Category Archives: Technology

Best Free iPhone Apps 0

Here are the slides to a new presentation I created for mpow. There was a fun atmosphere during the class and the attendees seemed really into it. Half of them already had an iPhone or iPod Touch (mostly newer users) and the other half said they were thinking about buying an iPhone/Android phone/Blackberry soon and [...]

Digital Media Librarianship 0

It’s been 7 months since the Digital Media Lab (DML) opened and we’re continuing to see it being used for tons of interesting projects by a wide variety of people. Yesterday, I staffed the DML for 3 hours and just in that time alone I met the following people: a recently retired man interested in [...]

LITA Top Tech Trends PLA 2010 0

Wifi was not working for me so I ended up being a “have-not” at this morning’s Top Tech Trends program. So I typed up notes and here they are! Apologies if I got anything wrong, but there were a lot of ideas being thrown around! Thanks to everyone on the panel. Michael Porter libraries need [...]

Empowering Library Users to Work with Digital Media 0

For the past year and a half I’ve been working on creating a new Digital Media Lab at mpow. We opened the lab a few months and this morning I’m giving a presentation at NSLS about the entire process of getting the lab up and running. My presentation will include the following: What is the [...]

What Does Your Library Say About Your Community? 0

I just watched the video of the librarians behind Awful Library Books appearing on Jimmy Kimmel and thought it was great, but I have to say that I cringed when Kimmel seemed surprised (joke or not) that libraries still exist when we have the almighty Internet to help us. Let’s face it, there are a [...]