It is possible to manage your Kindle collection of books and documents from “Your Content and Devices” section of the Amazon website. From the “Content” tab and by clicking on the “Actions” […] button, you can send titles to the
Have you ever wanted to collect responses from a group of people without overflowing your inbox? Look no further than Google Forms. Here is how it works: You create a form — adding in the questions you want answered —
When someone mentions pivot tables, do you cringe? I used to — until I learned how simple they were to set up! Example: The newly designed reports I run from EBSCO have multiple rows for each library. Worse yet, if
How many times do we whip out our mobile phones to take photos of family photo albums and think, “well, that was easy” or “better than nothing.” I am guilty of doing this myself… But what about cheating a bit
In this short tutorial, you are going to learn how to assign metadata to a digital object. Information used to describe an object is called metadata. As librarians, we use metadata everyday to help patrons find library books. Can you
As New Hampshire moves forward with the DPLA project, libraries with existing collections may be wondering how to integrate their existing collections into future collections or new platforms. The ability to move collections comes down to three simple things: Having
As any good librarian can recite in their sleep, books originally published prior to 1923 are in the public domain and anything published after that date are not. Simple, right? We have been stuck in the 1923 mindset for so
This is part 2 in the Grow with Google posts. Read through part 1 for general information. Before I could register a workshop, I had to apply to become a partner. This can be started at https://grow.google/partners/. In the partner
For those of you trying to find new ways to educate your community about tech-related topics, consider the ready-made workshops you can access by becoming a Grow with Google partner. The Grow with Google partner program is free for librarians
Why Slides? One question I get from time to time is how to digitize slides. Anyone of a certain age (ah-hem) will remember family slide show evenings. In my case, most of my childhood was archived to slides with very