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Is your homepage doing too much?
Let’s be real. Most library homepages look like someone tried to squeeze the entire building onto one screen. There’s the…
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Let’s be real. Most library homepages look like someone tried to squeeze the entire building onto one screen. There’s the event carousel. The newsletter signup. Program promotions. A giant banner about summer reading. And somewhere, buried deep, is the information…
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Is your homepage doing too much?
Let’s be real. Most library homepages look like someone tried to squeeze the entire building onto one screen. There’s the event carousel. The newsletter signup. Program promotions. A giant banner about summer reading. And somewhere, buried deep, is the information…
In previous years, I’ve noted how much we need a distraction from our ongoing dumpster fires, and thus the need for this annual list. That statement still applies. Look away…
When we look at a library website, there are a multitude of decisions that likely went into its creation, and it’s not always easy to discern why or how those…
Recently, I gave a presentation on 2024 technology trends. I always carefully preface this type of session with a disclaimer: I do, in fact, cover trends in technology, and not applications…
The agency that I work for runs a good number of listservs for library staff and organizations around the state. As a result, we see a lot of the messages…
Because you’re not getting much work done anyway (2023 edition)
The year is nearly over and you likely need distractions from the 2023 dumpster fire. Cue my annual list of ways to not notice the news cycle and, of course, to not get your work done. As always there are…
I never imagined that I would be writing that headline. I have been on Twitter/X since 2007. I have used it not only regularly, but heavily. It has been instrumental…
It’s not a secret that the world changed in November of 2022. If you don’t recall, that was when ChatGPT was publicly released. The full impact is still being digested…
My head is swirling after I read this article in The Atlantic. The title is: Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of This Century There’s so much…