I read the info on the habits of Del.icio.us users and the beginner's guide to Del.icio.us. My head is sort of swimming! (maybe it's the hour of the day or the amount of time I've been sitting in front of my home computer) I could watch the video but choose not to do that right now because my speaker on my home computer is shot (maybe that should be on my wishlist for Christmas). I'll have to watch the 8 minute tutorial video at work. (Sorry co-workers and customers, your computers will be slowing down the next time I have a chance to get back to this exercise at work.)
When I linked into the HCPL Del.icio.us account for reference resource, I discovered I could spend many a day reading, and clicking and reading, and click and reading... One can get lost in it all!
Did you see the incentives offered by PLCMCL? WOW!!! I think I would have worked a little harder to complete these 23 things.
I'm not a real big web-surfer (although having arrived at the gift-giving season I intend to use it more), but I can see how handy this could be for someone involved in research on a daily basis.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Week 6: #14 Technorati
I can really consume a lot of time with this (I'd rather be reading a book). While exploring in the tag search for the term Library 2.0, I found the blog of "Pagemaster". I haven't looked at the iHCPL participant list for this individual but after reading this blog, I expect to find "Pagemaster" on the list.
When I searched with the term "Learning 2.0", I found all kinds of areas of interest represented. I preferred limiting my search to the Library search, although, libraries were represented in my "learning" searches.
I decided not to tag my own blog.
NOTE: I didn't find "Pagemaster" so I went back to the blog and found out that the individual is a librarian in Australia. Pretty cool!
When I searched with the term "Learning 2.0", I found all kinds of areas of interest represented. I preferred limiting my search to the Library search, although, libraries were represented in my "learning" searches.
I decided not to tag my own blog.
NOTE: I didn't find "Pagemaster" so I went back to the blog and found out that the individual is a librarian in Australia. Pretty cool!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Week 7: #18 Social networking
Both my kids have accounts with myspace. I can see where this would be handy for keeping up and catching up with friends that one might not see often. I also viewed infieldparking, I thought it might be a baseball lovers network but instead it was a racecar lovers network. The ratemyspace.hgtv network was pretty cool. Can't afford the professional decorator? Try this social network and get a few ideas.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Week 6: #15 Library 2.0
Change has been going on from the beginning of time.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
Genesis 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
Without change, life would get rather boring and tedious. Sure change is difficult at times but GET OVER IT! I feel that HCPL is really making an effort to meet the needs of all generations, even the Millennial Generation (those born between 1984 and 2002, and own the world of technology).
I read all the articles from this section, in addition to a number of others, but "Away from Icebergs" spoke more to me and I was reminded of a video that was offered for training hours at our branch last year. I can't remember the exact title but it made reference to the library being like the ever-changing course of a mighty river, that video made me look at change in the library in a very different way.
Change is not a bad thing, but change is needful for we humans. Getting used to change requires some of us a little more time than others.
Library 2.0 is a term that has been created to describe the ever-changing library that is striving to meet the needs of an ever-changing community in an ever-changing world. The library system that existed when I began working for HCPL, no longer exists. Technology has made it necessary for us to change. If we had not made the changes we would be like an 8-track stereo cassette in the twenty-first century. Does anyone in the millennial generation know what that was?
I am glad for this:
Malachi 3:6 "I the LORD do not change. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
Genesis 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
Without change, life would get rather boring and tedious. Sure change is difficult at times but GET OVER IT! I feel that HCPL is really making an effort to meet the needs of all generations, even the Millennial Generation (those born between 1984 and 2002, and own the world of technology).
I read all the articles from this section, in addition to a number of others, but "Away from Icebergs" spoke more to me and I was reminded of a video that was offered for training hours at our branch last year. I can't remember the exact title but it made reference to the library being like the ever-changing course of a mighty river, that video made me look at change in the library in a very different way.
Change is not a bad thing, but change is needful for we humans. Getting used to change requires some of us a little more time than others.
Library 2.0 is a term that has been created to describe the ever-changing library that is striving to meet the needs of an ever-changing community in an ever-changing world. The library system that existed when I began working for HCPL, no longer exists. Technology has made it necessary for us to change. If we had not made the changes we would be like an 8-track stereo cassette in the twenty-first century. Does anyone in the millennial generation know what that was?
I am glad for this:
Malachi 3:6 "I the LORD do not change. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
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