week 10 #23 the end

I've really enjoyed this. My favorite things were blogging, flicker, wikis, and digital media. I think this has given me more confidence in trying new things on the web, and I think I have a better attitude towards learning about these things. I was surprised at how much of this I could use in my personal life. I'm thinking about creating a personal blog, and looking forward to doing more with photos online, and hoping to do more downloading of music and books.
Here at HCPL, I think we could do more with wikis, flicker, and maybe we could explore some of the things libraries are doing with social networks like Second Life.
I'd like to learn something basic which is how to burn CDs. Also what exactly is Flash?

week 9 #22

Found LibriVox pretty limited, due to their public domain catalog. Wowio had some pretty neat stuff. All in all, I thought our digital catalog was pretty impressive. I found independent music from India (Spirit of India) that looked interesting. And I thought it was neat that we had a Bill Engvall video that could be downloaded. And I found a cookbook called Dream Dinners that looked interesting.

week 9 #21

Went to yahoo, but had trouble finding anything interesting about libraries. When I did find something, the recording didn't make sense as it refered to a picture, so I still had to go to the accompanying print article to see the picture. So I wound up reading the info anyway. then I went to podcastalley.com which was more user friendly that yahoo's audio selections, and I did find some library podcasts. Did an RSS feed through bloglines to "uncontrolled vocabulary" which seems to be a weekly call in show on library topics. Have to say, it was pretty boring and I was most unimpressed. Can see using this for training purposes, like attending a podcast for a conference that I can't attend in person.

week 9 #20

I like youtube because it's fun, and I like the way they organize the videos. I looked at videos on how to do push-ups, as I was pretty sure that I was not doing them correctly in my home workouts. Found a couple that were helpful. In library web-sites, videos could be used to publicize events, and programs, to catch people's interest, but of course, the problem of bandwidth is always there.

week 9 #19

Sample doc: Thanksgiving: wet and rainy, moving day for my daughter, dust & pet hair, family aggravations, good food, being together, good friends, too much cigarette smoke!

Thoughts: can see some uses for this, like the alternative to microsoft office.

week 8 #18

poked around in myspace, and facebook. My space does have more entertainment stuff but my daughter has a facebook account. If I was to do anything with this, I'd probably get on yahoo 360 as I already have a yahoo account. Still prefer face to face.

week 7 #17

There's a lot of things I love about technology: being able to call for help on my cell phone when I have car trouble., being able to instant message my daughter, e-mail. I think we have to watch out for getting too much technology, like when I had a answering machine, a voice mail account, etc. and I had three things to check whenever I wanted to see if someone was trying to reach me. We have to make sure the technology works for us, and doesn't create more work for us.

week 7 #16

finally get caught up a bit. enjoying looking at wiki. Especially enjoyed the library sucess wiki. I can see using a wiki for committees and other uses.

week 6 #15

Found these readings very interesting. The article on avoiding the 3 icebergs affirmed what I already have felt, that I need to avoid building a "just in case" collection, that we can't train all our patrons and really are wasting our time by trying to do so, and that we can't wait for people to come to us. I think a lot of the things we're doing are moving us into the right direction, this training among them. The article on cooperation had a great idea: a google map mashup of local libraries. Wouldn't it be great if we need something like this showing our libraries and HPL libraries? We spend a lot of time figuring which library a caller is closer to, and sometimes its a HPL library. The 2.0 librarian manifesto was inspiring to me. Library 2.0 to me means a constantly changing, exciting place to work and offer services to users.

week 6 #14

When I did the searches by keyword and tags, some of the results were the same. When I did the blog directory search, the results were completely different, which makes sense. When I explored the popular blogs, searches, and videos, I found some things that were quite interesting. I like the boingboing blog which it seems is the most popular blog of all, at least for right now.

week 6 #13

Have used the library's del. account some to see what websites might be handy for ref. Tried to install my own account but it wouldn't install the buttons on my home computer, probably because I have Vista and my husband has a google toolbar, etc. I can see the potential.

week 5 number 12

Tried to get into Library Elf and their server is down. Did get to see the demo yesterday and it looks like it would be a big help for patrons/staff who check out lots of stuff. Since I only check out for myself, I can usually keep track of my stuff pretty well. Will try again to get into elf.

week 5 #11 library thing

I already have been using Library Thing for a while. I use it to keep track of what I've read and what I would like to read. You can look at my list at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/claramaynard.

link to meez

http://www.meez.com/home.dm

week 5 number 10

didn't get to do yahoo avatars as they seem to having technical difficulties. But I'm looking forward to creating a yahoo avatar for my yahoo e-mail. Meez seemed pretty easy and it was fun.

Clara's Corner

week 4 #9

Of all the tools, I found Topix the easiest to use for finding news. I typed in "millionaire adventuerer" to find info about Steve Fosset, whose complete name I could not remember. Of the news related tools, Topix gave me more of what I was looking for. I tried Synidc 8, looking for library news, and found libraryplanet.com, which was interesting.

week 4 #8 part 2

Added some more feeds. This is fun. Will give me a place to put all my favorite web stuff.

week 4 #8 RSS

This could be very convenient. Added 8 newsfeeds, and will think about which ones I want to add next. Like the idea of filtering through all the stuff that comes in.

in lafayette louisiana

Here I am visiting my daughter and we are able to share our use of technology. She's shown me her facebook space and I'm going to show her my blog.

Week 3 #7

Here's my Jackson Square picture, but with a Halloween
theme!

flickr ihcpl week 3 #6

I like the trip function in Flickr. I can see using that to share trip photos with far away family and friends. Also like the Captioner and the Fastr mashups. Games and silliness are always welcome.

a friend

a friend
Originally uploaded by clara@aldine

This is an old friend here at Aldine.

week 3 posting a picture

Just got back from a trip to New Orleans and went to Jackson Square. Lovely as always and fun to visit. Ate beignets at the Cafe de Mode (spelling?) across the street. walked along the levee and saw a young couple having a Mardi Gras theme wedding. New Orleans is still vibrant and beautiful, and working hard at recovery.

Lifelong Learning

Was looking back and realized I was supposed to do a post about lifelong learning. I thought the slide show was neat, although it seemed like there was supposed to be more music. Like when the star is "moving it." Enjoyed it though, and did learn some stuff. I like working in libraries because I feel like I'm always learning something new, and I feel that is what makes life interesting and worthwhile.

Internet safety

It's a super-info highway, right? That means you have to be reasonably careful, just like when you're driving on a real highway. So whenever I send e-mail, or now when I'm blogging, I try to re-read, edit and correct before I send something out where anyone can read it. Cause what you write can come back to haunt you.

starting late

Well, I'm starting late, but I am starting and I am enjoying playing around with this.