Adventure Nine

The articles about Library 2.00 presented some interesting thoughts and articulated the environments that Libraries finds themselves in today. As time goes on it seems that life is becoming more and more complicated and change, which has always been a constant, is now much more accelerated, due in large part to changing technology. The idea of making things easier for end users makes great senses as does removing barriers to that end.

As I read these articles, I was reminded of a project I had last year which involved reading through the Library's Board minutes from it's inception up to the present. It was very interesting to see that back in the early 1900's they were dealing with many of the problems we are dealing with today - such as how to get the teens involved and interested in the Library, dealing with rowdy youths after school by employing off duty police men and having to close the Library for several days as a result of an influenza out break (talk about pendemic?)

Makes me wonder what Libraries 100 years from now will really be like.

Adventure Eight

I claimed my blog on Technorti and am going to try adding html tags to my next posts. I was happy to see that Libraries were under the "popular" listing.
I was also happy to see how many hits I got when I searched on YPL and PLYMC.

Technorati Profile

Adventure Seven

Tagging and Del.icio are interesting concepts that I am glad I checked out. I can see how Del.icio would be a good reference site for public service folks as well as for myself. Doing searching from the Del.icio site may narrow down and hone in on more pertinent information I think.

Adventure Six

Rollyo could prove helpful in searching for topics that are similar in nature I think. Such as if you are looking for recipes.

I created one just with some sites I use when I am looking for some specific recipes.

Select Search Engine...Sue's Big AdventureSearch The Web

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Adventure Five

LibraryThing is very interesting and might be helpful to recommend to patrons through our Reader's Services staff.

I think I will find it useful.

Some that books that I am interested in.

Adventure Four

The Image Generator links were fun to explore and I can see how some of them might come in handy for a few projects.

Here is the link I used to create my smiley characters:

http://www.ezsmiley.com/create.php

Adventure Three

I can see how Bloglines is helpful in creating and adding contents to blogs.

As far as the RSS feeds goes - it is just amazing how much content there is out there on the web and how far we have come from when the internet was new and where we will go from here.