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!

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.

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.

Week 4: #8 Really simple w/RSS

I have just now finished subscribing to ten of the top 200 most popular feeds. However, somehow I have already received my bling for RSS. I don't know how this happened because I have also received something from the Washington Post and New York Times through my work email and I never would have used my work email to receive these feeds. Could you please double check to see why I am receiving emails from these feeds and why I have received bling for an exercise that I have not completed? Also, do you suppose I should have received credit for another exercise and got RSS credit in its place.?

Week 5: #12 Library Elf

HCPL does all the things for me that this service does. HCPL informs me by email that my requests are waiting to be picked up, that my items will be due in a few days and that my items are overdue. I can see that this would be helpful if you had a number of cards to oversee or maintain. Although, I would probably be hesitant to use this service because of privacy reasons.

Week 5 #11 Library Thing

I will definitely tell my son and his wife about "Library Thing". Between the two of these avid readers, they need a way to catalog all the books that they have. Would this normally cost something for the general public? Thanks to Beth Kripple from ATA for walking me through the posting of my library book covers on my blog. I and several other staff members from BC could never have done it without you, Beth. Thanks. You are one special lady!

Week 7: #17

Cell phones are fabulous and are very helpful!

Technology is not a priority of mine. I feel personal contact and relationships are much more worthy of my time.