Hi. I’ve been having a bit of trouble with my Movable Type install which means that posting has been troublesome and slowish. I’m working it out this week but updates may be sporadic. Plus the holdays and all….
inside the book, without all the guilt
You mean I may be able to search inside the book without having to have all those soul-searching discussions about how sucky Amazon is and how maybe my library should be more like them anyhow….? Google beta-tests inside the book searching.
hi
Hi. I had to stay home from work today because of a crazy snowstorm. I dislike staying home from work so I did workish things here — dealt with my work budget, looked at the website I am working on from a lot of different browsers, messed with this site. I got the bad news from our OPAC provider at work. They do not support Netscape. This was their response when I pointed out a really egregious formatting error that I had gotten when doing a routine query. Problem solved on their end, I guess “Oh, we don’t support that.” I wonder what other browsers they don’t support? Probably all of them except Internet Explorer So, I may not be able to change what is already broken at my library, but I’ve been looking into Open Source systems again. LISnews had a link to a very informative pdf HOWTO discussing how to distribute Open Source software CD’s in your library.
cat vs dog library cage match
In another somewhat strange library altercation, man with assistance dog is allowed to proceed with his lawsuit against the library because the library cat [now deceased] scratched his dog. You remember the lawsuit right? Well it’s going ahead as scheduled. [thanks eric]
censoring Jesus?
“Perhaps [librarians] would have been more at home with a portrait of Lucifer?” Slight overreaction from the president of the Catholic League from librarians’ decision to remove some, but not all, depictions of Jesus from a library art exhibit. The library stands by its decision, but ALA-OIF says the library policy doesn’t make sense. [thanks Natalia]