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Hi all – I upgraded my typepad account today in order to make two changes to the layout of the site.  This will only be of interest to those of you who actually visit the site, as opposed to those who only use the RSS.  I’ve always hated the fact that the template I used…

I’m away for the next four days (heading off to Northern Voice tomorrow afternoon – anybody out there from Vancouver?) and will likely be catching up on stuff until mid-next week, so I probably won’t be posting again until then.  Buh-buy.

On Google Scholar points us to an information page put together by the Penn Library: A first look at Google Scholar: What’s included and what’s not.  Does a nice job of letting folks know what they can expect from the search engine, but they don’t appear to proxy it, since they include the following points:…

Quite some time ago I had read an interesting article about Singingfish, a beta multimedia search engine.  That article (no idea where it was, so no link for you) was mostly concentrating on how Singingfish could be used to search NPR content, a neat idea, especially for one who so rarely gets to listen to…

I’ll probably not be posting much for the next two weeks; my wife just gave birth to a beautiful bouncing baby girl 🙂 See you after I catch up on my sleep!

Was away on vacation last week – I’d forgotten how beautiful northern Montana is! This week I’m catching up and conducting interviews for our department (Library Connection). Finally going to get some additional help to support our 2,500 distance students; the department had been scheduled to increase in staff way back when we topped 1,000…

Figured out last night how to get my subject categories hotlinked, so now when you click on the subject headings on the right side you can view the corresponding posts. Had forgotten to enable a setting to get those to work. Also learned about a hack that allows me to insert a search function on…

Mostly just looking for an excuse to try uploading a picture, but wow, these guys are good and they’re going to the Stanley Cup Final!