Sometimes I get infatuated with certain webpages I’ve thrown together so I’m going to post about this one. I knew when I saw the WordPress theme Fluid Blue on The Liminal Librarian that I absolutely had to use it for the NPPL site. It is widget friendly and I like the way it [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
library gameshow!
29 Nov 07 – 3:41 pm
Scott Jeffries, Reference Librarian at Dallas Baptist University writes,
For four afternoons in November, the Dallas Baptist University Vance Memorial Library hosted their Are You As Smart As A Freshman? event. Patterned after the popular game show Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, this event had 2nd-4th year students competing for prizes by answering questions [...]
testing QuickTimePostWPP
28 Nov 07 – 12:01 pm
After learning that my QuickTime embed wasn’t playing nicely with Firefox I tried to write some better code for it. It turns out that WordPress dosn’t play nicely with well formed QT code if under Options –> Writing, the “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” box is checked.
In lieu of deselecting [...]
click-a-story two
27 Nov 07 – 6:14 pm
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UPDATE: A few people said that the video crashed their browsers. I’ve taken it out of this post and put it on a separate page. I’ll have to sort it out. Any reports would be appreciated!
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Way back in the day at the TFML some YS librarians recorded stories, I put them [...]
a casual conversation with me (this friday)
26 Nov 07 – 5:01 pm
UPDATE 11/30 – Here’s the URL for accessing the talk which start in an hour!
OPAL Auditorium
I’m excited to be the first in a great series of informal talks held by OPAL. It’ll be like an afternoon in Portland drinking coffee and talking. But we’ll be dry! Lifted from their site:
Friday, November [...]
walking paper scraps
23 Nov 07 – 1:31 pm
→ Defining Reading at the YALSA blog does a nice job raising some criticism of the NEA’s recent To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence [pdf]
→ Gummies under Duress a great Flickr set
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→ Awesome customer experience given by Coffehouse Northwest here in Portland. They gave away everything for free on [...]
overheard today, inventing the future
22 Nov 07 – 2:43 pm
“I’m like the Kindle but I’m not going to buy it. I’m going to wait until it can hook up with the library system.”
What do you think of that? I was kind of blown away.
At any rate, I like Jaap’s idea of libraries developing our own eInk device. If we *really* want [...]
happy birthday phonograph
21 Nov 07 – 3:04 pm
Happy birthday to the phonograph. In 130 years John Phillips Sousa’s dire predictions haven’t come completely true:
“The time is coming when no one will be ready to submit himself to the ennobling discipline of learning music. Everyone will have their ready made or ready pirated music in their cupboards.”
Sounds rather modern, eh? It [...]
