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Archive for October, 2007

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Hoskins Library: A Secret History

Knoxville’s Metro Pulse weekly paper has a story on UT’s Hoskins Library which used to be the main library. It now houses archives and special collections among other things and has fallen into disrepair.

Comments Off - Posted in Knoxville, Libraries, Tennessee, UT Volunteers and Work at Hodges by Dan

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Amazon vs iTunes

On a whim today I went looking for this album Spaced Out – The Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner. Amazon has it in 256 kbps variable bit rate mp3, which is what I usually import CDs in. It’s $8.99 and DRM free.
iTunes also has the album but not in the iTunes Plus [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Information Technology, Mac/Apple and Of Interest Online by Dan

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

A Delicious post on life

Just a miscellaneous post on life etc. I’ve started using del.icio.us a lot recently. I just got tired of lots of links I didn’t use that often in my browser.
Prior to Oct. 10, the last time I added anything to del.icio.us was Dec. 11, 2005. Anyway you can have a look at my links [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Libraries, Social Libraries/Library 2.0, Thoughts on Life, Web Design and Work at Hodges by Dan

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

MarsEdit

I’ve had a serial number for MarsEdit hanging around since early 2006.
MarsEdit just got an upgrade to version 2 and I’ve been slacking on the blogging front lately so maybe using MarsEdit will give me a jumpstart.

Comments Off - Posted in Information Technology and Library Monk News by Dan

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Congrats Walt!

Walt’s been in a sort of job limbo for a while. Well now he has a new gig, Director & Managing Editor, PALINET Leadership Network. It’s a job that seems made for you Walt, so again congrats!

1 Comment » - Posted in Libraries and Library & Information Science by Dan


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