Archive for December, 2007

Making sense of events - Saturday, December 29th, 2007

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 [...]

Happy happy 2007 - Monday, December 24th, 2007

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 [...]

Pride or Look What My Mommy Made - Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

On a school trip when I was in elementary school we started at a brook that ran into town, climbed through the culvert under the road, and into the woods following the water up the mountain. It was spring, just before school let out and the water was cold, but it was fun. [...]

Our town - Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

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 [...]

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