Bag of Tricks

Pwned. Yup, it is a word, not a typo. It is a word from an informal language used on the …

The other day a friend of mine who is the director of a small rural library in another state emailed …

I have always been a video game player, way back since Pong, Asteroids, and Pacman as a matter of fact. …

Ah, summer… it is a busy time for libraries! Between the Summer Reading Program and the extra kids utilizing the …

Budgeting, finding the right solution, finding the person with the expertise to help, having the hardware, creating the plan…these are …

I am amazed by the speed at which technology develops. I really am. New developments in capacity, speed, and materials …

Habitica is an online task management application that, as its name implies, helps you build habits, end bad habits, and …

Valentine’s Day, LOVE, or as the quote in the movie Princess Bride goes, “tweasure your wuv”. While the Children’s Librarian …

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

I do a bit of photo editing for websites and I have used a program called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation …

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

The other day, my 12 year old niece sent me a pdf of a story she wrote. 100 typed pages. …

The internet is quite the thing. Since I have been alive, the internet has not only come into being but …

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

Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task even for experienced reference librarians. …

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

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