Thursday, November 12, 2009
Playing with colors has led to funky borders. It’ll be pretty again soon. Possibly brown-free.
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Top 10 Google suggestions when I type “define:”
love
conservatism
culture
socialism
ethics
integrity
leadership
twitter
irony
agnostic
One of these things is not like the others…
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Liveblogging Carol Tenopir’s keynote “Measuring the Value of the Academic Library: Return on Investment and Other Value Measures”
Carol reports that she did not participate in the Fun Run/Walk at 6:30 a.m.
We’re facing the challenge of demonstrating our value to stakeholders. Economy adds to this by pressuring budgets, combine w/ perceptions of library as gateway (Ithaka [...]
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Liveblogging Peter McCracken’s update on KBART
OpenURL overview: evolution from magic to sausage making in how it is implemented and how information gets passed around. when the link resolver fails it affects the user’s perception of the tool
bad data, bad formatting, lack of knowledge
what is the measure of success? better access, fewer false positives and negatives. [...]
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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.
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Last weekend at NASIG I attended a panel session at which several librarians discussed their career choices and described their jobs at organizations such as consortia and subscription agents. It was a pretty good session, and one which I understand pops up at NASIG every now and then.
One phrase that kept coming out of [...]
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
I’m not saying stereotyping is a good thing, let’s get that straight upfront.
But if you sit down to watch network primetime with any member of the legal, medical, or forensic science professions, you will quickly learn that librarians aren’t the only group outraged by their treatment at the hands of the the media [...]
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if:book (I’ve been reading it a lot lately) has a post about the future of television.
Today, radio listening habits have shifted, and I only hear the radio in cars and offices. Television viewing (if you can even call it that) is experiencing a similar shift, as people multitask at home, with the television playing [...]
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I have cleaned up all the junk comments & trackbacks. MT is supposed to notify me for both but does not seem to be doing so. Apologies for all the junk and offensive content. I’ve changed some settings and will monitor things more closely.
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Welcome to Ab’s blog, a place for me to share information about technology and libraries with BU library staff. My goal is to provide links, information, and some analysis about library tech stuff. In the past I have occasionally done this via e-mail, but a blog seems like a less intrusive and more [...]
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