Thursday, November 11, 2004

In addition to completing my first solo reference question (I say solo, but Veronica did the explaining about where to access online journals by title), I also believe that I've completed the Subject Guide for the College Rankings. I'm not entirely pleased by the result, but most of my complaints have to do with the structure and rigidity of the template I had to use; it wasn't really designed to list individual citations. In spite of my the problems I have with it, I do think that it will be more useful to the students; when I started, the information was basically listed by year, with all the different rankings for different programs lumped together. The anchors help in that regard: a user can jump directly to, say, rankings for law schools from the top of the page. Now that I've proven myself reasonably facile with the template, Veronica has asked me to start going through her other Education Study Guides, checking for dead links and doing "the anchor thing". Not very interesting, I know.

Looking through Job Postings for librarians, I've discovered that they break down to two types of jobs: interesting jobs that are located in places where I would like to live, and jobs for which I am actually qualified and have more than a snowball's chance in Hell of being hired for. But they aren't jobs in call centers, or packing art for a megalomaniacal pimp/bruja, so I'm already ahead of where I was in 2002.

I think I'm going to put on some sweats and read for the rest of the night, maybe with the new Orbital album playing. But first I have to rustle me up some grub...

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