If not, you should be, IMHO. Anyway, here’s two somewhat technical articles related to this topic.
Hacking Firefox at my library: instructions & stuff Instructions on how to lock-down and tweak Firefox for public consumption. I don’t necessarily agree with everything suggested but I don’t have any problems big enough to complain about either.
40 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians There are a lot of Firefox add-ons out in the wild. Here’s a list of 40 that are most useful for us librarians. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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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2 Replies to “Thinking of using Firefox in your library?”
Thank you for linking to my Firefox instructions.
I’d like to clarify, though: that post is not about “recommendations” for hacking Firefox and what libraries “should” do, it’s just a detailed description of what I did at my library. It’s very specific to the needs of my library, which is why I sprinkle the post with notes about how you can change it to pretty much do whatever you want.
Thanks for the clarification. Sorry I wasn’t more specific. That’s what I get for trying to clean out the to-blog-list all in one day.:-)
Thank you for linking to my Firefox instructions.
I’d like to clarify, though: that post is not about “recommendations” for hacking Firefox and what libraries “should” do, it’s just a detailed description of what I did at my library. It’s very specific to the needs of my library, which is why I sprinkle the post with notes about how you can change it to pretty much do whatever you want.
Thanks for the clarification. Sorry I wasn’t more specific. That’s what I get for trying to clean out the to-blog-list all in one day.:-)