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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.
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. …
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 …