Thing 11

I've had a little play around with image generators. Here is one I prepared earlier...

Things 9 & 10

I explored the list of Library wikis that Jason recommended….and really liked the “Book Lovers Wiki” developed by the Princeton Public Library.

For our library – I think we could use a wiki for our Internet subject links. The page would have to be moderated by us to keep its educational integrity. Food for thought!!!

I enjoyed adding (much needed..) colour to our chislib23t wiki. I also added a link to this blog on the “Favourite blog” page and created a new page “Favourite music” where I added my favourite music artists. Long live the ABBA phenomenon!

Thing 8

I've subscribed to several NASA podcast and vodcast feeds this week. Gee, they are so interesting to peruse... I've added one of their podcast feeds to this blog for your enjoyment!

Podcasts and vodcasts could be used on our library website to provide news, library promotions, collection information and more.... The mind bloggles... hehe!

Things 4,5,6 & 7

As you can see - I've registered my ‘galactic’ blog… and had entirely too much fun personalising it. I’ve also gazed upon other blogs and made a comment or two...

Using Google reader I’ve subscribed to quite a number of RSS feeds (including those Jason suggested to import). I quickly deleted the ABC breaking news feeds as they were driving me crazy... As soon as I finished reading the list there were more waiting!!! Moral of the story – be very shrewd when selecting feeds….

RSS feeds are very useful though… especially in our line of work. They’re great for keeping up with relevant topics (aka subject specialist areas) in online databases and web sites. I’ve added an interesting NASA feed to this blog for one to peruse.

Things 1,2 & 3

I’ve had a good squiz through the details of the program and using a little imagination this training should be lots of fun…

I really enjoyed learning about search plug-ins and adding them to my browser. I currently have ten available for use. They are: eBay, Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, our Library catalogue and journal search, YouTube, Yahoo, Live search and News Corp. Online.

In a nutshell - plug-ins make life easier for us library folk…

Being an IE girl (to the disgust of some…) I found adding the ‘add-ons’ to my browser a little challenging but I got there in the end. Some tried to convince me to use Firefox for this task but naturally I wanted to develop the browser I use most. Inlinesearch is a good add-on tool when searching in IE.

Greetings..

Hello Universe!

I’m really looking forward to trekkin’ through the ‘23 things program’ with my library colleagues. I’m sure that I’ll acquire some great skills along this journey.

5,4,3,2,1………. Blast off!