Archive for July, 2006

blasts from the pasts and looks towards the future

Monday, July 31st, 2006

In the course of working on a web page for my summer class, I was reminiscing about some of the very first web sites I remember seeing.  Many have gone the way of the dinosaur (the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids ICON, an alternative weekly that I read online in college and wrote for after I graduated, […]

wyoming librarianship: another day

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Today was, while not exactly typical, interesting, and since people seem to like these day-in-the-life posts, and since I haven’t done one in awhile, I thought I’d write it up.
The big news around here at the moment is that we’ve got a forest fire burning about 30 miles from here, at Venus Creek in the […]

maybe i’m amazed

Monday, July 17th, 2006

I am currently watching (or at any rate listening to–the slides and the audio are a bit out of synch) Lawrence Lessig talking about Google Book Search on YouTube for my online class (LIS 753, Internet Fundamentals and Design) and blogging (via Performancing) at the same time.  Some days the internet still has the power […]

wyoming librarians on the web

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

While it’s true that Chicago still ranks as the center of the library webiverse, we’re not doing too badly out here in the West.  Here are a few Wyoming librarians I know of on the web.  If you are one and aren’t listed here, or if you know of others, please let me know, and […]