John, Junko, and I have met to work on the theme design. We chose a theme called Weaver II, which has a narrow header image that won’t clog up a screen and hide the posts. We changed the header to a cropped image of Plimpton Cuneiform 322, from our own...
While poking around Project Bamboo, I followed a lot of trails that led me to tools that sounded interesting, but which didn’t seem to have a practical application that I could entirely understand. But there were two sites I stumbled across that intrigued me. One is All Our Ideas (allourideas.org),...
Several years ago, when I was a new librarian, the Humanities and History Division went on a field trip to the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library. We were shown around and given in-depth tours of the Milstein Division of US History, Local History and Genealogy, as...
Today our project was to create a repository in Git, to store on the GitHub. It was a bit of a bumpy ride. What did I learn today? 1. Mac Git and Windows Git are very, very different. 2. It can be difficult for even the most well-informed and patient instructor...
Today’s session with Git/GitHub once again underscored how capriciously tools can behave on different workstations. We learned a fair amount, but there were still many frustrations for various members of the group. What did I learn? The difference between Git vs Github Once again, evidence of how difficult it is...
Things have been a little quiet on the Developing Librarian front in the past few weeks, as we plunged into our heavy research skills instruction season. But activity is beginning to stir once more… We have split into teams and devised a timeline–not for THIS site but for the site...
Though we haven’t surfaced online in a while, the Design Team has been hard at work. We have been perfecting logos and considering other sites to figure out what we wanted our design elements to resemble. Here’s where we are so far. We designed our logo to evoke a subway...
A scant six weeks after presenting our design choices to the Developing Library group, the Design and Development Teams at last sat down together to hammer out the details for which each were dependent on the other. The Design Team learned that the Development Team had chosen the Omeka theme...
The Design Team learned about a new concept this month: wireframes. These are detailed layouts of what a webpage (home page and interior pages) will look like. To our dismay, the scribbled pen-and-ink rendition we’d generated just wasn’t enough: Gosh, wasn’t that clear? Apparently not. We met with Alex, from...
Here’s a list of some of the resources we’ve learned about over the past several months. This list will grow over time, so come back! Feel free to add additional resources in the comments, too. Harvard Law School’s library created this useful guide to public domain the_content: Finding Public Domain...