Res XVII

I must admit I was expecting a little bit more from the sandbox than what I found. It was rather easy to use, which made it fun. There were also some interesting favorites pages that I visited, but all in all I found the whole thing slightly bland. Oh well.

Res XVI

Wikis are good. I think a wiki on the library website would be a wonderful thing. Just imagine the possibilities. Customers could write reviews of books and do there own readers advisories. Librarians could write about their favorite books, make lists of must reads and do various other things to share and promote a love of reading. Wikis are a great way to build up community relationships and share knowledge and resources, things the library is already a pro at doing.

Res XV

In some ways I think Library2.0 is a great thing. So many people these days work, shop and play via their computer and the internet, that it is almost unthinkable that that the library not be apart of that. On the other hand, there are still thousands of people who do not have the internet, who do not know how to use a computer, and who want nothing to do with either. How do we support both? I think the next few years are going to be difficult, not only for the library and its collection, but also for the library's customers. We will all have to adapt to a new way of doing things, teachers will have to realize that an on-line encyclopedia is just as good as the on the shelf kind, and we as librarians will have to think up new ways of getting real books into the hands of those who only read blogs.

Res XIV

I had been wondering for some time now how one goes about getting their blog "noticed" by the world and with the help of Thing 14 now I know. Technorati was a fun site to explore, but I don't think I will be visiting it much. As I've stated before I'm not a big Internet user, I don't spend a lot of time looking for and reading other people's blogs, so Technorati is not really for me. But at least now, if I ever do decided I need to read a blog on bee keeping or on the latest technological gadget, I know where to go to search for it!

Res XIII

Del.icio.us is a neat site, but once again I don't think I will find much use for it as I don't do a lot of bookmarking. I do, however, see how other people and especially other librarians might find this site useful.

Res XII

I must say it was difficult for me to come up with a subject to create a search for on Rollyo. I generally just use Google when I need to find information on something, so I don't have a huge repertoire of much used and trusted search sites on any one specific topic. But after much thinking I was able to pull something together - a search engine for Classical info (although I do have to admit that I found several of the sites used in the Classical search through Google). All in all, I think I will stick with Google. It seems faster, easier and, as other people have mentioned in their blogs, limiting yourself to just a few sites is an easy way to overlook some new site that could prove quite helpful.

Res XI

I love LibraryThing, it makes me so happy. It is also something I knew about and used before my adventures in 23 things. The best part is, now that I'm fully moved into my new apartment I can start adding all my books that were hidden away in boxes. Hmm ... at the rate I'm going I might need to upgrade my LibraryThing account - 200 books just isn't enough!