Tech Net 2011

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/ntrls

Handouts & Files

• Tiny Tech/High Tech - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format
• On the Fly Tech Support - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format, handouts (pdf, online)

Links

On the Fly Tech Support

• Salon "library of the future" article
• How to update software: windows (from IE), mac
• Wikipedia on User Personas
• Assessing and Managing Technostress by Richard A. Hudiburg, old article but good advice
• Technostress in Libraries by John Kupersmith
• JFGI (possible NSFW URL)
• The story of the Fail Whale
• MS Word: "Use the ribbon", info about docx

Tiny Tech

• Tunbridge Public Library website
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• Texas technology adoption facts
• Pew Research Center's reports & August 2010 report about adoption slowdown
• Competing media messages image
• CitizenTube
• NTLC online catalog
• Intuit Tax Freedom Project
• Iowa Libraries with Wifi via mapbuilder
• Twitter: decaturchamber, decaturlibrary, N TX Library Partners & other popular libraries on Twitter
• Googling Hexagon Hotel & Flickr set
• Kimball library strategic plan.
• Google for Domains
• County of Brant Library: Home page, digital collections, Our Brant Wiki, Cemetery category & page
• Many more real-world digitzation stories.
• Digitizing local info with Portal to Texas History or Greenstone
• Rhome story time with the mayor
• DIY Book Scanner & instructions, Book Liberator instructions
• Other good examples on the Library Success Wiki and "13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology"

Free Things

• Web 2.0 Freebies [NLA last year, by Janie Hermann]
• 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

Image Credits

• Background image here from Ask A Biologist
• OTF: Mouse cleaning day courtesy of Gregg
• OTF: Broken Yahoo by etech
• TT: Background on first slide: Austin Library, Cleveland TX
• TT: Audubon public library, Audubon IA
• TT: robot
• TT: Carnegie library pic
• TT: Patron/librarian photos
• TT: dogs w/ bookcase by greenkozi