results – visualize the …
I Still Heart LibraryThing
From this Thingology post: Some day, if we have enough shared users [with Cork’d], LibraryThing can recommend books based on the wines you drink! Awesome!
Organizing My Professional Self
In the course of wrapping up at Binghamton, I’ve needed to save quite a bit of professional e-mail, mainly correspondence related to presentations, articles, the list I manage. I also want to maintain several discussion list subscriptions that I’ve had through my work account. So, I set up a new Gmail account just for professional …
Oh Really?
I’ve been cleaning out files and came across some real gems among my papers from a supervisory workshop I attended several years ago. One document, included for its shock value, is an excerpt from a WWII-era article about “Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees.” Among the “helpful tips” are: 2. When you have to …
New Librarian Hazing Rituals
My SUNY colleagues in Oswego have found a professional use for all that snow they have: send the newest librarian up to the top of a very large snow bank and take her picture! Emily Hart, reference and instruction librarian and native Oswegonian, reports, “I’m not sure how tall it was…big! There was a significant …
E-mail Subscription Option
I’ve added Feedburner’s e-mail subscription option over on the right side of the page. If you use it, please let me know how it works.