ASDAL 2006 - Day 1, pt.3

Two more presentations this morning. First up is a trio of librarians from Southern to tell us the history and future of our Library Liaison program. It started with just Loranne talking to faculty to get some input on the book and periodical orders. It has evolved to involve everyone on the library staff working with all the departments on campus. Anything we can do to involve the faculty in building our collection and to get them to think of the library more when they plan their curriculum and programs is a good thing. As always, more must be done in this area, but I think we had a good start and we're working on making it better.

Next up is Steve Sowder telling us that we need to work on the infrastructure of our web pages. Style sheets are going to be a much better way of getting our web pages up. Separating style from content will enable you to update and maintain your site more easily, plus it'll probably make your pages load faster, and that's always good news for your users. Again, looks like I need to spend some more time on the ASDAL web page. I've got to learn this stuff and start using it. It just all takes time, doesn't it? But it has to be done.

Pardon the short blogging this time, there's alot going on, I'm thinking about my presentation coming up this afternoon, and I'm getting kind of hungry. Seems like a long time since breakfast. I'll be back after lunch. Promise.