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Have you heard about street pianos? Some cities have taken old upright pianos, refurbished them, had an artist paint them, and have "installed" them in public spaces. The goal? Let anyone who wants to ... play the piano, and share some music - … [Continue reading]
Creating Customer Experience - On the Web, In the Library, In the Community from David King and Social Media for Customer Connections from David King Last week, I spoke at On the Front Lines, a cool conference in Springfield, IL. I said I'd … [Continue reading]
We have an iPad pilot project going on at our library right now. If it goes well, we might expand the project - more iPads, more areas, etc. But for now, here's what we're doing: We have two iPads out in our kid's area - specifically in our … [Continue reading]
My library is in the beginning stages of another website redesign. Our beginning thoughts were simply that we wanted to move to a responsive site design, to help out our mobile website visitors (hitting 20% and growing). Then we realized all that … [Continue reading]
The photo in this post is from a gas station at a local grocery store. They put up a sign at the gas station showing how much money they saved a community via their fuel points program. How cool would that be to use one of those library value … [Continue reading]