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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