HTML fun

I mentioned before that I work/intern at a community college library. Well over the last couple of weeks a TON of books from the stacks have been discarded and placed in the book sale area. I was a bit bored so I started to browse the selection. I came across a book on html from 2007 that was written by the author of our textbook, Shelly Cashman? I was so excited because I found it looked a little bit more user friendly and beginners oriented than the other HTML book we were required to get. So after lunch, I started to do some reading as I could not handle anything else related to my current read in my museum archives course. For the first time ever, I actually started to make sense of HTML markup and its purpose. I was so proud of myself. I started to have big dreams about possibly designing my wedding website (yes, still waiting on ring though) until that dream buuble was burst at exactly 4:15 this afternoon. On the way home, I told my boyfriend about what I had been up to and we got to talking about bold tags. Well he informed me that what I was describing to him isn't done anymore (all that learning for naught). He proceeded to tell me that they use style sheets now for that kind of stuff. So I felt knowledgable on HTML for a grand total of 2 some hours :( Bummer. Big time.

I will say that I am majorly freaking out about the bleak job market here for library sci persons. It's nice that so many people come to Pittsburgh for the program but then they don't leave lol :( It's a bit disheartening because then there are that many people to compete with for jobs that are already few and far in the first place. That's why I feel I really need to learn a programming language, something, to make me a bit more marketable to prospective employers. Anyone can have the library sci knowledge, I'd also like to have technical enough info sci knowledge. I am registered to take information architecture in the fall so that should be good. I hope to get the eprints assignment done either tomorrow or Friday so I'll let you all know how that goes in my last post for the week.

Happy dreary and rainy Wednesday.