I haven’t made many meta announcements on walking paper but this one is probably worth mentioning.
I gave my notice at the TFML and am moving to Portland, Oregon to get my school library media certification. This is a bit of a change in direction career wise (I can’t wait until I try [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
fire, brimestone, and questionpoint
22 Jun 06 – 2:26 pm
All I could think about while Rick and I tested the latest version of OCLC’s QuestionPoint virtual reference software was Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now [...]
library: too hard too big
15 Jun 06 – 5:05 pm
UPDATE: Nichole writes in to give a link to the Jail Library Group website.
Do you ever feel this way about your library? I bet our patrons do. Maybe frequently.
Check out jumblepile’s (aka nichole’s) set of jail finds on flickr. According to her, “These are things I find abandoned in [...]
if you build it
15 Jun 06 – 8:45 am
An online library card application was the easiest thing I’d never done for the library’s website (I really like the URL too – fordlibrary.org/gettingacard). All it took was the repurposing of an email form already in existence and a few head nods from staff involved. The email gets sent to two address, the [...]
SPIM no. one
12 Jun 06 – 5:14 pm
I’ve said before that the doom and gloom some people claim regarding computer security and IM is a bunch of hooey – and I still think it is – but this evening the library received its first piece of SPIM. The fact that something fishy was going on was so ridiculously apparent. [...]
