Week 7 Thing 16

I liked the Book Lovers Wiki from Princeton Library. I loved reading some of the reviews.
I also liked Library 2.0 in 15 minutes - wish I had yhis sooner. I think I'll be going back to this all the way up to # 23. But 15 minutes? not in my world!!!!
I'm worried about information being changed and edited.

From what I read and saw on the Wiki's I think the Library could use this for book reviews. I know some of the best books I've read I may not have looked at if a patron a hadn't recommended it. Just think about the amount of books I'll be reading when I can get reviews from more sources.
Wiki's would be good for different branches working on projects - its so hard to schedule meetings especially with part time employees.

Favorite chair

Favorite chair
Originally uploaded by OldAustin

Week 6 Thing 15

I read all the perspectives on Library 2.0 I liked " To a temporary place in time" Dr. Wendy Schultz wrote some great things about libraries. She wrote "Libraries are not merely in communities, they are communities." I enjoyed her writing style and could understand everything in the article.
I also liked her vision of the future Library 4.0 - Library 4.0 will add a new mode, knowledge spa: meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought.
Library 4.0 revives the old image of a country house library, and renovates it: from a retreat, a sanctuary, a pampered experience with information—subtle thoughts, fine words, exquisite brandy, smooth coffee, aromatic cigar, smell of leather, rustle of pages—to the dream economy’s library, the LIBRARY: a WiFREE space, a retreat from technohustle, with comfortable chairs, quiet, good light, coffee and single malt. You know, the library.

We can ONLY DREAM!

week 6 thing 14

I went into Technorati and played around as suggested. I liked the look of Blog Directory - it showed "fans" was nicely organized not overwhelmimg.
Keyword search in Blog Posts gave too many hits!
Keyword search in tags was ok I could work with it. I LOVED the picture of the cake that came up on the first page! It felt good to smile about Technorati!

Found Top Searches very interesting - you can see what everyone's into - Music and electronics.

Week 6 Thing 13

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Dazed and confused!

The Del.icio.us tutorial was disabled when I went to view it - I like tutorials and this may have helped me understand more. I don't see me using this - I think it was overwhelming!

Someone explained to me about the accessing my bookmarks from various computers which might be helpful because we do do a lot of computer sharing at this branch.