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Cool MS Surface App in Delft
Wow! How many library cards can do this? Man, I go away for a month and look at what I missed: Multitouch Microsoft Surface: Cultural Heritage Browser from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo. At DOK, they’ve made an app for their Microsoft Surface table that first reads a patron’s profile off of their library [...]
Shanachies at Queens Library
Here’s a guest post from Jennifer Thompson, Young Adult Specialist at Brooklyn Public Library Greenpoint Branch. Recently, I attended a program at the Flushing branch of the Queens Library titled “Innovation in Libraries by the Shanachies.” The two presenters, Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer, consider themselves “shanachies,” a Gaelic term meaning storytellers. They [...]
