Right now I’m sitting on a large, decorative rock just outside the front door of the central branch of the Jackson County Library System in Medford, OR. Check out their hours then look at the date and time on this post. This place has been closed for hours and I’m sitting out on the sidewalk using their open linksys Wi-Fi connection. Not only am I writing this post I’m listening to KUVO in Denver via iTunes while writing this…
So, what’s the big deal? Well, after Akma’s recent experience being harassed by the local cops in Nantucket for doing exactly what I’m doing at this moment I’m trying to make a point; tomorrow. Tomorrow I’ll be teaching my policy workshop at Rogue Community College next door. One of the issues I’ll be discussing is exactly this one. This should be fun especially since a few librarians from the Medford branch will be in attendance.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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