Seeing the feng shui space opened up by moving the microform cabinets, Lisa and I launched into a re-decorating frenzy. We found two underutilized oak tables from the last move, measured to see if they fit in the ERC, and drew a floor plan. When we get back from Winter Campus Closing, on January 2nd, we will move the tables down, add two computers to the three already there and set the tables perpendicular to the windows looking into the Reading Room. The plan looks like this: may be hard to read but you can see the tables coming perpendicular to the windows. I can’t wait!
We said goodbye today to two of our beloved co-workers. Diana and Glenna. Diana has served as the Gov Docs librarian or four and a half years and has taught LIB 307 for the last two years. She recently tried to bring us all up to speed in finding cases in the Law Library. She is absolutely a fine professional to watch in motion! Her attitude toward patrons is always focused and patient….no matter how tired she is. She remains one of the most interesting people I know….What a thinker. She will be sorely missed. UNLV has got a live one on their hands now! Darn them!
Glenna has worked on the Sage Library Grant and is seeing the
end of that grant tomorrow. Her outreach efforts have been enjoyed in the region. We have all benefited from her travel information and all the English phrases she has introduced to us. I am so appreciative that she brought me the shoulder bag I was dying for all the way from London. That is a friend! So far, she is staying in the area so she will be amongst–at least close by.
I know we are supposed to be glad for them and their future endeavours (Thanks, Glenna!) but I am sad to not have their offices to pop into and kibbitz! Vaya con Dios, mi amigas!
News from Khaborovsk, Russia. . .this is hard to believe– the centralized heating system will be compromised by the closing of the water intake valves to avoid the benzene from entering the water supply. I have so much empathy for our friends there. They struggle so and maintain great dignity through most difficulties. This—is unimaginable. I just could not get into buying presents this year when so many suffer.
Anyone who is out walking around today for anything other than necessity is NUTZ! I drove today–rare–since I walk to the library because this morning my gym partner and I practically crawled to the gym. I thought I would stand a better chance with a car with new snow tires-wrong! I was floating the whole way, three blocks over the slickered ice. Yikers! Then, donning the Yak-Trax (ask Santa–they could save your head from meeting unyieldable surfaces) , I made my way into the wind to get to the library. It’s another La Grande hair day!
Want to know if the best, hottest tech thing that you enjoyed last year was the pick of Dan Tynan of PC World Magazine? How can Google get the best and the worst in the same category? I agree with Dan. Google’s avaricious project, Google Print, makes me a bit nervous, too. Having copyright owners have to opt out of the project is a bit backwards to me. Google should contact the writers first-not depend on them to opt out. Some of my best friends are lawyers. I hope they get a piece of the action!
I loved the coin of the phrase “Apple-achia.” As a girl from the hills myself, I like the positive spin on it. Of course, I am one of the delusional, yet hopeful, Macintosh fans!
A friend of mine just trekked in Nepal this summer and came back with over 200 slides of the most glorious scenery and glimpse of exotic life there. She wanted to make a slide show of them to show on people’s televisions. “Oh, I can do that on my Mac” I told her, “That’s what they are made for.” So, for an hour before she arrived with camera in hand, I discovered that I had not ordered the SuperDrive model of the Mac Mini–so no DVD burning capacity. Rats!
I had to punt. I found a $30 shareware program on the internet called DVD PixPlay. It seemed in the description to do all I wanted so, I downloaded it on my PC that has a DVD burner. After the free trial run, I paid for it. Wow! Lots of bang for my buck! In no time, we had her slides arranged in order, worked on a title slide, tried to talk her into adding Nepalese music (no, she wanted to narrate) and then burned the show onto a CD-R disk as a VCD formatted-disk. I had never heard of VCD until then-pretty cool! I only had Mac DVD disks (why???) laying around at home-no disks for PC. Having a program that burns CDs that can be used as DVDs was the ticket. It is supposed to play on 97% of DVD players and it worked beautifully on my old garage sale DVD off-brand player.
Now, to ask Santa to buy a Super-Drive for my Mac Mini! Ho, ho, ha!
So, I was looking for a book with a very recent copyright date in school law. Our print collection had many volumes but I needed something very current. Lo, and behold-the eBook! I found it in the webpac along with the other holdings and it had an icon that reflected that it was electronic. I clicked on the link and after verifying that I had a barcode and username associated with Pierce here at EOU, I was in! I checked it out for 6 days and I was set. The table of contents that runs along the left side, helped me dip in and out of the content I needed. The navigation of the pages was easy. This sure is a great way to access current material. I didn’t want to read the whole thing which reflects stats on the usage of eBooks…the average use is 5 to 15 minutes. Try it…you will like it!
I have been observing the progress made in the the BIG microfiche cabinet move. Cart after cart of Oregon documents have passed by my desk in their seemingly endless march to the mezzanine level on the second floor. The trek is arduous-all the way around the first floor to the elevator and back the same distance to the other side of the library on the second floor to the mezzanine. By Thursday, the Oregon Room will be empty, awaiting the final move of the microfiche cabinets to their final destination. We can’t wait for our feng shui experience!!!!!! Light! Sight! Space!
Yikers, it’s slick out there! Any incline –the merest angle–is treacherous. This is a chiropractor’s dream! It is a precarious day, too, for students. Grades came out and it has been a mixed bag here. We’ve seen pretty much all ranges of emotion from “I can’t believe I hosed that final!” to “Whoa, Dude! I passed!”
So, you can access your grades here every day until 5 PM! Come on down!
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