Libraries
Apple's expanded iPad lineup complicates the decision process when you're looking to buy one of its new tablets. Here's a quick overview to help you out.
Optical character recognition allows us to transform a scan of a document into searchable, sortable text that we can analyze. See a comparison of OCR tools!
Read the news about libraries as social services organizations, a super green library, the Save the Internet Act, day-in-the-life librarian gems, and more!
Memory loss affects 40 percent of all U.S. adults over 65. Libraries have started hosting Memory Cafés for these people and their caregivers.
The librarian interview podcast Circulating Ideas has been going for several years now. Here Steve Thomas, talks about how he started and his library heroes.
libraries are working hard to listen to the local concerns and tailor their programs to meet specific needs of their communities, including the homeless.
Read the news about cool library cards, the open data movement, the 2019 ALA Midwinter Meeting, apps to better control smartphone use, and 3D-printed houses.
Here is what you can do if you receive a Google Docs share notification from someone you don't know. Avoid granting a rogue app permission to send spam!
Bad passwords account for most cybersecurity breaches. Discover different reliable ways to create truly unhackable passwords that you can actually remember.
The pace and distractions of modern life have caused a sleep deprivation epidemic. Here are some resources for an awareness campaign at your library.
Read the story of a library that added video games to its Library of Things collection. It was an instant hit with millennial patrons!
Read our predictions about privacy, cyberbullying, graphic design, fake news, media labs and makerspaces and, as always, our favorite bleeding-edge tech.
