Category Archives: Technology

Moving On

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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Mobile Libraries

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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Moving Content

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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Setting up my Droid X (More)

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

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

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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Drupal Site Linked

I finished making the Drupal site accessible from a link in the menu here on the new iteration of my site. I reconfigured a couple of things in the htaccess file for Drupal, changed a number of menu items there, … Continue reading

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Starting Over (again)

I just moved this site over to WordPress. I hadn’t updated the Drupal site much since I finished my Master of Library and Information Science degree and started working as a professional librarian a year and a half ago. I … Continue reading

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Dealing with Technical Issues

I’ve been dealing with some issues with Drupal, the content management system running this site, and Godaddy, the hosting provider I’m using. It seems there have been longstanding problems with the two systems playing nicely together, but for now I’m trying to … Continue reading

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Maintaining IT

Well, I finally got the website about how I want it. At least the backend of things. Through a combination of too many modules I was able to make most of what I wanted to happen on the site work out just fine. … Continue reading

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