Delicious etc

Delicious is interesting and useful. I searched "print management" because we're investigating that and found a number of useful hits. Some were vendors which is OK. Some were articles or blogs. I'll definitely use that info.

I haven't set up my own account yet. I might if I get time. (LOL) It could be useful at a reference desk to group frequent asked questions. One of my problems is I don't always remember what I tagged with what or where. I'm waiting for the software that will read my mind. Now, nobody say it will come up blank. :)

Fun on Facebook

I'm astonding even myself. Never thought I'd have a facebook account and actually enjoy using it. Within minutes (well, maybe hours) of asking my daughter in AZ to be my friend, I got friend requests from two nieces in Kansas. Friends of friends of friends. Cool!

Other library staff have developed a page for the library which we'll all contribute to (maybe, if properly motivated). Having a page for the library keeps us out in cyberspace where the action obviously is.

All this learning inspires me to quote poetry:

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in’t!
--Shakespeare's Tempest

Google docs

Now this is useful! I sent a report to a bunch of staff so they could keep up with what's happening. I can see this used for our upcoming goal/objective setting sessions for our strategic plan, for sharing spreadsheets for budget stuff. Just thought of another document that I've been putting off that we can use this for.
It would be useful for blogging longer documents.

Now this I'm excited about!

Same video, just wanted to practice embedding!

youTube fun

What can I say? A person could spend hours watching youTube.


My favorite library youTube is the library zombie where the library saves a couple from an attack by a crowd of zombies.


youTube could be a good instructional tool. It could also be used to give the library a lighter image.


My personal favorite is one that I received right before the November election. Politics aside, this is a great musical piece. Set to a song from the broadway show Les Miserables, it shows the night before the election in the Obama headquarters. It helps to have seen the play, but still great music. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0


And of course, all the many figure skating programs. Whee!

Podcasts 'r us

I successfully searched podcastalley and mediafly and found some very interesting stuff. I subscribed to a mystery authors podcast feed and listened to Michael Connelly being interviewed about his new Harry Bosch book.

I also subscribed to the Lincoln Libraries podcasts which looked interesting, but haven't listened yet. The Lincoln Libraries is a good example of how I think a library could use podcasting - for information about the library of a general nature and about specific book titles.

I looked at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library's "dial-a-story" service, but we subscribe to a better service for on-line books so wasn't particularly interested.

Library Geeks looked good also.

Then on a personal side I added an MPR Classical Music feed and found a wonderful Christmas CD that I'm definitely going to buy. (John Rutter - A Christmas Festival)

Enough on podcasts. I'm off to youTube. Actually have been on it quite a bit, but I'll put that in a separate blog.

Enjoy listening.

More on Flickr

I've had a good time looking at some of the special things you can do with Flickr. I particularly liked the bubblr where you can add dialogue (in bubbles like cartoons have) to pictures. And I also enjoyed flickrleach.

I learned a new word - bokeh - "a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. (Wikipedia) This is an example (also Wikipedia).

Interesting stuff. Value?