Get Your Training on in April!
Infopeople’s April Training Calendar offers libraries and library staff of all types a goldmine of possibilities. Noting that the American Library Association’s Code of Ethics for us library folk...
View ArticleWhy We Rebooted–and Why You Need to Reboot, Too
Yesterday, Infopeople announced the grand reopening–okay, the notice–of the free (free!) independent online learning series, Affordable Care Act @ Your California Public Library. And no, it wasn’t an...
View ArticlePatrons? Customers? Users? Clients?
It’s only words and words are all [we] have —The Beegees While school libraries, however otherwise beleaguered they may be (and definitely are!) can rest with relative ease on the habit of calling...
View ArticleSpringing the Numbers
At the onset of April, we posted Infopeople’s busy and rich offerings for the month. And, wow, library staff got busy, too, and signed up, signed in, and signified a grand scale of engagement! Here’s a...
View ArticleWhat’s going ’round
The past month (and in almost any “past month”), tech media stories have been awash with a few high profile stories that cry out for library-level responses. The pair selected for highlighting here...
View ArticleTwitter as a professional development tool, q&a
A few hours ago, we hosted a webinar on Using Twitter for Professional Development–right up to the moment when the interwebs decided to shut down. Happily, Infopeople’s planful staff had been...
View ArticleBig week for all (library) things net
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released yesterday its 2014 report on Who Has Your Back –a quick, clean way to see which online company platforms protect user privacy to what degree. It’s essential...
View ArticleAmerican news habits and information needs
A week ago, during a multi-organization meeting about how public libraries play a role in connecting federal and state policy information to the community members in need of the real scoop, the topic...
View ArticleBrowsing as an art and lifeskill
One of this year’s recurring topics at Book Expo revolves around the current book industry reconsideration of DRM (the digital rights management coding that essentially keeps ebooks and eaudio locked...
View ArticleListening to literature
June, we have been celebrating across nearly two decades now, is Audiobook Month. In many parts of California, the audiobook experience is tied to car-based commuting, and, in agricultural areas,...
View ArticleLibrarians going beyond Google
In a continuing series of engaging panel discussions hosted by American Libraries, AL Live, the episode presented last Thursday offered a rich mix of observations, insights, and big questions about how...
View ArticleNational Archives and Wikipedia
The continuing development of the US Open Government Plan, first promoted in 2010, and leading, in 2011, to the naming of a Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives (NARA), is set to go the...
View ArticleTeaching privacy?
With the word “privacy” appearing in both online and offline discussions of how we live in 2014, how do we make time to analyze and consider, and then put into use, the very best practices we can in...
View ArticleFact checking checkup
Ferreting out fact from rumor, uninformed opinion, and outright falsehood underpins the work of all types of libraries. As we continue to work in an information ecosystem undergoing explosive growth...
View ArticlePublic libraries, the Affordable Care Act, and news in 2014
With the initial healthcare insurance enrollment period, and the attendant media running up to and during those months, just fading in memory, it’s already time to use what we learned and improve on...
View ArticleLearners have come a long way with tech developments
For the past decade, Infopeople has offered a course for all library types and staff classifications on Weeding for Your Library’s Health. More accurately, we’ve offered an ever evolving course...
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