Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Innovation in libraries

Taylor family library

Visualization wall

Digital globe

Use Windows as whiteboard.  All Glass surfaces can be used as whiteboard.  Intriguing.  All of the windows in the study rooms could be used as whiteboards.  Just have to make sure that permanent markers aren't used, though even then it seems like they should be able to be cleaned.

Dayton Ohio university interactive wall
This looks ridiculously cool

Use meetup to promote programs.  
  Automated service allowing people to rsvp and find out if it's cancelled, but attendees can also communicate with each other.  Well use this for cultural arts nights, but perhaps also creating an online community of people participating in the SRP over the longer course of the event.  This will require some R&D.  Someone in the tech center look this up and report back.
  You can also include surveys and post event surveys, you can have polls, and since you'll have their contact information you can follow up with them post-event.  
  You can collect money through meet-up.  And it does allow for registration.
  Arlington public library
  Lit Up is the adult program track.
  The meetup account costs money.  Bummer.

Parts and Crafts, Summerville tool lending library.
  Just what it sounds like, they lend tools.
  Whatever.
  Fix it fairs, pop up fix it fairs, you bring them your broken stuff and they help you fix it.

Garden tool, lending library.  That might tie in with our green library adult programs.  
  It a thing.

Apparently there's a Littlebit storefront where people can build things out of the Littlebits and then people can come in and buy them.  It's like Etsy but with less yarn.

Some libraries are setting up Tor Networks within their libraries.  
  Hmm it would make the system non-CIPA compliant, and some places block Tor traffic.  

Libraryfreedomproject.org

Don't NOT know about computer privacy.
  Even if it something as simple as Facebook privacy settings

Do a privacy/security audit
  Wifi networks are generally rediculously wide open
  Sniffer programs
  Remind me to tell you about the plane's WiFi

Fayetteville public library
Nice website.









1 comment:

  1. Barb just told me that we have a patron that uses Study Room windows as her white board, but only when we have posters up to act as a background. The writing can otherwise get a bit lost with nothing behind it.

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