I don’t get to play with cutting-edge tech. Don’t register that as a complaint: that’s simply a condition of working in libraries. Libraries aren’t research and development companies. However, when a newish-to-libraries technology comes creeping close enough to the mainstream (and a library’s minimal budget), there are bound to be administrators who will be ready to pounce, for the alleged honor of being the first to use it.
Author Biography
Laura Solomon
Laura Solomon is the library services manager for the Ohio Public Library Information Network (https://oplin.ohio.gov/) and a W3C-certified front-end web developer. She has been doing web development and design for more than twenty years, both in public libraries and as an independent consultant. She specializes in developing with Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/). She is a 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker (https://www.libraryjournal.com/section/movers). She’s written three books (https://www.meanlaura.com/books) about social media and content marketing, specifically for libraries, and speaks nationally on both these and technology-related topics. As a former children’s librarian, she enjoys bringing the fun of technology to audiences and giving libraries the tools they need to better serve the virtual customer.
