LuLu of a time at #19

I ventured into the BOOK site. You know I am surrounded by books all the time, so why not more book info. Books can be such fascinating creatures.

The name of this particular site caught my eye - "LuLu" - because I liked the "Little LuLu" comics as a youngster - which I still am.

This site was about publishing your own - book, cd, dvd, audiobook or other forms of media. Gave me some idea of what I might possibly attempt in the future. And I blame all the bubbling permutation of the brain on the bald geek and bookchickjen.

What I liked most about the site was:

- that it was rated

-had a link

- gave options about what you could do within the site

- could do a tour before deciding to sign up

- use of drop down menu

- walked you through the various options within the product

- let you know the costs involved up front

The useful features included

- variety of formats

- program would make adjustments as needed if not sure of size etc.

- the process of how to publish was in several formats

- listed FAQ in a side bar on each page of the different formats

http://www.lulu.com/

In a library setting it could possibly be used to have some of those items you can't get because they are out of print, but we still have a demand for, printed

FISH Meeting at Thing 18

Girl, did I have fun in thing #18. Tried out Zoho Writer and typed up an agenda for the branch circulation meeting and had it PUBLISHED to the blog. Was that cool or what. This had so many other options then regular word programs. It allowed me to go back and make some changes and republish. It could be shared with someone else, insertion of web link. Most of these were at the click of the mouse. It was easy to create an account or I was getting better at it. If I had wanted to it would insert pictures from my desktop or disk into the document. That certainly could liven up an agenda. Heres to creative and innovative ways of doing the dull and humdrum writing we must do at times.

July 25, 2007

11 a.m.

Called by: Christy Dixon

Timekeeper: Jennifer Meadows

Notetaker: Tyler Peterson

Discussion topics

Second self check out

SRP

Sunday Schedules

Upcoming Holiday leave

Progress on Goals

Progress on Learning 2.0

#17

I went to the sandbox, added a few grains of sand for others to play with.

Sharing what I like is cool. Its neat to know that others worldwide have the same or similar interest.

Well, me and Fang havea few more paths (6) to travel before we reach the end of this road.

So far its has been an interesting journey.

Well, here's blogging to you

Wiki, Wiki,Quick,Quick 16

Ventured into the land of the Wiki. Went into wiki farms and set up an account and then played around a little bit in the sandbox. The sandbox is for experimenting with various formats etc before getting down to the real Wiki. It was fascinating how information is asked for, gathered and presented to the readers. The form or the way the page looks can vary according to the person setting the page up.

I looked at 2 - the ALA 2006 New Orleans WIKI and Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a day. ALA's was developed as a guide for its conference calling on the knowledge and resources of its attendees or anyone. It had topics with some headings that needed input. One such topic was - New Orleans - then it had some heading for possible information such as "Resturants", "Hotels", "Books About New Orleans" and " Slang".

The Library 2.0 one was a different format with a Table of Content, description and references. It almost looked like a research paper.

I think this type of site could be workable when planning programs to get possible content, ideas or speaker suggestion from the customer, especially the teenagers or young adult segments of the library. Building possible movie or book title sites for where to find them or for who's willing to share them with other like minded people. The fact that anyone can add to the Wiki and give as much or as little appropiate information as they want makes it an ever changing entity.

# 15 Library 2.0

I read "Into a new world of librarianship" by Michael Stephens and "To a temporary place..." by Wendy Schultz. Both writers were clear about their stand on Web 2.0 and where it takes the library of the future. I liked Wendy's comments/ideas about the future library. The library of the future doesn't replace what we have now but absorbs and adds to it.
To have growth there must be a progression. We have to use and encourage ideas and use of innovative technology from our staff and customers. Its interesting what some envision the future library is going to look like - having avatars as librarians, 3 D imaging, tailored information retrival, a VRL (virtual reality library) or whatever future technology can provide. A fair amount of our children are used to this sort of technology, being in their own space and time still enjoying what interest them. I believe, if no more then to provide that human touch and keep some of our sensory experiences alive, we need some sort of physical library resource. There is nothing like the feel and smell of a new or old book. It brings back my memories of being curled up in a chair with my favorite book or perhaps in the backyard under the tree with a glass of lemonade reading My Friend Flicka or Black Beauty or one of my other "horse" books. Yes, in the future there could possibly be smell or feel -aroma with 3 D imaging, but oh to have the actual book. It will be interesting to see how emerging technology and saving parts of the past will blend into the library of the future. It will be challenging, interesting and a tad bit scary to take this journey on the star ship LIBRARY and go where no library has gone before.

Mr and Mrs Del.icio.us Technorati

Mr. 13 was interesting and provided some funny moments - for me at least.
I listened to the podcast - which was quite good - and learned what del.icio.us is - a person driven social bookmark, where you can free text your tags or key words for whatever interests you at the moment. It helps to connect you with others who have like interest.
On the site I picked what I thought was a site about having a PICNIC - girl was I wrong. The site was talking about how to run 2 or more MACs on a LAN. Some of the tags used were " apple, MAC, network, files, folder and LAN. Was able to see comments and the various tags used. One of the shortest comments was - "local folder syncing"

Mrs. 14 had some cool stuff going on. I clicked on one of the links that was scrolling across the top of the page and was showed some options where to find that topic. Some of the offering were from "blogs" and "visual or photo media".
Checked out "Learning 2.0" in "POST" had several pages of topics with either learning or 2.0 in them. In BLOGS there were 446 listed blogs about Learning 2.0, each showing how many hits for that blog. Both POST and BLOGS had "authority" at the end of each blog or topic hit. When I used the "Quick view" there was given 3 Blog Post - "ALA 2007 Learning", "Learning 2.0" and "Facts You Should know about e learning 2.0".
Youtube was listed as #1 in top searches, in favorite blog it was "engadget" which was about various technology. Topics were listed from most hits to the least. Its amazing what people are interested in, no wonder you can spend hours upon hours on a PC and never really have a dull moment.

#12 Mr. Rollyo

Searched in Rollyo which I thought was not a good way to find something by looking an another person's blog. But I followed directions and followed instruction as best I could . So, here's blogging at you kid.

http://rollyo.com/travelingteacups/looking_for_tea/