Blog archive
All 315 posts from 2003–2024, kept as they were published. Lori Ayre wrote most of them; Jim Craner wrote most posts from 2018 on. Browse by author: Lori Ayre, Jim Craner.
2024 2 posts
2023 18 posts
- Job Description: Business Development Representative
- Testing GPT-4's New "Computer Vision" Capability Inside - and Outside - of the Library
- AI-based Document "Remixing" Tool
- Using AI for Library Grantwriting
- First Thoughts on DALL-E v3
- Visualizing Token Limits in Large Language Models
- Using ChatGPT for Library Book Clubs
- Canva's AI-based "Magic Design" Tool
- Missing The Point: The Iowa AI Book Banning Brouhaha
- Trying Google Docs "Help Me Write" AI
- Learn About Our AI Training!
- The Ultimate "What's That Book?" Tool? Talpa AI from LibraryThing
- AI Link Roundup: June 8th
- Research: ChatGPT and Readers Advisory
- Integrating AI and Data With "Plugins"
- Using "Retrieval" To Enhance ChatGPT's Capabilities
- Introducing our new AI workshop series!
- Discover the Future of AI in Public Libraries with The Galecia Group's Virtual Summit
2021 3 posts
2020 5 posts
- Materials Handling Practices During COVID (as of October 16, 2020)
- Forty-five days until the Library Advocacy and Funding Conference!
- Zoom Tips for Libraries (updated 4/28/20)
- Using the ILS to Support Safe Policies: Set Items to Quarantine Status Upon Return
- Materials Handling Considerations During COVID-19 Closures
2019 14 posts
- One Equity Partners sells Smartrac RFID business - What does this mean for libraries? And Bibliotheca?
- Protecting Your Library From Ransomware Attacks
- Libraries & YouTube: The Rise of Disinformation
- Galecia Video: Exploring IMLS Public Library Survey Data
- WiFi Hot Spots Available for Check-out
- Providing Information After a Disaster
- Analyzing IMLS Data to Find Your Peer Libraries
- Book Review - "Working as a Data Librarian: A Practical Guide" by Eric O. Johnson
- Using IMLS Data to Help Save IMLS
- "The Opportunity Project" - Free Toolkit and Examples For Community Digital Projects!
- "Libraries Count!" - Why the 2020 Census Matters to Public Libraries
- Using "Arches" for mapping historical and cultural resources!
- Data.gov, IMLS, and Other Library Services Fall Victim to Federal Shutdown
- Accessibility: Screen Readers in the Library
2018 4 posts
2017 2 posts
2016 7 posts
- Are 2x3 RFID tags better than 2x2 tags?
- Lori Ayre's Post Election Thoughts
- Collaborative Librarianship Gets a Much Needed Facelift
- Librarians and Wikipedia - Get Together!
- Best Practices for Self-Service Check-out
- Case Studies Demonstrating RFID, Self-Check and Materials Handling Best Practices
- From Transaction to Transformation: Seizing the Opportunity of an RFID Implementation (webinar)
2015 9 posts
- Liberated from the Circulation Desk - Now What?
- Bibliotheca Swallows 3M Library Systems Whole: Do They Know What They've Got?
- Library Communication Framework Launched with Support of 3M, Bibliotheca, D-Tech, Innovative and SirsiDynix
- Get Your Spatial Data On!
- Status of Broadband Roll-out in California Libraries
- Another good article on BIBFRAME for newbies
- New Library RFID Tag with Built-in NFC Support
- Today's Library Patrons are Tomorrow's Architects of Great Societies
- Expect More World Tour
2014 11 posts
- Most Important Community Need: Ability to Share Library Resources at Statewide Level
- RFID and AMH in Libraries: State of the Art
- Need Some Inspiration? Read this report! Rising to the Challenge: Re-envisioning public libraries
- Web-based Staff Client for Everyone!
- Press Release: Lyrasis to Manage Open Source ILS Feature Comparison Tool
- Does Your ILS Do This? "Smart Float" in Evergreen
- How to Sabotage Your Automated Materials Handling Implementation
- Learn How to Manage Your Holds in Evergreen - Nice Screencast from NOBLE
- Submit Your Proposal for California Library Association Annual Conference to the Crowd!
- RFID: What is Your Strategy?
- Webinar: Optimizing Materials Handling on the Cheap: How to Lean Your Workflow
2013 15 posts
- Strategic Selection and Implementation of Technology
- RFID, GPS, and 3G: Radio Wave Technologies and Privacy
- Complete my book!
- Catalyst IT Services Looking for more Evergreen Customers
- Coming to Milwaukee area June 26th "RFID: What is it? Where is it going? Is it right for your library?"
- When Will an ILS Vendor Provide an RFID-Enabled Staff Client?
- When Will an ILS Vendor Provide an RFID-Enabled Staff Client?
- Free Consulting Available at ALA Chicago
- My Life as a Library RFID Consultant
- Library RFID Tag Technology and Smartphones
- ISO Tags - What Does That Mean?
- Salt Lake City Kicking Some Tagging .....
- Harmonization of Library Protocols
- Join me for the Discovery to Delivery: Rethinking Resource Sharing PreConference at ALA2013
- Make Some Noise! Submit a Program Proposal for CLA Conference 2013 (Deadline March 15)
2012 25 posts
- Vote on Your Most Wanted OPAC Feature in Evergreen
- SIP3 and RFID Dropped into NISO Black Hole
- Call for Open Source ILS Communities to Support the Library Communication Framework (LCF)
- Filtering Worst Practices: Keyword Filtering and Blocking by File Type
- Don't like your library's ebook selection? Tell Penguin, Simon & Shuster, and Macmillan to sell to libraries.
- Open Letter to Vandana Singh re Open Source ILS Site
- Planning your ISO 28560-2 Implementation or Migration
- Library RFID and Health Effects
- The US Data Model and Encoding Library RFID Tags
- Internet Filters - Who's Deciding What?
- Donna Brazile: Ingredients of Effective Leadership
- Update from the Exhibit Floor
- Consultants Give Back at ALA, June 24, 1:30-5:30
- What to Do About the Newly Adopted ISO 28560 Data Model?
- Consultants Give Back at ALA Anaheim: Free Consulting!
- Why E-Books Will be Obsolete in Five Years
- U.S. Data Profile Finalized: ISO 28560-2 it is!
- Catamount Library Network Project Selects Evergreen
- Doing Your Due Diligence on an AMH Vendor
- RFID Survey Shows Libraries Don't Know WHAT They're Using
- NISO Publishes "Recommended Practice on Physical Delivery of Library Resources"
- Why So Many Websites were Offline Yesterday
- Global RFID in Libraries Survey
- Fulfillment - Important Questions and Answers
- SIP 3.0 Ready for Implementation
2011 14 posts
- Yes, you can choose two different RFID vendors!
- ILL is Dead: Network Effects and Resource-Sharing
- The Open Data Movement - great graphic!
- Choosing Software: Open or Closed Source? Locally Hosted or Vendor Hosted
- Good News for Evergreen - now a member of Software Freedom Conservancy
- Procurement and an Open Source ILS
- NISO Revised Recommended Practice for RFID in U.S. Libraries Available for Public Comment
- RFID and SIP – Potential for Big Improvements for Libraries
- ISO 28560 RFID in Libraries Standard Published – What Does That Mean?
- Wanna Lease Some Self Check Machines or AMH Equipment?
- Keep Struggling with Ebook DRM or Boycott?
- Maximize the Potential of Your Public Library: A Report on the Innovative Ways Public Libraries are Addressing Community Priorit
- Dear Governor Brown…
- Why Eliminating Library Funding is the LAST Thing Gov. Brown Should Consider
2010 15 posts
- Open Source Kicks Some Proprietary ILS Butt
- ISO 28560 – RFID in Libraries – ISO Standard Only Two Months Away
- Documenting King County Library System Going Live on Evergreen
- SirsiDynix and the FUD Factor
- FulfILLment spins off Evergreen as Independent OS Project
- Library Filtering Remains Controversial
- UHF and HF RFID Tags
- Open Source Opportunities for Consortia
- Library as Pantry
- NISO Physical Delivery Webinar May 12th
- Work begins on open source ILL product: FulfILLment
- Check out RSCEL!
- How to Install Koha on Debian
- VolunteerMatters - Now Available Through TechSoup
- Evergreen Developer Workshop Now Online
2009 29 posts
- Edgy Librarian, a web conference, set for 01/20/2010 (very auspicious)
- OLE Final Report and What They Hope to Create
- Leggott Responds to Stephen Abram
- SirsiDynix - Abrams - OS Community
- Roy Tennant's Top Ten Things Library Administrators Should Know About Technology
- A Good Idea from BibLibre...
- More Evergreen Libraries on the way!
- SkyRiver - Jerry Kline takes on OCLC
- Evergreen Developer Basics Workshop
- OITP Releases "Fiber To The Library: How Public Libraries Can Benefit from Using Fiber Optics for their Broadband Internet Connection"
- IMLS Awards $1 Mil for Open Source
- The Koha fork and being the change you want to see | Librarians Matter
- The Equinox Promise: An Open Letter to the Evergreen Community
- LibLime Announces LibLime Enterprise Koha
- Forming a Koha Foundation
- Materials Handling Studies
- Open Source Library Systems: Free is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
- Koha Day coming up Sept. 6!
- Statewide Library Delivery Study - Next Stop: RFI
- Open Source Unconference in Chicago during ALA Conference
- San Jose Public and Filtering - Useful Stats
- New Book on Library Delivery
- Report: Analysis of Cost Savings with Automated Check-in
- Cost Savings Resulting from Automated Checkin
- Urge Obama to Consider Open Source for Government
- Call to Info Pros - Address the GLUT!
- Technology for Libraries and Information Centers
- Proposing new acronyms: OSLS and LSS
- Great video (or is it a screencast) explaining RSS
2008 12 posts
- You say Windowshop. I say Shelf Browse.
- Internet Safety and Kids - Finally Something that Makes Sense!
- Where are the librarians?
- Ten Years of Learned Helplessness Coming to an End
- NISO RFID Guidelines Helpful but not yet "Standards"
- LibBook - Facebook for Libraries
- Sarah Long and Lori Ayre talk about Library Delivery
- Obama: Insighful, Analytical Response of Bitter Elitist?
- Cloudbook for Laptop Loaner
- Obama
- Choose RFID for the Right Reasons
- Recommended: The Complete RFID Handbook
2007 23 posts
- MeeboMe when search fails in library catalog
- Transforming Your Library With Technology - My ALA Presentation
- Redefine "Circulating Library
- Is there a future for libraries?
- Sorters and Self-Check -in Just Make Sense
- RFID Tag Compliant with Emerging Data Model?
- What I Told Publishers at the SSP Conference
- Wu wei and Computer Troubleshooting
- Berkeley Public Library's New Website - Nice!
- Developing a Library Technology Plan, Part 1
- Developing a Library Technology Plan, Part 2
- Developing a Library Technology Plan, Part 3
- The Intersection of Library Technology and Privacy
- RFID Standards Update
- Thinking about Synapses
- Core Competencies or Why WebJunction drives me mad....
- CSI:NY - How Could You?
- More on Home Delivery
- Library Predict-o-matic 3000
- RFID Update - Sort of
- Fair Information Practices More Important than Privacy
- What's on your "Hot Picks" shelf?
- Barack Obama sent me a Christmas Card
2006 37 posts
- What if the Library Worked Like Netflix?
- ACLU Takes On Library That Refuses to Disable Filter
- Automatically Annotating Images
- Dutch book distributor applying RFID tags on books
- Clean Slate Snap-in for Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit
- Symposium on Library Courier Services - Delivery 2.0
- DOPA and the Library 2.0 Gang
- Two More California Libraries Jump on RFID Bandwagon
- A 2.0 Frenzy
- Every Library Needs the LibX Firefox extension
- Privacy Concerns with RFID Systems "Under Development "
- Keep Your Old Gates Computer Software
- Is the Web Worth It?
- Seriously, DOPA is bad news
- Optimize Web Pages for 1024x768! Wahoo!
- COPE a DOPA, ROPE a DOPE
- Libraries, Thomas Frey and a Dash of Waynn Pearson
- The Social Life of Information
- San Jose State SLIS Competencies
- Connecticut Library Group Protects Patron Records
- Using Service Level Agreements Takes the Guesswork out of IT Support
- New RFID Chip for Libraries: ICODE-SLI S
- DynaComm i:Filter and i:Scan
- World Cup Tickets Have RFID Tags
- How to Transfer Your Gates Children's Games to a New Computer
- Sarah Long's Top Ten Reasons Why Regional Library Systems are Vital
- DOPA Should Die Quick and Painless Death
- Trends Putting Greater Demands on Library Delivery
- New Comprehensive Filter Report Available
- Data Mining: What is it and how it is related to Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- NISO Launches RFID Committee for Library Applications
- Updated RFID Backgrounder for Library Workers
- Hmmm, I Can't Get that on MY Internet!
- US Passports Adding RFID?
- The Ideal Public Access Computer
- Filters Work....kinda not
- Walmart, FasTrak, DoD and Libraries
2005 23 posts
- Book Review of RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy
- I, Librarian
- Ultra Discounted Usability Methods
- How much IT Staff Do I need?
- Fun With Card Catalogs
- Missing from OPAC: User Needs
- RFID Data Model For Libraries
- The Importance of Signage or "What I Learned Observing the Reference Desk"
- Consumer Reports: " All filtering programs either overblock or underblock. "
- SB 682 Turned Upside Down
- Improve Display of Fonts on XP
- Research-based Web Design and Usability Guidelines
- ACLU Report Indicates Libraries Don't Know What They Are Blocking
- ACLU Checking Filters in Libraries
- Lower Literacy Web Users
- Half Full - Filtering in UK Libraries
- Compare Filters - Compare Features
- Filter Effectiveness - Who Cares?
- OPAC Changes Users Want
- LOCKSS - Local Ownership and Storage of E-Journals
- RFID Legislation Starting to Catch Up?
- Podcasting and WebCred
- Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think
2004 32 posts
- Report on CLA: RFID Vendors Answer the Tough Questions
- Meet TechSoup!
- Public Access Computer Security Tool
- Children, the Digital Divide and Federal Policy
- Anne Lipow -- Goodbye and Thanks!
- CalendarScript 3.2
- Position Paper on RFID and Libraries
- Booksellers Installing RFID Chips
- RFID Panel at CLA
- "Library Technology Musings" Becoming "Mentat"
- Current Library RFID Not Ready
- COPA Unconstitutional
- Lotso State Filtering Laws
- ILS Companies Starting to Bring On Filters
- The Digital Crevice
- Are Your Properly Patched?
- You found WHAT on our public access computer??!!!
- I Have A Dream Today...Information Commons in Public Libraries
- Sharing Library-Appropriate Filtering Services
- Backups
- Mary Minow on Disabling Filters
- Wireless Notebooks
- Spyware, Adware and Friends
- Self Selecting "Filter Disabled" and Using "Warn" Instead of "Block"
- Why I Hate Keyword Blocking
- My debut as published author
- Facts about Filters
- Key Filter Features
- States Bringing New -- and Worse -- Filter Legislation
- KanGuard
- Breaking the Law to Comply With CIPA
- Content Advisor Plus
2003 15 posts
- Filter Must Work - No Complaints!
- Share Your Filter Experience
- Windows98 Retiring
- RFID Position Paper
- Really Portable Storage
- New Barbies
- Filtering Technology Presentation to Pennsylvania Librarians
- CIPA Loophole
- Gates Computers - The PAC Installer
- Gates Computers - Useful Downloads
- Bookmarks for Patrons
- Super Quiet PC
- CIPA
- CIPA Ramifications
- Filtering and the CIPA