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.