Tiny Tech

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/regina

Handouts & Files

• The Mayor of Everywhere - HTML slides and links
• Tiny Tech Slides - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Tiny Tech

• CitizenTube
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• GROW Model of problem solving [goal, reality, obstacles/options, way forward]
• Mapbuilder
• READ Posters from SJCPLS.
• SJCPLS website & Library Elf page & other videos on YouTube
• Flagler College instructional videos on YouTube
• FCLA status page
• Flagler oral history project
• Extended Firefox information
• UManitoba LibX toolbar & Regina Public's
• Google for Domains
• Other good examples on the Library Success Wiki
• Simmons digitization & Greenstone
• DIY Book Scanner & instructions, Book Liberator instructions

Free Things

• Web 2.0 Freebies
• Dreamhost free hosting
• Flickr for Good
• Video hosting: YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, Facebook
• Blogging software: Wordpress, Movable Type, Blogger, Twitter
• Cheapie "digitzation"
• Turning RSS into: email, a box on your website, a widget
• Making a calendar with an RSS feed - RSS calendar
• How to help someone use a computer pamphlet
• Further suggestions: Library Tech Talk, LibSuccess, Web4Lib mailing list

Small Usability Steps You Can Take

• Convert uneccessary PDFs
• Add images & personality
• Reach out in multiple ways, overlap is okay
• Track connections you make
• Use clear language, especially for new tools
• Find ways to take control of your own technology
• Make use of free tools to further the library's mission
• Use technology to reflect the community back to themselves, have them helping you
• Give patrons a chance to be better patrons: email updates, interacting when the library is closed, being tech-mentors for other patrons.