I’ve been interested in maps for a long time. When I was young, my brother and I would spend hours looking over the Washington State Atlas and Gazetteer, planning trips and connecting routes. I was also an avid reader of
Map resources
Maps http://www.davidrumsey.com/ http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/map_sites.html http://library.usgs.gov/maplinks.html Orienteering https://orienteeringusa.org/ http://cascadeoc.org/ More to come later – maybe
Library Remodel
Here is a brief update on our library remodel project at work. We mostly completed phase one just after students came back at the end of August. There is still some minor painting that needs to occur, along with a
On hiatus
Librarylimbo is on hiatus (mostly).
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
Changes
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
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
Campus (& Library) Orientation
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
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
Library building use planning
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