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- SurfacingDecember 17 2008
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Over a year-and-a-half ago, I said we would have one in our new library.Fait accompli.
Our Surface arrived this week. We’ve been talking about it internally for awhile as a theoretical purchase. Now it’s a reality. It’s already made Microsoft’s Surface Blog, too! It’s actually surprisingly easy to get one. I thought we’d have to jump through hoops, sign NDAs, and give up our first-borns. Not so.
So what are we going to do with it? We’re giving it to the kids. We have a perfect little niche in the Children’s Room that was literally designed with power and data in the floor to accommodate surface computing. Yes that’s right. Designed for the Surface.
We decided to put it in the Children’s Room for several very basic reasons. Kids will just “get it” immediately without any explanation. Kids are tactile creatures who are very comfortable with hands-on activity. If we can give
- Closed ForeverNovember 27 2008
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Never again will a book be lent from 35 Leroy Avenue. See the final day flickr photoset.
- Darien Library: The Great Good PlaceNovember 26 2008
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Former Darien Library board president Alice Look created this wonderful retrospective. Today at 6:00 PM, the doors will close on 35 Leroy Avenue forever. When we reopen on January 10th, 2009 in our new location, we will be one of the first New Libraries–a third place that engages and enriches the community. The short six minute video is named after the book by Ray Oldenburg that inspired many of our design decisions.
I’m really proud of the people I work with. If it were possible to capture in a single word the confluence of physical space, library science, technology, focus on service, hospitality, and user experience that our new building embodies, it would be something akin to “masterpiece”.
But we’ve got miles to go before …
- Drupal4Lib Camp in DarienNovember 17 2008
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If you’re planning on going to Code4Lib in Providence this year, you might want to consider a short train ride down to Darien for the Friday after. The first official unconference in our new building will be a fun-filled day of Drupal for libraries goodness. It’ll be like brownies, without the nuts.Here is the official announcement:
Darien Library will be hosting a “Drupal4Lib Camp” on Friday, February 27, 2009 from 9 am to 4 pm.
The camp will be an opportunity for libraries who are working with Drupal, or interested in implementing Drupal, to get together, share experiences, solve problems, and collaborate. This unconference will be a combination of a series of 10 min lightning talks given by Drupal veterans in the morning followed by break-out sessions in the afternoon.
Audio and video from Drupal4Lib Camp sessions will also be streamed lived online.
There is no registration fee. However, participation is limited to 70. Please register for the Drupal4Lib Camp at http://drupalib.interoperating.info/node/167
- Gaslighted by Google.November 17 2008
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Maybe one of you can explain this. The only think I could thing of is that some javascript wierdness is being exploited on Google’s end. I did notice a function call associated with the link click, but I think it’s just their counter. Unless that has somehow been comprimised.
I’ve actually moved my blog from the crappy hosting company I was using (thinking that they may have had something to do with it). But still the same issue. I even re-installed over a clean Wordpress code-base. Very odd. All fingers point to Google though, which now means that I have a personal anecdote about how Google’s market dominance has the potential to jack my mojo.