Stuff Online and in a Box! – CSL Kits – Bag of Tricks
Generally my Bag of Tricks series concentrates on online tools you can use in some…
Kieran Hixon
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.
Adobe Spark – Bag of Tricks
Check out the video (above) for information on Adobe Spark. It can be a…
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…
Data Visualization – Bag of Tricks
Ah January, the season of snow and reports! Often January is a month of getting…
Photo Editing – Bag of Tricks
I do a bit of photo editing for websites and I have used a program…
IFTTT – Bag of Tricks
Have you heard the phrase, “the internet of things”? The Internet of Things is the…
Storybird – Bag of Tricks
The other day, my 12 year old niece sent me a pdf of a story…
Broadband – Bag of Tricks
The internet is quite the thing. Since I have been alive, the internet has not…
Bag of Tricks – Money, Money, Money.
Basic financial literacy can be a great topic for a library program or class. But…
Bag of Tricks – NewsGuard
Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task…
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…
Bag of Tricks – Toward Gigabit Libraries
Have you ever noticed that everything on the internet runs slower after 3 pm when…
ALA Annual Conference – Part 1
This year the American Library Association (ALA) met in New Orleans. It was quite the…
Bag of Tricks – Metaverse
“Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that…
Libraries, Technology, and Disaster
Before I got the call from dispatch telling me we were under a pre-evacuation notice,…
Bag of Tricks – Padlet
Here’s an example of a question you might encounter at the library: “My niece is…
Bag of Tricks – Files Conversion & Charts
Picture this request from a patron: “Excuse me, I am looking for information on Excel….
Technology and the Really Bad Day
Does this sound familiar… You open the library and turn on the lights. Overnight, half…
A Movie, the Homeless and Public Libraries
When I read a description of a movie that starts, “The story revolves around the…