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Student New to Blogging
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Blog and and blog and ...... disprove the she....helpless stereotype of the librarianship!
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Support library blogs in Russia
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del.icio.us libraries
Thinking of making your library del.icio.us? Here are some links to get your started.
You can also view my list of del.icio.us libraries.
ContinueAdded by Angela CW on November 30, 2007 at 9:35pm — No Comments
MD 23 Things: Thing 23!
Holy mackerel, I've done 23 things with Web 2.0!
But I had a head start, sort of. I started using online resources to share photos and stories and videos because our family is spread so far and wide, and I really began enjoying expressing myself through the medium. Once I hooked SiteMeter up to my blog, I got kind of excited about how many people were coming to my blog, and from which directions. There have been months when over 250 people a day chec
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MD 23 Things: Thing 22
Online recorded books. Ohhh, I have what you might call a hate-hate relationship with Overdrive and NetLibrary. Last year, when I got all nutso and decided to work out regularly, I figured the only way I could enjoy it would be to listen to a book while I was on the Elliptical.
But I have an iPod, which doesn't do Windows Media, which is the only format the books come in. Sooo, when it got to be time to upgrade my phone, I got a Smartphone, which could play Windows Media. I got a Bluet
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MD 23 Things: Thing 21
Podcasts. I use iTunes at home, and I've listened to the odd podcast, but I thought I'd check out Podcast Alley and other directory sites.
I found Free Radio Sub Pop, the podcast from Sub Pop records in Seattle, erstwhile home of Nirvana, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, etc. Free MP3 downloads from Sub Pop? Ok, I'll subscribe to that!
ContinueAdded by your neighborhood librarian on October 1, 2007 at 3:28pm — No Comments
MD 23 Things: Week 9, Thing 20
YouTube is Thing 20. Here are videos from my family on YouTube.
My husband has approximately a hundred gamillion sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins, so we have been using YouTube for a while to keep in touch with them.
A couple things I have learned the icky way:
- Don't post video of your children in their jammies - you get A LOT of hits, and that skeeves me out.
- Listen carefully to the v
Added by your neighborhood librarian on October 1, 2007 at 3:20pm — No Comments
MD 23 Things: Thing 19
Zillow got an award in the Best of the Web 2.0 awards, and I have to say, Zillow is a complete guilty pleasure. Just like Google Maps, you can find and see a map or aerial imagery of 'most any neighborhood, down to the house level. Unlike Google Maps, Zillow shows you how much each house has sold or been appraised for.
That's gotta be illegal, right? Apparently not, and what a blast it is!
Oh yeah you can use it to help your cousin shop for a house, and on occasion I have used i
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MD 23 Things: Week 8, Thing 18
I use Google Docs whenever I open a doc from email. Especially because I use Windows machines at work, but at home, my laptop is all Linux, baby. Google Docs has never let me down (except it won't open Microsoft Publisher documents), but I have noticed format discrepancies. It's best for on-the-go, such as last week when I had to quickly edit my resume on my laptop while waiting at the car dealership for the lady in the coveralls to tell me that the minivan wasn't going to blow up any time so
… ContinueAdded by your neighborhood librarian on September 28, 2007 at 4:31pm — No Comments
MD 23 Things: Week 7: Wikis
Ah, wikis. Wikis work best for moving targets or for developing ideas. Also, when collaboration is a must. My Internet safety project might could work as a wiki - I could invite my young people to contribute their thoughts, as well as parents, as we hash out a set of guidelines for staying safe online. In this case, the wiki's ability to track changes would come in handy too.
I don't really find wikis necessary on a lot of topics. Reg'lar old databases do just fine in a lot of cases.
… ContinueAdded by your neighborhood librarian on September 28, 2007 at 4:12pm — No Comments
MD 23 Things: Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati
I've used del.icio.us for a couple years now. I mainly use it to quick-store batches of sites for projects that I'm working on. For example, I'm working on an Internet safety presentation for the other parents at my son's school, and I've been getting little bits of research done here and there whenever I have a few moments. I store all those sites in del.icio.us with the tags "Internet" and "safety" and then when I get a chance to sit down and work on the presentation, they're all there in o
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MD 23 Things: Week 5, thing 12, Rollyo
Well, ok. I made my own Rollyo thing so that I could search for reviews posted by my favorite kidlit bloggers. I can see how this tool might be of use to scholars or to serious hobbyists - if a guy was looking for parts for his 1972 BMW R2 motorcycle, I could see that he might have to always be searching about a dozen websites - but for my own purposes, I can find what I'm looking for in other ways.
ContinueAdded by your neighborhood librarian on September 28, 2007 at 3:32pm — No Comments
I know what boys like
The other day I helped a lady who was doing a book club for middle-grade boys. She was looking for "boy books". Now, many people turn up their noses at the idea that books can be "boy books" or "girl books" and indeed, I wouldn't tell a boy not to read Black Beauty or
… ContinueAdded by your neighborhood librarian on August 30, 2007 at 2:52pm — No Comments
Maryland 23 Things: Week 5, Things 10 and 11
Week 5: Play Week
10. Play around with an online image generator.
11. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
12.
Added by your neighborhood librarian on August 30, 2007 at 1:57pm — No Comments
LibraryThing tags in Aquabrowser
I do bitch about Aquabrowser, my system's web interface, a lot. I work at home a fair bit, so I have had the opportunity to spend a LOT of time using it.
You can't link to a specific catalog entry, you can't sort results by call number, and subject headings are not hotlinked. You can narrow search results, but you cannot broaden them. Humph, and all.
I also have a big fat bee in my bonnet about Reader Advisory. Some librarians are absolute rock stars at it, and they should all b
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MD 23 Things: Week 4, Things 8 and 9
Thing 8: Set up a Bloglines account. Ok, I use Google Reader as my RSS aggregator, but I have a Bloglines account too... I kind of prefer the Bloglines layout, but Google Reader is a mere window on my iGoogle page, so it's much more likely I'll glance at it while on my way to my Gmail or Google Calendar or some other part of my entirely-subsumed-by-Google life. Only thing is, Google Reader doesn't work on my Smartphone.
… ContinueAdded by your neighborhood librarian on August 3, 2007 at 10:32am — No Comments
New Osceola Library System Website
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Added by Kelley Minars on August 1, 2007 at 11:54am — No Comments
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