loveselephants

Zoho Writer

2007-09-03T15:02:00.000-04:00

I love the idea of having documents posted so they are available from any computer. I could have used it when I was writing papers and Bob was editing them from England!
Here is the poem I shared in Zoho Writer: (you can guess the subject)
Here comes the elephant
Swaying along With his cargo of children All singing a song:
To the tinkle of laughter He goes on his way,
And his cargo of children Have crowned him with May.
His legs are in leather And padded his toes;
He can root up an oak With a whisk of his nose:
With a wave of his trunk And a turn of his chin
He can pull down a house, Or pick up a pin.
Beneath his grey forehead A little eye peers!
Of what is he thinking Between those wide ears?
Of what does he think? If he wished to tease,
He could twirl his keeper Over the trees:
If he were not kind, He could play cup and ball
With Robert and Helen And Uncle Paul:
But that grey forehead, Those crinkled ears,
Have learned to be kind In a hundred years!
And so with the children He goes on his way
To the tinkle of laughter And crowned with the May.

Asquith, Herbert. "Elephant, The." The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry. September 3, 2007. http://www.columbiagrangers.org.

Playing in the SandBox

2007-09-03T00:38:00.000-04:00

I sucessfully added my blog to the list in SandBox. It wasn't hard once I thought about it for a while. I also added a comment to the My favorite things section. This wiki was fun. I guess I may become a convert yet!

Wiki, Wiki, Wiki

2007-09-02T23:49:00.000-04:00

Wiki's are a way to share information. The problem is that anyone can post. the information may be accurate, but then again, it may not. I confess to using wikipedia for a quick answer to my own questions. I also enjoyed looking at the BookLovers Wiki at http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/Princeton%20Public%20Library.
Library Sucess A Best Practices Wiki at http://support.midhudson.org/ezprogram/ezprogram.htm had some godd information, but it seems that they have had some porblems with posts. They now require an email address with the post. The ideas in the programming section seemed interesting until I saw that the cost of the Circus storytime was $40 to $60!
Wikis work well at CCPL as a way to keep everyone informed. I guess I feel that Wikis work when the information posted is controlled.

Comments on Library2.0

2007-09-02T23:27:00.000-04:00

I read the Library Journal article from September 1 2006, which says that libraries are searching for new ways to offer services and Library 2.0 provides information about tools to reach this goal. I think that technology is ever evolving and librarians need to keep up. In another article which I found at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/, the author states that:
Libraries should be seizing every opportunity to challenge these perceptions, and to push their genuinely valuable content, services and expertise out to places where people might stand to benefit from them; places where a user would rarely consider drawing upon a library for support.

2007-09-02T23:05:00.000-04:00

I explored Technorati. This site will never be my favorite. The tops looked interesting, just not my thing. It's good to look at all of the different options so that I am familiar with them and can use them if I need to.

Del.icio.us

2007-09-01T23:23:00.000-04:00

I finally mastered to art of saving things from my internet explorer favorites into del.icio.us. Being able to access these from any computer will be very helpful. 13 things down, 10 to go! Nobody promised me Twinkies if I finish! I guess a job well done will have to be it's own reward.

Rollyo-http://www.rollyo.com/index.html

2007-09-01T22:42:00.000-04:00

It's neat to be able to customize a search. I can see this as a very useful tool for librarians who do a lot of searching to help patrons or themselves locate quality information. By creating your own search tool, you can avoid some useless information

LibraryThing

2007-09-01T22:38:00.000-04:00

I listed some of my books and realized that to list them all is a long term job. I liked the site and hope to get back to it some day soon

Merlin www.merlin.lib.md.us/ -

2007-09-01T22:13:00.000-04:00

Exploring Merlin was interesting. I was particularly interested in the Infoblog posts on baby boomers. (Maybe because I am one?)
Addy Will Know is a great song-lots of fun Addy Will Know [Free Download]

I couldn’t think of that book that I read
The one where the characters all wind up dead
Or maybe it was only just one guy
Who bit the dust in the ending

Wanted to take in a film about birds
It’s a good thing to know some of the words
That they’ll be using in the film
And what they really mean

but when I looked in reference
I couldn’t find the section
I thought that I could find it on my own

Addy will know (4x)

I needed an article on global war
The chance of us screwing this up even more
I wanted to know who the general was
That made us drop the H-Bomb

There was guy who was whack in the head
Never made any money and when he was dead
A hundred umbrellas were found inside
Who was this guy

Addy will know (4x)

But when I tried to find him,
In the music section
I got lost and had to double back

[bridge]

Addy will know (8x)

I couldn’t think of that book that I read
The one where the characters all wind up dead
http://addywillknow.pbwiki.com/Addy+Will+Know+-+Song+Page

Library Blogs

2007-09-01T21:16:00.000-04:00

I found these blogs to be useful:
http://mrsrabbitt.blogspot.com/
http://www.teenlibrarian.com/blog.html

The list of library blogs is HUGE I could spend weeks just looking at them all.

2007-07-07T14:22:00.000-04:00

My list on LibraryThing can be seen at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/sandiel. I've only added a few titles so far, but will be adding more later.

Bloglines

2007-07-05T12:53:00.000-04:00

I hope I have time to keep up with the items I put in my newsreader account. I really liked the variety of things I could choose. I can keep up to date with this technology.

Digital Cameras

2007-07-05T12:47:00.000-04:00

I love digital cameras because it is so easy to work with pictures in a digital format. I like sharing pictures of my grandchildren. It's also great to be able to shoot as many pictures of the same thing as I want and then just delete the ones that didn't turn out the way I wanted.

2007-07-05T12:10:00.000-04:00

My avatar is

Exploring Flickr

2007-06-28T14:29:00.000-04:00

WOW! Flickr offers some neat options. I really enjoyed Flappr, Fastr, and FlickrFling. I think this is a fun technology.

Flickr

2007-06-28T14:06:00.000-04:00

Flickr offers the user many options. I thought the mapping tool was way cool!

Lifelong learning

2007-06-28T13:59:00.000-04:00

I've always believed in lifelong learning and have tried to continue my education through the years. The pointers are sure to keep me focused and active.