http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/ en-us 2005-10-14T10:07:53-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001457.html To install these bookmarklets (or links) in your Internet Explorer toolbar, right click on the link and select "Add to Favorites". If you receive a security alert, ignore it and click "yes" to proceed. Make sure to select the "Links"... cminor 2005-10-14T10:07:53-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001450.html I finally got Jon Udell's Library Lookup bookmarklet installed and working on my browser. Not that I had been trying for a long time, just that it took me a long to to try. Here's the link to the Library... cminor 2005-10-12T15:24:47-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001447.html I appreciate the support as reflected in the comments below regarding my efforts to get Firefox installed on at least some of the public workstations at my library. The comments support my personal opinion that the open source method of... cminor 2005-10-11T15:20:54-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001429.html First day on the job and I've asked if Firefox can be installed on the workstations in the public training lab that I will be working in. This presents a security concern which I've never had to think about before.... cminor 2005-10-03T16:59:18-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001402.html After a long wiki hiatus, I am finding that some of my learning is coming in handy. A few university people in and connected to the UWpg library are involved in a project called LearningCITI. I got pulled in to... Wikis cminor 2005-09-21T23:27:57-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001374.html I have previously mentioned that I will starting a new job in October at the Winnipeg Public Library's newly renovated Millenium Library. In addition to being in a beautiful workplace, my new job will also include some exciting new challenges.... cminor 2005-09-07T14:16:01-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001373.html For all but one year of my student career, I live without my own computer. Mostly I used the ones that were available to me at school or any that my room mates happened to have. I became an expert... cminor 2005-09-07T14:02:27-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001346.html It's nice to know that I've been noticed/remembered in the last little while in spite of my silence (thanks Meredith). What really got me was that the original diy librarian (whom I had somewhat sheepishly discovered only months after I'd... Blogging cminor 2005-08-28T23:23:07-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001272.html After my shout-out to Heather Morrison hit the dead air of the blogosphere, I crawled back into my shell. But yesterday, I got a response. Heather Morrison is now blogging. The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics Pupose: "to reconsider the... cminor 2005-08-02T14:57:06-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001269.html When I was at eLit2005 in June, I discovered the computer driving licensing phenomenon. Understandably, for the conference I was attending, this was the E(uropean)CDL. But apparently licensing a computer user for safe "driving" is part of a larger international... cminor 2005-08-02T11:45:44-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001267.html I know that the 'Net in internet has nothing to do with fishing, but maybe that's where the original idea for this metaphor came from. Other origins include the deep web/iceberg metaphors, since they involve water. Throughout the last year... Teaching cminor 2005-07-29T11:06:08-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001239.html After my previous post mentioning Heather Morrison's CACUL listserv activity as the source for information about Open Access initiatives involving SSHRC and CreativeCommons.ca, I found yet more emails posted to the CACUL listserv by Heather Morrison. Obviously I need to... Blogging cminor 2005-07-18T17:13:46-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001237.html Mark recently wrote about Project Open Source|Open Access (OS|OA), http://open.utoronto.ca/, at the University of Toronto. Interestingly, OS|OA has responded a consultation process with SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a major research funding body). SSHRC is investigating... cminor 2005-07-18T11:40:44-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001219.html I wanted to promote both the personal and shared blogs at our library to the staff who don't blog. So I thought I would created an combined feed of all of the blogs and use it in some of our... Blogging cminor 2005-07-14T18:54:00-06:00 http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/cminor/archives/001195.html I still don't know what a learning object really is, but since I've gotten back from vacation, I think I have created one, albeit not well suited to its format. The last two conferences I have made presentations at, MADLaT... cminor 2005-07-06T00:10:33-06:00