Did you figure out who we were referring to in our last post? It’s Juliana Perry! 1) What is your name? Juliana Perry 2) When did you work for Team Awesome? August 2007- October 2009 3) ITD or Help Desk? Mostly ITD, with a weekly Help Desk shift when we were doing those, and I read more »

Can you guess who this is? It’s former Team Awesome member, Elizabeth (Edwards) Beers along with another Team Awesome alum, Shane Beers! We thought it would be fun to include feature past members on this blog as well, especially after the response we got when we introduced our 2010-2011 Team Awesome crew. So, I present read more »

Many years ago I was not a geeky ITD GA who went around trying to fix technology problems here at GSLIS…  I was simply a geeky High School student who loved to play with computers.  I remember begging my mom and dad to get us a new family computer.  The new Powermac G4 towers were read more »

Ever wonder who is moderating your LEEP class? Or who sets up your conference calls? Or maybe you’re just wondering who all these awesome (and extremely good looking) people are on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the GSLIS building. Well you’re in luck – it’s the Team Awesome blog edition! So who is Team read more »

Zotero is an amazing research tool well known to librarians. It, however, is not perfect. The University of Illinois Main Library knows from testing that the Zotero Firefox plug-ins automatic proxying feature sometimes erroneously decides to attempt to proxy the library home page (or any www.library.illinois.edu page) in basically an endless loop when trying to use it from read more »