Thing 17

Deliciouse seems to be somthing the reference staff might be interested in setting up for specific items that they search for a lot. If you use the internet alot, this would be a helpful tool to filter out all the junk searches.

Thing 16

I started setting up a My Space spot. When I got to the place to upload pictures, the site locked up because the city websense came up and said it was blocked.

THING 15

My Space and Facebook are a great communication tool for teens. If we need to communicate with them, then the library needs its own site on it but who would be responsible for maintaining it. Would any pictures we put up have to have parent signatures before we could use them.

Thing 14

It was very easy to add to the wiki. If you made a mistake, it was easy to go back and edit it. Although the fact that anyone can change someone else's entry is a little scary.

Thing 13

If ComIT would allow us to use this, it would be great. But since we have limited access to changing anything on the city website and the paranoia about letting the public have input on the site, it is wishful thinking on our part.

Reviews for each book input by nonlibrary staff would be helpful and might cut down on the number of holds on books that really are not that good but everyone puts holds on them based on the author.

Thing 12

IM can be a very useful tool but it is also harder to do a reference interview. You lose the face to face contact and the ability to easily figure out what they really are looking for. I asked a question and it tied the librarian up for 35 minutes. This is another station that has to be manned and some of the library branches really does not have the staff to man it.

Thing Two

Of the seven and a half, TIME is the most important and then technology. Finding the time to read all the articles is a bit hard to do but then not being blocked from accessing what we need to do our job is another.

THING 11

Libraries need to be using IM. The younger generation is used to IM as a means to communicate and it is more immediate means of getting information. They are not used to waiting but expect instant gratification.

Learning the "codes" to IM is different and you need to be up to date on what the initials mean and able to decode the messages.

As more people become used to IMing, our customer base will expand. It is more convenient, you know someone is actually looking up something for you and you may get an immediate answer. Files, pictures, etc. can be attached and downloaded to a separate program.

RSS Setting Up

This was very easy to set up and adding new RSS feeds was fairly easy. Now to only have time to read all the new and interesting postings.

RSS FEEDS

I found that Feedster was not working. It is being changed. I think topix was the easiest to use and it found more sites for each topic I searched for.

Library 2.0

If it wasn't for this training, I would never have done this. This training is expanding my horizons greatly.

Problem with dogs

Ah......the problem with dogs. I currently have two dogs who pretty much came from dog rescue. One is a wild 8 month old Airedale Terrier puppy and the other is a docile 7 year old Welsh terrier that was never taught to play.



My puppy is now banned from the groomer I have used for 11 years.

She gave the bather a black eye. She is a little too excitable and the groomer lets all the dogs run loose in the shop. She wanted to play rather than stay in the bath. It took them two hours to dry her and then cutting her toe nails was another thing. So unless I sedate her, she is banned. And they charged me a fortune because of the extra time it took. It wasn't like it was the first time she had been there. They had groomed her twice before and my son had been cutting her all summer because she loves the pool. So she is used to the clippers.

Ah the stories I can tell about this wild puppy. She came from a ranch outside Tulsa and when she arrived she was scared of everything. She must have been kept out in a barn with her 16 litter mates. She did not even know what a step was. She would not go off our deck because she had to go down a step to the yard.