Library 2.0

For me, the article "Into a new world of librarianship" told what a librarian might do in order make the library a social and emotionally engaging center for learning and experience. The librarian is still helping users find information, gather knowledgeand "create" content. New technologies may improve the ways the library meets user needs. The librarian reads outside the profession and watches/thinks how technoloty impacts users and services.

Mousing Around

Searching Technorati, with the library's web address, I found 77 posts. I was pleased to see several related to our very own Mousing Around tutorial for beginning users of computers. Staff discovered that this tutorial has been used around the world. Spanish, anyone?
A tag search for web 2.0 resulted in 32,602 hits.
There is a search tool out there for blogs!

Week 6: Folksonomies

Hello all, Check out the PBCLS account on Del.icio.us. My friends I saw you all there: the Canadian's NAFTA interest, as well as Chinese characters. Although I created my own Delicious account, I wonder if I will really be using it. I do see the research potential as evidenced by the many staff who added library webpages to the list of tags. The exercise UTube video was fun, too.

Play Week 5

This week was a lot of fun! Image generator can do so many different things. I created a puzzle from a favorite photo of mine; turbanized my photo; made a 150 year old photo from one I had taken in 2008; found my 10 celebrity face matchups; and discovered Big Huge Labs from Flickr. The URL address for Turbanizer is: www.turbanizer.com

Library Thing: It's amazing that so many people had cataloged three of my five books. However, I had one Norwegian cookbook that had only 33 other catalogers. The fifth book was so-so.

WebFeat: My hometown in Illinois had 30,000+ hits. And when living there the population was under 10,000 people. The town's claim to fame was being home to the Bettenhausen's. They are a car racing family and owned the Bettenhausen Dodge dealership. Still do. And a race car literally hangs in the front window of the showroom. There was Tony, Gary and more that became famous race car drivers in the 40's and 50's.

RSS feeds

Yaah.. I was receiving these from the branch coordinators listserv. And now I have my very own account. Very cool!

flickr technology

It is amazing the vast quantities of photos posted on Flickr. Somehow I found a Florida photo to post on my blog without even trying. The Fennec foxes were curious. The photographers other images are worth seeing, too. The 3rd party application I liked was the flickr toys, where one could make a poster, create a puzzle and all other types of cool things with your own photos. Trip planner was interesting, too.

Fennec fox on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Fennec fox on Flickr - Photo Sharing!