{"id":726,"date":"2009-09-10T09:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/why-am-i-in-a-coffee-shop-and-not-a-library-librarians-matter\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:03:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:03:41","slug":"why-am-i-in-a-coffee-shop-and-not-a-library-librarians-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2009\/09\/10\/why-am-i-in-a-coffee-shop-and-not-a-library-librarians-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I in a coffee shop and not a library? | Librarians Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<p>An excellent list of reasons your users might choose to hang out in a coffee shop instead of a library, and something we should all think about when designing our user experience.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The electricity just went off at my house, and won\u2019t be on for about two hours. I had been procrastinating for days on some writing with a tight deadline and I had *finally* written one sentence when I lost power.<\/p>\n<p>I am now working at my favourite coffee shop, and it occurred to me that my local public library is closer to where I parked my car. So why am I here, not in there?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/why-am-i-in-a-coffee-shop-and-not-a-library\/\">http:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/why-am-i-in-a-coffee-shop-and-not-a-library\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/ahniwa.posterous.com\/why-am-i-in-a-coffee-shop-and-not-a-library-l\">The Imposterous Wa<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent list of reasons your users might choose to hang out in a coffee shop instead of a library, and something we should all think about when designing our user experience. The electricity just went off at my house, and won\u2019t be on for about two hours. I had been procrastinating for days on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}