Happy National High Five Day!
Kieran Hixon and Sharon Morris just finished a tour of 50 libraries in 4 weeks…
Kieran Hixon
Bringing in the Money: How Friends and Foundations Can Find Funding & Grants
FREE fundraising series Bringing in the Money: How Friends and Foundations Can Find Funding &…
The Emergency Connectivity Fund Program
The Emergency Connectivity Fund Program will provide funding to schools and libraries for reasonably priced…
Helping Your Community with Internet
With all the scams that exist, it is getting harder to distinguish between things that…
Transgender Youth
It is hard sometimes for me to read the news, to be open to hearing…
View free WiFi locations in Colorado
Public libraries are helping their community members access the internet to complete essential tasks such as online schoolwork or applying for a job, even if the building is closed to the public. The buildings are just one aspect of the kinds of exemplary library services offered in Colorado.
Descriptive Link Text – Website Accessibility – part 4
Descriptive links are weblinks disguised as descriptive text that is clicked on to go to…
Alt Text – Website Accessibility – part 3
Alt text, also called “alt tags” or “alt descriptions,” is the text that is read…
PDFs and Website Accessibility – Part 2
Does your website have links to download PDF documents? Do you make a really sweet…
Website Accessibility
Accessibility… sometimes when I talk about accessibility in libraries folks imagine ramps, wide doors and…
Have you been pwned? – Bag of Tricks
Pwned. Yup, it is a word, not a typo. It is a word from an…
Ransomware – Bag of Tricks
The other day a friend of mine who is the director of a small rural…
Games For Change – Bag of Tricks
I have always been a video game player, way back since Pong, Asteroids, and Pacman…
Fighting Summer Slide – Bag of Tricks
Ah, summer… it is a busy time for libraries! Between the Summer Reading Program and…
Soup, well, TechSoup in the Bag of Tricks
Budgeting, finding the right solution, finding the person with the expertise to help, having the…
What was there? – Bag of tricks
I am amazed by the speed at which technology develops. I really am. New developments…
Oral Histories and Audio recording – Bag of Tricks
I saw a meme the other day that said, “I’m sorry I didn’t answer my…
Making a habit of Habitica – Bag of Tricks
Habitica is an online task management application that, as its name implies, helps you build…
Eliminating Fines FAQs
Want to eliminate fines at your library but have questions? You’re not alone! Here are some frequently asked questions about eliminating fines and research-based answers.
Big Huge Labs & Valentine’s Day – Bag of Tricks
Valentine’s Day, LOVE, or as the quote in the movie Princess Bride goes, “tweasure your…