Wednesday, November 22, 2006
“I’m feeling really blogged down right now,” a coworker said to me today.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when one of the Library Assistants came back and told me a man was asking for me. Was one of our regulars looking for me? Had a friend of mine stopped by to say hi? Nope. I walked out to the front and the LA […]
On the eve of Election Day, MPOW’s teen blog has had a patron-submitted name chosen by patron vote. The blog has been dubbed “OPL Teen Hot Spot” and the YA librarians are now soliciting logo designs from our teen patrons!
The wiki taskforce we assembled to get our subject guide wiki up and running is made up of Library Assistants and Associates with little or no knowledge of HTML, wiki syntax or web design (except for one LA who is currently taking a class on web design). So, this has been a learning process for […]
A woman asked me for help with the computers this afternoon. She was trying to apply for a job online, and the website wasn’t cooperating. While she wasn’t an internet whiz (she didn’t know she could tab from one field to the next, and instead would move the mouse to click on the next field), […]
I’m feeling awfully puny (as my branch manager would say), but I’m here at work anyway, because Mondays are the days when I have to most time on the reference desk, and there’s no one else to cover it (what with other staff taking days off and people in training sessions for our big ILS […]
It’s been more of a wait than impatient l’il ol’ me would’ve liked, but the public blogs for MPOW are officially open! The main blog is called “Hoopla,” and we also have a Children’s Department blog (”Around the Corner“), a Young Adult blog (currently called “Teen Blog” until the winner of the YA contest names […]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
A while back, I was griping about not being able to chat via IM at work. Well, the times they are a-changin’ at MPOW. Thanks to one of my coworkers, we’re starting to use IM at work. It started with the adult reference staff at the main library, then I jumped on, and now they’ve […]