Library Technology Services

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I’ve changed departments here at Hodges, from Outreach to Library Technology Services, a.k.a Systems. So I have a bigger cube and an office that my cell phone works in, but sadly no pay raise.

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Tourists in the Library

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Saw this article in the Univ. of Tennessee student newspaper titled “Library not a place for frivolity“. It’s mildly satirical (in my opinion) but raises some valid points. For example, “why do you come to the library at midnight to get on Facebook?”…

New UT Libraries website

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Added March 11, 2026: Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for saving copies of things I worked on years ago.

I’ve been pretty busy spearheading the redesign on the UT Libraries site. (lib.utk.edu as it appeared in September 2007) It officially launched August 13th and it’s a slow process getting a site that big with dozens of people involved updated to a new design.…

Busy May

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May is almost over and I’m not sure where it went. Work has been going ok, the UT Libraries version of the new UT web templates should be ready in the next couple of weeks. Then the long and probably painful process of converting the libraries over to the new templates can begin.…

Templates, web design, and work

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Added March 10, 2026: I added links to older versions of the sites I was talking about here using Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Otherwise this post was all dead links and no context.

When I started my job at Hodges, I knew 95% of the designs I came up would have to fit in the UT template which is heavy on text, brown/beige, and table based, with minimal CSS.(…

Research Beyond Google (because Google can’t find everything)

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Research Beyond Google: Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources

There’s plenty of good information and links here. Some of these resources I knew about, but there are plenty on this list that I didn’t.

Google is great for the quick fact check or the shotgun approach to just see what’s out there.…