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…
Technology
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…
Start Up a U/X Café at Your Library
Is traditional patron feedback not enough to help you make your library’s website amazing and accessible? It’s time to think outside the box and start a U/X Café!
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…
Essential Website UX to Improve Relevance, Value and Accessibility
This is a guest post by Tiffany Clendenin, Operations Manager at Broomfield Library. On a…
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….
Google Analytics Basics: Users, Sessions & Pageviews
If you work with websites at all, you have probably seen reports from Google Analytics…
Performant Art at An Event Apart
A List Apart is one of the pioneering sites for web design, having been at…
Themes from the LITA Forum
The Library and Information Technology Association held their annual conference in Denver this year, and…
Enduring Web Design Mistakes
A new list of common design mistakes in websites shows many kinds of problems have plagued the web for years. Library websites are especially prone to some of these, and librarians should do whatever necessary to fix them.
Some of Our Clients
The State Library’s Website Creation & Hosting service provides websites for a number of library organizations,…
Meet the COLibraries Community
Take a peak at some of our COLibraries clients!