The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
I’ve finally got the site switched over to WordPress. I’ve planned on moving away from MovableType for a while, I was just waiting on WP to add a couple of more features so I could minimize the disruption here. So when there was a disruption with no easy fix, I took the opportunity to go [...]
… while I scream. I updated to MT 3 and my database was corrupted. All attempts to fix the problem failed. I am now in the process of installing WordPress. The data has been imported and attempts to fix are succeeding. Still, this is going to take a while.
If you’re reading this in a newsreader, you might want to switch to a browser to see the new design. I haven’t done anything to the underlying structure. Just polished the visuals and changed the right bar a bit. Hopefully it will be easier to browse as well as prettier. If you have any comments, [...]
I’ve added two new categories, “Open Access” and “Career Info”, and moved some entries over to them from the Library Links page. For accessability reasons, I’m trying to keep that section from becoming a “catch all”. Links to the old versions in the original category should still work for quite a while.
Now There’s a mobile version of the Creative Librarian. I’ve use a MT-specific script to create dynamic versions of the index and entry pages rather than duplicate the entire site with stripped-down templates. The script was very easy to implement and adapt.
Do to a request, I’ve added another XML feed with the full contents of my posts. It’s available up at the top under the imaginative name of “Full XML”. The original will stay with the excerpts because that’s my personal preference but hopefully this way everyone will be happy.
Internet Censorship in Libraries has been updated with a link to the final rules. 7/27/03- And another update to more open-source solutions.
Internet Censorship in Libraries has had some information added.
Content and Knowledge Management Systems. Huh? has been updated with new information.
Content and Knowledge Management Systems. Huh? has been updated to add new information.