Curtis Rogers posts about the first patron to use the newly installed public WiFi at South Carolina State University Library. What’s cool about this is the fact that the patron found the connection without being told it existed [This was an incorrect assumption. See the comments for the correction. M] and that Curtis took a photo of the happy user and posted it to the library’s Flickr account.
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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One Reply to “Flickr, WiFi and a happy patron”
Thanks for the praise, just a few FYIs: This is at the South Carolina State Library, not affiliated with any university. Also, she came in with a laptop so we told her that we had -just- installed the WiFi and she was welcome to be our first user. Not exactly on her own, but we certainly hadn’t been advertising yet. I’m glad she let us take her picture for posterity.
Amanda Stone South Carolina State Library Reference Librarian
Thanks for the praise, just a few FYIs: This is at the South Carolina State Library, not affiliated with any university. Also, she came in with a laptop so we told her that we had -just- installed the WiFi and she was welcome to be our first user. Not exactly on her own, but we certainly hadn’t been advertising yet. I’m glad she let us take her picture for posterity.
Amanda Stone
South Carolina State Library
Reference Librarian