The Travelin' Librarian

“What you’ve put on your action plan my be written in pen, but it’s not written in stone.”
— Michelle Leininger, State Library of Iowa

IA Rural Sustainability Workshops
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For those looking for them, photos from this trip can be found in their own flickr set.

Here’s another idea that I just heard, advertise the fact that your library has a shredder. If you have more than one, maybe hold a shredding party at the library. Add a local police officer to talk about identitiy theft and you’ve got an event.

Here at the IA Rural Sustainability conference, we’re currently talking about what libraries can do for their patrons. One librarian just shared with us the fact that a good number of her older patrons who sign up for e-mail accounts on the library computers soon forget their password. What she does is write the password down and keep each one in an envelope in her desk. (Her service population is measured in the hundreds so this is probably not practical for larger libraries.)

Here’s the story of someone who bough a new Dell laptop and found a keylogger built into the computer without his permission. The Department of Homepand Security says that the information about this is “exempt from FOIA”!

UPDATE: As a commenter points out, this is a hoax.