THING NUMBER 23

Well I finally made it. I thought I was pretty computer savvy until I started these 23 things. Funny I can do just about anything in excel and word but I really found some of these things challenging, I guess that’s good thing after all it’s all about learning isn’t it? Of course some things were more fun than others, I really enjoyed you tube, I think everyone enjoyed “that thing”. If you want a good laugh just go to you tube and type in funny. I’d like to continue down the list of things but I promised myself that I would go back and spend some time on the things that I had to rush through to reach the dead line. This was such a great idea to work on this project I think it helped all of us to challenge ourselves.

My daughter, son-in-law and our weimeraner #4, Rajah. My daughter has another one, her name is Princess Maddie, #5!

NetLibrary and e-books Thing number 22

I created a NetLibrary account. And checked out my first e-book, I'm not sure I would want to read a book in this format, pretty hard on eyes. Once I leave work I'm not one for sitting in front of a computer when I get home. Now that I gave my "internet" computer to my son to take to school, well it's just not happening. This would be a really great tool for students doing research though, not to necessarily read word for word but to use the reference titles for specific search criteria, I think would work great.

Thing number 21

Well I searched and searched for an interesting podcast, again I geared towards news. Podcasters News (oddly enough) is how it is described. I could see some use for podcasts in the library setting. It would just be the matter of finding the right podcasts for the subject area of interest. Perhaps finding pogcast sites for reviewing books and videos for purchase or something of that sort.


http://www.podcasternews.com/feeds/oddlyenough.xml

Thing number 20

Well that was just too funny, I added my You Tube Video and sorry it has nothing to do with the library thing, because it's Halloween. I had to find something scary yet funny I think I found the best one. Just watch.

ImaginOnExpress Checkout, what a great idea, kind of like a tutorial on using the self checkout, this type of video would be great for patrons afraid of doing things like that on their own. Moving along.....

Happy Halloween

Thing number 19

It took me a while of searching subject areas before I decided on something that interested me. I went to the short list but there were still so many to choose from. I visited Odeo, peertrainer for health and fitness and medstory. I can think of so many uses of most of these websites for helping patrons find information. I really like Pandora, you search for a song by title or by artist and it will create a station of songs similar to the artist or music that you picked. This would be of great to use for to the library, to search for songs, artists and other history. To find an artist you just type the name under find an artist and it will give you some history along with a biographical excerpt about the artist., below that they have “selected discography” which lists their albums titles of songs and more. All those years of creating a song index in Dbase (not even sure if that’s how it was spelled way back when). I wonder if they still have those files in RS. You can actually make selections and it will just play your favorite songs.