I’m here because MCL is really acting on an initiative to raise our profile and move services beyond the library walls - my role, of course, is to do so online. I’ve been really wanting to blog about our town and its inhabitants: good restaurants, walking trails, potholes… Is that kind of thing [...]

I know I’ve said it before and it’s uncool to drool and carry on about your own work, but seeing library events in my personal calendar is just so fucking cool. I apologize for the obscenity, but it just is!

I’ll see everyone at CiL next week!

Afterthought disclaimer: I am in know way representing the [...]

Gosh, I wish I were better at coming up with post titles…
I had an email yesterday inquiring about some details of Scriblio. As I wrote back, answering her questions, it occurred to me that it was exactly the kind of thing it’s easy for me, so close to the project to take for granted [...]

There was a story in the paper a few months ago about a child who was snatched to a remote corner of the library and unspeakable things happened. It’s not the kind of image anyone wants associated with their local library - or anything else. In response, our board asked the professionals to [...]

I poked my head out of budget season tonight and was proud to encounter cool things coming out of two state library systems near and dear to my heart. Bobbi Slossar, of whom NHSL should be extraordinarily proud, responds to the LOC’s Flickr initiative.* From Bobbi:
This seems like a good time to [...]

The Problem
For so many libraries, figuring out how to display in-house events on our websites is a tough challenge. As we offer more content and services online, It’s important not to forget that online or in-bricks, we’re the same institution and those storefronts should complement each other.
Manchester took the route most libraries do when it [...]

I have a love-hate relationship with those holiday letters people send out. On the one hand, I really like hearing how my people’s lives have changed over a year. On the other hand, for some reason, I could never write one myself. I think it’s performance anxiety - a fear that [...]

In September I met the Library Director of the Effingham Public Library along with a board member-slash-web master. They asked me if I’d be willing to help them create a more dynamic and easier to maintain web presence. Naturally I enthusiastically agreed. Both of them had immediately grokked the opportunities that [...]

When I got my new job, I searched on Flickr to find photos to illustrate my celebratory blog post. And then, when I arrived, I set up a Flickr account for the library to which I’ve been adding photos and made some awesome contacts with local Flickrers. Yesterday the librarian who’s responsible [...]

It seems strange to me that there isn’t a super slick solution for calendaring/events management tasks within Wordpress. When we first developed the Tamworth Library site we used (correct me if I’m wrong) phpiCalendar and Google Calendar. The library’s Children’s Librarian would login into their Events Google Calendar and enter upcoming events [...]