09 December 2006

A blog is born

Announcing the birth of a new blog: Reference@ Duluth. This is a very special blog, because although it is not actually Dave Lull's blog, it is run by colleagues of his  as representatives of the References and Services division of the Duluth (Minnesota) library -- so I am wondering how much longer Dave's blogospheric activities will be limited to being a "delightful cross pollinator" and owner of a tribute blog.

So far, the categories are Duluth history (rather an alarming proportion of lynchings);  "notable Duluthians" (so far only one but a nice one); and resources (the genealogical meta-database Ancestry). Rock on, Duluth librarians.

A footnote: I know from experience at work that it is hard to make a link out of a string with an "@" sign, because the string wants to turn into an email address. So maybe its name will change to ReferenceATDuluth -- as I wish could happen to websites like news@nature.com and so on. (See, it has tried to turn itself into an email address!) What I did to make the link to Reference@Duluth is to make the link without the @ and add the @ in later. Any better ideas?

9 Dec 2006 20:25:28 | Libraries

3 Comments

Steve Clackson

Dave can't start a blog because then there would be a 'Lull' in the blogosphere :)

Posted by: Steve Clackson | 10 December 2006 at 03:14

kimbofo

LOL at Steve's comment!

Posted by: kimbofo | 10 December 2006 at 15:10

Lynne W. Scanlon

They definitely need to get rid of that "@" symbol. I can't get to the site even when I type the address in, rather than click on the link.

Posted by: Lynne W. Scanlon | 12 December 2006 at 16:56

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