Monthly Archives: January 2007

This is a tutorial to create an addition to Firefox’s search bar (that thing in the upper right hand corner) with any search box. This would be really useful for a library- give users easy access to your collection. Step … Continue reading →

UNL’s Love Library (my workplace) just received a great donation from the Willa Cather family. It’s been exciting around here! My coworker, Andy Jewell, was interviewed for the local news, which aired last night: http://www.kolnkgin.com/home/headlines/5327837.html I’m a little sad because … Continue reading →

“How’s School Going?” Since I get this question quite often, here’s my attempt to answer it definitively. I am taking 3 classes this semester- Cataloging, Special Libraries, and Foundations of Library and Information Science. Cataloging is by far going to … Continue reading →

Designers are everywhere nowadays. There are plenty of kids with a pirated version of Photoshop (or, more hopefully, Gimp) that can do what used to be up to the professionals. There’s an army of people proficient at designing, and not … Continue reading →

I have read a lot over the years about visual vs auditory vs kinesthetic learning (kinesthetic learning is learning through body movement, I think). There are also those that seem to be great at book learning – just reading something … Continue reading →

I read today about the program Synergy, which lets you move a mouse (and copy and paste) across multiple systems as if they were one desktop. I’ve been wishing for something like this for a while, but figured it was … Continue reading →

The hefty, interesting, and useful “A Companion to Digital Humanities” has been published online at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/. This is a great and informative book, and the online publishing is great because not everyone can afford it’s hefty $160 price tag. It … Continue reading →

I am constantly being frustrated by too much or not enough simplicity. Let me explain. There are times when one really needs simplicity. I love Google Reader – I go to the page, everything is there, ready for me to … Continue reading →