When UX goes to die in the issue queue
Anyone who tends to open a large number of browser tabs surely understands the pain expressed here.
Emmet enables productive sloth
You should never hire trust a programmer who doesn't admit to being profoundly lazy.
Kiosks with Linux
Lately I've been exploring a few Linux distros for kiosks. We have a couple staff members interested in doing more work with Linux and giving a go of switching over some of our kiosks to linux seems like a good place to start.
Two specific distros that appear to be promising are:
Library Discovery Systems usability
Susan Teague-Rector & Jimmy Ghaphery (2008) Designing Search: Effective
Search Interfaces for Academic Library Web Sites, Journal of Web Librarianship, 2:4, 479-492,
DOI: 10.1080/19322900802473944
David Wells (2016) Library Discovery Systems and their Users: a Case Study
from Curtin University Library, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 47:2, 92-105, DOI:
10.1080/00048623.2016.1187249
Why Read?
After taking nearly a decade off from creating blog content, I'm been a little disengaged from the blogosphere. It seems as if bloging is passe or uninteresting and boring. Perhaps more fleeting and perfunctory content or multimedia has over shadowed blogs and blogging.
Another new beginning
Is this blog 4.0 or 5.0 for me?
Let the water hold me down