Thursday, November 4, 2010

Google docs (thing 18); more clouds

More is not necessarily better, so I'm sticking, for this post, with Google Docs. We need to figure out how to help library customers set up their documents in Google Docs instead of Word. The Innovation Cohort tried its best to encourage MCPL to make thumb drives available to our customers--we could have sold them cheaply and even branded them with our logo. But somehow the logistics of this presented an insurmountable challenge. So why not move our users to a cloud based online productivity tool? Google Docs is versatile and works easily for anyone who's used a word-processing program; it also allows for editing or markups by someone else. My middle schooler submits about half of his papers this way, especially the ones that are part of group projects. It's time to help our library user achieve the same flexibility and productivity.

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