Old is new again
People sometimes ask me, “Whatever happened to the card catalog”? Hayward Public Library was one the first libraries to computerize its catalog way back in the 1980′s. Since that time, our card...
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Vine is Twitter for videos — it only allows up to six seconds of video, in a continuous loop. Unlike Twitter, with video this kind of rigid constraint helps push creativity to the limit. Check out...
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The local newspaper reporter called me up earlier this week, wanting to do a story on our seed lending library. Already, I’m thrilled. So we talk for a while about the project, about libraries, about...
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“A house without books is like a room without windows.” ― Horace Mann [Image: Vintage Book Week poster, circa 1936]
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