One rural IA librarian just shared the story of a patron who was looking to buy a used car. The patron found the listing, took the seller’s phone number, Googled it, found the seller’s address, and then, using Google Maps, pulled up a satellite image of the house attempting to see if he could see the car parked in the seller’s driveway. The patron was ultimately unsuccessful, but it’s a very creative use of the avilable resources.
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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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