text: When these three colors are added in different proportions, for instance on a TV screen, we can obtain any other color we desire.
  When absorbing pigments of these three colors are added in different proportions, for instance on a painting, we can obtain any other desired color.
  The above is a work in progress. This is our third year of using Evanced’s Summer Reading software. What I’ve done so far is clone last year’s site and then made adjustments for this one. You can view last year’s theme below. I was in the process of starting to dismantle its interior when I remembered to take the screenshot. So forgive the out of alignment aspects.
  Regarding this year’s theater design, I wanted to have a curtain that could be lifted with a click of a button. Alas, it was not meant to be. I could probably have done it if I had full control over the site. Unfortunately, it’s table-based and all I can do is some CSS manipulation. Below is what I believe is this year’s default theme.
  I’m having trouble with our design because it’s breaking in Firefox. I’ve tested it in multiple other browsers (including IE) and it looks on fleek. Firefox has been my nemesis for years in this regards. However, I am using Firefox’s 3D model of the divs to help me pinpoint the different parts of the page are on the site. I’ve completely swapped the original two columns so it can get confusing. Also there isn’t a master stylesheet but approximately 50 tiny ones.
  While searching for a library job, I subscribed to a number of RSS feeds, mailing lists, and followed accounts on Twitter. This list is geared towards academic/digital libraries since that was the job I was looking for. As I receive more email listings, I will update this post with other locations that I forgot to add. The sites are listed in no particular order.
  ALA JobLIST (you can set up specific RSS feeds and get weekly emails with jobs that match your interests)
  Sorry for being late posting these. There isn’t much content since we only had half an hour to talk after the site visit. The visit to the Hodges Special Collection and University Archives kept us busy though!
  While working at the digitalization internship today, I was describing the contents of an 1893 literary society group at the State Normal and Industrial School (what would later become UNCG). These girls, 117 years ago, had a initiative ritual which involves branding a cow in the face with the letter “C” while chanting in Latin.
  Other highlights from their constitution involved fining girls for speaking or writing out of turn and making them sign the constitution while swearing oaths of loyalty and secrecy. The log of their minutes reveals that they were in a heated fight with the other literary society. First, they tried to suck up to the school’s president by naming their society after him. He thought it was nice at first and then got crept out and made them change it. Second, members were expected to stalk and harass new students and members of the faculty into joining their group and not the other one. In fact, they petitioned the school to implement a strict rule that students couldn’t change from one literary group to another. Once they had made their choice, that was it.
  Once the constitution and minutes are posted online I’ll add some links to this post. In the meantime, check out the Beyond Books and Buildings. These are the plain, boring version which I’ve converted to PDFs (some OCRed) and am now writing metadata about them in CONTENTdm. Ah, that reminds me, the other programs I’m using in conjugation with CONTENTdm are Photoshop and Adobe Bridge. Previously, I had only ever heard of Photoshop, so it feels pretty good to be learning some other programs to use with my work this summer.
  This is jam packed with great links, features, and other tips on what you need to know to get involved with social librarianship.
  LISNPN is a network for New Professionals in the Library and Information sector. This is a place to get help, advice, guidance and information, for people working in the library sector. Most importantly, it’s chance to discuss stuff with other New Professionals.
  I’ve been holding this article open in my tab browsers for awhile. The author references Tony Hirst’s workshop where I found the following question interesting and not discussed about in my classes so far:
  Should the Library be able to help researchers develop their online profiles/reputations within online environments? If so, how? If not, why not?
  So far my classes have only been approaching libraries from a traditional approach of spitting out either quick reference answers, making up bibliographies, or pointing people in the direction to find materials. We haven’t began thinking outside the box of how to help researchers become engaged in finding each other. Honestly, this was something I hadn’t even thought about. I’ve been reading several Social Media books (like Social Media 101 and Friends With Benefits) but mostly from the perspective of how can I improve the websites I’m working on presence in the social networking world. I’m taking a library marketing class this fall, but I wonder if my professor even has a good grasp on the importance of making libraries socially engaging online yet.
  I got word today that we’ve been given a green light to go ahead and obtain the new web server for work. With the progress I’ve made on the Drupal website, I’m hoping we can go into Beta by this weekend! Yesterday, I put in 8 hours to finish getting the international translations working, sprucing up the forums, and getting some of the kinks out of the ICL Classes Database. I even got personal contact forms working. So, needless to say, I’m feeling very positive about how this project is going now.
  Today, I started my digitalization internship. I was fangirling the Espon ridiculously awesome scanner (price tag: $2,866.49) as I scanned in some theater happenings catalogs from 1969, 1977, and 2006 to turn into PDFs. I’m not 100% certain I did it absolutely right, but this isn’t archival quality so it didn’t matter as much if I was 110% or not. Tomorrow I’m bringing in my own mouse and a pillow since their mouse is too big and the chair is hard as a rock.
  I also picked up some more library books so I’m excited all the way around. I’ll be getting offline in a few minutes to go read some books since I’m worn out of looking at a computer screen.
  When I was 14 years old, I was one of those people who, like the oft-repeated cliche, would listen to John Peel in bed most weekday evenings (I would be in bed, I mean – he was presumably in a radio studio). It was only a matter of time before I was exposed to The Fall, famously Peel’s favourite band, who have doggedly been led by Mark E. Smith, with his trademark stream of consciousness spoken word delivery for nearly 40 years.
  1984 saw the band make their eighth album, and the second with guitarist Brix Smith, who had joined the band the previous year and brought a pop sensibility to The Fall’s uncompromising sound. This addition did not necessarily go down well with all Fall fans but for me, the mid to late 80s Brix years are definitely The Fall’s golden period, with the classic line up of the band also including Karl Burns (drums), Stephen Hanley (bass), Paul Hanley (also drums!) and Craig Scanlon (guitar).
  The Wonderful and Frightening World… followed hot on the heels of two really commercial (for them!) singles, ‘Oh! Brother’ and ‘C.R.E.E.P.’ Having heard these two pop-tastic singles, I was starting to get hooked, and when I saw The Wonderful and Frightening World… in Birmingham’s (now sadly long-gone) Cyclops Records for £4.40, I had to have it. After a never-ending bus ride home, I practically danced into my bedroom and excitedly put the needle onto Side One.
  What I wasn’t expecting was a man who sounded like hippy Neil from then-popular TV show ‘The Young Ones’ talking over a chanted background of ‘Lay, lay, lay, lay…’. ‘Armageddon…’ intoned ‘Neil’, ‘…This beautiful tree…’ At this point, I honestly thought that I had a mis-pressing on my hands, this surely couldn’t be The Fall? As this went through my mind, though, the hippyisms dissolved and The Fall came clattering in to complete the rest of ‘Lay Of The Land’ in their trademark no-nonsense manner. ‘2 by 4’ came next…goodness, no sign of light yet, another all-out anti-pop bludgeoning for the ears. ‘Gonna hit him on the head, with a 2 by 4’ came the vocal that described quite accurately the way I was feeling on that first listen.
  ‘Hmmm, is anything like ‘Oh! Brother’ or ‘C.R.E.E.P’ on the horizon?’ I wondered to myself. Well…no. Next up was ‘Copped It’, featuring the wonderful (and frightening) Gavin Friday from Virgin Prunes, who adds a deranged backing vocal to Mark E. Smith’s barking lead. If anything, the songs were getting less accessible as the album progressed. Friday is described in Mark E. Smith’s sleeve notes as ‘a friendly visitor’, rather than the provider of backing vocals.
  And all this before track four, and Side One’s closer ‘Elves’, which is a close cousin of The Stooges‘ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, while simultaneously making that song sound like Abba in comparison.
  The main thought going through my mind by this stage was ‘I wonder if I could get my money back from Cyclops’, but I turned the record over, sadly noting the lack of both ‘Oh! Brother’ and ‘C.R.E.E.P.’ from the album’s track list.
  Side Two began with ‘Slang King’ and with it a definite lightening in the mood; the nearest song I had heard to my beloved ‘C.R.E.E.P.’ so far. ‘Bug Day’ then throws a curve ball, easily the gentlest song on the album, with quite an ambient sound to it with Smith’s (Mark E., that is) vocals sitting atop a soothingly repetitive bass line and various found sounds.
  ‘Stephen Song’ was instantly my favourite track on the album, with more unhinged backing vocals from Friday, as well as Brix Smith and a totally addictive hook running all the way through it. ‘Craigness’ and the brilliant ‘Disney’s Dream Debased’ carry the relatively lighter, more tuneful tone through the remainder of Side Two.
  ‘Well, maybe it isn’t too bad’, I thought, as the needle returned at the end of the second half. I stuck with it and gradually it took hold in my brain – those amazing Stephen Hanley bass lines, those Brix Smith guitar parts and backing vocals, the amazing Mr Friday and of course, at the front of it all, Mark E. Smith. I bought the two ‘missing’ singles and my Fall collection was beginning to take shape.
  Little did I know that I would go on to buy what seems like another hundred Fall albums over the next few decades. If I had had Spotify and not invested a good week and a half of my 14 year old’s income on this record, I probably wouldn’t have made it to the end of track two. Just goes to show, eh?
  The album cover is a complete lesson in Fall-ness; like all the Fall records from this period, it features superb artwork by Claus Castenskiold and various annotations from Mark E. Smith – for instance, there is a description / comment under each song title, such as the one under ‘2 by 4’ that reads ‘Into our midst came fiend…into our midst came friend. Stomachs gnawed as track of fame debuted on KGB pantomime TV show one Friday. Boh’. Well, quite.
  Incidentally, when a CD version of the album appeared for the first time in 1988, it included ‘C.R.E.E.P.’ and ‘Oh! Brother’ as well as their attendant B-sides, a lot of them in the middle between ‘Side One’ and ‘Side Two’, thus making for a very different listening experience. It is funny to think that by now, more people are probably used to that being the actual album track listing, than the original nine-track vinyl release. The CD also added the wonderful Call For Escape Route E.P. which came just after the album’s release, and included the priceless ‘No Bulbs’, which could very well be the best thing that The Fall have ever recorded (so far!).
  1984 was a very good year for The Fall and if you have never heard this album, I urge you to give it fourteen listens and then decide whether you like it or not, just like my 14-year old self.