This beautiful bird is the type of bird we bought today at the Spring show of the Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club held at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. None of us had ever been to one of these shows. We … Continue reading →
Posted in diamond dove, family man librarian, greater chicago caged bird club, keeping up appearances, pets
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Tagged Australia, BBC, Ben, food, Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club, Jerry, keeping up appearances, USD
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I just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5. Pretty easy-peasy! I love the much-improved admin interface. Still trying to figure out what all the new goodies are, but already I see a lot to like.
Good news to hear: Today, the NASIG 2008 award winners were announced. Here they are! Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship Alena Jewel Rucker, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Information Science Marcia Tuttle International Grant Stephanie Schmitt, Zayed University, Dubai, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alena Jewel Rucker, Archivoeconomía, Armando Avila-González, Austin, Barbara Birenbaum, Betsy Appleton, Buffalo, DF, Dubai, Eugenia Beh, Fritz Schwartz Serials, George Washington University, Graduate School, indiana, Indiana University, Jason Ronallo, Kathryn Machin, Marie Peterson, Mexico, Mexico City, Nancy B. Thomas, Oklahoma, Queens College, School of Information, School of Information Sciences, State University of New York, Stephanie Schmitt, Tennessee, Texas, UAE, UCLA, University of Oklahoma, University of Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee, University of Texas at Austin
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When it comes to the Internet, faster is better, just about always. I have been thinking a lot about this since reading a post about this issue in the Official Google Mobile Blog a few weeks ago. In that post … Continue reading →
Posted in family man librarian, firefox, flock, google, google mobile, opera, safari, web browsers
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Tagged author, course Internet Explorer, google, Internet access, library technology, Mac, Microsoft Windows, Official, search response time, technology gadfly, web browser, web browser habits
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Last Friday a colleague of mine (who also happens to be a fellow UIUC GSLIS alum — GSLIS alums are plentiful where I work!) gave a lunchtime presentation introducing the social web to other colleagues in our library organization. We … Continue reading →
Posted in blogging, family man librarian, library 2.0, rss, uiuc gslis, web 2.0
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Tagged Blaupunkt ME-2 DVD Player, particular tools, social networks, social web, social web bandwagon, social web initiatives, social web tools, social web-type stuff, technological infrastructure
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Thanks to Jamene Brooks-Kieffer @ KSU for a writeup of a very interesting presentation at the ER&L conference on the problem of maintaining multiple knowledgebases of information for libraries. The presentation and more information is available at LibraryOKRA.com. OKRA stands … Continue reading →
I was excited to find out that some important publications from UIUC GSLIS are now digitized and available in UIUC’s institutional repository, IDEALS. These include: Allerton Park Institute Proceedings(1954-1997) Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1963-1995) Occasional Papers (1949-2004) … Continue reading →
Last night I spent a lot of time figuring out how to use my WordPress categories to create a tag (technically, I guess, a category) cloud. I’ve tried doing this before but was never quite satisfied with the end result. … Continue reading →
