The Mystery of Excel’s Popularity

Every month I teach between 3 and 4 computer classes for the public.  Usually one will be on mouse skills, and then the rest rotate between email, Word, internet basics, job searching and Excel.  For some reason, the Excel classes are always packed.  I mean, 9 people signed up and 5 on the wait list.  [...]

Gaming in Libraries

A few weeks ago, I attended a workshop at MPOW called “Gaming and the New Literacy”, presented by Beth Galloway.  I was one of the very, very few people representing an Adult Services department at this training; all but two or three of the attendees were YS or YA librarians.  Bringing an adult-centric viewpoint to a [...]