Thing 31 Future Libraries

I am very surprised. I actually agreed with the speaker. In most articles about the future of libraries the speaker is full of doom and gloom. About how there will not be books any more and we will not be needed. Since I have hoped that was not the case I was very pleased to hear someone say that we are doing a good job and that we CAN have a place in the future of our communities. I enjoyed the humor also. I usually hear what a person is saying much better if there is some humor involved. We constantly have to stay ahead of the patrons in what they need and want and I think that we sometimes need a reminder of that, but most of all we need to be told that we can and that we are doing a VERY good thing for our communities.

Thing 30 Webby Awards?

I thought this was an interesting idea. When I went to the site I wasn't as impressed as I expected. It seems that it would be handy to look at for people to use these sites fro business. I didn't really see sites that I tought we could use in our library. For instance I went to look at several of the law ones and it was advertising for law firms. Our patrons don't want that they want lae sites that they can get forms for themselves or maybe answers to questions without talking to a lawyer. Lawyers are very pricey. I did have fun on the Crappy Cat site. More fun than I should have at work. 2 cooking sites sounded fun but the recipes on Cookstr were complicated and not for the average homemaker. We do have some patrons who think they are better thatn the average cook so it might be good for them. The Bakespace site itself was having problems like the words were sitting on top of each other which made it hard to click on things. Those recipies used several items that I really am not sure I want to go out and buy. I enjoyed looking at this list anyway. It just didn't seem to be good for our library. I do have to remember to go back to Crappy Cat though.

Thing 29

Trick or Treat is done. I just did some more in Goodreads. I sm dtill thinking that I like it better than Weread that I used before. 'i think it is interesting that there are so many of these sites made just to get readers to share about books. That is one of the things I really like about working is that the people will sometimes share what they think about a book. These sites are just another way of doing that. It is also a way to keep track of what we read and a way to learn of books that we might like to read. But I doubt that any of us really need to be told of more books to read. Most of us have a list a mile l ong of want to reads already. It is fun to do though.

thing 29?

Well here it is the end of the month and I haven't blogged or worked on the class much. I read what the assignment was at the beginning of the month. Then forgot about it until now. I have used WeRead on Facebook for a while now. My intention was to keep track of the books I read. I glance at some of the reviews but that is it. I do like it when they give recomendations. Even though I work in a library there are usually some books that I feel I have missed. I have added the Goodreads application to Facebook now. So far I like the search thing on Goodreads better than WeRead. However I am always surprised at how many of the newest books don't pop up when doing a search. I did a search on GoodReads for Nora Roberts and her newest Bride Quartet books didn't show up. Well more later as I really should be working now.

Thing 28

I am starting this again. I thought I had posted this but when I checked later I hadn't. I really think I wasn't supposed to do thing #28. So here is part of what I wrote yesterday and part from today.I think I am done with this assignment. I am not done with google reader. Thanks to Allana I can say that the assignment is done. She and I have talked about my problems with the send to part of my account. I totally understand how it is supposed to work but it seems it isn't going to. BREAK THROUGH!!! I tried to send something to Facebook instead of to blogger. It worked!!!!!! I will definately use google reader. I like it way better than Bloglines. One thing I like better is the search thing so that I can look for sites that I know are there and not have to do the export thing like in Bloglines. Also Google really keeps track of sign up better that they do because Google knew that I had an account that I didn't remember. Bloglines has not switched my account to the different account since the first 2.0 class was done. Each time I went there it said that my account was not active. They had let the sites update but still gave me the message. So yes I like Google better. Thanks again Allana.

Google reader

I have figured out that I can't do this assignment. I am happy to have my blog reader be something other than bloglines but because I have to seperate google accounts one for google reader and one for blogger I can't make it work to send something from one to the other. When I hit send to Blogger it won't let me sign in. I tried last week and now this week too. I tried to just copy the link for the item I would like to send. But since that is not the assignment it won't work. I guess that means that although I will continue to use google reader I won't get the credits for this thing. It is beginning to be a real waste of my time to try to get the credits.

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Google reader

I am working on this. But since I don't blog very often I was having login problems. I also had gotten a google account that I didn't remember until after I was told by them that I already had an account and had to go through the process of changing my password. Then I had never done the change on blogger to make it to the new login. I just always used the sign in from when I first signed up. So when I went to send something from google to blogger it kept wanting me to sign in and I couldn't remember what I was supposed to put in. Also I usually get to blogger from the Nebraska 2.0 site and go to participants. Anyway I will try again soon since I figured out some of what I was doing wrong. Some days it doesn't really pay to try something new. Once I get into using google reader I think I will like it better than bloglines.