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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Staying in Touch with the Users

Monday, March 26, 2007

I started my professional life as a cataloger. I have felt the push and pull of inter-departmental wranglings: “they don’t understand the value of what we do!” and “they don’t understand how people actually use the catalog!” Now that I’ll be helping e-resource librarians implement an ERM system and will no longer be [...]

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Office Demographics

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Three of us, out of less than 30 people, at my new workplace went to the same high school. Go Tigers!

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fiveblogs

Thursday, March 22, 2007

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 crocodiles, interspecies mating, “Toyger” [...]

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Writing for the Web

Saturday, March 17, 2007

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.”

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Seeing the World through Dial Up

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

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 [...]

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Site Updates

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

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 [...]

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