week 8 slammin the boards

The whole concept of answerboards is a great idea but I think it would be difficult for libraries with a small staff such as in the library I work in. Time is the critical factor here for small staff. i think however,that if you posted a question to an answerboard you would appreciate a librarian answering it as their sources would be trustworthy. Answering the questions would definitely give libraries an exposure and open the eyes of the general public who think that libraries are full of nothing but romance novels and westerns. libraries and librarians can be quite stereotyped and this is one way of breaking that. For those of us who like an unusual challenge ( and waht librarian doesnt????), then answering the questions could prove to be quite fun. I can see it would also become addictive if you werent careful! A site just for local library memebers to ask questions would exhaust our library but I can see that it would be great as another form of customer service. I will be interested to see both others in my library think as well as the rest of the library world out there doing this course.

library thing

http://www.librarything.com/profile/tkoufus

Here is the address to get to my "library thing" account and see the books in my library.
It was interesting searching for books there. A great way to get a variety of titles on the same topic. By seeing how many other members had that book in their library it also gives you an idea on how popular the book is as well. It all seems relatively simple to use. I will have to go and play a bit more on the site and see what else is going on there.

technorati

Searching on technorati I found 519 references for bookmobile however when I searched with the advanced search I came up with 650. Interesting stuff. It was easy enough to do. Now onto the next challenge. In all honesty it is getting more technical as we go along. Interesting but lots of information in one go. A bit of an overload in some ways but it has been exciting to learn new things.

backsteps to the youtube

I took some back steps and got some advice and found out how to fix what was going wrong and as result I now have a video embedded on my blog. Now i can move on and finish week 7.

talking dog video on "youtube"

del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/tkoufus

This is the link to my "delicious account". I have saved a few things there. go look at them. my favourite is the Ishaah one called "Quiet Place" . I like the idea of keeping my favourites like this. Using the old way of the favourite button makes just way to many sites to wade through as they appear in no order whatsoever. This way things will be quicker and easier to find and I can also check out what others with similar interests have saved by word searching. So many times I save things to my favourites only to forget what they are called and it takes quite a while to sort through and find the exact site I am looking for. I am not sure how this could be used in my library but I guess as I investigate it more I will. I found it relatively easy to sign up and get an account but I am once again facing the issue of another password and log in name. I have worked with a similar idea before only it was a searching site that just put up sites at random that were part of your list of interests that you filled in when you signed up. So the extra tools on the bar dont phase me and I have instructed my family not to take them off!!!! because I need them to finish my homework.

videos to share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Oic5mZWlY&feature=related
(making a scrapbook out of beer cartons)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhydfkKAA7A&feature=related
(folding a CD case from an A4 piece of paper)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxe3wZoT6xU
(how to french braid hair)



Having no luck with embedding so I will at least list several of the videos that I watched.