Patricia Uttaro the director of the Ogden Farmers’ Library in Spencerport, NY (half-way between my folks in Greece and my brother in Brockport, and home to an aunt,) has a blog. Now, if the director of a library that serves a population of approximately 3500 thinks it’s worth her time to blog, what’s your director’s excuse?
Oh, and did I mention they’re getting iPods to circulate? Check out what they’re pre-loading them with:
“In addition, we will offer iPod devices for borrowing. Some iPods will be pre-loaded with a recorded tour of the Village and Town so visitors can find their way to places like Coffee Cabana, Grandpa Sam’s, the Unique Shop, Union Street Primitives, and Afrikamba Curios. Also loaded on the devices will be a pre-recorded historic tour of the Village that can be used by local people and school children studying the Erie Canal. Other iPods can be borrowed long-term by people traveling along the canal.”
Next time I’m back home, I’m going to make a point to stop by and meet Ms. Uttaro and thank her for being so progressive.
Meredith has done it again! Like last year’s wiki for ALA Chicago and the current CIL2006 wiki, she now gives us the ALA 2006 New Orleans Wiki.
The folks at FeedIcons.com are pushing the idea of a single, standard icon to indicate the presence of feeds. I like this idea. (If the Mozilla folks and the Microsoft folks can both agree on this icon, so can I.) I like this idea so much that I’ve already updated my link to this icon. But, and here’s the funny part, does anyone but me find it odd that if you want updates from this site you have to submit an e-mail address? Wouldn’t a feed but more appropriate?
I’m not a paranoid sort of person. Some waiter could steal my credit card number much more easily than someone who dumpster dives my trash but I use my shredder for just about all paper I’m going to throw out. Not because I’m worried about identiy theft, it’s just a habbit. However this guy took a torn up credit card application, taped it back together, filled it out and sent it in. Several weeks later he received a credit card! Maybe I should be paranoid if only for the stupidity of the credit card companies.
via BoingBoing
