Website Accessibility
Accessibility… sometimes when I talk about accessibility in libraries folks imagine ramps, wide doors and…
Technology
Have you been pwned? – Bag of Tricks
Pwned. Yup, it is a word, not a typo. It is a word from an…
Ransomware – Bag of Tricks
The other day a friend of mine who is the director of a small rural…
Games For Change – Bag of Tricks
I have always been a video game player, way back since Pong, Asteroids, and Pacman…
Fighting Summer Slide – Bag of Tricks
Ah, summer… it is a busy time for libraries! Between the Summer Reading Program and…
Soup, well, TechSoup in the Bag of Tricks
Budgeting, finding the right solution, finding the person with the expertise to help, having the…
What was there? – Bag of tricks
I am amazed by the speed at which technology develops. I really am. New developments…
Oral Histories and Audio recording – Bag of Tricks
I saw a meme the other day that said, “I’m sorry I didn’t answer my…
Making a habit of Habitica – Bag of Tricks
Habitica is an online task management application that, as its name implies, helps you build…
The Only Diagramming Tool You’ll Ever Need (And It’s Free!)
draw.io is an outstanding diagramming tool that works online or offline, and is completely free and open-source.
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…
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…