Wiki Week 2

I put a link to a Reader's Advisory page up for my branch. I just posted a few of my favorite books. It was extremely simple to do. Fortunately I remembered in time to take off the books that the library doesn't have. Now that I have seen how easy it is to work with a wiki page, I'm not sure its a practical thing to open up to public use. I can see room for abuse and headache for whomever is managing the site.

wiki week 1

For the most part I'm not real impressed with wiki week. The only use I can think of would be the opportunity for patrons to review or rate books. I'll have to finish next week and see if my opinion of this improves at all.

Youtube

Great job on the library fish video! That fish was huge!
I use youtube periodically for entertainment or keeping up to speed with family. A great aunt sent us a link to Chase Livingston (cousin) playing and singing his own composition. We were really impressed with his talent.

Youtube makes it easy to share those home movies with family or friends on the other side of the world.

Library records!

I like library thing. It does what several patrons and myself have wished for: a way to keep track of what I read a year ago. It is very easy to just enter a book to my library when I start reading it. When I want to read it again but can't remember the author or title, I can log on and voila! This is a useful tool.

Childhood memories

When I was a kid my parents used to take us to the Canadian Gulf Islands for a couple of weeks in the summer on a small sailboat. I thought I'd see if I could find any pictures of familiar places on Flickr so I typed in Portland Island. Portland is one of the smaller islands and also one of my favorites.
Snorri Gunnarson is a photographer who has covered some of the same ground I did as a kid. He has beautiful pictures of Portland Island, Barkley sound, Victoria and more on his Flickr page. I really enjoyed reliving some of that time through his pictures.

Really Simple?

It is fairly simple to subscribe to all these great sites. The great difficulty? Who has time to sit at the computer and keep up on reading all these things. It will cut into the time I have to sit in the yard eating dirt with this funny fellow.

I've got NPR and the New York Times Education site added to my subscriptions, as well as the Homer Library site from Matt's presentation. I will probably make time to read anything new on my fellow KRL bloggers' pages first, however. Other people are making their blogs really fun.

On to the next week. If it stays cold outside maybe I will catch up with the program!

delicious

I have my delicious bookmark set up finally. The first time I did it seemed to work great for a day or two. A week later though I logged in and it was gone. I'm not quite sure what I did. This time it seems to be working better. I have Abebooks and Barnes and Noble sites saved as bookreference. This is for those times a patron is certain they have the title accurate for a book they want but we don't have. I have KUOW posted for updates on weather, storms, etc. We've had a few of those lately! It will be nice to access these favorites from work. I wish we could add the buttons onto the library computers. That would make things easier still.