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!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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.
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.
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!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, October 30, 2009
NetLibrary
I did not find NetLibrary very easy to use. Showing a customer how to use it does not seem that it would be very easy or quick. It may need to be a structured time to teach a customer. It could aslo be confusing to a customer that an e-book can be "in use" and may not be available when they want the material.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a great resource. I searched the book Pinkilicious and was able to find that it was also done as a musical. I had no idea. This is one of my favorite books to read aloud. It is interesting to see how many langauges the book was published in. This could be helpful to us and patrons. I have one patron who uses WorldCat to search movies in Persian.
This is a great additional resource to find materials that can be acquired through ILL. It is also nice to see the distance of the libraries that hold the title. This could be very useful if the report is due tomorrow!
Also, good to see where you can purchase the book and what it will cost. I never heard of World Books, although they were the most expensive.
This is a great additional resource to find materials that can be acquired through ILL. It is also nice to see the distance of the libraries that hold the title. This could be very useful if the report is due tomorrow!
Also, good to see where you can purchase the book and what it will cost. I never heard of World Books, although they were the most expensive.
LibraryThing
LibraryThing is very interesting to use. I searched for apples, juvenile. I got a message that nobody has mde that tagmash before. It said to wait while it recalculated. It did pull up a list. There were some unique spellings of juvenile that it pulled up (juvenil, juvenille). It did pull up a list with apple books and others that were just juvenile and not related to apples. Library Thing will be useful to try some new titles for storytime. I am very excited about the area to save a list of books to read. I can get rid of my snippets of paper!
link: http://www.librarything.com/home/Terheeb
link: http://www.librarything.com/home/Terheeb
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