The Travelin' Librarian

CIPA Presentation 10
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I just finished up an Infopeople presentation on CIPA and DOPA and this was the most interesting slide/topic discussed. For years now I’ve been pointing out to libraries that may have inconsistent polices and that is exactly what this slide addressed. The presenter pointed out that many libraries who fiter also have adopted the library bill of rights. However, LBR says that the library does not descriminate based on age yet the filtering system does exactly that. A great point! Do you filter based on age? If you do, then you’re in conflict with LBR…

Seating Chart
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Will someone please tell me where the aisle is in this plane?

Bloglines problem
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I’ve been having a problem with Bloglines lately and I wonder if I’m the only one. As illustrated in the attached screenshot, I have feeds in which I’m marked one or more items as “keep new” and that is accurately reflected in the feed’s title on the left. However, when I open that feed, the kept items are not being displayed. Am I alone? Is there a solution?

I finally figured out my code probkem when it came to embedding a flash movie into a Web page. (librarywebchic helped but the solution was actually something stupid-simple that I missed.) Anyway, it, and future ones can be found on my newley created screencasts page.

Karen’s going nuts with this and I love it! He place of work, the Southwest Iowa Library Service Area is now using the LibraryThing blog widget as is the Atlantic Public Library. I’m wondering about the phrase “my library” which is automatically being generates by the widget as it doesn’t work all that well in a library situation. I’m going to work with Karen and the folks at LibrayThing to see if we can get that tweaked.