Monthly Archives: February 2010

Our First Renovation: A New Calendar Widget

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As we said yesterday, we are off to work on our infrastructure, primarily in the Denham Library whose remarkable collection needs some serious attention, including new acquisitions and standardization of format, not to mention preparation for what will eventually prove to be a massive audio/video collection, some of them genuine rarities not widely seen or heard before.  You’ll be thrilled, once we’ve pulled it all together.  A first batch may appear in the next couple of weeks, as soon as we get them digitized.  You’ll see a second truly overwhelming addition to the collection by summer.

In the meantime, we have added a new Widget to the Menu Column to the right: A calendar for each month we’ve been publishing with all the days of the month live linked to the posts of that particular day.  Hit the link for the day in question and the posts will come up in the reverse order they appeared.  Add to this our Search function at very top of our Menu Column and the Categories function at the very bottom, and you should be able to find yourself targeting posts by any topic, key word, or designated category that catches you interest, as well as their various threads via live links.

Given that we’ve put up more than 400 posts at this point, this may be a good opportunity for many of you new and even regular readers to explore our offerings in any way that makes most sense to you.

So be sure to check out that new Calendar Widget just to your right.

Stepping Back a Little…

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We’ve been around just a little over five months and have put up well over 400 posts.

However, most of that effort has fallen to just a handful of people, and, given the particularly heavy demands this semester upon the daily administrators, this may be a good time to step back a little to let our new byline correspondents and our guest bloggers take the lead.

Since starting out last August, we’ve put up posts at the average rate of about three a day.  We’ve also added (besides Joe Adamson and me) 10 byline correspondents, as well as another handful of regular guest bloggers — not to mention an online Frye journal and the truly remarkable (and always expanding) Denham Library.  We’re pleased to say that the comments we’ve received slightly outpace the posts we’ve put up so far. We’re therefore curious to know what the blog might look like if we let our occasional contributors become the main source of new material.

In the meantime, we’re working very hard behind the scenes to add an extensive audio/visual Frye collection to the library, which will take some time pull together and convert into digital format.  In fact, the project as a whole will probably stretch out into the summer.  But, once this remarkable material is available, it will provide a new dimension to the resources already available.  Beyond that, we are also planning to organize study and resource material for students and teachers alike.  In other words, there’s still much more we intend to do.

We’re here.  We’re for real.  So while you may not see original posts from us on quite so regular a basis, we are hoping to see more of them from you.