Family Man Librarian

Monday afternoon I accepted an offer to take a job in a different group within the library where I work.  Basically what I’ll be doing is leading efforts to implement and expand search and taxonomy company-wide.  A lot of work has already been done so I’ll need to get up to speed quickly on that.  [...]

Below are some screen shots that illustrate some of what I discussed in my previous post about turning the library catalog inside out. I’ve purposely obscured or removed some identifying information. Also, I should mention that this whole new approach is still very much a work in progress, so what is shown in [...]

[Through a series of missteps that I won't go into here, I discovered that I had accidentally deleted this post, first published a few weeks ago. I feel pretty dumb. When I figured out what happened, I sat here, stunned, wondering what to do. Then I remembered Google's good 'ol caching capability, did a [...]

I’ve been working with my students on a website redesign project for a while now for the library where I work. The existing website looks terrible right now — outdated and, as Ashley (a former student) put it, “Frontpage-ish.” ‘Course that was a severe blow to Matt’s pride The existing website [...]