More Than Just Books

Thursday, May 22, 2014

ABCmouse.com - Library Edition - Setup Guide

9:29 PM by Eric

The Library Accounts Launched at #ALA14 This guide will hopefully help many libraries that have low budgets (don't we all) provide a dedicated ABCmouse.com Early Learning Acadamy to your patrons. This guide is designed to be manageable for those who lack IT staff or advanced knowledge of programming. If...

Google Apps for Nonprofits

5:02 PM by Eric

I'm going to tell a story about our old email system. OPLIN (The Ohio Public Library Information Network) manages a email service for all public libraries in Ohio. This is a great service for small libraries and I'm grateful they offer such services. Where this becomes a problem is when telling staff,...

Why The Library Saved My Life

8:46 PM by Eric

This is a repost of a letter written to the Urban Librarian, Screwy Decimal. It really hit home and shows that libraries, to so many people, are so much More Than Just Books."So there was this time in my life, where I needed a place to go because I didn't like to go home, that was the library. Now let me tell...

Do The Harlem Shake

4:39 PM by Eric

Libraries, More Than Just Books. This video has over 4,000 views and the feedback on our Facebook page was amazing. We believe we got more positive PR from this video, YouTube, and Facebook than we would for being in the local pape...

Games In The Library?

4:15 PM by Eric

"On the surface, perhaps looking for a job is more important than playing games or chatting with friends - but should it be up to the library to make that call? If someone "checks out" a library resource, be it by taking home a book or by using one of our computers, they are pretty much entitled to use it...

Library Receipt Printers - Free Advertising?

3:00 PM by Eric

Printing promotions at the bottom of receipts is not a new idea, have you been to CVS lately? The receipts end up 3 feet long by the time all the coupons and ads print. Obviously that is probably wasteful in terms of Library-Land, but that doesn't mean you can't self-promote at the bottom of a reasonable...