Iowa Library Association

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/iowa2009

Handouts & Files

• On the Fly Tech Support - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format, HTML handouts, printable handouts
• Tiny Tech Slides - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Tech Support links mentioned

• 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

• Iowa Libraries with Wifi via mapbuilder
• Marketing and PR calendar via RSS Calendar
• Google Scholar [and other videos] done by Elaine Chen
• SWILSA on twitter and facebook, and on their website
• Correctionville Library on Flickr, Google Maps, and their own website.
• Ottumwa Public Library, Googling for the widget, Joomla extensions site
• Google for Domains
• Other good examples on the Library Success Wiki
• Simmons digitization & Greenstone
• DIY Book Scanner

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

• Fly: Mouse cleaning day courtesy of Gregg
• Fly: Broken Yahoo by etech
• TT: Audubon public library, Audubon IA
• TT: robot
• TT: Carnegie library pic
• TT: Patron/librarian photos
• TT: dogs w/ bookcase by greenkozi