http://www.librarymonk.com Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:31:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The paperwork for my job upgrade was been sent to HR, but it will be October before I see any salary increase. But the increase in pay will be retroactive until July 1, so it could be a nice payday. It doesn't appear as though I've made it to the ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/07/july-jobs-update/ Well I didn't get a librarian job, if you hadn't gathered that from Twitter. They hired someone for the User Education Technologies job but the Digital Media Technologies job was called a failed search and they'll re-advertise it in the future. Better luck next time I guess. On the brighter side ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/06/jobs-update/ If you've looked at the recent posts here, you'd see that I've had issues with Comcast. I'm happy to report all is well. Setting up the Tivo again was a bit complicated, since this is the first time I've had a digital cable box. Having the Internet at home again ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/06/update-on-cable-interviews-etc/ Update 11:53 a.m. Cable will be installed tomorrow. Line run in the morning, cable installed in the house between 3 and 5 p.m. :-) Update 11:14 a.m It looks like we'll be getting cable tomorrow! :-) Stephanie got a call from Comcast last night. Apparently all the phone calls Monday and ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/06/comcast-update-progress/ Update: it's in interesting tale, so feel free to read. Issues resolved, thanks Benny and Kirk and whoever else was involved for their quick work on this. Hopefully this situation won't happen to anybody else. So Stephanie and I got our new house built and we finally moved in in April. ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/06/comcast-issues/ Hodges Library no longer has a reference desk. We had a wake for it yesterday afternoon. Day to day reference questions have been moved upstairs to the Commons desk. In fact Hodges no longer has a reference department. It's been split into Integrated User Services, Research Services, and Research Collections. I ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/05/end-of-an-era/ Added Library Thing to my right sidebar. Seems to slow down my page loads a bit. Is it noticeable enough to be a bother? Does anybody read this blog anymore? :-) http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/04/library-thing/ I'm realizing that Twitter has given my blog a new lease on life. Making my tweets display on the front page definitely keeps the blog more on my mind since I use twitter and twitterific heavily these days. Pondering a Library Monk redesign now, but I have lots of ... http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/04/on-twitter/ Doug Raber, a friend and former advisor of mine at both Tennessee and Missouri, is leaving academia to be the public library director in Ferndale, Michigan. The local paper there has the story. Best of luck Doug, dress warmly. :-) http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/04/doug-raber-public-library-director/ Updated Library Monk to WordPress 2.5 The backend is very different. I especially like the automatic plugin updating feature. That caused me to update a few really old versions of plugins I was using. Also added my tweets from Twitter on the main page. More later.. http://www.librarymonk.com/2008/04/updated-to-wordpress-25/