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.)
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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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