Week 5, Thing 11

LibraryThing is so fun! I can see so many uses for this - individual libraries can have an online "staff picks" list, teachers could use it too for their individual class book lists or for their summer reading book lists. Lots of potential here. This is a list of my favorite books I've read over the past few years:

Week 5, Thing 10

My yahoo avatar:

Week 4, Thing 9

Merlin is a great resource for MD libraries. I love that it has a state-wide training calendar! Just in case you haven't had a chance to see the website: http://merlin.lib.md.us/.

Now that I know the icons to look for, I think locating the the website address will be easy. With the astounding number of new blogs created each day, it's good to know that they are some search tools out there! I personally liked topix.net the best.

Week 4, Thing 8

First off I have to admit I do not have much experience with RSS feeds and appreciated the "RSS Feeds in Plain English" video! The feeds I subscribed to are work-related, so I am curious to see if the information I am getting will be useful for my job. I do worry about information-overload!

The Cincinnati Library has RSS feeds available for library news, library jobs, teens, kids - and more - http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/feeds/. So does the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/rss/. It would be interesting to see how many people subscribe to those feeds.

Week 3, Thing 7

Hmmm, technology related post...I'm still waiting for someone to invent the transporter, so I could go anywhere in a blink of an eye. The Jetsons really spoiled me - I thought we'd have flying cars and robot maids by now!

Back to reality - the technology I really use the most is my webmail. I know that's not very exciting, but I love being able to check my email from any computer, at any time. The only problem I have with my webmail is that it's hard for me to send large emails - something like a powerpoint presentation or .wmv file. In those cases I use something called Mega Upload (http://www.megaupload.com/) - it's a free service that lets you send files (up to 500 MB). It's helped me out on more that one occasion.

Week 3, Thing 6 con't.

My creation
Originally uploaded by jmrday

I tried to make a trading card!

Week 3, Thing 6

Indiana Jones
Originally uploaded by jmrday

This headstone can be found at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Berlin.

Still trying to figure my way around Flickr. Wondering how libraries could benefit from mash-ups? I was thinking about the summer reading theme - reading road trip. Maybe a library could create a mash-up with photos of children and their cut-out of sneaks on vacation? Although I think tweens and teens are more into this stuff. Anyways, I love exploring this!