Nice news piece about the EPA library closures in Environmental Science & Technology (February 15, 2007):
Closing libraries and destroying documents may sound like the plot line of a dystopian novel, but it is part of a U.S. EPA campaign launched in 2006 to shave $2 million off the agency’s budget for specialized libraries. Many EPA scientists who were contacted by ES&T say that the move will make their jobs harder because of a basic lack of information.
Okay, nice start. I made some minor edits. The intro I added is kinda lame….. but I buried the long url behind “Read the full story…” and made the quote a blockquote.
Let me know if you need a hand on doing that sort of thing.
well that looks so much better!! thanks. I was just trolling through the online wordpress help section. I do not know how to do the “read the full story” link - which I guess was obvious because I cut and pasted the entire link to the online newsletter. I think we’ll get better as we move along, with headlines and introductions that grab everyone’s attention, although scientists protesting library closings certainly grabs my attention. Maybe your intro could read “EPA librarians invited to MLA March 7th webcast - learn to prove your worth” although that would be rather rude to post something like that!!
I forgot to mention that I also do not know how to do the block quote.
Check that you’re using the visual editor (as opposed to the code view). If you don’t see those two tabs at the top of the composition box, go to Users > Your profile and check off “Use the visual editor when writing”
Links:
Select the text you want to make into a hyperlink. Press the link button (looks like a chain link). In the pop-up box, enter the url (you can leave the other fields blank).
Blockquote:
select the text and click the “indent-list/blockquote” button (that’s what the mouse-over text reads).