Link Love

A little "link love" as we head towards the weekend:

The Florida Library Association will be opening its new office next week in Lake City. (Nice to see the association will continue to have its headquarters in the NEFLIN area). FLA’s new Executive Director, Faye Roberts, will share a building with the Bank of America and provides offices for Faye and Kelly Green, FLA’s new half-time administrative assistant/bookkeeper.

St. Johns County Public Library passed on a link to their Library Thing Local account. Staff can easily add upcoming events. A neat, free PR tool. Thanks, Jae.

Library Garden recently linked to an interesting blog where each week staff from this public library takes an item from their reference collection and have librarians on staff vote to keep it or let it go. "Budgets are tight and we are trying to determine the best use of our funds. The entries and work we are doing is serious, but the comments often stray to the humorous."

I use technology, but I am not that passionate about it. It's a tool. I love it when it works, etc. However, I do find that I am passionate about one thing...Firefox. A web browser alternative to Internet Explorer. Much of this stems from an incident a few years back when a virus ate my computer thanks to Internet Explorer. When searching out an alternative I came to love the speed, look, feel, adds-on, customization available, and so forth of Firefox. The Swiss Army Librarian has a nice read entitled Using Firefox on Our Public Computers. Good stuff!

Gee willikers! Check out this swell 1950s-style educational film that gives you the A-B-Cs of having a jim-dandy time at ALA Annual Conference. It's packed with so many super tips that every Billy and Sue out there will exclaim, "Golly! Can we watch it again?"