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Computers in Library Patrons

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

The future of library technology is here! SMS services? Facebook apps? iGoogle widgets? Bah! You may as well ask for a steam-powered velocipede! My place of work, the Johnson County Library, is premiering its new technology initiative for patrons: the brain chip! Welcome to Tomorrow. It’s an exciting place.

World in Motion

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Thinking about it some more, I believe my last post was a bit over the top. Yes, I think reading and literacy are important. No, I don’t think playing video games is a substitute for reading. Something pushed my buttons, which prompted me to write that post. I realize now what those buttons were. If [...]

Et in Arcadia Ego

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Steven Cohen links to this piece by Dave Gibson, “Our Public Libraries Are Being Turned Into Video Game Arcades,” in which Gibson laments the increase of video games and movies in public libraries. He sees it as part of the dumbing down of American youth. “It is little wonder that our nation’s literacy rate continues [...]

Faraway, So Close!

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

In my previous post, I said, I need face-to-face interaction and conversation. I need spontaneous gatherings. I need occurrences of random escapades and shenanigans. I can get some of that online (the LSW Meebo room is great for that), but nothing really replaces in-person socialization. Some people may see that as saying I think social [...]

Casting Pods Before Kids

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

The Promotions people at MPOW decided they wanted to offer patrons a free CD of recorded storytimes before Thanksgiving, with the idea that parents could put the CD on and keep the kids entertained during a long car ride to wherever they were having Thanksgiving dinner. Discussion and planning followed, readers were solicited from our [...]

Exploring the Future!

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I heart Shelf Check!

Getting the Library Out of the Library

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

My teammate Amy is a wizard. Today, she added a line of code to our Library homepage so that when you go there, you can add our Library catalog to your IE7 or Firefox search box. Go ahead, try it. I’ll wait here. Back? Good, because there’s more. She also created a widget for your [...]

Responsibly Irresponsible

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

I think this is my very favorite Unshelved of all time. It is so very full of win.

Library 2.0.0.3

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

It’s a funny ol’ world, isn’t it? Just when you think an idea has run its course or become so commonplace that it’s nearly invisible, it comes back into the spotlight, like John Travolta. There seems to have been a resurgence of blog posting and discussion on Library 2.0–what is it? is it meaningful or [...]

Tomorrow’s Playground

Friday, March 16th, 2007

One of the main projects I have at my new place of work is rethinking and redesigning the children’s website. It will be completely different from how it currently is, all new in just about every way. Now, I understand that there are certain expectations for its design and layout, both from our users and [...]

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