Best Practices

Colorado Starts to Migrate

Submitted by Lisa Priebe, Assistant Director, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), lpriebe@clicweb.org   The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) was awarded a 2012-2013 LSTA grant to help pay migration costs for several small rural libraries to AspenCat, a union catalog of 35 small public, school, academic, and special libraries. AspenCat runs on an open source Koha system...

Services for Older Adults

Submitted by Diantha Dow Schull, DDSchull Associates, www.ddschull.com   It is my pleasure to announce publication of 50+ Library Services: Innovation in Action, published by ALA Editions. This book examines the key issues driving change in how libraries work with older adults, and explores the implications of these changes for the library profession. The research...

Managing Data in Arizona

Submitted by Jason LeDuc, Director of Sales, Counting Opinions, jleduc@countingopinions.com   The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records is a multi-faceted organization with six divisions. The Library Development Division provides consulting and best practices services, continuing education, and summer reading and early literacy programs, as well as administering LSTA grant funding and collecting public...

Project ENABLE: Effective Library and Information Services to Students with Disabilities

Submitted by Jessica Stewart, Master’s Degree Candidate, Library and Information Science-School Media   Librarians who are well trained in providing high level services to their patrons with disabilities results in patrons who will have access to information resources and technologies for learning equal to their non-disabled peers. The ultimate consequence to these patrons is the...

Everyday Assistive Technology on the Go: Identifying Characteristic of Popular Apple Apps for People with Disabilities

Submitted by Christina C. Wray, Librarian, Center for Disability Information and Referral, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington, ccwray@indiana.edu   With the advent of the iPhone in July of 2007, the idea of what mobile computing is and could be was forever changed. Since that time, not only have the choices of...