The Riverwalk was absolutely hopping Thursday night compared to the rest of the week! It finally warmed up and dried out (coincidentally on the day we got out early for lunch) and it was still warm enough to eat outside in the evening. Earlier in the day I visited the Alamo, which [...]
If you are in the Philadelphia area between next Tuesday and June 3rd, may I suggest checking out Bryn Mawr College’s exhibition on bookbinding, curated by the College’s honorary curator of bookbindings, Willman Spawn?
I was lucky enough to work as an intern in Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections department, full of beautiful bindings, and to learn [...]
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Quick facts about Open Repositories: there are about 350 people here, but no lines at the women’s bathrooms; many PowerBooks are in attendance; use of PowerPoint is considerably above average; number of cell phones ringing during presentations is considerably below average; and “continuous partial attention” is highly evident in the presentation rooms, where there is [...]
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
I came back from dinner tonight to find a large fire truck, ambulance, and police car pulled up in front of my hotel. My first thought after, “Oh no, my Mac!” was that if something involving fire trucks happens at the Menger, they can just blame it on the ghosts and be done with [...]
I highly recommend Karen Schneider’s TechSource blog post about IT planning. If only for reading the first couple paragraphs that aptly describe what library IT operations are likely to have on their plates. Next time you see one of your library’s IT professionals, thank them for all their work!
A couple choice quotes:
If idle [...]
I’m in the Atlanta airport for a good while, waiting for my flight to San Antonio for Open Repositories, so I shelled out for wifi access. And now that I have, I’m going to find things to do online until the last possible minute or until my battery dies!
One good way to pass time [...]
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Boxes and Arrows, a web zine about design and information architecture, has two articles about making career choices in its current issue. The first offers some tips for deciding whether or not you want to manage and the second looks at the “three-pronged fork in the road,” reminding readers that managing isn’t the only [...]
It’s easy for those of us who use a mouse or trackpad on a daily basis to forget that many people use computers without them. If you maintain web pages and are still looking for a New Year’s resolution, please consider working to eliminate “click” from your lexicon.
In most cases, you will [...]
OK, OK, I haven’t been especially inspired to blog for a while, but this is an easy one.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me
1. The first thing I wanted to be when I grew up was a veterinarian.
2. When I was in first grade, I had a lot of warts on my face. I went [...]
I finally started cataloging my books on LibraryThing over the holiday break. Two things struck me immediately.
1. Library Thing is better than any other website I have ever used. Why?
The sign-up process is identical to the sign-in process! What a concept! Reason enough to upgrade to a paid account and support [...]