YouTube

What I like about Youtube is the ability to watch movie and television previews. I found a preview for a movie I have been eagerly anticipating called Becoming Jane. It stars Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy and tells the story of how Jane Austen got her inspiration to write her novels.

Lesson #22

For Lesson #22 I looked at the 2.0 Web Awards. The two nominees that I found interesting were travbuddy. This is a database where you can find a travel buddy. Perhaps someone to show you around town if you were visiting a particular city.

I also looked at lulu. This is a website that will publish brochures, books, calendars, just about anything you might want to publish.

Google Labs

I checked out Google Labs. I'm not really sure if any of this is my kind of thing. I tried Google Trends, and searched for Disneyland. The link story that looked interesting to me about a Shark Fin at Hong Kong Disneyland had a bad link. Then I tried Summer Movie Previews and got some stuff from 2004.

After that I moved on to Google Mars and looked at some shots of Mars. That's about it.

Library Thing

Thanks to Chris M. I'm actually excited about cataloging my personal book collection! So, now I've created a Library Thing account and will get started. Here's the link: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/janelles
And yes, I am now completing the lessons out of order!

Lesson #19

The Iceberg article was interesting, and I found myself not necessarily agreeing with alot of what they said. My biggest problem with the article was that they seemed to leave out the idea of the library being a "community" place. For one thing, many of our patrons don't want to be self-sufficient. They come into our buildings for some social interraction. What happened to the days of discussing the latest best seller?

As I read on, I found a paragraph from the article titled Into a New World of Librarianship that particularly struck me: "This librarian does not buy technology for the sake of technology. “Techno-worship” does not exist here. Without a firm foundation in the mission and goals of the institution, new technologies are not implemented for the sake of coolness and status. " I liked what he said here. Although new technology is very important, I agree with him that buying simply because it's new, is not the wisest. Unfortunately, we've learned that the hard way at KCLS particularly with Millennium and possibly AMH as well...

If I were a character on South Park...