Last weekend, I went to the annual Tee-Off mini golf event at the Brookline Public Library. As a first time visitor, I was mini-golfing with my phone at the ready. Special thanks to the AMAZING librarian rockstar Robin Brenner for so many great ideas. It truly is worth a visit just to see her teen room. Here are a few 3D printing/marketing ideas to takeaway: Having a 3D printer filtration cart would be wonderful in our library. Look at the price if you dare. Right now I have to go downstairs to retrieve prints because we are concerned about the fumes and little hands touching anything while the printer is on. I have a video camera set up downstairs using an iPad 2 and the free app called Presence for monitoring but sometimes I do forget to keep checking the presence website while I'm on the desk especially since it makes this annoying beeping sound to say, "Are you still watching?!"..As the sign reveals on the cart, the propensity to want to lean or...
In 2013 I attended a demonstration of using an RPi as an OPAC. At the time the presenter used kiosk software which was not completely viable as an OPAC. I did buy an RPi for my own use however. Five Pi's later, I have found that the RPi 3 can be used as a viable OPAC. I am currently in the process of replacing our 8 thin client OPACs with RPi's. I went with Raspbian Jessie using the Pixel desktop and the Chromium browser. I edited autostart to stop the screen saver and load Chromium. I am refining the Chromium setup to limit browsing, Our OPACs are filtered using a CIPA filter, but I have found that patrons do browse away from the catalog, checking mail and in one case shopping on Amazon (and not closing their account when they finished, this by the way was on a thin client not an RPi). I know some additional refinement will be necessary. but I'm pretty confident the RPi's will work as OPAC's.
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