Mardi Gras + pictures

I've put the hours for Mardi Gras break on the home page.

Also, here some some possible candidates for new home page pictures:
http://www.ulm.edu/~niemla/gggg/new-pics/

myULM, Home page, mobile apps

a)
A link to the Library is now on the Students' myULM page, and I've mentioned this on the home page because we haven't had much new news to report in a while.

b)
We might be able to get access to Gale's mobile reference apps, and I'll post them on the website as soon as we can confirm that it actually works. ML is the only person I know of with mobile access at this time.

If anyone else wants to try it (for Apple and Android) here is the main page link, which has a barcode you can scan, if yours does that:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/apps/aml/CollegeStudent/#

c)
Tomorrow I plan to borrow special collections' camera, which CR has kindly lent out, and take some hopefully better pictures for the home page.

New off-campus page

The off-campus access page has been re-done to include a video, and I did some tidying:
http://www.ulm.edu/library/offcampus.html

site changes + YouTube

a)
The task of adding a link to the off-campus page with the various DB pages is complete, as far as I can tell. Each DB page should have a link that says Off-Campus Instructions here

b)
LOUISLibraries has a YouTube account now: youtube.com/louislibraries
So I've added their video to favorites and sent friend request, to do the Web 2.0 connection thing. Do let me know if that's not a good idea.

c)
ULM has changed its site-wide favicon. However, when this happened, it somehow affect the catalog, which is now showing LOUIS' logo and not ours:
https://ulm.louislibraries.org:6803/uhtbin/cgisirsi/zUuvd2lTqY/ULM/81930015/60/69/X
I really don't remember if it ever had our favicon before, but the Blue LA state is new. I don't want to change it, though-- LOUIS needs all the PR it can get. Users won't be confused by that favicon being there. Or will they?

No underlined footers

I recently changed the site's CSS files for sub-pages so that the links in the footer do not have lines under them (I went ahead with that because that's how it is on the home page, and it should be consistent).

I've asked the ULMLWPC about other changes to the site; if you're a member and you missed that email, let me know and I'll re-send it.

weather messages + pictures

Last week and this week, the hours were updated to show university closings.

I am thinking again of putting in some new pictures for the home page and removing others. I've talked about that before, but this time I will do it. I'll show the committee all the picture I want to use before I use them, and I'm open to suggestions.

EDIT:
Now things are back to normal. --Fri, Feb 11

Hours + newletter

I've adjusted the hours to Spring, and put up the new Spring Schedule & Dept. hours. The Spring 2011 Special Collections newsletter has also been added.