Staging (Test) Directory for OPAC
The top section (from the date/open line up) is actually the "toplogo" (top logo) file, which will appear on all pages. It can be changed as we desire WITHIN THE LIMITS IMPOSED by the web committee. The bottom section (botlogo) is the line just above the gray links bar on down.
When we get a new design for our TWIKI pages, we should see if we can consider putting a uniform header on all our pages, so the transition is transparent to the user, but all the library pages are kept together.
Logos Only page
NOTE ABOUT THE DATE: this is just for demo work, so I do NOT update the hours, holidays, etc. on this page -- only we see it. It does not affect the correct hours/holidays on our current catalog pages.
The breadcrumbs line at the bottom on down is the "botlogo" (bottom logo) file, which will appear on all pages. It can be changed as we desire. Due to variations in the css as I work, the fonts tend to change in this part. I'll fix that before we finalize the botlogo.
Browser Stats
REMEMBER: We have WebPAC Pro, which many other III libraries do not. It radically affects the look of the OPAC, but we MUST have it for future features. It is still evolving. Meanwhile, it may actually be next to impossible to achieve certain "looks" that you see on III catalogs elsewhere. Look for examples with the WebPAC Pro copyright at the bottom to see what actually can be done.
To affect the look of the catalog, I now must check settings in the system, the webpub.def file, the HTML page itself, and several cascading style sheets to figure out why something looks the way it does. In addition, some other libraries are NOT on turnkey systems, and use additional software to affect the look and use of their III catalogs. Plus, of course, the differences in versions of IE, and other browsers.
Maps
OCLC Links
OCLC WorldCat Searching
ISBN search by locality: http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/[ISBN number]&loc=[ZIP code / state ]
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OCLC Connexion macros
OCLC CONTENTdm
Index to Other Links
Other Links of Staff Interest
- Arkansas State Library
- Arkansas Library Association
- American Library Association
- ACRLog ACRL's blog by librarians
- Best Free Reference Web Sites from ALA's MARS section
- Bookcrossing.com leave your books to share
- Books for Soldiers
- ArkLink
- OCLC
- AMIGOS Bibliographic Council
- AMIGOS continuing education
- Campaign for Reader Privacy
- CLIR : Council on Library and Information Resources
- Dewey DDC blog
- Google Librarian Center
- High cost of not finding information article at KMWorld
- Kept-Up Academic Librarian
- Library Terms Evaluated in Usability Tests
http://www.jkup.net/terms-studies.html John Kupersmith has recently updated his reports on terminology users did
and did not understand, as reported in a variety of studies, which are linked here. Think long and hard before you use any of the poorly understood words on your library web sites. From "Neat New Stuff I Found This Week" http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2006.
- Libraries: How they stack up
- LibrariesMatter
- LibSuccess a wiki for librarians
- Library Support Staff.com
- LISwiki a wiki for librarians
- Machiavelli for Librarians
- Marketing Treasures Plenty of good how-to-do-its for librarians, and interesting marketing ideas from a variety of libraries (library license plates, e-postcards, etc.) [rec. Neat New Stuff I Found This Week http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005.]
- Microsoft Office online home page lots of Office helps, templates, advice, graphics, etc.
- OCLC FirstSearch tutorials
- Progressive Librarians Guild
- online radio guide
- Real Radio
from Real Audio
- Sticker Shock compare journal prices to real world items and prepare to be shocked!
- Teleflip claims to let you send text messages to cell phones by addressing email to cellphone#@teleflip.com. NOT YET TESTED. Warning: cell phone text messages may be extremely limited in length (say, 160 characters) Simply address a regular email to your recipient's mobile phone number at the Teleflip domain (e.g. 2125555555@teleflip.com)
- more details on SMS email/cell phones
- UPI columns
- Useit.com columnist has rules on blogs, web sites, what to avoid
Dictionaries
Professional Links
- Charleston Advisor Critical reviews of web products for Information Professionals
- Current Cites "A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for this free publication. The resulting issue of 8-12 annotated citations of current literature is emailed to a mailing list and is redistributed on other electronic fora."
- Information Professional career and professional links site
- Keeping Up Page Courtesy of Steven Bell, library director at Philadelphia University, a set of strategies and tools "designed to help library and information science professionals develop and maintain a program of self-guided professional development."
- Informed Librarian Online
- Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- LISnews.com Librarian and Information Science News
- Librarian.net
- Library Grants Blog The authors of a new book, Grants for Libraries, update you here on funding opportunities. Not categorized by topic, but it is searchable. from "Neat New Stuff I Found This Week" http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2006.
- Libraries and the Patriot Legislation
- OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries online courses for librarians
- Peter Scott's Library News blog
- Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Internet goes to college: how students are living in the future with today's technology
- The Teaching Librarian
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
- WebJunction WebJunction is an "online community of libraries and other agencies sharing knowledge and experience to provide the broadest public access to information technology." WebJunction fosters communication and problem solving for issues specific to libraries and librarianship in the United States and Canada. The site includes sample policies and practices, technology and buying information, access to online courses and lessons, a newsletter, and related discussion forums. http://webjunction.org/ Subjects: Public access computers in libraries... Created by jwa
Electronic Reserves links
Digital Reference
Filters, Evalution, etc.
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ACLU:
Censorship in a Box.
- Filtering Software: the religious connection
- Banned Books Page .
- Blocked Site of the Day PeaceFire (Youth Alliance Against Internet Censorship) gives examples of bad blocking
- Briefing paper: Purchase of Blocking Software by Libraries
- Censorware Project shortcomings of filtering software, more
- Computer Virus Myths.
- Digital Freedom Network
Foil the Filters Contest .
- Sunshine Week (in 2006, March 12-18): A National Dialogue on Open Government and Secrecy. See also http://www.sunshineweek.org/. Many libraries and news organizations across the US will be participating in this week-long series of national and local events sponsored by ALA, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and several other partners. See the
toolkit for librarians, http://www.sunshineweek.org/sunshineweek/toolkits#Library%20Resources. In the teleconference that will be hosted by numerous libraries on March 13, a distinguished panel offers a variety of perspectives on the question, "Are We Safer in the Dark," http://www.openthegovernment.org/article/subarchive/85." from Neat New Stuff I Found This Week http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2006.
- Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
- Privacy Home Page
- Search Engine Watch lists & evaluates search engines
- Teaching Students to Think Critically about Internet Resources the 5 traditional print evaluation criteria
- University
of California at Berkeley's Internet tutorial pages
- Filamentality fill-in-the-blank website (Free!) to teach web research
- Censorship Quotations A rich source of possible quotes for librarians' sig files. Its documentation of sources is poor, but at least librarians know how to track down exact citations. from Neat New Stuff I Found This Week http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2006.
Search Engines
- RedLightGreen RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Turabian. Just click - and it's done.
- WebSerch - The Web Research Resource -[yes, 'a' is missing] http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/
This site has been "designed
for use by librarians and information professionals, and is intended to
assist in the evaluation and selection of information retrieval tools and information sources" on the Internet. The site contains information on evaluating search engines and Web resources; search engine specifications; search strategies and tips; and metadata. The site uses a Perl script that allows the user to view the metadata for each page. The author of WebSerch is a public librarian in Dublin, Ireland.
RSS
Graphics
NOTICE: graphics links change very quickly; there is no guarantee any of these are working at any time!
UAFS image bank
UAFS logos
There's some neat online utilities that can shrink your gif's 75% to 90% at:
And some more info on optimizing images is at
Web Reference
Specific: Buttons
- 100000freecliparts.com
links to clipart, fonts, photos
- Animation Factory .free
for personal; pay for profit
- Classroom Clipart Subtitled
K-12 Picture Database, this site contains a large (13,700) collection of
photographs, clipart, and historical images designed for use for educational
purposes. Searchable or browse by topical areas. - dl Subjects: Clip art
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- ClipArt.com directory of clipart,
much of it free
- Cooltext.com: Online Graphics Generator
http://www.cooltext.com/
This site allows you to create and customize logos, buttons, and bullets. Based on your input for design, style, font, font size, colors, and other specifications, the site will generate a customized graphic for you. It is free and without copyright restrictions. - sws Subjects: Graphics | Web sites -- Design
- Cybergeography
good graphics for representing WWW
- Free Graphics links to various
free sources of art, graphics, screensavers, software
- Funk and Wagnalls Knowledge
Center ency., dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, animal ency., world news; media gallery for members (free membership) with sounds, music, graphics, virtual tours, speeches, anthems, more
- Goff's Cartoons
- Graphics Freebies
- Image Providers
Directory
- KissMyFloppy.com computer-related graphics, jokes, links
- MediaBuilder MUST PAY FOR MANY OF THESE. graphics, more
- Gif Construction
Set (transparent images, optional animation)
- Proteus Image search
- Science
- Softshell Online Clipart glassware, computers, no food or drink symbol,
more
- Public Domain Image Sources [Wikipedia] A nice collection of annotated links, though they do leave out one of my
favorites, OAIster, a metasite that indexes Open Archive Initiative print and non-print collections from over 700 institutions. From Ex Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information Junkies. Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2007.
Gifs, Animated
NOTICE: graphics links change very quickly; there is no guarantee any of these are working at any time!
Library graphics
NOTICE: graphics links change very quickly; there is no guarantee any of these are working at any time!
Wallpaper
NOTICE: graphics links change very quickly; there is no guarantee any of these are working at any time!
Screensavers
Library-Related Quotations & Humor
Lighter Side of Librarians
Merchandise
Note: a number of these are blogs (weB LOGS), a sort of open-to-the-public diary/journal/autobiography/stream-of-consciousness/essays format, which can be both personal and interesting to others, depending on each entry in the blog. You may have to try more than once to get through to some blog sites, and some load slowly.
Non-Library But Fun
Library Blogs, Sites, etc.
- The Aardvark Speaks
- Anarchist Librarians
- Angry Librarian
- Ask a Librarian blog
- The Barbarian Librarian
- The Bellydancing Librarian
- BentleyBlog
- Bibcognito
- Bibliolatry
- Blog Driver's Waltz
- Blogwithoutalibrary
- BookBitch a blog
- Bookslut
- Colorado Psycho
- Confessions of a Science Librarian
- Cursor Miner's Library song
- Dead Librarians Society
- The Eclectic Librarian
- Exploded Library
- FeelGood_Librarian
- Free Range Librarian Karen G. Schneider's recently restored soapbox.
- Future of the Book
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- Google Maps Mania
- The Handheld Librarian
- The Hipster Librarian
- *Hollywood Librarian Ann Seidl's project
- Indie Rock Librarian
- Information Literacy Land of Confusion
- Inquiring Librarian "Thoughts on librarianship, technology, and how they affect each other in the 21st Century."
- The Laughing Librarian
- Laurabelle's Blog
- Librarian Avengers
- librarian.net
- Librariana (1)
- Librarian In Black for the "tech librarians by default" among us
- Librarian's Alphabet
- Librarians in Comic Books
- Librarians in the Movies: bibliography
- Librarian's Rant
- Library Anecdotes, Facetiae, Satire, etc. links to interesting sites
- The Library Bar in New York a very different angle on 'library' service.
- Library Geek
- Library Girl
- Library Juice "to promote the library paradigm (and to have fun)" -- Check out the quotes and the Humorous searches
- Library Lovers' Live Journal
- Libraryman - hey, we need superheroes too!
- Library Planet
- Library Stuff Steven M. Cohen's news and comments
- Library Tech Guy a blog
- LibraryWebChic web design/technologies in libraries
- Library Weblogs
- Library Writer's Blog
- Libronaut
- Lipstick Librarian
- LIS News
- LoopyLibrarian
- The Male Librarian aka Rockabilly Librarian
- Greaser + MLIS degree + Beefcake = Male Librarian Centerfold actually a blog from a young male librarian with some reactions to his job
- The Marginal Librarian
- Medlib
- The Mobile Librarian
- Modified Librarian body piercing and librarianship?
- Movie Librarians
- NewBreed Librarian
- OCLC It's all good OCLC's blog on libraries
- Diary of a Wandering Cataloger (formerly Original Cyn)
- Rabid Librarian
- Another Rabid Librarian
- 'Reading on a Dream: a Library Musical'
- The Renegade Librarian
- Retrofitted Librarian
- The Rogue Librarian
- Peter Scott's Library Blog
- Phil Bradley's Blog
- Secret Library "poetic prose about library work"
- The Shifted Librarian
- The ska Librarian
- Songs about librarians and books
- Spinster Librarian
- Spinster Librarian a blog
- The Street Librarian
- The Sub Sub Librarian
- Sulkbrarian
- Thinking While Typing
- Unshelved comic strip for librarians
- Versta blogg? heimi
- Vampire Librarian "Because those are the hours I keep and that's the job I have."
- Walt at Random "Libraries, music, net media, cruising, policy, and other stuff not quite ready for Cites & Insights"
- Warrior Librarian including t-shirts and everything!
- Warrior Librarian Weekly
- You Don't Look Like a Librarian librarians' image
- Zeebah
Software, Plugins, etc.
the down side of software
- ComputerGripes find your software on here and see what problems others have with it
Firefox-related
Other Software and Sites
- AmphetaDesk AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage.
- Google Toolbar for Netscape/Mozilla
- PBwiki create a free wiki of your own, used by business, universities, libraries, others
- TWIKI software used for campus web pages, incl. documentation
- JYBE Join Your Browser with Everyone plugin for IE and Firefox
Freeware, Shareware
- Freeware guide links
- NoNags tested, reviewed freeware
- PC World downloads
- OpenCD TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience.
Online Services, Etc.
- tinyurl converts URLs to shorter version to put in emails, etc. - plugin for IE, Firefox
Specific Software
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