Archive for August, 2006
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Ixquick
Here’s a search engine that I just found out about. It’s called Ixquick and it’s a metasearch engine, like Mamma or DogPile. When you search Ixquick, it looks through AltaVista/AllTheWeb, Ask Jeeves/Teoma, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Go, MSN, Netscape, Open Directory, Overture, Wikipedia, WiseNut, and Yahoo!, bringing you the combined results all on one page.
While it certainly [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Miscellaneous by pfitz
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
NYPL Gives Up Billings
After 111 years of using the Billings Classification system, developed by John Shaw Billings, their first director, the New York Public Library is switching over to LC Classification.
It’s a huge change for the library and for its patrons. The biggest change is probably that LC has been continually updated over the years, keeping it more [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Libraries by pfitz
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Latin Seizures
Normally I try not to duplicate on my blog what I post on Pfitz’s Pfunnies, and this isn’t particularly library related, but it CAN be classified as “intellectual humor” and it keeps making me laugh, so I want to share it.
It’s even funnier if you read it out loud. To someone else. While drinking coffee. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by pfitz
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
New Library Website
After more than a year of designing, committee meetings, redesigning, more meetings, and lots of tweaking, the Butler University Libraries have a new website! It’s at http://www.butler.edu/library.
Besides a totally new look, which has been described as warm, colorful, clean, clear, professional, classy, tasteful, and straightforward, the navigation system has been overhauled, organizing all the information [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Libraries, Technology by pfitz
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Reference Space
One of the challenges that most Reference Departments in any type of library are facing is how to best use the space.
Do we continue to build our Reference Collection and add shelving if necessary?
Do we keep it just the size it is and weed the collection to offset new purchases?
Do we shrink the collection [...]
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