Here are some of the ideas we're thinking about for the November 2007 open house.

VIDEO GAMING

-- Mary can bring her PS2 and Wii and people can try video games

OLDIES BUT GOODIES

-- How/why should you have a scanner in your library for public use?

HOW TO SECURE A PUBLIC COMPUTER

-- tools for doing this include DeepFreeze, Windows Shared Computer Toolkit, etc

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

-- inexpensive ways to make your computers more handicap-accessible. BigShot screen zoom technology (Roxbury uses this), special keyboard...

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

-- Pines Open Source ILS

-- other open source resources (such as Open Office), etc

SOCIAL NETWORKING

-- latest Social Networking tools - this is still a very popular topic

GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BROWSER

-- "Tabbed" features of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox -- what the new browsers can do for you

PODCASTING/VODCASTING

Audio and visual ways of communicating over the Internet

New Search Engines

what are they and why use them

TECH TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR USERS

-- Instant messaging

-- Flickr, MySpace

-- Blogs, wikis

VISTA and Office 2007-- a preview?

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