Our little library has had a DIY online presence for
over two years and, by gum, folks are really starting to
(on purpose!) visit our blogspot/facebook to connect to us!
Today we had a compliment from a patron who appreciated
our one-click calendar being up-to-date! This would have
never been possible without the 23 things on a stick exercise,
which propelled us unto the Internet. WOO-HOOO!!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain
Went to a seminar last week given by Erin Walsh, daughter of Dr. David Walsh, who wrote the best selling book, "Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen. The SAMMIE Library cooperative hosted. We are trying to prepare ourselves to better serve teens. Libraries do a great job with little kids, but we have a ways to go with teens.
Was working in a bigger library on Saturday and had a conversation with a 12 year old who was checking out audio books. She said, "I don't have time to read a whole book, that's why I like poetry." It made me think about how much our teen and college grad children text. Texting is a lot like poems. Concise and to the point. I asked the girl if she had ever participated in a poetry slam? "What's that?"
Was working in a bigger library on Saturday and had a conversation with a 12 year old who was checking out audio books. She said, "I don't have time to read a whole book, that's why I like poetry." It made me think about how much our teen and college grad children text. Texting is a lot like poems. Concise and to the point. I asked the girl if she had ever participated in a poetry slam? "What's that?"
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
THING 8, Sharing Creations TWITTER-style?
Ok, so back to my re-run of 23 things...
On the instruction page for Thing 8, I clicked Slide
which jumped me to the BIGWIG Social Software Wiki
where I found a presentation discussing the who, what, and wherefore of TWITTER.
Join twitter, add a presentation?
There are other twittering librarians...
http://twitter.com/yalsa
OK, here goes.
On the instruction page for Thing 8, I clicked Slide
which jumped me to the BIGWIG Social Software Wiki
where I found a presentation discussing the who, what, and wherefore of TWITTER.
Join twitter, add a presentation?
There are other twittering librarians...
http://twitter.com/yalsa
OK, here goes.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thing 7.5 WEB conferencing
Social networking with live web conferencing
or a conference within a virtual world like Second Life
has practical uses. Hmmm..
or a conference within a virtual world like Second Life
has practical uses. Hmmm..
Monday, August 4, 2008
THING 7 Communication Tools
Today a lady called from California
with a reference question: Could we
help her find old images of a school
and church her mother attended 40
years ago? The lady is creating a
"memory quilt".
We will find, scan and e-mail
the images to this Californian who
will, in turn, print them out on cloth
squares for her memory quilt.
How's that for a "mash up"?
After reading the 2005 Smart Library
article about SMS or "text messaging",
it is interesting to note how pervasive
text messaging now is.
The article mentioned that III offers
library software called AirPac,
adapted for small portable and
wireless devices.
I "googled" AirPac and found this
link to the Minneapolis' wireless library catalog:
http://mplwebcat.mplib.org/airpac/jsp/airpacIndex.jsp
It has a very basic and simple interface.
That is very cool. Access the library
from wherever you are, without a computer.
I played a little with the catalog and it looks
like it allows access to electronic library books
and information right from one's wireless device.
with a reference question: Could we
help her find old images of a school
and church her mother attended 40
years ago? The lady is creating a
"memory quilt".
We will find, scan and e-mail
the images to this Californian who
will, in turn, print them out on cloth
squares for her memory quilt.
How's that for a "mash up"?
After reading the 2005 Smart Library
article about SMS or "text messaging",
it is interesting to note how pervasive
text messaging now is.
The article mentioned that III offers
library software called AirPac,
adapted for small portable and
wireless devices.
I "googled" AirPac and found this
link to the Minneapolis' wireless library catalog:
http://mplwebcat.mplib.org/airpac/jsp/airpacIndex.jsp
It has a very basic and simple interface.
That is very cool. Access the library
from wherever you are, without a computer.
I played a little with the catalog and it looks
like it allows access to electronic library books
and information right from one's wireless device.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
THING 5, More Flickr Fun
photo is c/o Big HUGE Labs and fd's Flickr Toys!
This cake is ready to eat!
Part of our pretend cake decorating contest.
Happy Sesquicentenniel Minnesota!
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