How do you maintain your public computers?
Librarians want to know.
Librarians want to know.
At a dinner party last weekend, someone asked the host if she cooked meals for her family during the week. The cook responded favorably, admitting that she had a few tried and true recipes in heavy rotation. My dinner mate followed up with, "what are your favorite go-to recipes?"
What a terrific question! I leaned in, eager for her response. Her answer surprised me in its creativity and simplicity, which got me thinking (as allusions to cooking often do...).
Chris JowaisisWhat's your go-to process for daily maintenance? Is there a procedure you follow, or a typical task you perform each day? What about each week, or month? What works for you?
Please add your comments below, or get in touch with us and tell us what you do in your library.
If you'd like to learn more about daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks in other libraries, look to Meal Plan 2 in the Joy of Computing, A Cookbook for Rural and Small Libraries.
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Tell us about your daily routine maintaining public computers, or a moment when you were particularly proud. Don't forget that what might be "that's nothing" to you may be an "aha!" to someone else!
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