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Monthly Archives: October 2004

Greetings from LITA Forum

I just installed MT 3.1 Quickpost on my laptop’s browser (well, one of the browsers). I used it to start this post. Nice feature, I guess. Anyway, I’m in St. Louis, enjoying Multnomah’s presentation on CMS’s–lots of good questions and ideas. Mostly I’m get a comfy “hey, we did that right” feeling about where we’re […]

The Many-Mode Human

Today on It’s All Good, Alice posted a thread talking about the need to continue many non-digital services, commenting about library staff, “I had lost sight of the fact that we need all kinds of people in our libraries.” Many of us are already “all kinds of people.” I have many modes when I am […]

We’ll Miss You, E-Rate–But Don’t Come Back

Karen Coyle posted to Web4Lib, “It was reported yesterday in the NY Times, and today in Salon, that the FCC has ‘temporarily’ shut down payments under e-rate due to a change in the way the program is administered. Apparently, the FCC claims that there was fraud due to lax accounting rules. Meanwhile, schools and libraries […]

Lusty Lil’ Clusty

Vivisimo just rolled out Clusty, a new search engine (so much MORE than a search engine, yada yada yada). Gary Price tipped me off that it has an MPOW feature, which had just a couple of problems: 1. The first three or four times I tried to fiddle with it I couldn’t get the LII […]