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Category Archives: This and That

IL Con-Grunt: Final Kibbles and Bits

Tidbits from other programs… Bookmark to:

Look, I Have a Digital Camera

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Happy Birthday, Marylaine!

Today is Marylaine Block’s birthday. I only found this out because Library Stuff reported that it’s MY birthday. Hey, those young’uns can’t tell us old farts apart! Happy Birthday, Marylaine! Bookmark to:

IL Con-Grunting: Rich Wiggins on “Why Google Won”

The sad news was Gary Price couldn’t make it to IL 2003, due to a hospitalization (he won’t miss his gall bladder, and he’s feeling much better). The good news was his replacement, Rich Wiggins, gave a boffo talk. I can’t replicate the whole talk, of course–Wiggins is his own dynamic universe–but here are some […]

Second IL Con-Grunt: Search

Mary Ellen Bates gave a great talk on search at Internet Librarian 2003. She offered many more tips, but these were the ones that stood out for me. Bookmark to:

First IL Con-Grunt

(Note: a “con-grunt” is a blog comment about a conference; derived from “ref-grunt,” which is blogging about reference work. Source: Steve Cohen.) Here are a few juicy tips about blogging and RSS from Internet Librarian 2003, broken down by presenter. Future con-grunts from IL 2003 will cover search, usability, and XML/XSLT. Bookmark to:

Free Range Librarian Peeps Again

Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Library Blog. At 4:52 p.m. Pacific Time today, November 5 (and Roy Rogers’ birthday), I ceased what has been essentially a two-year writing silence, if you don’t count a few hundred entries in lii.org (and I don’t, not that I don’t have a very cool […]