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…
Kieran Hixon
Data Visualization – Bag of Tricks
Ah January, the season of snow and reports! Often January is a month of getting…
Photo Editing – Bag of Tricks
I do a bit of photo editing for websites and I have used a program…
IFTTT – Bag of Tricks
Have you heard the phrase, “the internet of things”? The Internet of Things is the…
Storybird – Bag of Tricks
The other day, my 12 year old niece sent me a pdf of a story…
Broadband – Bag of Tricks
The internet is quite the thing. Since I have been alive, the internet has not…
Bag of Tricks – Money, Money, Money.
Basic financial literacy can be a great topic for a library program or class. But…
Bag of Tricks – NewsGuard
Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task…
Bag of Tricks – The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Windows 10 Troubleshooting
Ah, the Windows operating system — I love it, I hate it, and when they…
Bag of Tricks – Toward Gigabit Libraries
Have you ever noticed that everything on the internet runs slower after 3 pm when…
ALA Annual Conference – Part 1
This year the American Library Association (ALA) met in New Orleans. It was quite the…
Bag of Tricks – Metaverse
“Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that…
Libraries, Technology, and Disaster
Before I got the call from dispatch telling me we were under a pre-evacuation notice,…
Bag of Tricks – Padlet
Here’s an example of a question you might encounter at the library: “My niece is…
Bag of Tricks – Files Conversion & Charts
Picture this request from a patron: “Excuse me, I am looking for information on Excel….
Technology and the Really Bad Day
Does this sound familiar… You open the library and turn on the lights. Overnight, half…
A Movie, the Homeless and Public Libraries
When I read a description of a movie that starts, “The story revolves around the…
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