I love learning. I find it to be a truly joyous experience. I wasn’t always this way though. If you ask my friends from college, they will laugh, and tell you what a miracle it is that I managed to graduate (cum laude, no less) while attending so few classes, and doing so little work…. Read more »
Aberrant Salience
we've found ourselves in a serious information situation
Twitter RSS Feed Cheat Sheet (Redux)
Some notes on constructing searches that I’ve learned the hard way, but you don’t have to: Find a handy url-encoding cheat-sheet, like this one: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm. You will have to replace special characters (@, #, :, etc.) with their url-encoded version. + and %20 (a url-encoded space) seem to be interchangeable when constructing complex search queries…. Read more »
Getting our foot in the door to Moodle(Rooms)
My awesome co-worker and frequent co-conspirator Barbara Arnett has whipped up a little library resource search box that can be added to courses in our course management software (we just switched to Moodle.) We’re currently working on convincing them to add it to the school’s course shell template, so it will appear by default in… Read more »
Marketing with donated books
So I had this fun little idea the other day. I tend to stick to reading “classics”, because I’m book-snobby like that, but every once in awhile I get talked into reading this-or-that best-seller. Because I hate throwing books away, and anyone who works in libraries knows that donations are not always looked so kindly… Read more »
Twitter RSS feed creation cheat sheet
Ok, so apparently Twitter is no longer supporting RSS?I tried doing an advanced search, and, sure enough, the “Feed for this query” button was gone. Then, when I mentioned it on Twitter, @shelitwits said it was still there for her, and when I checked again, it was back…So… Yes, perhaps I’m going crazy and I… Read more »
Search Bookmarklet Code Files
In case you’ve been meaning to play around with creating your own library search bookmarklet, but needed a little “push”, I’ve created a compressed folder of all the code files you’ll need to do it, along with a ReadMe.txt with the directions. I tried to make it as simple as possible, so let me know… Read more »
oneSearch bookmarklet @ LibTech 2011
On March 17th (this Thursday,) I’ll be presenting at the Library Technology Conference on the oneSearch bookmarklet tool created by Barbara Arnett and I. Barbara won’t be able to make it out to Minnesota (she’ll be presenting the bookmarklet to the NJLA 2011 Technology Innovation Award committee,) but because we want to be as practical… Read more »
QR Codes: an Overview
Since QR codes seem to be one of the hot new technologies in the library and museum world, I decided to do a little research on them (I am a librarian after all!) Here’s a brief introduction into the world of 2D code technology: QR (quick response) codes are two-dimensional images used to represent data,… Read more »
Bridging the gap from Wikipedia to scholarly sources: a simple library bookmarklet
So I know I have been alluding to a fancy-shmancy “project” for awhile now, and it’s finally at a point that I can show it off! Barbara Arnett and I (mostly Barbara, but I set the project in motion, so that counts for something I guess) have created a javascript bookmarklet that can be used… Read more »
Google Instant: an early review (with references!)
In the spirit of full disclosure, I had to write a journal entry for my Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems class, and I figured, hey, I wrote the damn thing, why not post it as a blog entry, since it’s about search(-ing), and thus relevant to libraries? And yes, leave it to a librarian to… Read more »
