Tagging

On LibraryThing I looked up several books. For "The Invention of Hugo Cabret", there was a tag for picture book. I can understand why they added this, but as a librarian, I would not consider this a true picture book. I was surprised that there was no tag for "drawings", however illustrated was included. Freeform can have its drawbacks, but you can also be helpful, as tags can be creative For example, in "The Maze of Bones", one of the tags is puzzles. I would not have thought of that.

Wikis (part 2)

Sandbox would be very useful for Lakewood's Thanksgiving dinner for the community. It would help to avoid duplication of items, and not put the responsibility of compiling the list into one person's hands.

Wikis (part 1)

I found the Library Success wiki to be helpful. I especially liked the ideas of where to donate discarded books.

I use wikipedia somewhat often. I use it when people need a series order, as well as for looking for information about a certain town, etc.

I like how when something is inaccurate, it is usually corrected (as far as I know). I love that wikipedia has links within the article. It was interesting to look at the history tab. I never went into this. I did not know that you could contact the contributor. I never thought about it.

Somewhere in the history tab I saw a something posted by vampireken about TR being haunted.

Interesting.

Picnik

Picnik is really fun. It would be fun to display posters and flyers in the library. Kids would get a kick out of seeing a photo of themselves at a program that is all doctored up.

As for using Picnik with customers, I don't know how much we would use it in the children's area. They may enjoy using Picnik themselves, if online games do not take priority.

I thought it was really cool to see the photo from different angles.

Picnik would be a lot of fun to use to manipulate photos for a family photo card!

Google Docs

Google docs is really cool. I know how frustrating it can be to have many versions of the same document. I can see this being a big time saver.

This may be useful for preparing my monthly narrative for the juvenile department. Co-workers can add any program details that I could pick from to prepare the final report. This could be useful as details can be added immediatley. I'm afraid that if everyone added to it for the final report, it could get far too long.

Twitter

I dion't like Twitter. I don't find it to be particularly "user friendly". I tried to search some people (without much luck), so I decided to try Johnny Depp (aka-My Johnny). A lot of hits came up, and I was not quite sure which one was "his", if he has one!

Facebook

Although I am not on Facebook, I find it very intriguing. I prefer person or phone contact, and really don't want to spend my free time in front of a computer. I have only used Facebook to try to see a picture of someone.

Facebook is fascinating. It is definately changing interaction for people that I know who use it. People have looked up old classmates and gotten back in touch or have made new friends. I have only used it to try to see a picture of someone.

The privacy issue seems to be pretty well covered in Facebook. It was interesting to me that you can remove yourself from Google. I would never have though about it, but the person that I looked at on facebook was actually found through Google.

Intersting.