Category Archives: resources

catch and subscribe

LISNewster extraordinare Blake asked me to take part in a conversation for LISTen, the LISNews podcast. The topic was the flap caused by downsizing at the Wausau Public Library in Wisconsin and the convo participants included Andrea Mercado and Nate Hill. Here’s a link to episode #12 of LISTen which was a good [...]

Widgets and Widgetry for Librarians: Copy, Paste, and Relax

I <3 full text and free! My latest article for “Multimedia & Internet @ Schools” is available online for everyone to read. Titled Widgets and Widgetry: Copy, Paste, and Relax, the art department gave the cover and article the Hogwarts treatment. Dare I tell them I haven’t read a single word of [...]

new blog: No Shelf Required

Do you have a list of people you wish would blog about what they’re doing in their libraries? Sue Polenka, Head of Reference at Wright State University’s Paul Laurence Dunbar Library was on my such list. She emailed to tell me I can erase her name. She’s started a blog called No [...]

Tapping the Tools of Teen Culture in the LMC

This article first appeared in the Sept/Oct issue of “Multimedia & Internet @ Schools.” They put it online full text (yay) but I’m going to reprint it here now in case you didin’t click through, and because I can. While it is focused on Library Media Centers in schools, it is could be [...]

wordpress theme generator

My love affair with wordpress is still pretty much in full bloom because it is the right tool for so many blogging jobs. Do you like wordpress too but need a theme different from one of the many nice ones available? You could always hack one up to your liking, but if you [...]