From Mary Linse of the Olathe Public Library:
For those who have asked or been waiting (and for those who haven’t!),
our Mousing Around tutorial (http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/ ) is now
available in Spanish: http://www.pbclibrary.org/raton/ .
Excellent! Thanks Mary!
This is a great idea for a technology class in a library. The librarian had the students bring in their camera and manual, and the class was about learning how to use THEIR digital camera, flipping switches, opening flaps, taking pictures, etc.
I like this because it emphasizes curiosity and hands on, instead of the all knowing talking head instructor raining down principles from on high. Patrons literally get to geek out about their devices, instead of freak out.
I love it. Here’s the link to the original post:
First Geek Out Don’t Freak Out Class
In an ongoing attempt to make our blog even cooler, I’ve added polling functionality. You’ll find it on the side of the page. Please, feel free to leave your feedback!
It’s always interesting to see what non-librarians are saying about libraries. Here’s an article from Forbes magazine, “Google isn’t everything”.
Do you need to teach your patrons how to use the library? Do you have some great ideas to share? Check out this new wiki!
From the site:
“Welcome to the Library Instruction Wiki, a collaboratively developed resource for librarians involved with or interested in instruction. All librarians and others interested in library instruction are welcome and encouraged to contribute.”
Going to the PLS/KLTA Fall Retreat in Wichita? Check out what’s happening on our blog:
Thanks to the generous folks at Sunflower Broadband, the Tonganoxie Public Library now offers Wireless Internet Access to all who enter (or loiter outside on the lawn). We are the first public Hot Spot in town! Please come by and try out this new service.
More info on the program is here: Sunflower Broadband Wireless Program
I have never been a big fan of e-books, but for some reason this appeals to me. Check out the original copy of Alice in Wonderland. It’s like story time for adults! And the storyteller has a British accent 
For those of you geeky geeks out there, or those interested in content management systems that don’t come at a gigantic cost to your library, check out this site that is a listing AND live trial ground for every product they list.
This means that you can see a Content Management System for the web, look at its features, then TRY IT OUT! The entire site is refreshed every 2 hours, so there’s always a fresh, clean demo to work with for all products.
We’re looking into content management systems for our libraries to ease web development, I think I’ll be spending a lot of time at this site trying out CMS systems.
We’ve been receiving lots of comment spam in the last day or 2. I guess that’s good because it means someone (or something) is reading our blog. In order to separate the wheat from the chaff, however, I’ve enabled a most useful Wordpress plugin called SpamKarma 2. So far it’s been immensely helpful in helping to control the numbers of spam (and you probably didn’t notice that it was there, all the spams got moderated and so had to go through SuperLiz and got filtered by me) that come to the blog.
If your comment should happen to not appear, don’t fret. I’ll get a notify that you posted and that it was held back and rest assured that I’ll get it up as soon as I see it.
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