I recommended the book we are doing at Fern Creek for our May bookclub, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.
I subscribed to the "New Fiction" newsletter. This seems like a really cool tool and especially could be used at branches with many and regular Fiction readers. Not only could you use it to keep up with new titles for your own recommendations, you could easily direct patrons to the site as well.
In Noelist I did a search for Adult Fiction A-Z Classics Revisited. This yielded a kind of humorous result as I thought I was going to be seeing "Classic" titles, but instead I got relatively new works inspired by classic Fiction, such as the work Finn a novel about Huck Finn's father and other characters in the original Mark Twain work. Once again, I think this is a super cool tool reader's advisory type thing that is a benefit to any library.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wikis
I found the Wikis info to be really informative and well presented. Great job, folks! I posted in the Favorite Restaurants and Favorite Musicians sections and found it to be ridiculously easy to do so.
I see the potential of Wikis in a variety of ways. Of course, the collaborative aspect means you'd be able to work with your patrons/public directly on things; however, my mind immediately shot to the idea of a Wiki for Circulation/Polaris issues. This would not be an area to mainly discuss problems with Polaris, but rather, it would more be about training and tips. Anyhow, it's just something that came to mind when I thought of Wikis for library use.
I see the potential of Wikis in a variety of ways. Of course, the collaborative aspect means you'd be able to work with your patrons/public directly on things; however, my mind immediately shot to the idea of a Wiki for Circulation/Polaris issues. This would not be an area to mainly discuss problems with Polaris, but rather, it would more be about training and tips. Anyhow, it's just something that came to mind when I thought of Wikis for library use.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
RSS Feeds
I subscribed to the Album Reviews portion of the Pitchfork.com site that reviews new music. I also subscribed to the motorcycles/scooters portion of the Louisville Craigslist. I can see how this could be really neat but I will first have to get familiar with the clicking and linking around needed in the Google Reader. Because of my current lack of experience with this, it almost seems easier to just go to the sites. I would say, however, this could mostly be due to the fact that RSS feeds are very new to me.
Podcasts
I first went to Storynory and listened to a podcast of a Wordsworth reading of "The Daffodils - I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud". The site was pretty easy to use and the podcast was fun.
Next, I went to PodcastAlley.com. Here, I found the site not at all intuitive and you had to fish around a good bit even to just get access to the listening point; regardless, I sampled from "On the Menu", a podcast discussing wine and food. The edition I sampled was on "Sensible Food" and quite boring :)
Finally, I went to CNN's podcast area and quickly got a cool news update on the terrible disaster in Japan. I found the CNN podcast section to be easy to use and useful.
Next, I went to PodcastAlley.com. Here, I found the site not at all intuitive and you had to fish around a good bit even to just get access to the listening point; regardless, I sampled from "On the Menu", a podcast discussing wine and food. The edition I sampled was on "Sensible Food" and quite boring :)
Finally, I went to CNN's podcast area and quickly got a cool news update on the terrible disaster in Japan. I found the CNN podcast section to be easy to use and useful.
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