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Too Many Tab Tuesday – Library Edition
If You Could Redesign Any Aspect of Your Library, What Would You Do? (Reddit) Annoying Things Library Patrons Do/Say (LibraryThing) One Hundred Zeroes – ongoing updated list of Amazon bestseller e-books available for free Book Burning Party To Save a Library – this story and video made the rounds of the biblioblog/FB/Twitter-sphere awhile ago saying […]
Friday Fun Link – Good News Round-Up!
It’s been a pretty good news week for me. Week started with news that some long-awaited Assistive Technology I’d ordered at work had finally arrived. At the risk of being a “vague-booker” (er, “vague-blogger”) by hinting at things I can’t actually openly discuss right now, later in the week, I got a couple awesome pieces of […]
The Generosity Strategy
WordPress’s founder talks about the approach of giving away everything to do with your product in the hopes that you gain market share as well as making profit by sharing premium versions of your products. Other than that upselling part, kinda sounds like libraries, doesn’t it?
iDevices and the Visually Impaired
I think I may have posted at least one of these links before but here’s a collection of a few cool stories about how iDevices (iPhones & iPads) have out-of-the-box accessibility features and add-on apps that are changing the lives of visually impaired people in majorly significant ways (that second story about how a new […]
Friday Fun Link – Save a Library By Burning Books?
Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)
Shit Sighted People Say To Blind People
I try to keep this video in mind as I go about my work in the Outreach Unit at Regina Public Library. (Actually, the guy who made this video has a whole series that are worth checking out to get a humourous take on life as a blind person.)
Friday Fun Link – Watch Books Being Bought Live and Worldwide
Pretty cool site that shows books as they’re bought around the world – hard to look away!
Saturday Snap – Customer Service
Often times, working in libraries means you’re getting abused – by patrons who are mad that you won’t waive their hundreds of dollars in fines or pissed that you won’t give them unlimited guest passes on the Internet or that you don’t know the name of that book that they want to read “that’s blue”. […]
Friday Fun Link – Library CKI/CKO Simulator
This simulator doesn’t work quite as well as you’d hope but it’s a library check-in/check-out simulator that’s intended to help you figure out how long you have to wait until a book you have on hold comes in. I found this simulator on a MetaFilter thread where a patron was asking exactly that question – […]