Pinterest Pins and the Library Catalog
It’s very easy to pin a record from the library catalog to one of your boards. I’m going to assume that you have already added the Pin It button to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. If not, you’ll find...
View ArticleSpring Library Photographs
It’s spring! Birds are singing, trees are blossoming and flowers are blooming. It’s a good time to take the camera outside and take some pictures of your library in all its spring loveliness to put on...
View ArticleEmbed a Tweet on Your Blog or Website
It’s easy to share a tweet on your library blog or website. You might want to do this if you’re writing about Twitter itself, or if there’s a tweet on your library’s Twitter account that you want to...
View ArticleCapture the Colors
If your library is surrounded by trees bursting with color like this one is, get out there with your camera and capture the beauty while you have the chance, and share your best shots on your library...
View ArticleBatches, Buckets and Booklists
Here’s my presentation from the Evergreen International Conference on different ways that we can work with groups of item records in the Evergreen library system:
View ArticleEmbedding Internet Archive Books
Embedding content from sites like Google Maps, YouTube, and Slideshare is a popular way to give your readers direct access to recommended resources rather than just providing them with a link to...
View ArticleAutomate with “If This Then That”
IFTTT (pronounced pronounced like gift without the g) is a service that lets you connect different services using simple recipes in the form of If/Then statements — if this thing happens, do that...
View ArticleSmithsonian’s Database of Outdoor Sculpture (and more…)
This is a photograph I took of a sculpture of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem. When I added it to Flickr, I wanted to credit the sculptor, but I didn’t know his name. I decided to try looking this up in...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Enable Media Replace
This simple WordPress plugin created by Måns Jonasson is useful for almost anyone who maintains a WordPress site of any size, but it’s especially useful if you maintain documentation of any kind and...
View ArticleEmbed Social Media Posts in WordPress
It’s easy to embed posts from many popular social media sites into a WordPress post or page without using any special embed code or plugins — just add the link to the post in the WordPress editing...
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