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 wuv”. While the Children’s Librarian …
Kieran Hixon
Data Visualization – Bag of Tricks
Ah January, the season of snow and reports! Often January is a month of getting your taxes together, making reports …
Photo Editing – Bag of Tricks
I do a bit of photo editing for websites and I have used a program called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation …
IFTTT – Bag of Tricks
Have you heard the phrase, “the internet of things”? The Internet of Things is the network of devices, vehicles, and …
Storybird – Bag of Tricks
The other day, my 12 year old niece sent me a pdf of a story she wrote. 100 typed pages. …
Broadband – Bag of Tricks
The internet is quite the thing. Since I have been alive, the internet has not only come into being but …
Bag of Tricks – Money, Money, Money.
Basic financial literacy can be a great topic for a library program or class. But sometimes it can be intimidating …
Bag of Tricks – NewsGuard
Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task even for experienced reference librarians. …
Bag of Tricks – Metaverse
“Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that reside in the real-world are …
Libraries, Technology, and Disaster
Before I got the call from dispatch telling me we were under a pre-evacuation notice, I was standing in the …
Bag of Tricks – Files Conversion & Charts
Picture this request from a patron: “Excuse me, I am looking for information on Excel. I have the file on …
Customer Service, Policy, and Technology: The Library Trifecta
We talk a lot about technology and libraries, and rightfully so. For decades, technology has been one of the most …
How and where to get free images for your website
Sites to go to for free, high-quality images that you can use on your website without worrying about any copyright issues.