Week 7 Tagging and Del.icio.us

Tagging and Del.icio.us:

I browsed Del.icio.us is a nice way of connecting browsers together. I liked looking at the links from several different people. I decided not to join this site, but I did decide to look and determine later if I wanted to maybe add this to my favorites.

The video of ottergroup was interesting. I understand how you can gather information from others online by looking at their tags. But their is a lot of information that you have to go through to filter and see what you want to tag and add maybe to your favorite blogs, links and websites.

Technorati:

I looked at several different links from this site. I was interested in some of the political view points and even added my opinion on several. I found this site very interesting and maybe a place I will visit again in the future. I could see how we could connect with other librarians, youth librarian and share ideas together or work on a project together. There is a lot of potential to this area of communication.

Away from Iceburgs: Librarys in the future: 2.0 Having a digital collection more vs. a physical collection. The movement of libraries is to have more articles, journals, and books via the internet, webpages and links through our website. The future of libraries are constantly changing and I can see how the libraries of the future will be so much more different than what I use to think. I am excited about the changes and I know that I have to continue to keep an open mind when it comes to collection development. I know that young children's books will never go out of style and that parents will continue to read to their kids. They want to hold and touch the book and feel it's pages.

I understand how adults will slowly move to this change and as the new generation comes along with the new library of the future, one will see that MP's, Scan disks, external drives will be common place at the library. Downloading to IPODS and other forms of technology will continue to enter in the library. Staff will have to adapt to change and we will have to continue to move towards the future of a modern library system 2.0.

Into the new world of librarianship:
To more powerful ways to coorerate:
To better bibiographic services:
To a temporary place in time:But Library 4.0 will add a new mode, knowledge spa: meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought. In companies, this may take the form of retreat space for thought leaders, considered an investment in innovation; in public libraries, the luxurious details will require private partners as sponsors providing the sensory treats. Library 4.0 revives the old image of a country house library, and renovates it: from a retreat, a sanctuary, a pampered experience with information—subtle thoughts, fine words, exquisite brandy, smooth coffee, aromatic cigar, smell of leather, rustle of pages—to the dream economy’s library, the LIBRARY: a WiFREE space, a retreat from technohustle, with comfortable chairs, quiet, good light, coffee and single malt. You know, the library.
Wow, what a wonderful thought of the library of tomorrow! The library of the future 4.0!

Week 6 Social Networks

My Space:

Ok, I found Tom and he is a Libra. I know how important this social network has become. I am not a part of My Space. I see young adults, teens, and pre-teens on this site all the time. I have to admit that it's about time to become more socially available. I laugh now because I am so young, but I am now getting older and I have to keep up with the kids. I didn't realize how fast the internet has changed in this past year. I am learning more and I see that I have to get back into surfing the internet.

Gaming:

Again, I haven't been gaming online. I do Playstation at home and I have played some games that I have purchased. I downloaded a few games through the years. I ask kids what sites do you like. There are so many sites now that are free to game online.

Billards:

My score was 8! As you can tell, I don't game online very much!

Week 5

Image Generator:

I tried out the first one (Generator Blog) and went to several different choices. I tried the George Bush one and went to send it to my blog. As you can tell, It didn't get here. Then I tried the second one (Letter James). As you can tell, I was able to upload this image that I created.

Next month! I'm getting married! Too Cool! How exciting is that!

Library Thing: This seems pretty interesting to me. I may use this to save books that I would like to read, add to the library or make a list of the books that I have already read. I did the small learning program on the site and it appears that this might be useful.

Rollyo: Oh my, not another thing to sign up for. I am not interested in this one at all. But I have to say that Library Thing is the best one when it comes to books. I am ready to learn more.

Week 4 - RSS Video

What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? I guess RRS is pretty cool if you are wanting a lot of information sent to you without ads and not a lot of junk mail. I subscribed to several different ones yesterday and today I am going to check on them through bloglines. I hate having a lot of different screen names and passwords. I am going to have to make up a list so I don't forget all of the links...my websites, my screen names pass codes, etc. Today, I even forgot how to get back into this blog site. I didn't remember what e-mail I used. UGH! I wasn't too impressed with the first stories I received yesterday. But everyone has a bad day! I'm having one today and I'm sure your really not so interested in that! Sorry, but the newsreader is a "New Idea" to me but has been around a while. It seems to make a lot of other people happy. I'm hopeful it will allow others to organize what they are reading, keep up with technology, news, weather etc.

How might this technology be used in your work or personal life? Well I did check on some librarians links, weather and news. I love keeping up with the news and I enjoy the BBC since our local news tells the same stories over several different networks. I like to know what others are thinking about us here in the United States. I may learn about other libraries through this system as well. But, this is new to me. I need some time to absorb all of this and see in the end if it was worth it.

How can libraries use RSS and benefit from this technology? I can see our system making up a blog through it's website with links, see librarians work this when they have off-desk time to answer questions/answers (Q&A) We could connect with other systems across the web and have links for patrons to access via our website.

This could also be used as a learning tool for programming, staff training and online programs through RRS.

Optional: If you're up to the challenge, you can provide the URL address to your public bloglines account on your blog. http://www.bloglines.com/public/teenturf