Week 6: #15

There was lot of good information in the articles about Library 2.0. I especially liked the Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto. If we would read that about once a week, it would help to focus us on what we should be doing. We do need to be active participants in moving the library forward and courageous about proposing new services and programs.
The article on icebergs was especially meaningful to me. Our whole mind set needs to change about our collections and this has been a little difficult for me. I also liked the sentence "But if our services can’t be used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed—not our patrons." I do think some of our services are not as user friendly as they could be, but I know we are working constantly to change those things.

Week 6: #14

It is good to know how to search for blogs on differenct subjects. However Technorati seems like a site that I don't think I will use much. I can see how it would be helpful to find a subject that people are talking about, but I am close to information overload already and this just seems like too much information.

Week 6: #13

I liked the del.icio.us site. It has many great websites and you could spend a lot of time just looking at all of them. I could see where tagging could create some confusion, but overall I like the informality and most things end up with a usable tag. It also seems good that the bookmarks go with you and are not tied to one computer.

Week 5: #12 Library Elf

Signing up for Library Elf was very easy. Although Harris County already reminds you of due dates, it seems like a great service for other systems that aren't so helpful. I will be letting my family know about this website.

Week 5: #11 LibraryThing

I liked LibraryThing and found it very easy to use. It found all of my books instantly and it seems like a great way to keep up with what you have. The link to my catalog is: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/deweydemon

Week 5: #10

I tried out several sites for making Avatars, but I liked the Meez site best. The link is www.meez.com

DeweyDemon

Week 4: #9

For locating blogs to subscribe to, I found using the searches and helps on Bloglines to be the easiest. Then when I was comfortable with that, I found that looking for the RSS icon on sites was another good way to find things that I wanted to subscribe to. I thought that Feedster and Syndic8 were more advanced or just more than I needed.

Week 4: # 8

I set up my blogline account and subscribed to the feeds with a lot less help than I needed for the exercises last week. It feels good to be learning new things that I have heard about, but didn't really understand. It was also interesting to check out some of the blogs that other staff are posting.