I have been working on a library website redesign lately at work. It’s different designing for a more rural and less online population. You need to underline links and have much clearer navigation than you would in, say, Seattle. I have been reading up on the habits of the barely-online. In 2000, half of all adults in the US were not online. As of this month, that number is now 63%.
Category: ‘puters
click on “librarian”
If you like goofy flash animation, click on “librarian“. [thanks simon]
e-rate undergoing some changes
The FCC has made some changes to the e-rate program to prohibit schools from buying computers cheaply and selling them to wealthier schools to make a profit. You can read about it on their website but you’ll need Word or Acrobat.
cartoon
Do you think you’d really like it if your library were more like Amazon.com?[thanks rus]
technolibraries
Those smarties at MIT are finding ways to share music without either breaking the law or paying through the nose for individual copies of all the music. The secret? Cable TV. Meet LAMP the Libraries Access to Music Project. [nyt, thanks lisa]