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We've been busy at my library! Our huge RFID/Self-check/Carpeting project is pretty much done - yippie! How did we connect with our community while our building was closed? Through media: local news media and social media channels. Here are … [Continue reading]
I use a Macbook Pro at home and when I travel to speaking engagements. Once in awhile, when the library's IT person discovers I use a Mac, he/she says "make sure you bring your vga adapter." And I always do. Recently when that happened, it made … [Continue reading]
So my library is closed today. We're closed from May 1-5 to do a couple of tiny little projects, like: RFID tag almost 500,000 items Install 11 new self-check machines throughout the building retrofit our automated material handler for RFID … [Continue reading]
Awhile back, Joyce Valenza, an assistant professor at Rutgers University (she blogs here and tweets here), asked me and a bunch of others to contribute content on the importance for a librarian to develop "social capital." Joyce defined "social … [Continue reading]
I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile now, and was recently reminded of it through a post on the ALA Think Tank Facebook Group (have you joined yet? Good stuff there). The discussion at ALA Think Tank was about using copy machines to do … [Continue reading]