Summer Interns

Libraries all over are excited about summer reading, teen summer reading, adult summer programs, and, well, summer.  Here in Jerome, we have five more reasons to be excited this summer… five summer interns!
Steve Poppinoat the College of Southern Idaho helped us arrange for our interns to get college credit for their experience at the library.  [...]

Social networks: it ain’t the technology

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 [...]

Why blog?

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 [...]

I can blog

Anne just watched me set up my blog and it’s easy as pie! See you all at the focus group.