I have worked at a standing desk for a number of years and can attest that it
does help with back problems. There is one thing that you need to factor in
however, is your floor carpeted? I know it may sound trivial but at a previous
institution, I was moved from a carpeted office to a bare tile
I just learned that the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
actually has public walkstations that can be reserved by faculty,
staff, and students. The walkstations are treadmills with
adjustable-height desks.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Nunez, Robert
robert.nu...@marquette.edu wrote:
Former colleges have also attested that using exercise balls instead of
chairs also help.
I was reading recently of a teacher who uses exercise balls for her
elementary school students. That made me wonder about
I don't use one personally, but I know there are people in our library who
have a ball on a little rolling stand - looks something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Gaiam-Balance-Ball-Chair-Black/dp/B0007VB4NE
Hope this helps...
Joe Montibello, MLIS
Library Systems Manager
Dartmouth College
Whether it's Amazon AWS, or Yahoo BOSS, or JournalTOCs, or almost
anything else -- there are a variety of API's that library software
wants to use, which require registering an account to use.
They may or may not be free, sometimes they require a credit card
attached too.
Most of them
The next meeting of the Chicagoland Drupal Group will be Tuesday, March 12 from
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Brian Smith of RAILS will talk about using the Adaptive Image and Flex Slider
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Hi Jonathan,
What we've tried for our Kindles/Nook is sort of working ok, mostly. We
initially set up our account using an institutional credit card (in between
semesters, before the Kindles/Nook were in circulation). We downloaded a
bunch of free books, then took the credit card information off
I've set up email address-based accounts for PayPal and Facebook APIs using
organizational gmail accounts. Our university is picky about not having email
accounts accessible by more than one person (refdesk@mylibrary is a mailing
list/distribution list that can receive email but cannot send
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:11:35AM -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Has anyone found a way to deal with this issue, other than having
each API registered to an account belonging to whatever individual
staff happened to be dealing with it that day?
Thanks for any advice.
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Andy Kohler akoh...@ucla.edu wrote:
I agree with Terry: use a database. Since you're doing multiple queries,
invest the time up front to import your data in a queryable format, with
indexes, instead of repeatedly building comparison files...
Another,
We have a shared email account that we use for these situations. As
well, we have a master account/password list for all of the different
accounts that get created that is in a shared network folder. That
way if someone is out sick or on sabbatical, the information is
available to all of our
There was an interesting blog post in the Times last week about this group and
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We did that all the time at the place we used to work. The business manager
sets up things with a generic email and her contact whatnot as required,
payment is made using the procurement card. In case of changes, you update
the contact person, but the email and account info are otherwise left
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I'm working on a project that takes the ocr data found in a pdf and places it
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I use Python scripts to create the xml file. Something like this (trimmed down
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It sounds like your code isn't recognizing the XML file as UTF-8 (even
though the encoding is correctly marked in your example).
You could try telling the parser explicitly to use UTF-8, like this
parser = XMLParser(encoding=utf-8)
As discussed in
Makes sense, thanks! Although leaving account/password list unencrypted
on a shared drive seems potentially dangerous
On 3/4/2013 1:20 PM, Laura Robbins wrote:
We have a shared email account that we use for these situations. As
well, we have a master account/password list for all of the
On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Whether it's Amazon AWS, or Yahoo BOSS, or JournalTOCs, or almost anything
else -- there are a variety of API's that library software wants to use,
which require registering an account to use.
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Has anyone
The Integrated Library System (ILS) Administrator - CVL is responsible for
development, implementation, support and administration of the Chattahoochee
Valley Libraries' (CVL) integrated library system, currently Polaris,
supporting a variety of services including: acquisitions, serials,
There is one generic email address for the library I work for. That goes
to the business manager who processes bills, etc. I usually put the
contact email as my work email when I am first setting a service up and
will be getting lots of email confirmations, etc. Then, when I am done
configuring
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