Archive for August, 2007

16th Century Reference Librarians

Posted by Paul Roberts on August 10th, 2007

I posted this about six months ago, but I’ve been too busy to post anything new of late. It’s August at an academic library, folks. Classes at the college started last week. Taught the Graduate Research Seminar this week. Seminary starts next week. Syllabi to prepare for my classes at a local bible college which start the next week. Reserves. Preaching. Sleep.

I’ll try to be more diligent about posting next week — two new books are lay on my desk for the specific purpose of commonplacing. For now, enjoy this rather humorous portrayal of 16th Century IT support, though it works just as well for library reference work:

Popularity: 15% [?]

Commonplaces is 1 Year Old!

Posted by Paul Roberts on August 2nd, 2007

Today marks one year since commonplaces.org started tracking visitors. Some details:

Only 85% of my visitors have been from North America, 61% arrived via another website, and 38% arrived via a search engine. As of about noon today, 7,331 visitors have poked around the site (to the tune of 243,986 hits) from these countries (in order of frequency):

United States
United Kingdom
Canada
South Africa
Australia
Germany
Netherlands
Guatemala
India
Italy
France
Israel
Philippines
Brazil
China
Spain
Japan
Ireland
Finland
Korea, Republic of
Romania
Russian Federation
Malaysia
Mexico
Sweden
Czech Republic
Turkey
Singapore
Egypt
Belgium
Indonesia
Greece
Argentina
Puerto Rico
Thailand
Switzerland
Denmark
Taiwan
Bahamas
Saudi Arabia
Ukraine
Estonia
Peru
Jordan
Malta
Austria
Costa Rica
Morocco
New Zealand
Uruguay
Chile
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
American Samoa
Colombia
Poland
Satellite Provider
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Fiji
Panama
Pakistan
Norway
Venezuela
Latvia
Bulgaria
Sri Lanka
Hungary
Trinidad and Tobago

I’m looking forward to another year of commonplacing, and even considered a new look for the site — but thought better of it.

Popularity: 17% [?]

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