The call for participants is up for Five Weeks to a Social Library. Y’all come.
See how pretty the site is? Yes, well, we didn’t do that. The planning committee, that is. I was all ready to dive in and make yet another of my square boring blocky two-d non-lickable 1.0 site layouts, but…
But a library-school student named Heather Yager sent us an email asking if she could give us a hand. We took one look at her elegant portfolio site and said “Yes, please!”
Since Heather hasn’t bragged on her own work (I looked!), I’m going to brag on it for her. It’s darn good-looking stuff. Within the limits of the Drupal template she worked from, it’s well-coded stuff, too (despite my well-known unfondness for table layouts). And Heather did this in less than a month, on top of a full course load plus whatever else she’s doing.
She has been a joy to work with; I can say this with authority, as I’ve had the most contact with her of the planning committee. She is smart, highly technically proficient, articulate in writing, self-reliant, and invariably pleasant.
And what’s more, Heather took the initiative to contact us and volunteer her services. I admire that. A lot. And as soon as Heather goes on the job market, I will happily write as many recommendation letters and field as many phone calls as she needs me to. (I’m guessing that won’t be many. She’ll get snapped up fast.)
Library-school students could do far, far worse than try to emulate Heather Yager. I confidently predict she will be an excellent librarian.
