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Kieran Hixon

Library Trustees, Resource Sharing

Eliminating Fines FAQs

Want to eliminate fines at your library but have questions? You’re not alone! Here are some frequently asked questions about eliminating fines and research-based answers.

Kieran Hixon, March 26, 2019
Technology

Adobe Spark – Bag of Tricks

  Check out the video (above) for information on Adobe Spark. It can be a…

Kieran Hixon, March 12, 2019
Technology

Big Huge Labs & Valentine’s Day – Bag of Tricks

Valentine’s Day, LOVE, or as the quote in the movie Princess Bride goes, “tweasure your…

Kieran Hixon, February 13, 2019
Technology

Data Visualization – Bag of Tricks

Ah January, the season of snow and reports! Often January is a month of getting…

Kieran Hixon, January 29, 2019
Technology

Photo Editing – Bag of Tricks

I do a bit of photo editing for websites and I have used a program…

Kieran Hixon, January 15, 2019
Technology

IFTTT – Bag of Tricks

Have you heard the phrase, “the internet of things”? The Internet of Things is the…

Kieran Hixon, January 1, 2019
Technology

Storybird – Bag of Tricks

The other day, my 12 year old niece sent me a pdf of a story…

Kieran Hixon, December 18, 2018
Technology

Broadband – Bag of Tricks

The internet is quite the thing. Since I have been alive, the internet has not…

Kieran Hixon, December 4, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Money, Money, Money.

Basic financial literacy can be a great topic for a library program or class. But…

Kieran Hixon, November 20, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – NewsGuard

Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task…

Kieran Hixon, November 13, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Windows 10 Troubleshooting

Ah, the Windows operating system — I love it, I hate it, and when they…

Kieran Hixon, November 6, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Toward Gigabit Libraries

Have you ever noticed that everything on the internet runs slower after 3 pm when…

Kieran Hixon, October 29, 2018
Technology

ALA Annual Conference – Part 1

This year the American Library Association (ALA) met in New Orleans. It was quite the…

Kieran Hixon, August 14, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Metaverse

“Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that…

Kieran Hixon, July 25, 2018
Technology

Libraries, Technology, and Disaster

Before I got the call from dispatch telling me we were under a pre-evacuation notice,…

Kieran Hixon, July 3, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Padlet

Here’s an example of a question you might encounter at the library: “My niece is…

Kieran Hixon, June 19, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Files Conversion & Charts

Picture this request from a patron: “Excuse me, I am looking for information on Excel….

Kieran Hixon, June 5, 2018
Technology

Technology and the Really Bad Day

Does this sound familiar… You open the library and turn on the lights. Overnight, half…

Kieran Hixon, May 7, 2018
Learning

A Movie, the Homeless and Public Libraries

When I read a description of a movie that starts, “The story revolves around the…

Kieran Hixon, December 8, 2017
Technology

Free Online Tools

Free online tools that you or your patrons can use to get things done in…

Kieran Hixon, May 12, 2016
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