This guest post is from Crystal Anne. Crystal Anne with An E comes to us from a sunny clime, but prefers to remain a pale indoor cat. She enjoys reading, cross-stitching something nerdy, going to see live music, and playing video games. She works as an autism consultant by day, got a degree in information science for fun, and currently serves on her local library advisory board. … Last year, I wrote about my quest … Continue reading Guest Post: Library Board Adventuring One Year In →
Welcome back to Unlocking Library Coolness, where I take a tour of the different nifty opportunities that may await you at your local (library)! You can take a tour of the archives if you’re curious what other marvelous discoveries I’ve made while researching, as there are many services and unique offerings at public libraries. (You probably knew that, though.) This month: learning! Learning All The Things! Online education is not new, but library subscriptions to … Continue reading Unlocking Library Coolness: Learning! All the Learning! →
This year, one of the new regular columns I started and really enjoy writing is Unlocking Library Coolness, wherein I share unique and terrific resources I’ve discovered within local libraries, opportunities and items beyond the expected and inestimable excellence of All The Reading Materials. This year, I’ve covered: Libby, the new app from Overdrive that includes audiobooks, ebooks, and in some cases, magazines Different language learning options, which as a wannabe polyglot, I adore (current language … Continue reading Unlocking Library Coolness: Library Resolutions! →
Welcome back to Unlocking Library Coolness, where I take everyone on a tour of the nifty-sweet features that may be part of your local library. We’ve covered Libby, and language learning options, and then magazine options for digital browsing. That last one has giving me a wonderful summer of cross stitching . Wanna see? Well, if not, too bad, because here comes gratuitous pictures of my cross stitch in progress! I mentioned there were many … Continue reading Unlocking Library Coolness: Cookbooks! →
Welcome back to Unlocking Library Coolness, where I take everyone on a tour of the nifty-sweet features that may be part of your local library. We’ve covered Libby, and language learning options, but now, it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, so how about magazine reading! If you’re traveling and take a tablet with you, you can read a metric wagonhaul of magazines through your local library. I know from all the advertisements on the podcasts … Continue reading Unlocking Library Coolness: Magazines! →
Last time in Unlocking Library Coolness, I introduced you to the magical funtime that is Libby, Overdrive’s new app (which everyone in my house now uses and loves). I even overheard folks at RT last week talking about Libby, and how easy it is to use. Today I’m going to talk about some other features of my library that are likely available to you as well: should you wish to learn or practice foreign languages, … Continue reading Unlocking Library Coolness: Language Learning →
If your public library offers Hoopla Digital services, and 1,200 of them in the US and Canada do so far, you’ve got access to a metric tonne of digital streaming. My local library doesn’t participate (though several other counties in Maryland do, including Frederick County, Howard, Prince George’s, Prince William, and Charles County, along with much of eastern Maryland). But my former local library in New Jersey does – and I’m sad I didn’t realize … Continue reading If You’ve Got Hoopla, You’ve Got a Lot to Enjoy →
