My Projects

Welcome to my little archive of assorted web projects. Hopefully you'll find the fruits of my labor to be enlightening and transformative, but I'll be happy if you just think they don't suck too bad. Some of these projects began as assignments for library school classes and some are just a labor of love. If you can benefit from them in any way, make the most of it. As we always say here at Skmatic.com, "If informative web content were rubberbands, we'd be Captain Lou Albano." I just made that up.

Reference Portal

The Reference Portal is an intranet I created for our reference staff at Golden Gate University. I began the project with desire to institute a chat reference service at the reference desk and to have an automated system for recording reference questions. We had been using paper and pencil to record reference transactions, but we weren't taking down the questions themselves, which I find to be very helpful for qualitative assessment. Once I started working on it I decided to incorporate other web resources like PmWiki.org, Google Calendar, Del.icio.us.

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Instant Instruction Feedback Forms

Instant Instruction Feedback Forms are web-based surveys that are designed to offer librarians a simple way to evaluate their information literacy/bibliographic instruction sessions. The best thing about them is that they're open source, which means that everytime someone downloads them Bill Gates gets a chill through his bones.

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Stephen Crane Research Guide

Here's one from those long-lost halcyon days of library school. Stephen Crane is one of my favorite writers (yes, he's the guy that wrote "The Red Badge of Courage"). He also lived a facinating (although short) life filled with adventure and tuberculosis. Live fast and die with a good-looking oeuvre, that's my motto.

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The Humanities: Information Resources

Yet another gem from the olden days. Boy, I miss all those hours of rummaging through the reference stacks in the Reading Room at Wells Library. Check out this collection of golden nuggets that I dug up...

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