Author Archives: David

Moving On

Posted on December 1, 2011 by David

I just removed my Drupal site from this website and took it completely offline. I created my MLIS portfolio and directed fieldwork (internship) documentation using Drupal 6. Now that I am well into my third year as a librarian, the … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on September 28, 2011 by David

The past few months we’ve been experiencing some changes at work. We’ve had some staff turnover, rearranged many staff and patron areas in the library building, and we are adding more services online. It has been an interesting experience so … Continue reading →

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Mobile Libraries

Posted on March 29, 2011 by David

We’ve been experimenting with a mobile version of our website at work. Right now it is a basic homepage with the vital library and patron information available. We’ve turned on the mobile version of several of our databases in conjunction … Continue reading →

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Campus (& Library) Orientation

Posted on January 7, 2011 by David

Today was campus orientation day for new incoming students starting Spring Semester (which starts Monday). The library has used a video for the last several years – at least since I started here almost six years ago. We try to … Continue reading →

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Moving Content

Posted on January 6, 2011 by David

I started moving some of my old content from other platforms where I had done some library related blogging under the librarylimbo moniker. I think I lost some decent content along the way as I moved from one format to … Continue reading →

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Library building use planning

Posted on December 22, 2010 by David

I recently met with the university’s facilities manager at work to talk about future uses to which the library staff would like to put our building. The general plan has been that the library would acquire the basement (lowest of … Continue reading →

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Reference Portal

Posted on December 20, 2010 by David

While talking at work with the Systems Librarian about some of the reference services initiatives we hope to start rolling out this year, we started talking about a reference portal as a place to house it all. We’d been talking … Continue reading →

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Setting up my Droid X (More)

Posted on December 14, 2010 by David

I spent some time with my brother over the weekend working on my wife’s car. As side diversionary conversation we talked a bit about our Android devices. My brother has a Droid, which he got soon after the first model … Continue reading →

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Library Instruction

Posted on December 10, 2010 by David

At work we are moving toward adding more library instruction resources online. One of our librarians has created a few sessions using the university’s Panopto studio. This allows for a video of the instructor coupled with the ability to add … Continue reading →

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Overdrive Media Console for Android

Posted on December 9, 2010 by David

Yesterday the Overdrive Media Console on my Droid X was finally updated to include access to ebooks. I’ve been checking ebooks out from my public libraries for several years (SPL or KCLS depending when in the aforementioned ‘years’ we’re talking … Continue reading →

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