What to do when you can’t remember the author or title of a book and NoveList isn’t giving you the results you desire? Try Google Books! I recently read better than average historical romance novel (Don’t judge me!) and couldn’t
EBSCO Blog Post
Have you noticed that the library might not have older editions of magazines and newspapers in the library? It doesn’t mean that you can’t find the article you need! Instead of keeping (and storing) hundreds or thousands of magazines on
Creating Simple Mobile Sites
In preparing for an upcoming talk on reaching patrons through their mobile devices, I’m taking a closer look at creating mobile friendly sites. It turns out that if you are WordPress or Blogger user, creating a mobile site is simpler
Testing Polldaddy Images
This is just a test of using PollDaddy with images: Which book did you like more?
NH History in Google Books
Do you have patrons in search of interesting NH history? Direct them to the copyright-free books in Google Books! I’ve gathered a small collection of NH histories to get you started. Note that each of these titles are no longer
Setting Up a Twitter Search Feed
Wouldn’t you like to know when people tweet the word “library” in your area? Are they saying good things? Great! It’d be nice to see that. But what about negative things said on Twitter? Well, you definitely want to know
Library Thing Handout
For the Hillstown Co-op meeting I prepared a short handout to get started with Library Thing! LibraryThing Handout Library Thing Handout for NH Librarians
Second Best Use of Twitter
I was going to call this post The Best Use of Twitter, but as I was reminded by a coworker today, the best use of Twitter, without any doubt, is as a real-time communication tool (as we’ve seen with the
Facebook Privacy Video
Take a look at this fabulous video from Kathy Pearce, library media specialist at Portsmouth Middle School: http://librarymm.blogspot.com/2009/04/saving-face.html