Terry Ballard's Professional Web Page

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

Terry Ballard, Quinnipiac University Automation Librarian

My opinions are mine alone, but you may borrow them.

A selection of Innovative Interfaces WebPacs

his page is, and likely will be for some time to come, a work in progress. It is brought to you by Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian at Quinnipiac University . Among the neat things that I've worked on here is the web-based online catalog QCat. I've been in the library field for 40 years now, and in case anybody is wondering, I am the Terry Ballard who was at the Phoenix Public Library for decades. Things have got a lot more interesting since I moved East. Please follow the graphic links below to visit aspects of the cluttered office better known as my life. Welcome!

Survey of users to this page

I see by tracking software that I get 500-600 visits a day to this site, but I hardly ever hear why anyone is looking or if they found what they wanted. I can guess why I get regular visitors from Ireland, but people come from countries that I didn't even know were on the map, and it makes me curious. To that end, I created an online survey that can be taken in about 1 minute. There is no financial incentive or door prize. Just the satisfaction of doing a good deed. Please go HERE, if you want to help.

Answers to survey responders: To the person who asked for pdf's of our etexts, good news. We're working with OCLC to add digital content to Worldcat records, and I soon found out that pdf's were the way to go - about half of the titles are now in Worldcat, and I will likely add this as on option on the regular Quinnipiac etext pages.

To the person who wanted us to spread out the data in the typographical errors page so that everything didn't load at once, the others on the typos team thought this was a good idea, so we broke the lists into separate files. Good going. Another reader suggested a link to the typos page from this main page. Sure thing. The reader who requested the ability to look at the typos in different sizes - We've started making the original documents available, so you can rework them any way you please. To Michael, the Harbor Master from Fenit - it's hard not talking about Tralee Bay.

Over the past 7 years, I've been a member of the "Quinnipiac Breakfast Club," a loose-knit group of professors who get together weekday mornings at 7:15 to solve the world's problems when possible, and otherwise go to work laughing. The ring leader of this was Vinnie Cappetta, who has just retired. A series of pages I did in his honor can be found by starting at faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/vinnie/vinniebb.html.

MY RESUME

QUOTATIONS GALLERY

Here is a strange fact I learned in college.
If you look at the constellation Orion at an angle,
you can see the outline of a Scottie dog.


 

For more of Terry Ballard than most people can stand, visit my complete personal web page at www.terryballard.org

Also, a collection of my photographs from Ireland, New York and everywhere else can be found at Pbase.com

In spite of an overwhelming lack of demand for my daily opinions on matters concerning life on Earth, I've started a Blog at librariansonedge.blogspot.com/, mainly for the experience of the thing.

Praise or criticism can be directed to me at: terry.ballard@quinnipiac.edu.