http://remainingrelevant.net Why stop dreaming when you wake up? Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:02:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We all get frustrated with work, right? Yesterday I had to vent it on Twitter: Remind me again why I thought becoming a Tech Librarian was a good idea? Sometimes I think I'm a professional joke. I got some great responses. Sometimes the best way to get some perspective, ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/353 James Kingsbury made an entrance into my life over the last year. My mother has been transcribing his diary as a fundraiser for the Cook Library Friends Group and often phoned me with details of his agrarian life and accounts of our Tamworth. From the bookjacket: This young lad writes ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/339 Our local chamber hosted a Breakfast Forum this morning focusing on social media. Enjoying a lovely view from the Derryfield, we chit chatted with the others at the table. Shooting for common ground a baby-faced real estate broker commented on how much he loves his Kindle and answered ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/335 You can't be a librarian without being interested in the future of THE book. But I prefer the future of books. In other words, what happens when the useful life of a book is done? It's outdated; no longer popular; unwanted. Imagine an elderly patron's surprise ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/330 "Can I save my work to a floppy from 1993?... [desperately]... What am I supposed to do then?" Sound familiar? It's a routine conversation around here. We generally offer our bargain-basement $10 flash drive or explain how to save to the desktop and then email their file ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/323 When introducing my Advanced Internet class I struggle, at times, to describe Web 2.0 to the uninitiated. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google provides a nice summary: Through the first decade of its existence... the World Wide Web was a fairly prosaic place for most of ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/318 I've been following David's posts about online friending with extreme interest. In a nutshell, he suggests that before libraries join social sites they do it deliberately: set goals, a target audience, find a voice, and do outreach around it: You might have noticed that most of my suggestions on getting ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/310 When New Hampshire dispensed with tokens in favor of EZ-Pass, I was one of the stubborn hold-outs who declined. I was uncomfortable with the idea of affixing my car with a device capable of tracking where I'd been. Not that I have anything to hide but something about ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/306 It's natural that libraries define their user-base by who uses the library. We cater to those who already come in the door all too often, without considering who doesn't. Usually, the exception to this rule comes around this time of year - budget season. During budget season ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/301 THE 99 THINGS MEME Things you’ve already done: bold Things you want to do: italicize Things you haven’t done and don’t want to - plain font 1. Started your own blog. 2. Slept under the stars. Sleeping in the yard was a favorite summertime treat when I was little. Once mom almost got trampled by ... http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/298