TechSoup’s MaintainIT Project has published their much-anticipated Joy of Computing Cookbook, a wonderful collection of resources for librarians charged with looking after public computers. While prepared specifically for those working in small and rural libraries, the content of this “cookbook” is so rich that anyone supporting public computing services in any type of library will be sure to find something of value.

Just be cautious about taking the cookbook metaphor too far – my own experiments with the edibility of computer hardware have produced disappointing results…