Postcards from the Cracker Coast

There’s an article on the American Libraries website, “10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Implement Next week.” These ideas are easy enough for even your less techie staff. I like no.4, develop a technology skills list for staff. After creating your competencies list, let PLAN know what training we can provide to [...]

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I know many of you subscribe to a number of library related blogs. Have you ever considered blogs from other areas of interest? This post from Blogging Tips provides a list of 101 blogs that may assist you with your own blogging among other things. The list is organized by topics which [...]

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Google announced yesterday that they plan to launch their own Operating system called Google Chrome OS in 2010.  They said it will be targeted towards Netbook computers at first.  It will be based on a Linux kernel with a new GUI interface created by the team at Google.  There are many free Linux based OS [...]

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One of my favorite sessions from Monday was by Sarah Houghton-Jan from San Jose Public Library. She gave a great presentation on how to help underfunded libraries use 2.0 web services.  You can check out her whole presentation on (www.librarianinblack.net).  Here are a list of tools I thought would be very useful for some our members.
www.EngagedPatrons.org  – They [...]

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I have found a nice image and photo editing software for computers that run windows.  It has many features like layers, special effects and tools similar to version of other very popular imaging editing software. (Photoshop, Paint Shop PRO, etc). The best feature is that it is Free!  If you are on a budget like most of us [...]

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