University of Michigan President defends their relationship with the Google Book Search project (full speech pdf download). Intriguing comments below including Siva and a plug by librarians’ own SuperPatron on another way of harnessing the power of the Google Book Search for libraries. [thanks molly]
tag testing complete
Hi. Using PhpMyAdmin and some clever database management, I was able to import all my tags from my old unsupported tag plug-in to the more industry-standard tag plug-in Ultimate Tag Warrior. It seems to work. The solution involved custom creating some tables, using some unorthodox importing methods and a small amount of cursing. My next plan is to figure out why the Bloglines feed of librarian.net isn’t smoothly updating to the new feed. Thanks for your patience. Please check out the new tag cloud at the bottom of the main page.
local vermont library trivia
Apparently the board of libraries is responsible for authorizing and keeping track of name changes to state-owned property. This is why the state librarian is commenting on the dispute on a pond name change. It’s an old story but one that I came across in my Googling for town websites to help flesh out Wikipedia’s Vermont town pages.
Happy Birthday SFPL
Happy 127th birthday San Francisco Public Library. My how you’ve grown.
hi – 04feb
Hi. I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0 which you probably didn’t even notice unless you spend a lot of time messing about with my tags which are ever so slightly broken. The upgrade was incredibly easy and WordPress 2.0 has a lot of nifty features in it like a theme viewer, some AJAX-y bits, and better user administration. I’ve also decided to really go to town and edit the stylesheet in the admin section so that I could avoid some of the logos, cruft, bad colors and dashboard “features.” Here are a few screenshots in Flickr:
If you’re really WordPress curious, I have a bloggish page that outlines the modifications I’ve made to WordPress to make it work the way I want it to work.