I read an interesting blog about online security from Google. They participated in a study to see how many people were using the latest internet browsers. The results might surprise you. I admit I am a Firefox junkie and upgraded to the latest browser within a week of its release. With the frequency that new/updated [...]

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I’ve been so involved with blogs and what twitter is that I have been ignoring the obvious - people still think that the Historical Society Library is on 4th St. They come in all the time saying, “When did you guys move?” and when I tell them I get a weird look. We always talk [...]

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This photo above is a “Fred Clubb” image. Fred Clubb found these photos in a dwelling in North Idaho of the Morning Mine. To see more like it, you can search “Fred Clubb” at idahohistory.cdmhost.com and see more dramatic images like that.
Working at the Idaho State Historical Society has been really interesting because of the [...]

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Basically the hardest thing to do is implement any new idea or be innovative when you work for a place where there is very little money, and little room for error. Working for the State of Idaho it’s hard to convince anyone to adopt a new idea, even if it costs nothing and has the [...]

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I like to read the editorials in PC Magazine. Specifically, I like reading the ones by John C. Dvorak. Recently, though, I read this editorial on how fragile social networks are. Go ahead and read it, then come back. I’ll wait.
Done? Good. Now what I say will (hopefully) make sense.
Dvorak argues that social networks are [...]

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Different,Yet Cuiously Alike
This is what I’m passionate about kids learning today.  It might be something else tomorrow, and yesterday it was about staying true to convictions in the face of pressure.
This meme has hit libraries, and you may have seen it on other blogs.  I can’t remember where I saw it first — I wasn’t [...]

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If you’re interested in digitizing your resources, now is a good time to get involved with the development of our statewide consortium. Called IDIG - Idaho Digital Memories, we meet every two weeks by phone and have a few task groups, like copyright, collection development, and metadata.
If you look at the site, which was created [...]

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I saw this a few weeks back on the blog Librarian in Black that a company called Scriblio has developed a way to text message call numbers to customer cell phones! How awesome is that!
I then tried it out and used Jing to help me make a screencast of my experience! Watch and listen!

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I recently attended the ILA Spring Conference in Idaho Falls, where I attended a class on blogging. I thoroughly enjoyed this class, largely because it wasn’t on “how” to blog, but “why” to blog. Since blogging is by design a fairly simple process, I appreciated learning more about the “why” aspect. (It’s also how I [...]

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I know websites are soooo yesterday but they still remain the virtual billboard/branch for most libraries - the place to display or deploy all the virtual toys we love to use and share.  So this post is about YOUR library website, which often evokes a love/hate response from staff.  Do you really respect your website?  Or is it [...]

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