Monthly Archives: November 2008

walking paper scraps

→ Don’t talk to strangers — scan them instead.
2D codes + fabric + mobiles phones = people wearing hyperlinks to their social networking profiles. Next up is RFID chips broadcasting your profile wherever you go. It could make for serendipitous connections!
→ Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not
Short answer: [...]

genre X is doing things right

Genre-X is a library book group for 20 and 30somethings at the Oak Park Public Library. They don’t always meet in the library, however. They meet at local watering holes. This is great, but it isn’t the only thing they’re doing right. They recently had a hi-lo gaming event with a [...]

drupal on the brain, drupal4lib camp

I started my first real foray into Drupal last week while assembling a home base for DCPL’s upcoming “X Things” program. I’m way into it. I’ve always heard how very customizable and extensible it is but working with it has really opening my eyes. Catching on to the Drupal way of [...]

make libraries easy

Speaking of World Usability Day, here’s one of my latest Moo Minicards.

infinite stacks

 
The irony of posting a picture of these beautiful shelves on World Usability Day isn’t lost on me. I do quite enjoy them though.
 
[via] who writes: I’ve never wanted to be a librarian, but I’d totally love this as my workspace. Ooh! And then I could wear my cute librarian shoes! Eek!