putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999
My drop-in time work used to be a lot of teaching basic skills. “Here’s how to click. Now here’s how to right-click.” Then for a time it was teaching people about software. “Here’s how a menu works in Microsoft Word.” Then it was more about social media, then mobile phones. Lately it’s still a bit of all of those things, but the major thing I do is something I call “How do I connect this to that?” Continue reading “Connecting this to that”
Remember when your library makes a choice to go with audiobooks from a vendor that supports one platform only, usually PC, you’re not just reflecting the user demographics, you’re also helping create them. What’s not to like about a library service that you can’t use inside the library?
Chris Kupec is a librarian who likes to tinker. I’ve been enjoying his blog. Here is one post where he discusses and describes using a Mac Mini as a reader’s advisory kiosk in his library.