Category Archives: my projects

Most useful Drupal modules

robinna/ June 19, 2008/ my projects, opensource, Training/ 3 comments

I thought I would crosspost some of what I consider my most useful Drupal handout information from my demo and presentation for the UGADG. Of course, this doesn’t include the demo part at the moment! Maybe I will screencapture that part and add it in later. Another thing for the todo list! Anyhow, you can see the handouts here ..and

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New online resource — Civil Rights Digital Library

robinna/ June 18, 2008/ my projects, that's cool/ 0 comments

The recently unveiled Civil Rights Digital Library, contains text, image and video archives with annotated bibliographies, learning modules, study guides, etc.Not only of interest to educators and students, the Civil Rights Digital Library is a treasure trove of real life stories — talk about reality tv!This collection also serves in providing access and digitally archiving a huge collection of material.

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new art, new writings, latest issue of moonshine is available!

robinna/ June 10, 2008/ software, publishing, my projects, opensource/ 0 comments

For those interested, the latest issue of moonshine, a magazine of the southern arts is availableonline (& free) athttp://www.moonshine.southerncreativity.com (moonshine is run on pacercms opensource newspaper & journal software; for more info about that), drop me a line. details:————————-It’s not just the weather that is hot. Take a break and check out some smokin’ work from Southern writers & artists.

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Radical Librarianship

robinna/ May 2, 2008/ Libraries, publishing, my projects/ 0 comments

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/contents-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3543-2 Includes interesting essays such as Teaching the Radical Catalog, User-Centered Serials Cataloging, “Why Isn’t My Book on the Shelf?” and Other Mysteries of the Library (by yours truly), AACR2—Bendable but Not Flexible: Cataloging Zines at Barnard College, Dr. Strangecataloger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tag, MARC: It’s Not Just for Cataloging Anymore, Control: A

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Internet archive and creative commons

robinna/ April 3, 2008/ publishing, my projects, watch.see.hear/ 0 comments

An article I wrote for moonshine…—————————-Did you know that the Internet Archive not only archives the web but that it has much opensource, public domain or creative commons licensed material? For those of you who do digital work, the Internet Archive may be the best kept secret on the web! If you do any kind of digital work (images, websites,

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My e-portfolio in drupal (beginnings)

robinna/ March 25, 2008/ my projects, XHTML/XML/CSS/ 0 comments

Although I still have lots more work to do it, I managed to get drupal upgraded to 6.1. As I stated in one of my previous drupal posts, the difference between 4.7(? I think that was my latest version pre-upgrade) and 6.1 is amazing. It looks like on the “to do” list for the upcoming upgrades is a WYSIWYG theme

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drupal – what it is & how it works (overview)

robinna/ March 24, 2008/ software, Design, my projects, XHTML/XML/CSS, Training/ 0 comments

For those unfamiliar with Drupal it is a largescale opensource CMS for a website which is used by the likes of Tim Berners-Lee. Drupal is scalable and modular built which even includes design elements. Each Drupal website is like a house built out of legos — just like legos fit together to create something (a working door, a roof, etc.)

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