― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
If only there was something that could help this person:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2305/2227185021_32663bf7fa_o.png
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link
duh - it's on digg & reddit already as well. sorry :-/
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Tonight I am doing my first shift in the college library. I am essentially security rather than a librarian, but getting paid to use the internet/do my PhD means I'm not complaining. 9pm - 2am Wednesdays and Sundays until Christmas.
― caek, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I did a couple of quarters of night shifts like that when I started here (thankfully not as late as that). I admit I was glad to leave them behind.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
My brain doesn't really get going until after dinner, so these are perfect for me. Unfortunately in 2009 I will be replaced by a machine.
― caek, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
security robot?
― velko, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.jennycakesbakery.com/images/photos/robot%20cake.jpg
robot caek
― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, I am in a Faraday Cage here. No wireless, no phone reception. I am using Internet Explorer to type this, which I don't think I've done since the 90s. Good times.
― caek, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I am actually getting work done and thinking about shit for the first time since the 90s too.
physics department library rip : (
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Image028.jpg
― ✓ ✔ ☑ vote LJ! (caek), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess no one has touched those journals in ten years
― ✓ ✔ ☑ vote LJ! (caek), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Still sad though.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
:-( that's the way our journals are going too I'm afraid.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I helped out with clearing a lot of journals over the past few weeks that we have access to via JSTOR. I admit I'm not really sentimental about seeing the print volumes go.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I have been doing physics since 1999 and I have needed a print journal once in that time.
― ✓ ✔ ☑ vote LJ! (caek), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I work at a place dedicated to storing those forgotten books, journals, memorabilia donated by long forgotten local-celebrities, etc. Go U of T and it's 4th or so biggest library on the continent.
― Their time's limited, hard rocks, too (mehlt), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
They're actually being skipped, and not sent to offsite storage? I hope somebody's checked the RSL has copies.
(But then I am an incorrigible hoarder)
― device may be used to practice dribbling (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
The RSL has enough copies of these things to control time
― ✓ ✔ ☑ vote LJ! (caek), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Kudos to Virginia Plain and team for being named Library Of The Year.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 June 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks; I think we get a pizza party.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing wrong with that!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Just don't handle the books afterwards with greasy pizza fingers! Especially those Library Of America Cheevers.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, we don't get laid off; thanks Bloomberg.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
GOOD WORK, VP.Serious relief from my other librarian friend yesterday at the budget news.
― ian, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
and still six-day service(xp)
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
sister just got hired as the librarian at a private girl's school in california where steve jobs sends his daughter
― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Ari Gold send his daughter there too?
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the enrollment is primarily nonfictional
― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah yes, that's a sound policy.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Kudos to Virginia Plain and company for the infrastructure upgrade and the new self-scan-and-sort book return system. Sorry about the book buying budget though.
― Never Make Your Moog Too Soon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 January 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Did any of you guys download the free poster from Carel Press. Also, is there a more active librarian thread?
― Starman Jones said it's 2 legit 2 quit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 January 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
bump, any other ilx librarians still about
― devvvine, Saturday, 26 October 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Yup, though I'm between jobs at the moment. You know how this field is.
― OneSecondBefore, Saturday, 26 October 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
I am eternal.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
connected 4 life. thankfully managed to fall into a fulltime library assistant position just as i finished library school a couple of months ago which was v lucky. been putting off looking for actual 'qualified' jobs atm.
― devvvine, Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
I'm trying to do a quick research project for my resource-limited, non-profit community senior services agency. It would be a piece of cake if I had EBSCO access but I don't now that I am no longer a student. Anyone out there who could help?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
only have access to the film and tv lit database on ebsco, would that be of help?
― devvvine, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
I need AgeLine. But thank you for responding!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
best of luck!
― devvvine, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
I don't have AgeLine but I appear to have access to something called "Abstracts in Social Gerontology" though NB I never use these databases so I don't really have any idea what I'm looking at / doing - but if there's something specific I can search for in here let me know...
If you need AgeLine specifically, sorry, good luck!
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
I think I scraped together enough, but I may hit you up on that offer later. Thank you, very kind!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 27 March 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
no problem, good luck with your research paper!
I'm going to bed now (sorry if this is bad timing) but will no doubt be around tomorrow morning uk time if there is something I can try to track down for you.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
So these last few months my focus has been shifting from in-person access work to online, obviously -- but also to help our archivists here in some big projects. I'm currently engaged in others as well -- just finished up some work today with a big new one that should get a lot of attention when it is ready -- but here's a nice piece just published on our site about two of the other ones that have been completed:
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/new-ways-of-working-together/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Well, these next couple of days will be interesting:
https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sils
And as a result of that, as of a few hours from now, Millennium will no longer be used by us. Which is a weird kinda farewell -- to quote myself from FB: Since my first formal day of work at the UCI Libraries on January 2, 1997, I have used, one way or another, this piece of software up to the present day through my UCSF Libraries work. It went through updates, iterations, changes, but Millennium just chugged along, and like the name implied it really comes from a place in the mid-to late 90s Windows universe in particular, something that did the job but was often slow, clunky and weird. What felt vaguely half-futuristic rapidly wasn't, and as other programming approaches took hold it REALLY showed its age. Later today use of Millennium will stop as the entire UC library system is about to switch over in a long-planned move to a unified top to bottom entity via the Primo/Alma web-based software from ExLibris, and I'm sure there will be growing pains and quirks and so forth. I am really interested to see how that works out, THAT feels like the future in a fascinating way. But this clunky, slow, sometimes painfully annoying software did the work all this time, and I have no more romance to offer than that, certainly no melancholy or sadness. It'll just be weird never to see the darn thing again.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pSI-HOirM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 26 July 2021 04:47 (two years ago) link
We switched to Alma/Primo back in 2015. We were using Voyager before
― treefell, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
Ex Libris have a seriously dominant stake in Academic libraries now. It will be interesting to see how things develop with their latest ownership group
― treefell, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link