ALA Ramping Up for June 2005
Things are getting ready for ALA 2005. This year held in Chicago. Myself I'm not sure if I'm going. Its local to me--as you know, my undersea lair is in lake michigan--so I don't have to do that whole pay for room and flights bit. Nevertheless, I've looked at the conference schedule and I'm pretty much "meh." I will probably go to some of the outside unofficial stuff, plus the Proquest Bash. It is ironic considering how much work I am putting into the Unoffical wiki. I do give a shout out to Meredith Farkas for creating the thing. I am looking forward to meeting some of the librarians in the real world. If not in sessions then afterwards.
In other news the Curmudgeony Librarian Superstore is going well. I adding some metatags and keywords, but I'm still at the bottom of the rankings for the word "librarian." It kinda sucks, because I used to be the top search for that word. I am guessing that CP messed with the search algorithm, shooting professional(ie shops that pay them money) shops to the top of the ranking. It is becoming more and more clear I have to take the shop pro to survive in the cutthroat world of librarian novelty tee shirts. But is not all gloom and doom. I am working up quite a few new designs to try out. I am hoping to do a "show us your shirt" picture gallery on my home site once the pro shop is done.
Also the Alt.Librarians Webring is going well with a few new member. Only down side a few people have joined but not put up navigation code so that their site with be in the ring. grumble, grumble
In other news the Curmudgeony Librarian Superstore is going well. I adding some metatags and keywords, but I'm still at the bottom of the rankings for the word "librarian." It kinda sucks, because I used to be the top search for that word. I am guessing that CP messed with the search algorithm, shooting professional(ie shops that pay them money) shops to the top of the ranking. It is becoming more and more clear I have to take the shop pro to survive in the cutthroat world of librarian novelty tee shirts. But is not all gloom and doom. I am working up quite a few new designs to try out. I am hoping to do a "show us your shirt" picture gallery on my home site once the pro shop is done.
Also the Alt.Librarians Webring is going well with a few new member. Only down side a few people have joined but not put up navigation code so that their site with be in the ring. grumble, grumble