Comments on: Internal library staff blogs http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:33:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt Vapor http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-1998 Matt Vapor Wed, 09 May 2007 14:20:05 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-1998 Hi Kathryn, Thanks for the kind words :) Take care Hi Kathryn,

Thanks for the kind words :)

Take care

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Kathryn Greenhill Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:37:22 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-937 Thanks for the link Corey. That does look useful..but as they say "it should be applied with great caution". Are all your staff machines on a separate IP network? Ours kind of are...so we have restricted access to that IP range....which stops the students from seeing our scandalous internal blog :). For machines not in that IP range, we use the .htaccess file to throw up a password screen so they can log in. I did think about just installing the plugin that makes the Wordpress login screen the first page - but then no RSS readers could grab the feed. Thanks for the link Corey. That does look useful..but as they say “it should be applied with great caution”.

Are all your staff machines on a separate IP network? Ours kind of are…so we have restricted access to that IP range….which stops the students from seeing our scandalous internal blog :) . For machines not in that IP range, we use the .htaccess file to throw up a password screen so they can log in.

I did think about just installing the plugin that makes the Wordpress login screen the first page – but then no RSS readers could grab the feed.

]]> By: techxplorer http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-930 techxplorer Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:50:19 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-930 Kathryn, I've been thinking about the IP restricted internal blog issue as well. Here's what I've come up with so far. We, as with probably most libraries, run our own <a href="http://www.usefulutilities.com/" rel="nofollow">EZproxy</a> server. My idea is to treat the blog as a publishers website and use EZproxy to provide off campus access to it. I've done this once before and it worked really well. The sticking point at the time was that EZproxy didn't work so well with RSS feeds. With the introduction of the <a href="http://www.usefulutilities.com/support/cfg/anonymousurl/" rel="nofollow">AnonymousURL</a> configuration directive this wouldn't be the case and you could use any web based RSS reader to aggregate the feed. It would be a little less secure than not providing the service, but if you kept the URL a closed secret it could potentially provide outside access to the blog for minimum risk. Assuming our project here at work gets off the ground I may be looking into setting this up for real and seeing how it works. I'll blog about it if I do. :) Kathryn,

I’ve been thinking about the IP restricted internal blog issue as well. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far. We, as with probably most libraries, run our own EZproxy server. My idea is to treat the blog as a publishers website and use EZproxy to provide off campus access to it.

I’ve done this once before and it worked really well. The sticking point at the time was that EZproxy didn’t work so well with RSS feeds. With the introduction of the AnonymousURL configuration directive this wouldn’t be the case and you could use any web based RSS reader to aggregate the feed.

It would be a little less secure than not providing the service, but if you kept the URL a closed secret it could potentially provide outside access to the blog for minimum risk.

Assuming our project here at work gets off the ground I may be looking into setting this up for real and seeing how it works.

I’ll blog about it if I do. :)

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Kathryn Greenhill Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:19:21 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-842 Hi Matt, Thanks. I checked out your <a href="http://blog.clickonline.org.au/about/" rel="nofollow">CLiCK blog</a>. Recycling PCs looks like a really worthwhile and interesting enterprise. Good on you. Hi Matt, Thanks. I checked out your CLiCK blog. Recycling PCs looks like a really worthwhile and interesting enterprise. Good on you.

]]> By: Matt Vapor http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-841 Matt Vapor Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:38:04 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-841 Gday, I currently work at the Rockingham Library, Just wanted to pop by to say hello! :D Very nice blog! :) Gday, I currently work at the Rockingham Library, Just wanted to pop by to say hello! :D

Very nice blog! :)

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Kathryn Greenhill Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:04:26 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-764 Bonjour Pierre-Yves . Yes- the intranet. This is a problem for us because not all casual staff members have access to it, but that is where most of our procedures are stored. I'm hoping that the guidelines about what we put on the blog, email and intranet will actually come from the staff. Glad you liked the post, good luck with the blog(s) project. Bonjour Pierre-Yves . Yes- the intranet. This is a problem for us because not all casual staff members have access to it, but that is where most of our procedures are stored. I’m hoping that the guidelines about what we put on the blog, email and intranet will actually come from the staff. Glad you liked the post, good luck with the blog(s) project.

]]> By: Pierre-Yves Corbel http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Pierre-Yves Corbel Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:18:47 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/22/internal-library-staff-blogs/#comment-757 Bonjour Kathryn, I agree : won't be so easy to convince co-workers and define the right place for an internal blog between the use of e-mails, the local intranet and the website. I am working on the same type of project in my own archival institution. (Right now we don't even have a regular external blog). I began to work on this external blog project but as days go by, am thinking that an internal blog would also be a great tool. Your post (and links) are a very valuable contribution for this work in progress. Merci. Bonjour Kathryn, I agree : won’t be so easy to convince co-workers and define the right place for an internal blog between the use of e-mails, the local intranet and the website. I am working on the same type of project in my own archival institution. (Right now we don’t even have a regular external blog). I began to work on this external blog project but as days go by, am thinking that an internal blog would also be a great tool. Your post (and links) are a very valuable contribution for this work in progress. Merci.

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