Will they come? - Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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 [...]

Librarians in the wild - Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Tonight I am scheduled to give an introduction to Web 2.0 to the Tamworth Library Friends group. Tamworth has been so good to me, giving me a chance to test Scriblio, so I was excited to talk to them. I didn’t even know it was open to the public until my phone rang [...]

“My patrons don’t…” - Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Tamworth is a town of 2500 in the rural white mountains of NH. Yet, TheGoodPeasant, tamworth resident, took a video of the Cook Library’s 4th of July float and posted it on YouTube.
It’s not just kids or geeks. People in all types of places are using social tools online and they’re doing so [...]

How big is your mission? - Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Last Christmas I was evangelizing about Flickr to a local library. I stole a photo from her Recent Photos page and uploaded it to my Flickr account to demonstrate tagging, commenting, notes, sets and all that great stuff. Important holiday festivities then beckoned and we drifted away.
I all but forgot about the photo [...]

Why does this matter to me? - Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

For a number of months, I’ve been talking to, although she would probably say AT, the director of my favorite public library, Cook Memorial in Tamworth, NH about social software, remote services, and the important opportunity that they have to be forward thinking. Being small makes rural libraries nimble and able to respond to [...]

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