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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Digital Preservation Workshop and Tutorial

Friday, September 29, 2006

I didn’t blog very much this month; the start of the school year is always a hectic time and we had what must have been a record number of technical problems with our e-resources. Besides that, I’ve been preparing for Cornell’s Digital Preservation Workshop, which requires completion of a pre-workshop tutorial and the reading [...]

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D2D

Friday, September 29, 2006

D2D is the new thing, popping up recently on Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and the program for NISO’s upcoming workshop.
What is it? Simply an acronym for “discovery to delivery,” the process that a person goes through to get anything from a peer-reviewed research article to a new pair of Manolo Blahniks. Four [...]

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Dramatically Improving People’s Lives

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job a little better? –Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think
I love this quote! There are a lot of things I can’t control, but this makes me feel good simply about adding some alt text to a web page. [...]

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New Riders Titles for Web Librarians

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Most of what I know about web design and development I’ve learned from New Riders books. I’m finally reading Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug, a book on web usability that practices what it preaches. (Those of you who have read the 1st edition might want to get hold of the new edition, [...]

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