week 6
When my children have profiles on MySpace and Facebook, why in the world would I want to? Sorry. That's a definite place I won't go.
Spent a bit of time with LinkedIn however, putting in names of people I know is assorted professions to see if they're listed. Had interesting results to those searches but didn't turn up anyon I know. I didn't join Linked In, though I rather wanted to, because of their user agreement--I tend to dig in my heels when I'm told I'm giving up my rights by agreeing to such and such. I find little equality in situations in which one player holds all the cards for the entire game. =(
Explored popular social networks on Ning--what diversity! I was surprised to see how many social networks there are for people who speak a language other than English. If I were fluent in another language I would have explored some of the more intriguing looking sites.
week 7
Went to Gmail "Chat" section and did look around. Quite honestly, I don't want to IM--it's akin to why I don't leave my cell phone turned on all the time. With six children, even though they're all grown up now, I still appreciate the value of NOT being always accessible, always on call!
However, I think it's a great tool for reference work, a wonderful thing for a library to extend to students. It's also a great way for reference librarians to get back to students who've asked a question or needed a reference which the librarian needs time to answer or find.
week 8
I had a lot of fun checking out the various online tools and applications. Vistied almost all the sites listed and played around for a while in each. I'm not sure I'd ever use any of them but it's nice to know they're available. Not at all sure I'd make Lifehacker part of my regular sites-to-be-visited but "Repurposing Your Nintendo as a Lunchbox" was creative and amusing--it brings greenness and recycling to a whole new level!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
week 5
Set up a del.icio.us account and found some interesting counted cross-stitch sites. Just for fun, I checked to see if I could find instructions for lining curtains. I did! in very short order! When I had looked via Google about a month ago it took me much longer to find useful information. With del.icio.us I got to the same place in about a quarter of the time.
Set up a del.icio.us account and found some interesting counted cross-stitch sites. Just for fun, I checked to see if I could find instructions for lining curtains. I did! in very short order! When I had looked via Google about a month ago it took me much longer to find useful information. With del.icio.us I got to the same place in about a quarter of the time.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I have been remiss about blogging and so it would seem I have not been keeping up with the weekly activities. Let me remedy that misapprehension.
week 2
Karen helped me set up my RSS feeds. One of the feeds I enjoy most--and usually check daily--is the NY Times feed--I missed it when myOakton swtiched to NPR.
The Common Craft mini-videos must have been designed for people like me--seems like they're the online equivalent of ...for Dummies !
week 3
Have to say I'm not overly wild about Wikipedia--but I also have to say that its accuracy has improved in the last few years. I forget why I originally consulted it (at my children's suggestion) but I was less than happy with the quality of its information. That has changed--perhaps because people can go onto it and edit the bad stuff into oblivion. I do find it a helpful, bottom-line basic resource, a starting point.
week 4
I tooled around on YouTube and Flickr. I'm guessing that these were the same tools used to produce a slide presentation of a friend's granddaughter detailing the last year of her life--and I found that presentation well done and touching.
week 2
Karen helped me set up my RSS feeds. One of the feeds I enjoy most--and usually check daily--is the NY Times feed--I missed it when myOakton swtiched to NPR.
The Common Craft mini-videos must have been designed for people like me--seems like they're the online equivalent of ...for Dummies !
week 3
Have to say I'm not overly wild about Wikipedia--but I also have to say that its accuracy has improved in the last few years. I forget why I originally consulted it (at my children's suggestion) but I was less than happy with the quality of its information. That has changed--perhaps because people can go onto it and edit the bad stuff into oblivion. I do find it a helpful, bottom-line basic resource, a starting point.
week 4
I tooled around on YouTube and Flickr. I'm guessing that these were the same tools used to produce a slide presentation of a friend's granddaughter detailing the last year of her life--and I found that presentation well done and touching.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hi!
My name is Mimi and I work in the OCC Library, Des Plaines campus as a circulation/ILL clerk. I've been here almost a year and find the atmosphere and people very congenial. A special perk is having to charge and discharge books for patrons--that allows me to snatch up anything that looks interesting--and almost everything looks interesting!
After dreaming of it for twenty+ years, four years ago I turned what had previously been affectionately known as the "den of iniquity" in my home (i.e., the room where I shoved everything when company came and closed and barred the door) into my personal library with a custom-made floor to ceiling bookcase two books deep. After years of having to keep track of which bookcase or carton or pile contained which book, I could finally shelve them all! It is a continuing source of joy--and occasional guilt: Does anyone need this many books??
While I will read almost anything--including cracker boxes [have you read the box for Toppers? it's a scream!]--my current favorite is scifi/fantasy. During my stint as a grade school librarian, I discovered there are some wonderful YA authors (besides Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula LeGuin and Lois Lowry) writing fantasy these days so I haunt the scifi adult and YA sections of area libraries. Currently I am reading Sharon Shinn's newest book Reader and Raelynx, having just finished all of Laura Childs' "Tea Shop Mystery" series, preceded by Dancing by the Dead Sea and to be followed by The Pig Did It. I really do read anything and everything!
My great love every year, come spring, is baseball, specifically, the Cubs. I'm almost afraid to say anything about it this year because it seems like a miracle season. I mean, when did you ever go to bed with the Cubs losing and wake up to find they'd won--again--big time? Of course, it's only taken a century but even so...
My name is Mimi and I work in the OCC Library, Des Plaines campus as a circulation/ILL clerk. I've been here almost a year and find the atmosphere and people very congenial. A special perk is having to charge and discharge books for patrons--that allows me to snatch up anything that looks interesting--and almost everything looks interesting!
After dreaming of it for twenty+ years, four years ago I turned what had previously been affectionately known as the "den of iniquity" in my home (i.e., the room where I shoved everything when company came and closed and barred the door) into my personal library with a custom-made floor to ceiling bookcase two books deep. After years of having to keep track of which bookcase or carton or pile contained which book, I could finally shelve them all! It is a continuing source of joy--and occasional guilt: Does anyone need this many books??
While I will read almost anything--including cracker boxes [have you read the box for Toppers? it's a scream!]--my current favorite is scifi/fantasy. During my stint as a grade school librarian, I discovered there are some wonderful YA authors (besides Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula LeGuin and Lois Lowry) writing fantasy these days so I haunt the scifi adult and YA sections of area libraries. Currently I am reading Sharon Shinn's newest book Reader and Raelynx, having just finished all of Laura Childs' "Tea Shop Mystery" series, preceded by Dancing by the Dead Sea and to be followed by The Pig Did It. I really do read anything and everything!
My great love every year, come spring, is baseball, specifically, the Cubs. I'm almost afraid to say anything about it this year because it seems like a miracle season. I mean, when did you ever go to bed with the Cubs losing and wake up to find they'd won--again--big time? Of course, it's only taken a century but even so...
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