PDFs and Website Accessibility – Part 2
Does your website have links to download PDF documents? Do you make a really sweet looking event calendar and upload …
Technology
Short guides on ways new technology can help your professional development, improve your teaching, improve accessibility to your resources, improve your library, and help keep you organized.
Website Accessibility
Accessibility… sometimes when I talk about accessibility in libraries folks imagine ramps, wide doors and not stocking items on bottom …
Have you been pwned? – Bag of Tricks
Pwned. Yup, it is a word, not a typo. It is a word from an informal language used on the …
Ransomware – Bag of Tricks
The other day a friend of mine who is the director of a small rural library in another state emailed …
Games For Change – Bag of Tricks
I have always been a video game player, way back since Pong, Asteroids, and Pacman as a matter of fact. …
Fighting Summer Slide – Bag of Tricks
Ah, summer… it is a busy time for libraries! Between the Summer Reading Program and the extra kids utilizing the …
Soup, well, TechSoup in the Bag of Tricks
Budgeting, finding the right solution, finding the person with the expertise to help, having the hardware, creating the plan…these are …
What was there? – Bag of tricks
I am amazed by the speed at which technology develops. I really am. New developments in capacity, speed, and materials …
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 phone when you called. I …
Making a habit of Habitica – Bag of Tricks
Habitica is an online task management application that, as its name implies, helps you build habits, end bad habits, and …
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 wuv”. While the Children’s Librarian …
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 …
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 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. …