Today I was out at the Norlin Library on the CU Boulder campus to teach the first day of a two-day seminar on XML. I showed up with my materials including a floppy disc for each student so they could get some files from me and have a place for them to store their work and take it away with them. I get there to find that I’ve forgotten to put the files on my laptop (which has no floppy drive.) So, I figured I’d just copy the files from one of the floppies to my jump drive on one of the lab computers. Small catch, no floppies on any of the lab computers either. Step out into the library proper to find… You guessed it, no floppy drives on any of the public computers either. Eventually the techie found me a portable USB floppy drive that I could use to move the files to my jump drive and then onto all the computers in the lab. The moral of the story: If your class involves floppy discs, ask if the lab has floppy drives.
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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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