Bag of Tricks – NewsGuard
Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task even for experienced reference librarians. …
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.
Essential Website UX to Improve Relevance, Value and Accessibility
This is a guest post by Tiffany Clendenin, Operations Manager at Broomfield Library. On a recent UX panel at CALCON, …
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 …
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.
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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 …
Library Linked Data
Why do libraries have catalogs? If you work in libraries the answer seems obvious: we have catalogs because our patrons …
Free online resources
The web abounds with resources for learning, productivity, and sharing. Here are some of our favorite free online tools—this is by …
What Makes Something “Usable”?
The Web can be frustrating to use these days. Videos and animated GIFs start playing automatically; your cursor movements trigger …
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.
Where to start if you’re a technology beginner
It probably happened slowly. While you were busy with the demands of daily life, the world of technology grew around …