Michael’s blog makes an ongoing good point about technology which is that it needn’t always be expensive, or horribly complicated. His new list 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff (without breaking the bank) has great tips.
Category: ‘puters
SFPL OKs RFID FWIW
San Francisco Public Library approved the use of RFID for use in their libraries at a meeting last night. [RFIDinLib]
phone vs Google apples vs oranges
If this is the only website you read, maybe you haven’t seen this yet. Phone vs. Google vs. Library, who is fastest? Of course, any librarian knows that the best thing to do is to call your librarian [who is at the library already] and then have her [or him] find the answer which might involve using Google but might not. What I want to see is a bunch of librarian superstars In the library, with IM and cel phones and Google and three cups of coffee and see which one of them is fastest given the same short list of tough questions. Now that’s a spectator sport. [thanks all]
libraries love linux
Wow, I’m jealous. Our OPAC doesn’t even support different browsers and here’s one library that switched to a whole new operating system that can still use theirs [thanks eli].
word fun – google
Domain name registrations that include the word “google”. Of note: googlelibrary.com, stopgoogle.com, bannedingoogle.com, googleos.com.