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Happy Fourth Birthday LISNews

LISNews turns 4 years old today! It seems almost impossible that it has already been 4 years since I first hatched this crazy idea to start a Slashdot for librarians. Since that day I've been through 4 jobs in 2 states, 5 apartments, 2 web servers, and 3 different versions of the site. Now, four years later, LISNews continues to survive, maybe even succeed, thanks to all the many people who work to keep our little site interesting and informative.As is usual on this day, I've thrown together some thoughts to share, and I hope you'll do the same. -- Read More

Get Your Renaissance Library Calendar 2004 For Free

I have just a few of The Renaissance Library Calendar 2004 left, so I thought I'd try something a little different this time. The first 3 people, with user accounts (Sorry Anonymous Patron, you're not eligible), who can answer the skill testing questions below will win a Renaissance Library Calendar 2004 edition. If you aren't one of the first 3 to give the correct answer below you can always buy one, they're only 12 bucks, and if you've missed them the past few years, You can still buy copies of the first three editions of the Renaissance Library Calendar - at half price. Post your answers below by clicking the "reply" button.
Update: 10/21 14:45 EST by B:We have our winners. -- Read More

Posting to this blog

if you want to post to the Wireless blog, send me (e-mail: drewwe@morrisville.edu)the information you want to put here and I will add it.

What do you want from LISnews.com: Wireless?

I have two requests. 1. Tell me via comments to this item on what you want to see via this blog. post comments to this one. I submitted this twice by mistake. Still learning.

2. Please leave comments on the various stories and please moderate so that you can rate the stories.

What do you want from LISnews.com: Wireless?

I have two requests. 1. Tell me via comments to this item on what you want to see via this blog.

2. Please leave comments on the various stories and please moderate so that you can rate the stories.

Got Questions? We got Answers! The LISNews FAQ

As promised, there's a New FAQ in town, The LISNews FAQ.
Let me know if you have questions that are not answered here. The new code has oodles of features that I may have missed, so if you've spotted something that doesn't make sense, please don't hesitate to ask.
Always remember, the only dumb question is the question that you don't ask.
Some other, related, questions answered below... -- Read More

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No idea what I'm talking about? Read RSS For Non-Techie Librarians By Steven M. Cohen.

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One Week With SlashCode

So we’ve been “Beta Testing� the newest slashcode
for a week now, here’s what I’ve learned…. I’d love some feedback on the new
site, your thoughts and ideas are always appreciated.

I think I may have moved a little too fast. The new site has more bugs
(listed below) than I thought it did while we were in “alpha mode,� and
it’s making my life quite difficult. I still don’t see any
show-stoppers, so we need not switch back, but it’s annoying to chase
things around like this. My biggest fear is we’ll lose some authors.

The SlashCode is awesome. It's powerful, flexible, extensible and
unbelievably hard to understand at this point. Everything I want to do
is a million times harder now, it’s a very slow learning process for
me. Everything will take an extra long time. This is taking up even
more of my time and stretching me in ways that are testing my ability
to get anything done. -- Read More

New RSS Feeds

Three new RSS files that come with slashcode to announce:

http://www.lisnews.com/index.rss
http://www.lisnews.com/index.xml

http://www.lisnews.com/index.rdf

The old RSS feeds will remain the same and begin to be updated regularly soon.
Let me know if you have ideas for new feeds.

LISNews Get Together in Toronto On Saturday

I\'ll be in Toronto for the weekend at the big conference. On Saturday I\'ll be spending some
time at the InMyBook.com booth. It\'s #4047, on \"level 800\" in the South
Building -- in the center back, near BookPage.


Also, the LISNewsterz will be getting together Saturday night for food/drinks:
We\'ll be meeting at The Fairmont Royal York [100 Front Street West]
6 pm on Saturday, 21 June, in the Epic Restaurant. The Epic is in the lobby.
The reservation is under Carver/LISNews.
Let me know if you\'ll be coming so I can get us a bigger table.

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