【正文】 t take me long to wonder how we could incorporate this into Hobbes, and it took even less time for Jed to actually implement this feature. The LibNews tab displays information from RSS feeds, with the name of the feed on the left and the contents of the feed displayed within a box on the right. Database Maintenance (DB Projects) This tab contains links to the administrative modules of five locally created databases.(n3) As with ejournals, records can be added, edited, and deleted, and bulk amounts of data can be imported using delimited files. Bookmarks (Bookmarks on bar beneath the tabs) Since Hobbes displays information based on a librarian39。 and library labels, signs, and graphics. Library Hours Tab (Lib Hours) Hekman Library39。 employee policies。 worth of shifts are displayed at one time, and changes can be made simply by clicking on a librarian39。 any subsequent ejournals that are loaded as part of another collection are not added as unique records, but rather as a holding to the main ejournal record. Initially displayed to the public within a separate database called the Ejournal Locator, we eventually figured out how to import these ejournal records into our online catalog, thereby offering our patrons one place to find all our journals, print or online. Passwords (Passwords): This table contains password records for resources that require login information, such as ejournals, database administrative modules, or database usage statistics. Creating one place for these allows the librarians to easily share this important information. Quotations (Quotes): The HDL home page displays a unique quote each time it is loaded, and each of these quotations is stored in the Quotes database. Additional tables control the message of the day (WebCat motd) that appears in the banner of our online catalog. Reference Desk Tab (RefDesk) The default Hobbes screen for the reference librarians is the RefDesk tab, which displays the tools they use while working at the reference desk. The top half of the screen displays any questions that have been submitted by a patron using the Ask a Librarian Web form. The librarian can choose to immediately answer a question or assign it to another librarian. (See Figure 3.) Statistics for all these questions are internally tabulated and can be accessed in Hobbes39。s AZ Index, so that users can look for, say, the cataloging librarian ? Birthday (so we all know when to expect treats!) ? Access levelThis determines the Hobbes tabs (and tables within the tabs) that each staff member has access to. For example, the circulation manager only has access to the Lib Hours, Minutes, and Lib Resources tabs. AZ Index of this Web site (AZ Index): Entries that appear on the HDL39。s academic departments each have an assigned library liaison. One role of the liaison is to maintain a Web page that highlights library resources that are important to the department, such as databases, microform sets, and reference sets. Each liaison can add Web resources that she considers important for her departments. Staff (Staff): In addition to displaying staff information on the HDL, creating a table of staff members allows each of the librarians to be authenticated into Hobbes. Like Tombs records, the staff record contains many fields that allow them to be used in a variety of ways: ? Login name (based on the college39。s fulltext content, such as journal or newspaper articles, ebooks, or even primary source historical documents ? VendorMost useful for our librarians ? SubjectIn our case, based on the college39。ll briefly explain a number of these before moving on to the functions of the other tabs. Databases (TofDbs): Each research database record stored in a table of databases (Tombs) contains the following fields that allow the resources to be displayed on the HDL in a variety of helpful ways: ? AlphabeticalBased on the first letter。s internal munication needs as well. Over the course of 2 years, we added tools as they were thought of and created, and placed them according to their function under tabs that are strung along the top of the Hobbes environment (see Figure 1). Each librarian is given access to the tabs and tools she needs based on her profile within Hobbes. Here I will describe each tab and some of the major tools (or tables) placed within it. With each description, I have included our label in parentheses to help you pare what you are reading to the screen shots. To see how some of Hobbes39。s existing online directory By authenticating through a continually updated college database of login names and passwords, we did not need to create our own. Users added to the Hobbes environment have immediate access without needing to remember yet another ID and password. As a CMS, I initially envisioned Hobbes as a tool to help me to efficiently manage the library39。s 25 academic departments. Access to all library resources is provided through the online catalog (Sirsi), a digital media archive (Sirsi), and our Web site, the Hekman Digital Library (HDL). Since its creation in 1997, the HDL has grown from a mundane list of links and library information to the primary point of access to all of the library39。s Web site. Like many of you who maintain Web links to library resources, I quickly learned that offering access to a large number of resources from an even larger number of static Web pages can never really be described as efficient or professionally fulfilling. In recent years, many libraries have created dynamic Web sites that are databasedriven, that is, maintained and populated with content stored within what can be loosely termed a content management system (CMS). In 2021, Jed Koops, the Hekman Library systems programmer, and I created a C