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Article Excerpt
It seems the longer I stay in libraries, the less my job comes to resemble a "normal" library job. Now I do mostly communications work, finding new ways to talk about the various and sundry library initiatives on our campus. I've been asked, more than once, if I "had" to go to library school for all this, and people tend to assume I'm not actually a librarian at all.
But I am a librarian, and whether I "had" to go to library school or not, I'm glad I did, and I see a very "librarianly" thread that runs through each of my successive endeavors. I've always needed to move information from the place it was into a place that people were.
This brings me to today's topic--a simple idea to move the knowledge you have to where people are when they visit your library. This is, increasingly, at a computer screen. We'll be talking about code today, but don't worry: I'm no programmer, and you need not be one either. Mostly, if you can copy and paste, you can make some magic happen.
An Unlikely Place to Start--Active Desktop
We're going to utilize a built-in feature of Windows-based computers called Active Desktop. Active Desktop was created to display web content without...
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