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LibWorm - just in the nick of time

Wow, Libworm is really interesting and i had never played with it before. Pretty neat. I searched children's lit stuff and found some interesting things. I also searched my library's name as a word and a whole phrase. I came up with some pf the same things, including when Stephen Abrams visited our library and he posted it on his site.
I got more info on the word search, including a posting a few years back for our assistant director position...
This is a nice research tool. I look forward to using it in the future.

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I had a lot of fun doing the 23 things and I am glad to have the chance to complete this program. I think the most fun thing was playing with flickr. I just making the pics. I doubt I will use it professionally, but who knows!
I have some great resources to share with patrons now too. I especially think the video about blog readers was great and could be shown to patrons wanting to use that.
Thanks so much to everyone who worked on this - it was a great thing for north texas librarians to work on together!

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Several staff members have been pushing to have this program at our library for years and we were all very happy that NTLP offered it this summer. I would love to adapt it to children's librarians in our system. We could offer things that are are needed to work with kids or interesting things that should be shared with kids. for example, my boss shared with us a software called scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ that many libraries are starting to teach classes on in the library. This would be one fun thing to share with children's librarians in my library. Another might be navigating the kid geared databases our library offers.

21 Podcasts

I am a huge nerd and am always downloading interesting things to listen to in my car - I love fascinating stories that i can find online and I think libraries sometimes have interesting topics that can be shared: maybe a speaker who came to a library can be recorded or maybe a librarian can talk about his or her experiences will a certain project for a more professional development theme. I think patrons would be interested in author visits, librarians can talk about system wide exhibits or programs that are coming up. We have a lot of genealogy programs here and I wonder if patrons might be interested in hearing those.

Thing 20 You Tube

I have watched a lot of children's lit stuff on youtube. A lot of the teen authors I enjoy post things often. Our library posted a video promoting one of our new library branches which is a neat way to showcase something new and exciting. Since anyone can make and post videos obviously quality will vary greatly. There are some great videos out there as well as some not great vidoes. I think academic libraraies sometimes have more interesting videos - they seem to have a quirky humor that maybe public libraries to not want to convey, but I find them so much more interesting.

19 - Google Docs

Google docs is great - especially if you have a computer that does not have microsoft programs on it! Everything is really easy to use and by reading the blog i have discovered there are all sorts of ways to use the docs - like using it to organize goods to sell with the check out feature. Wow.

Google docs are great for libraries and colleagues that are not in the same location. It is a lot less mess to simply use a doc instead of emailing revisions back and forth, etc. It is also great when you use many google features together - like perhaps a google calendar with summer reading programs, along with a spreadsheet doc keeping track of all the programs.

18 Wikis

I am a pretty big fan of wikis. I have used them alot with work and have enjoyed it. Our library has a wiki and a lot of people think it is a mess and do not use it. I think this is incredibly lazy that they do not like a collection of useful info that is something that can be manipulated by everyone.
As for wikipedia, I would never suggest anyone use this as a real source - but it is a great jumping off point. I have the Harry potter entry bookmarked my delicious account because I think it is a good reference for all series titles. I can never remember the order! I searched moebius syndrome which is a rare neurological condition. This did not have any discussions listed but it did note that a certain medical group had deemed it reliable? Who knows.

Thing 17 - LibWorm

I can not see this site on my lovely city network so I will try to remember to check it out tonight at home! This study has definitely confirmed my suspicions that I need to buy a laptop to take to and from to work as I am missing out on lots of good stuff.

Thing 16 - LibraryThing

I have to say a lot of the cataloging stuff is over my head. I do not do this at all in my job, so I do not know what would or would not be useful to libraries. I did think the isbn tool was neat though. I often do book reviews for newspapers and journals and the isbn can sometimes be tricky when dormatting your work to a certain style.

I have used librarything before to find books. Earlier this year I was looking for children's fiction books with math concepts and I found lots of talk about that topic: here is one that was helpful: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=17364

I have found that this collection of people who discuss different and obscure topics of books is much more useful.

Digg

I really am not a fan of Digg. I hate to say that, especially in this sort of a forum. I guess it is a cool snapshot of what people like on the net today. Sometimes I think the stories are a little frivolous. And lots of times when i click on a story it does not connect to the website with the original story. I am not sure if that is our lovely library firewall at work, but I have just not gotten addicted to digg. I do think it is a good place for my hu\bby to put his political rant blog. Perhaps when he figures out not too many people read it, he will spend less time on it.

14 Delicious

As a librarian who works at several different public service desks on any given day, delicious is a wonderful thing! I follow several different storytime blogs and early literacy sites and having them "saved" to one location. I have not gotten into the network feature too often, but sometimes if you save a site that only has a few members then I will look and see what other things those people has saved to their account.

here is my list:
http://delicious.com/lisake

Thing 13 Tagging

I really like the idea of tagging. I think people are used to bookstores and grocery stores that are nicely labeled. I think that subject headings get a little overwhelming for patrons in the library and that makes it difficult to look things up. As for putting this in practice, i do not know how it could be put into practice. I heard someone say once that theoretically it would be cool to get rid of Dewey since that seems to be confusing to patrons, but realistically how would books get reshelved with out a call number? Is there a way to integrate both? I am not a cataloger so that makes my head spin, but I do think eventually something will have to give.

12 - twitter

I do not do a lot on twitter but I love hearing about all the celebs who twitter all the time. Today I heard that Jessica Simpson announced her breakup via twitter. Plus I think it is interesting how it has become almost a way for regular citizens to report news, like when the flight went down in January on the Hudson river - someone just sent a picture of the plane over twitter. Twitter also makes me want to get a better phone plan were I can get online and take advantage of all this fun stuff. I am yrlib by the way. I have not tweeted anything yet but I am following interesting people like conan o brien and joe machale.

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IMing. I used to do IM on yahoo ALL the time when it first came out. However I have not IMed in awhile, except for the chat that you can do on facebook. I found IM to be annoying in a social setting, but I think it would work great in a library system setting. I think this is a great way for staff to communicate with each other - especially when they are all housed in a big building or have different branch locations. It is so much less time consuming than sending an email. I also would love to have an online reference using instant message. I think people are much more likely to do an IM than send a generic email to the web manager. Reference librarians on IM have the opportunity to give somewhat instant responses which compared to an email can take at least 24 hours for a response. To me, this seems a lot more welcoming to patrons also.

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I have not been really impressed with Ning. I have joined two library related groups in the past. Neither was too active, which could be why I did not have a lot of fun. I do think the controversy about the data Ning is retaining is interesting though.

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I have had fun with facebook! I have friended a lot of my library colleagues. I have also joined several groups - the i love my vw group, the moebius syndrome support group, yalsa and tla - just to name a few. I have also been fortunate to friend several of my favorite authors - like Laurie Halse Anderson. I am such a wannabe!
I mentioned previously that because of fb I even found out about a high school reunion, which I did end up going to. I guess it is neat when a lot of people get on board with one social networking service. I just wonder how long it will last.

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Facebook! I really was late to joing the fb party. I just joined maybe a month ago. A lot of our friends were already on it, but I saw it as one more thing I would have to check..but when I finally did join, it was so much fun! Lots of new and old friends and colleagues are here and it is a great way to keep up. Some people are really annoying with all the sending coffee requests, etc. but for the most part it is a great tool.
I even found out about a high school reunion to attend this month.

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I loved the links that are provided. I think I have seen al of them at one time or another but it is a nice reference. As for the vid, I will have to watch antoher time as I have no sound on this computer.
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August 5, 2009
Ok, more info on my experiences with RSS feeds. The common craft video is a really good and simple explanation of how rss works with the reader.
In 2005 I started a blog for my then library in Indiana -- it was a big deal back then to get the rss logo and feature added to the blog. I.T. was involved, the digital resources librarian was involved. Now I think rss has come a long way - everyone knows what it is for the most part and knows they can access info on your blog in a much more convenient and organized way - with the content coming to you instead of you looking for the content.

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Google Reader! Such a great tool. I have used it for awhile now, but it was a nice refresher to get the folder info. I am usually too lazy to organize my subscriptions. Plus I am so silly - I have so many email accounts and will add subscriotions to all of them - no rhyme or reason. I should not admit that since I am a librarian, but it seems to work.

spell with flickr

Does work at home! I have seen at art shows and online where people take black and white photos and frame your name or initials or something. I think it is really neat looking.

Thing 4$5 - More flickr and Image Generators

This is so much fun! Now all the little pics on facebook are making sense now!
The spell with flickr did not work here at the library, so thanks to the comments on the 23Things Blog I know to try this at home. Today I made a map of states I have lived in. Pretty exciting stuff huh? :)

Lived In States

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

Thing 3 - flickr

I love flickr...such a great tool to share photos.
It is so user friendly - you do not need an account to see your friends pics and there is so uch to see. People's own artwork, random things too - for example, I searched for jam and got so many random things: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7518432@N06/2488556550/

My favorite probably is all the great artwork that is on flickr, like sculptures from Henry Moore:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=moore+sculpture&m=text

thing 2

I get so excited about Web 2.0 because every one has the potential to use it. The O Reilly article makes me realize with its comparison to AdSense and Double Click how exciting all of this is.
It is also neat that this article was written several years ago - and most everything that was on the forefront has happened - like tagging and online collaborative tools.

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Welcome to my study of 23 things! Thanks to NTLP and the local librarians who have started this collaborative training.

Library 2.0 is so exciting and I look forward to learning more so that I can incorporate it into my every day librarianship.