Hi. I’ve added a techinfo page that details all the little modifications I’ve done to a standard WordPress install to arrive at the site looking like this. Please note there’s a style-switcher for those of you who read the site via its web page. If you find this style too hard to read, or too ugly, you can go to the Look&Feel section and pick a more standard layout. This will set a cookie on your machine so you’ll never have to think about this layout again unless you view it with a different browser. It took all of two minutes to work this out, WordPress has been a delight to use so far.
details of my talk(s) at UNC
If you’re in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina on March 21st, please stop by and say hello or come hear me talk about technology and the information poor.
audioblogging vs podcasting vs online radio
Greg Schwartz lays down some science and vocabulary about the different ways we can get regular audio content via the web. Don’t miss the list at the end, which is easily the best part.
book arts
Fore-edge painted books, links galore. How can you look these up in an OPAC?
your library @ the business fair
Our library had a table at the local business fair yesterday. We focused on the message “the value of a library card” and had visuals explaining that libraries circulate more books than Fedex does packages and library card holders outnumber Amazon.com customers by 5 to 1, that sort of thing. Other things that seemed to go well were:
- skunk puppet who told jokes, good for kids who are not normally people who enjoy business fairs
- free books for kids out of Friends of the Library booksale stock
- free pencils with our URL on them
- ability to sign people up for library cards right then and there
- laptop with slide show of library pictures cycling, there was no wifi but we had a couple of stock slide shows if people wanted to see them
- “this is when my books are due” magnets
- most importantly: someone to talk to.
I had people coming up to me telling me about their divorces, their bowel surgery, the last book they read, some weird thing that happened to them at the library, their home book collection, their early memories of the library and they had questions questions questions. I always sort of dread the business fair beforehand, and I always wind up having a much better time than I expect to.