ALA’s OITP is doing an email tutorial on accessibility basics for librarians. Free to ALA members. Does the page the announcement is on validate? Um, no. Is it accessible? Um, no. Is accessibility unattainable? No. Incidentally, librarian.net needs help as well, I’m not saying I’m occupying the moral high ground here. [technobib]
Author: jessamyn
acronym tag, use it
Speaking of accessibility, this is an aside to all you code jockeys. Mouseover OITP in the previous post. On most, if not all, current browsers, the full title for the acronym will show up as a tooltip, even in my aggregator. This can help make our sometimes inane sounding acronym soup more accessible to people who are not as familiar with the profession, and aids in Google’s indexing of your page. Use the acronym tag. Easy code:
<acronym title="Office for Information Technology Policy">OITP</acronym>
which is more important, improving service or cutting costs??
NYPL has hired consultants. You may remember McKinsey & Co. as the people who advised cost-cutting at Disneyland
The McKinsey & Company consulting firm has been contracted to review all Library operations and make recommendations about how we can improve service delivery, both internally and externally in the context of the current economic realities.
cliques at libraries
LISCareer has a newish “articles by date” feature that makes it easier to say “hey, there’s new articles up!” and have somethign to link to. I was immediately drawn to Michelle Millet’s article called Libraries Have Cliques Too as someone who has recently started a new job at a library which has had very little turnover in the past decade.
my article on salary surveys is up
My article for the ALA-APA newsletter “Rural Library Compensation, The Vermont Initiative ” is available online. Check out the word GOPHER in that URL for the VT Dept of Libraries in the bibliography, sexy!.