{"id":555,"date":"2011-04-19T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/?p=555"},"modified":"2011-04-19T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:59:34","slug":"librarius-at-cohasset-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/2011\/04\/19\/librarius-at-cohasset-library\/","title":{"rendered":"LibrariUS at Cohasset Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/Paul-Pratt-widget-sml1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-557 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/Paul-Pratt-widget-sml1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/Paul-Pratt-widget-sml1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/Paul-Pratt-widget-sml1-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paul Pratt Memorial Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cohassetlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Pratt Memorial<\/a> is, as far as I know, the first library that has embedded the LibrariUS widget onto its homepage (Thanks, Jackie and Tom!).\u00a0 I am so excited to hear more about library use and life in Cohasset through what people tell us at the library.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you, too, can participate in LibrariUS &#8212; the <a title=\"ALA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Library Association<\/a>, the <a title=\"PLA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/pla\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Public Library Association<\/a>, and the <a title=\"Public Insight Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Insight Network<\/a> at American Public Media&#8217;s collaboration to explore community information and other needs through the lens of local libraries:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put yourself on the map.\u00a0 Visit the <a title=\"LibrariUS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\" target=\"_blank\">LibrariUS website<\/a> and tell us what <strong><em>you&#8217;re<\/em><\/strong> doing at the library today.<\/li>\n<li>Get your library &#8212; one you work at or one you use &#8212; to participate by bookmarking the LibrariUS site on public computers at the library or by embedding our widget on the library homepage (details below).\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have flyers soon (with <a title=\"QR code intro\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/what-is-a-qr-code-and-why-do-you-need-one-27588\" target=\"_blank\">QR codes<\/a> for smartphone users who aren&#8217;t at a computer), too.<\/li>\n<li>Invite your friends and librarians to LibrariUS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Our official launch is tomorrow.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep you posted.\u00a0 Feel free to contact me at <a title=\"Melody's email\" href=\"mng@americanpublicmedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">mng@americanpublicmedia.org<\/a> or 651-290-1499 if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone from BiblioNews who&#8217;s helped to put some points on the map in advance!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Widget <\/strong><strong>Instructions<\/strong><br \/>\nTo embed the LibrariUS widget, copy and paste this code into your library&#8217;s website source code. The larger widget requires at least 325px of horizontal space; the smaller, 250px.\u00a0 If you have any questions or difficulties (or need a different sized widget), please contact web developer Than Tibbetts at <a title=\"Than's email\" href=\"ttibbetts@americanpublicmedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">ttibbetts@americanpublicmedia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LibrariUS widget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\/widget\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">325 pixel version<\/a><br \/>\n&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type=&#8221;text\/javascript&#8221; src=<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\/widget\/widget.js\">&#8220;http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\/widget\/widget.js&#8221;<\/a>&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LibrariUS widget 250px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\/widget\/widget-250.html\" target=\"_blank\">250 pixel version<\/a><br \/>\n&lt;div id=&#8221;alawidget&#8221;&gt;&lt;script src=<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\/widget\/widget-250.js\">&#8220;http:\/\/www.publicinsightnetwork.org\/librarius\/widget\/widget-250.js&#8221;<\/a>&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/LibrariUS-widget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-558\" src=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/LibrariUS-widget-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/LibrariUS-widget-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/LibrariUS-widget.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pratt Memorial is, as far as I know, the first library that has embedded the LibrariUS widget onto its homepage (Thanks, Jackie and Tom!).\u00a0 I am so excited to hear more about library use and life in Cohasset through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/2011\/04\/19\/librarius-at-cohasset-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,10,23,55,62],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-conference-conversation","tag-american-library-association","tag-biblionews","tag-collaboration","tag-journalism","tag-libraries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}