it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superpatron!
What do you call a library patron who is a tireless library promoter and a technophile to boot? Library fanboy? What if you found out that same library fan was creating little scripts to post-process library catalog content into, say, a display of the book covers of all new nonfiction titles and started his own pro-library blog? I guess you’d call him a Superpatron which is also the new blog by library enthusiast Ed Vielmetti who has been keeping his main blog, Vacuum, pretty much as long as I can remember.
December 31st, 2005 at 10:46
Thanks, it was fun to do. To build a prototype was six lines of code, mostly because the AADL had already done all the hard work by having an RSS feed of new entries w/images in it.
One commenter called it a “bibliotekhack” which was lovely.
January 1st, 2006 at 9:41
Superpatron: Technology Advisory Board & Book Covers
Via Jenny, John Blyberg and Jessamyn: Superpatron is a blog by Edward Vielmetti – check it out! I have followed his blog and discussions about his home library in Ann Arbor for some time. Now, as a library patron he…