Monthly Archives: March 2016

Lesson 8 Prep

March 31, 2016Uncategorizedtheresay

Hi fellow SAPLers! Anyone up for a virtual conversation? Let’s set up a “screen date” between our branch iPads and get lesson 8 done 🙂

Lesson 7 – 404 pages

March 31, 2016internetinternettheresay

I really like it when a company takes the time to design an entertaining 404 page. Often times, it’s user error that will bring up a page not found notice, so it’s good that we can laugh about it. Looks like I’m not the only one who enjoys them, either:

One of my favorite 404 pages is the one for Ravelry, featuring Sherbert the Sheep:

rav 404

Badges

March 31, 2016badgesbadgestheresay

Maybe it’s just me, but wow – we’re getting a lot of badges this time around. Good thing that ninja is so adorable 🙂

Lesson 6 Challenge

March 21, 2016databasesdatabasestheresay

The latest selection for the North East Senior Center Book Group is Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, so I used this book for this challenge.

For appeal factors, I selected Books to Movies, Romantic, and Love Triangles.

water factors

This gave me a list of 12 titles with these factors. I like that I’m able to further refine the search with the optional filters on the left.

similar to water

I don’t usually like historical fiction, but I think I might try Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis DeBernieres. I like how you get further recommendations when you select a book, listed there on the right.

ral result

I can see this being useful for that bookaholic patron who has read all your suggestions and wants something new!

Badge update

March 21, 2016badgesbadgestheresay

The thing about doing these slightly ahead of the crowd is that I forget to go back and check the live posts. Missed a couple of badges! I have to say, I really like that we can pick up our badges from Dropbox directly, instead of waiting for the 11.5 team to email it to us. It saves a lot of time on our end 🙂