Future Retro

29 Dec 201415 Dec 2016

Everything old is new again to somebody, somewhere. While plenty of inventions get their 15 minutes (if that) of fame and are never heard from again, some things find a…

Totally 80s: Dot matrix printer paper

17 Dec 201418 Dec 2014

Welcome the next installment of my year-long look back at the decade that was ruled by big hair and bigger egos. Every other week I’ll be covering pop culture tidbits…

Preserving Information: It’s Not Magic, It’s People (And it takes a lot of work!)

8 Dec 201415 Dec 2016

What does it mean to be a paper-pusher in the digital age? For librarians, archivists, and others who help preserve our many, many, many paper trails, it means having to…

The Story of a Forty Dollar Tablet

17 Nov 201415 Dec 2016

Sometimes investing in technology is meaningful. Other times, it's an experiment. The latter was certainly the case when I picked up (mostly on a whim) a new tablet for $40.…

Totally 80s: Library card catalogs

4 Jun 20143 Jun 2014

Welcome the next installment of my year-long look back at the decade that was ruled by big hair and bigger egos. Every other week I’ll be covering pop culture tidbits…

Fare thee well G4, and godspeed, I guess.

26 Sep 201224 May 2013

I present the following departure that was influenced by this article and this one, and this episode of NUReview's podcast C'mon, Step It Up! ******************************************************************************* Alas poor G4, I knew…