Thing 16 - Wiki

The BookLovers Wiki was a summer reading program for adults. Patrons read and reviewed a book that was added to a Wiki. Each review entered the adult in a prize drawing as part of a summer reading program. I like this idea and I hope that we will do a similar program in the future.

Thing 15 - The Library of the Future

I agree with Rick Anderson that we need to find ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting they come to us - whether physically or virtually. He suggests that we need to integrate our services in their daily patterns of work, study, and play." I also like the comment that we need to make the search functions easy to use and "eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time reading and learning." Our mission is to become an integral part of their daily activities and to provide the needed answers or information.

Thing 18

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This is the link for the Zoho writer. I included my favorite fingerplay.

Technorati Link

Technorati Profile

Thing 13 - Del.ici.ous

I was able to unlock my toolbar and add "my del.icio.us " and "post to del.icio.us" to my toolbar. I was excited to add a link on my blog to get to del.icio.us. I am able to find websites and bookmark my interests on del.icio.us. I found a lego knitting machine video when I viewed what others had bookmarked on del.ici.us.

Thing 12 - Rollyo Exercise

I went to the library website and picked my favorite links for my Rollyo search engine. I named the search engine "Karen's Kitchen". I added a second search box called "Storytime Favorites" under my rollyo search engine. I added it to my blog and IT WORKS!

Steps to remember:

1. Register for Rollyo

2. Cut and paste the URL's ( In my case - I selected my favorite links from http://www.libraryvisit.org/)

3. Click on Create Searchroll tab.

4. Go to blog and customize in the add a link by linking with the following ( http://rollyo.com/)

Library Thing

I am making a list of storytime favorites by theme. When I wish to use a dog theme for storytime, then I will have a list of my favorite choices. I'm using the tag "Storytimes - Dogs" or Storytimes - Boats" to pull my selections. It is fun to see what titles I have in common with others on the Library Thing website.

Karen