My husband, the newly crowned master plumber, has returned running water to our kitchen! After a mere three days battling the ill formed drain pipe, we have a sink and the water works! I never imagined I would be so excited to wash dishes. My life is going to return to normal someday soon.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
It's a celebration. . .
My husband, the newly crowned master plumber, has returned running water to our kitchen! After a mere three days battling the ill formed drain pipe, we have a sink and the water works! I never imagined I would be so excited to wash dishes. My life is going to return to normal someday soon.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Digitally, I'm supposed to represent
I'm nice with the blah blah blah . .
Since I am "doing something" about the records and archives of village library I checked out a few other libraries approaches to making records public or semi-public. The San Francisco Public Library makes mostly descriptions available on-line. While they do have some records available digitally, the bulk of their collection requires in-house examination. On the other hand the Rowan Public Library makes the text of some records available along with selected scanned images of the documents. These are very different approaches to digitalizing records and archives. I think both methods have their merits. In the interest of simplicity I like the San Fran system much better. But for our records I think that it is the best way to deal with copyright and such. I might get this figured out eventually.
Since I am "doing something" about the records and archives of village library I checked out a few other libraries approaches to making records public or semi-public. The San Francisco Public Library makes mostly descriptions available on-line. While they do have some records available digitally, the bulk of their collection requires in-house examination. On the other hand the Rowan Public Library makes the text of some records available along with selected scanned images of the documents. These are very different approaches to digitalizing records and archives. I think both methods have their merits. In the interest of simplicity I like the San Fran system much better. But for our records I think that it is the best way to deal with copyright and such. I might get this figured out eventually.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
the internets and twitter and such
I feel like I have heard a lot about Twitter lately, but I don't get it at all. I don't know anyone's life who is so interesting that I need constant updates of their life. I mean maybe if David Blaine (but his blog isn't even that exciting) was my best friend or something but otherwise it can all be saved for email and phone calls. My mom still sends me mail too. The Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization, a David Weinberger blog, touches on tags, the internets and the most confusing thing to me Twitter.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Information goddess
I didn't pick the most glam career ever, my friends constantly question my thought process. (Somehow Erika Rhodeside, Village Librarian is not as hot as Erika Rhodeside, Attorney at Law) But with a title like Information goddess how can I not be fly?
I know that I'm the hottness but what do you call yourself? check out David Rothman's blog to pick your title.
I am in love with the January issue of Library Journal (the first I have actually ever read).
I know that I'm the hottness but what do you call yourself? check out David Rothman's blog to pick your title.
I am in love with the January issue of Library Journal (the first I have actually ever read).
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I'm just that hard core
I know a great tattoo shop in Oakland, and I have been wanting a new tattoo. . .
www.mcphee.com/items/11696.html
Library Journal shared this hard core link with us in their January 2007 issue!
www.mcphee.com/items/11696.html
Library Journal shared this hard core link with us in their January 2007 issue!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
my new best friend, freeware
This weekend my husband made the change to Ubuntu on his laptop. We haven't talked much these past few days. . . We are both in our own overwhelmed computer science world. But tonight my husband had me check out Ubuntu-Women and I am suddenly inspired. Maybe it is to much Kuhn, but I feel like, yeah its going to be hard to change to open source, but I think i will feel good about myself at the end of the day, I will have done the right thing. I am not going to do anything just yet, at least not on my school computer.
I do have other avenues to pursue my new found love of freeware. My boss has asked me to "do something online with all of the scrapbooks and village stuff and what about a wiki or a blog or myspace. . ." (we just went to a very good emerging technologies seminar) So, never turning down a fun project I have decided to "do something." As a side note about me, I have some database creation experience, little webpublishing experience and no previous library experience. So, I started off with what I know, Access. Within 15 minutes I had decided to scrap the Access plan and began to search for something. As I left it today, I have three test articles scanned and linked to my desktop in an excel file, a wetpaint account setup and nothing but my determination to "do something" about this interesting village collection. I think tomorrow I am going to call the tech guy. . .
I do have other avenues to pursue my new found love of freeware. My boss has asked me to "do something online with all of the scrapbooks and village stuff and what about a wiki or a blog or myspace. . ." (we just went to a very good emerging technologies seminar) So, never turning down a fun project I have decided to "do something." As a side note about me, I have some database creation experience, little webpublishing experience and no previous library experience. So, I started off with what I know, Access. Within 15 minutes I had decided to scrap the Access plan and began to search for something. As I left it today, I have three test articles scanned and linked to my desktop in an excel file, a wetpaint account setup and nothing but my determination to "do something" about this interesting village collection. I think tomorrow I am going to call the tech guy. . .
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
itry, but man, have you see wii?
iwaste
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2007/03/iwaste.html)
This article is a great example of the things that I think about as both a consumer and as an archivist. What will happen to all of this information being put on these disposable forms of technology? I have to admit I grumbled when my minidisc player became obsolete and every time a new gaming system comes I get a little sad (I have drawn the line at gamecube because it only stuck around for like a minute and I love Mario. But if Wii has a little staying power I may have to go get it). For me as a consumer, it is a battle between my desire to not be wasteful and my love of pushing newer, cooler buttons. But in my career I think about all of the microfiche machine, betamax and the 8 track players. Sure there are master tracks for things, but consider for example of music recorded from 1890 to 1964, which the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library says are "nearly inaccessible to scholars, collectors and the general public for noncommercial uses(www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/sound)." I'm working on my small part to keep track of disposable knowledge.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2007/03/iwaste.html)
This article is a great example of the things that I think about as both a consumer and as an archivist. What will happen to all of this information being put on these disposable forms of technology? I have to admit I grumbled when my minidisc player became obsolete and every time a new gaming system comes I get a little sad (I have drawn the line at gamecube because it only stuck around for like a minute and I love Mario. But if Wii has a little staying power I may have to go get it). For me as a consumer, it is a battle between my desire to not be wasteful and my love of pushing newer, cooler buttons. But in my career I think about all of the microfiche machine, betamax and the 8 track players. Sure there are master tracks for things, but consider for example of music recorded from 1890 to 1964, which the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library says are "nearly inaccessible to scholars, collectors and the general public for noncommercial uses(www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/sound)." I'm working on my small part to keep track of disposable knowledge.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Blog it out
I have actually spent time wondering who has time to blog. With work, school, a house that is falling down and a very strict no fast food rule it always amazed me that people have time to build up their my space account or blog or both and then have a second life too. But now I have time to do it because it is for school. . .
I work at a really great community library in Corrales, New Mexico. (www.corraleslibrary.org)
There is a pond at the library, from which I fished a five year old out today. We have three coys that the kids can't get enough of.
My Husband and I are remodeling our partial adobe in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Every project has been a challenge. We found a window to no where in our kitchen and the adobe walls disintegrate at the slightest touch. This is what my kitchen looks like today:
Someday soon I hope to have a kitchen again!
Because in a house where there is no fast food and in a town where good take out is non-existent, cooking has become one of my favorite things to do. I try very hard to buy local, planning each week's meals around what is available at the farmers markets. With Spring comes the return of the full market in New Mexico and I couldn't be happier. The growers don't have much yet but even the sparse Spring market is better than the Winter. After a very uninspired winter of food, I am ready for the market. I have also decided to learn to can this summer too, to avoid the supermarket blues mid-February. So please share your canning tips here! I would love to hear all about your local markets too! What is your area's specialty? What do you do with it? And I will tell you all about Red or Green, pecans and everything else New Mexico produce has to offer.
I work at a really great community library in Corrales, New Mexico. (www.corraleslibrary.org)
There is a pond at the library, from which I fished a five year old out today. We have three coys that the kids can't get enough of.
My Husband and I are remodeling our partial adobe in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Every project has been a challenge. We found a window to no where in our kitchen and the adobe walls disintegrate at the slightest touch. This is what my kitchen looks like today:
Someday soon I hope to have a kitchen again!
Because in a house where there is no fast food and in a town where good take out is non-existent, cooking has become one of my favorite things to do. I try very hard to buy local, planning each week's meals around what is available at the farmers markets. With Spring comes the return of the full market in New Mexico and I couldn't be happier. The growers don't have much yet but even the sparse Spring market is better than the Winter. After a very uninspired winter of food, I am ready for the market. I have also decided to learn to can this summer too, to avoid the supermarket blues mid-February. So please share your canning tips here! I would love to hear all about your local markets too! What is your area's specialty? What do you do with it? And I will tell you all about Red or Green, pecans and everything else New Mexico produce has to offer.
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