Not Safe for Libraries

Episode 5: … with Amanda Goodman!

For this episode I got to do something new: I interviewed Amanda Goodman, the hands-down-awesome User Experience Librarian at Darien Public Library. We talk the future of libraries, digital media labs and makerspaces(!), the web [of course …], MUDs, coding, and other stuff - including at the end a special reveal of Amanda’s #bigproject. Enjoy!

NS4LIB #4: Front-End Librarianship Curriculum

So, you’re an aspiring librarian—or whatever—and you want to be behind the cool web stuff. That’s great! But what should you learn? Oh! And I am going to hit more on mobile-first web design, future friendliness, and so much more. Have you checked out the new site? Yes! www.ns4lib.com

NS4LIB #3: Mobility Trumps Mobile

In today’s episode, we mull over new data from the HTTP Archive and rehash what we already knew—courtesy of Pew—about tablet ownership. I review UX Design for Libraries, take on In the Library with the Lead Pipe, and then briefly turn the discussion from mobile/desktop design to design for mobility. Good stuff, amirite?!

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NS4LIB #2: Kill the Carousel

Are front-end librarians so eager to drop support for legacy browsers? Maybe this isn’t the argument to have. Boston University Libraries gets a new jacket but its missing the lapels. QR Codes still kind of suck, PEW disagrees - but we’re not really talking about that. CSS3 transitions are tons of fun. And I dropped (and had a lot of fun going back and bleeping-out) a few F-bombs :). 

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NS4LIB #1: the Pilot Episode

This first, kind-of-a-test-run episode for the new podcast Not Safe 4 Libraries (the show about front-end librarianship) is short and sweet. You’re introduced to Dave Molsen’s node.js app ‘Throttle’ and I muse for a bit about dropping support for IE7. Also, consider playing a drinking game while I stutter my way nervously through “um’s”.