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2007-01-29T18:33:00.000-06:00

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Hexadecimal Codes

2006-11-17T13:14:00.000-06:00

The hexadecimal codes for the new WL design:

Light Blue #83C7E5

Dark Blue #093791

: )

About the Author for v5no1

2006-11-16T09:31:00.000-06:00

Does anyone have the About the Author section from v5no1? If so, could you please send me the information, either here in Blogger or in class tonight, for the following authors--needed to finish the Book Reviews section: Jacso, Marco, Veit, and Williams.

It would be much appreciated.

Title Change

2006-10-25T23:30:00.000-05:00

Well, I didn't actually ask any catalogers about this, but I did some extensive research in the catalog and found that for every journal that I came across that had a name change, both titles appeared as separate records and then had a message in the notes field explaining that either "this is the old title until volume whatever and now the journal is known as something else;" or that "this is the new title and the previous issues can be found under this other title." I also consulted AACR2, and it says that when a continuing resource experiences a title change, you create a new record for each title.

Wha?

2006-10-22T14:37:00.000-05:00

Okay, as some of you know our HTML mark up, when posted to the server, looks nothing like the rest of the journal, specifically the font of the entire article, main heading font, and abstract font. Compare the our articles (V4N1Koh, V4N1Rosenberg, and V4N2Richards) with a current article like this one. The same holds true for the print versions of our articles.

I looked at my source code and the source code from the current article. There are two major differences between the two:

1. Our template is missing the tag linking the article back to the style sheet. Follow this link and look six lines down for the tag beginning with "link" and ends with "css".

2. Our template has a different "charset" in the first META tag. Follow this link and look five lines down for the tag beginning with "meta http-equiv" Our charset is "iso-8859-1". The other charset is "windows-1252".

The same holds true for the print source codes.

So I inserted the missing tag and changed the charset and nothing changed.

For "fun" I copied the source code to a current article, saved it to Notebook on my desktop (both a computer at school and my laptop). The current article experiences the same font problems as our articles.

So I tried...I'm thinking there might be something wrong with the style sheet which in that case Ed will have to figure it out himself since we don't access to those sheets. Does any one else have any ideas?

Journal Name Change

2006-10-22T14:16:00.000-05:00

Hiya. Just a reminder to those of you who were kind enough to volunteer or accept being volunteered onto this mini-project, here is the agreed upon plan of action:

1. Veronica and Lisa are going to consult with real world catalogers. Veronica is going to speak to Marjorie Bloss. Lisa is going to speak to the Newberry catalogers who frequently experience this problem.
2. Sarah is going to consult AACR2 and other cataloging sources from 703.
3. Joy will look at style manuals (Chicago, MLA and APA).

Let's plan on posting our findings onto the blog by this Wednesday. I'll smash the results together in a little report and show it to you all on Thursday. Any changes can be made during class. If alls well that ends well, we'll hand it in on Thursday.

Questions, comments, points of discussion make use of Lisa's most awesome blog!

Cheers,
joy

Abstracts from Worlib 5-1

2006-10-19T20:36:00.000-05:00

Okay...here is the text of two of the abstracts from WorLib 5-1, ready for you to copy-paste into your markup. I figure this is easier than me scanning such tiny amounts of information and trying to email it to you, or whatever. So, if you happen to have one of the following two articles, just drop these in as paras at the beginning of the article markup from your own scan. The first article in WorLib 3-2 is an example of the abstract form, if you need it.

" "Librarians and Librarianship as Reflected in the Nigerian Daily Newspapers"

Joseph O. Aina and N. P. Obokoh

Analysis of six newspapers from 1898-1993 discovered considerable attention to libraries. There were 644 stories or notices, and there has been a yearly increase in library coverage. The stories include accounts of new buildings and services, as well as exhortations for the development of school libraries and public libraries. The Daily Times had the gratest number of library-related entries."

" "The Tanzania Library Service: A Review of Recent Literature"

Cecilia Dahlgren

Gives a history of the Tanzania Library Service (established 1975, succeeding the Tanganyika Library Services Board of 1963) and a summary of published writings about it from 1982-1993. TLS has authority over documentation services, training of librarians, public libraries, and literacy campaigns; and it promotes indigenous literature. The National Central Library is included in the TLS domain. Six district public libraries and 14 regional or branch libraries are supervised. Librarians throughout the country receive centralized technical and bibliographical services. Recent writers have shown concern for library education, security of library materials, the need for libraries based on local needs, and the necessity of creating a publishing infrastructure."

Vol 4. No 2 "About Authors"

2006-10-08T16:23:00.000-05:00

Hey gang.

As I'm marking up my article I got up to the "About Author" section only to find...I have nothing to write. That's because we didn't scan those pages. Tell you what. I'll scan those pages and e-mail them to you guys on Monday.

Sound like a plan?

joy

Ugh, sick...

2006-10-05T15:01:00.000-05:00

So, I've been fighting a delightful little bug all week, and haven't made it back over to school to do my scans. I was hoping to be able to make it over there early today and complete it before class, but it doesn't look like my head or sense of equilibrium are quite up to the task of driving yet. Sadly, I'll have to stay supine today. I'm sure I'll be better enough by Saturday to get over to the scanner lab and get my files up and running.

So sorry. :-(

Doh!

2006-09-29T14:29:00.000-05:00

Mi malo - I thought you could attach word docs to Blogger. It doesn't look like you can; however, there is a "free add-in called Blogger for Word that lets you save a word document as a post to your Blogger blog w/out opening a new browser." The downside is you have to download and install the Blogger for Word add-in.

If you, and anyone else, is absolutely opposed to doing this then we can just e-mail the attachments to each other? You may still have to e-mail Amiee her document so she can make corrections.

The following link goes into more detail about Blogger for Word and has the link to download the add-in.

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42497&query=(word%20document)&topic=&type=f

Attaching files to Blogger?

2006-09-28T22:49:00.000-05:00

Is there a way for me to post the Word.doc of the Bibliographies of Indian Library Science article we scanned for World Libraries Vol. 4, No. 2?

I'm not seeing it. maybe it's my Safari browser? Is there supposed to be a WYSIWYG editor with attaching files as an option? I suppose I could just e-mail it. I suppose it also doesn't matter since Aimee has the print copy.

So....

How are things?

I'm cool, just hangin' out. ...kinda hungry, though. 'N stuff.

Welllll, time for me to hit the old dusty trail.

More Graphics

2006-09-26T14:13:00.000-05:00

Hello,

I have uploaded two versions of the "scrabble pieces" design to the World Libraries PhotoBucket site as well, the folders are labeled Squares 1 & 2. Thanks for setting up the PhotoBucket account KT! I think it will really help us out having everything accessible in one place.

Sarah

Graphics

2006-09-25T14:08:00.000-05:00

Okay, I've uploaded everything. Sorry it took so long; we've been having wireless problems at home. ComCast came and rewired everything this morning, though, so I think we're set.

Anyway.

I created a PhotoBucket account for this project. To access it, just go to www.photobucket.com. The username is worlib, and so is the password. Once inside, there are 3 folders, one for each of the schemes I've come up with so far. (The Globe scheme, the High-Res version of the Photo scheme, and the Low-Res version thereof.)

I resized everything, and saved as the appropriate file types. If anyone needs my originals for something, let me know.

Three Cheers For Server Space

2006-09-25T14:07:00.000-05:00

Joy loaded the three mock-ups that she, Liz, Veronica and I created onto the Dominican server today. If anyone would like to see what they look like before Thursday, just click here. And if that doesn't work, here's the actual address: http://domin.dom.edu/students/austjoy/wlmock.html

Thanks so much, Joy, for doing this!

Posting HTML Code

2006-09-24T16:01:00.000-05:00

Liz, Veronica, Joy, and I finished our 3 mock-ups and wanted to post the HTML codes for each one to the blog. I don't know if anyone has tried to post any code to the blog, but it doesn't work. I joined a Blogger help group to find out why and discovered that we would need to use a "special code" rather than the HTML code we've been using.

I don't really want to change all of our code, so I'm not going to post it right now. Joy and I are thinking we might load our mock-ups onto the server at Dominican and then provide the links on the blog. We're going to try that tomorrow (maybe), so we'll keep you "posted."

Comments by the Dean

2006-09-22T10:44:00.000-05:00

During class yesterday I mentioned that the dean had added to the end of the comments that were on the left side of the World Libraries page. Here it is, to do whatever you want with; I'm pretty sure that if we decide to omit it entirely she wouldn't be offended, although she would probably appreciate having it there.

"Inasmuch as we encourage the free exchange of information, we welcome articles from around the world. We look forward to hearing from you."-Susan Roman, Dean, GSLIS, Dominican University.

After looking at this though, I wonder if we should just scrap the entire paragraph that is currently there and start over. Just a thought...

Footer

2006-09-21T01:13:00.000-05:00

The Footer seems too busy to me. Can some of this information be put elsewhere?

is this thing on?

2006-09-20T19:35:00.000-05:00

just checking...

The First One's Always the Hardest

2006-09-19T21:54:00.000-05:00

Ok everyone, as the title and subtitle suggest, this is a class blog for Internet Publishing. This blog is intended to be used by all class members to post ideas, suggestions, questions, and comments. I hope we all use it, and use it wisely.