Ok, I am not even going to comment on the Gorman thing. Seriously, he’s like a message board troll. I think dumbasses are sometimes best dealt with by not giving them the satisfaction of knowing they riled you up. I won’t even link to his recent remarks, you can read about them here and here… Read more »
Posts By: Valerie Forrestal
You Don’t Scare Me, Google!!!
So, I was reading this excellent post, Cult of the Pundit, on the excellent blog, Bokardo, and I got to thinking about something that annoys me greatly, namely, people asking me if I’m scared I will lose my job to Google, implying (or outright stating, often with a malicious sneer) that internet search engines, or… Read more »
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Tit okay, but cock is out no comment…
On the Professional Advantages of Being a Slacker and a Librarian
One quick clarification on that title, note that I did not say “slacker librarian”, but slacker AND librarian. I liked the sound of the first one better, but I think when you stay late at work just to finish reading all your library 2.0 feeds, and are kept up late at night envisioning all the… Read more »
Why My Library Should Invest in Overhauling Its Online Presence
How is it that, in today’s technological atmosphere, where users expect to be able to access virtually everything online (no pun intended, but a good one nonetheless, haha…) it is such a struggle to get the administration to realize the importance of our website? Why am I practically begging for them to at least provide… Read more »
Designing for the New Web
Ok, I am officially going crazy. The other night I was up until 3am because I couldn’t stop my brain… With my library’s proposed website redesign (which I am somehow in charge of, simply because I suggested that perhaps an institute of technology should not have a library website that looked like it was done… Read more »
cyber schizophrenia
Managing my online identities has been a bit of a challenge for me lately. With all these cool web 2.0 apps out there, I really am finding it hard to keep track of it all… I find that just keeping up on my rss feeds and checking out all my social networking profiles is eating… Read more »
Mom, Can I to Library Camp This Year? PLEASE?!
I told Stephen that i would post a link to Library Camp NYC, so here goes: http://librarycampnyc.wikispaces.com/ Looks pretty cool, I am def. planning on going as of now, at the very least I would love to spend some time shmoozing with other library tech geeks!!! (mmm… brains…)
If You Build It, Maybe They Will Come…
http://acrlblog.org/2007/05/14/formula-for-academic-library-success/ My library has heretofore been focusing on outreach, but my position is this, we need a user-friendly, intuitive product to promote, or all the awareness in the world is not going to help us. Users have been known to simply ignore software and apps that they find difficult to use. And facing such popular… Read more »
I Dreamed a Dream…
My coworker and I were discussing online services the other day, and we decided to get all wacky, and describe the attributes of our dream academic library website. So, here goes… 1.) Authentication through username and password, NOT a proxy server that requires you to configure your browser or a VPN. I know this is… Read more »
