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July 27, 2007

The End of Web Design

This is the era of the end of Web design. Let me define what I mean by Web design. This is the presentation of your site - especially your main screen page - with graphics, menus, colors and fonts that...

July 24, 2007

Got Time?

Years ago, I co-authored an article with a colleague at a library in a different state. I was very impressed that librarians at her institution were allowed to take an at-home research day on a regular basis. This appealed to...

July 20, 2007

Visionary Hiring

Conducting a search for a new staff member is a challenge. We all know this. I'll bet that nearly everyone reading this posting has served on a search committee at one time or another. You know the score: distributing the...

July 13, 2007

What Is Holding Us Back?

Tyler Rousseau, over at the Library Garden blog, posted an entry yesterday, Librarian 2.0 - The new professional or the responsible one? In this post, he reacts to my Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto by calling it "both an inspring and a...

July 11, 2007

A Model for Journal as Community

At long last, I've had a chance to read Paul Coyne's March 9 blog entry, Scholarship in an age of participation. In his entry, Coyne outlines the rationale for an as-yet unnamed new scholarly journal that will embody the principles...

July 05, 2007

Permissions Groups on our Web Sites - Who Needs Them?

I'm curious. How do you assign staff permissions to allow contributions to your library's Web site? My library (unfortunately) still maintains its Web site manually. By this, I mean that we have no content management system (CMS) to generate pages....