Elizabeth B. Thomsen

Spring Library Photographs

Elizabeth Thomsen — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:39:16 +0000

It’s spring! Birds are singing, trees are blossoming and flowers are blooming. It’s a good time to take the camera outside and take some pictures of your library in all its spring loveliness to put on your library’s website or post on Flickr or Facebook. Sometimes we’re so focused on taking pictures inside the library, [...]

WordPress Plugin: Enable Media Replace

Elizabeth Thomsen — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:20:27 +0000

This simple WordPress plugin created by Måns Jonasson is useful for almost anyone who maintains a WordPress site of any size, but it’s especially useful if you maintain documentation of any kind and have a frequent need to update screenshots. It does exactly what the name implies — it makes it easy for you to [...]

Pinterest Pins and the Library Catalog

Elizabeth Thomsen — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:31:07 +0000

It’s very easy to pin a record from the library catalog to one of your boards. I’m going to assume that you have already added the Pin It button to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. If not, you’ll find more information on that on the Pinterest Goodie page. Step One: Go to the full record page [...]

Pinterest Widgets

Elizabeth Thomsen — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:31:26 +0000

You can add a visual link to either your library’s Pinterest account or to one of your boards using the Pinterest Widget Builder. You just enter the URL for your profile or a board, and get back a line of HTML to add to your page. You also need to add a line of Javascript [...]

Posting a Pinterest Board on Facebook

Elizabeth Thomsen — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:47:53 +0000

It’s easy to post a Pinterest board on Facebook, and it doesn’t matter if it’s your own board or someone else’s (as long as it’s public.) Just copy and paste the URL for the board into Facebook’s post box. It will look like this: Not bad! We can declutter things a bit by removing the [...]

Posting a NextReads Newsletter on Your Facebook Page

Elizabeth Thomsen — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:15:16 +0000

NOBLE subscribes to the NextReads newsletter service, and users can subscribe to receive booklists on a variety of topics by e-mail or read them through our NextReads archive. You can also post these on your library Facebook page, which will put them in the newsfeed for people who like your page, where people can take [...]

Posting a Catalog Search Link on Your Facebook Page

Elizabeth Thomsen — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:55:37 +0000

Sometimes it’s handy to be able to post a catalog search link to your library page. Clicking on the link will take people directly to current search results in the catalog. In NOBLE’s Evergreen catalog, you can perform any sort of search, including advanced searches with limiters, and just copy and paste the URL from [...]

Posting an OverDrive Book on Your Library’s Facebook Page

Elizabeth Thomsen — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:41:39 +0000

It’s very easy to post a link to an OverDrive book to your library’s Facebook page. This is an especially good thing to do with the Always Available titles that never have holds! Just go to the title in our OverDrive collection, and click on the Facebook share link: This will set up a post [...]

Adding a Link to Your Facebook Page

Elizabeth Thomsen — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:08:22 +0000

There are lots of good reasons to add links to your library’s Facebook page, including sharing news from your library website, sharing a website you think will be helpful to your library users, or passing along an interesting article. If you just enter a URL in the post box and click on the Post button, [...]

Links for a Library Presentation

Elizabeth Thomsen — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:22:17 +0000

Beyond Basic Google Search Limit by Date Sites with Images Translated Foreign Pages Site Specific Search Google Custom Search (Example: ArtSearch) History Historical Marker Database — A collaborative collection of historical markers Smithsonian Collection Search — Includes information about outdoor sculpture and much more (Example: Choate Monument, Salem) Old Bailey Online — Complete transcripts of [...]

When Books Go Digital

Elizabeth Thomsen — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:04:27 +0000

Here’s the PowerPoint I used for a presentation at a faculty meeting at North Shore Community College earlier this week, with all the relevant links below: OverDrive NOBLE OverDrive — NOBLE’s collection of downloadable ebook and audiobooks OverDrive’s Help Site — Here’s help for using different ebook readers, audio players and mobile devices with our [...]

Hiding Images on the Library Facebook Page

Elizabeth Thomsen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:19:44 +0000

Here’s a simple tip for managing images on your library’s Facebook page. The most recent five images added to your Facebook account display in a row at the top of the page. It’s always the most recent five photos but they display in random order — try reloading your page to see. I mention this [...]