3 posts from March 2008

Week 11 is finished!  Library 2.0 training has flown by as most aspects of life seem to do these days.  For part one I searched nutrition on the Health Source database and put the feed into my Bloglines account with no problems.  I searched Library 2.0 for part two and also had no issues adding it to my growing list of feeds.

I think students doing a large research paper would really benefit from this service.  The alerts pretty much do the research for you and what stress ridden academic wouldn't appreciate that?  I think information on database feeds should be added to the homework help area and the teen page of hpl.ca.  We all know that the younger folk know far more than we do and would love the extra help with school work.  I have some friends working on their thesis and would have ADORED a service like this during the many months of research.

As information folk I'm sure we can find numerous uses for these feeds - regular searches made easier, curriculum based searches and so much more I'm sure!

I created my page on our HPL network and thought it was an interesting and simple site to use.  I had never heard of it before and enjoyed putting together my brief profile.  I can see this as a great way to keep staff connected on a social level as we work away at our unique branches. 

I am a "facebooker" and love how it has kept me in contact with various friends from various parts of my life.  The campies, PYPSers, University friends, High school peeps, Judge folks and the current circle I have the pleasure of seeing regularly.  On "our" profile I added the Aristotle Quotes application since we are a thinking institution and who doesn't like something a little brainy to keep you going each day?

I use Firefox when I browse at home and found myself reallying enjoying the "Stumble Upon" add-on last winter.  To remember some of the links I found I opened up a del.ic.ous account to keep track of everything and then left it...somewhat like my RSS feeds...but that's just between you and I ;)  I went through delicious today and weeded out the "dead domains" and ones that I have no idea I liked in the first place.  You can find me there @ http://del.icio.us/jessi_page.  I hope to keep up with it so that I can keep my church, library and home bookmarks all in one spot.

LibraryThing is such a great tool!!  I can't believe I haven't used it before!  I think I'm going to actually use it to keep track of what I'm reading so I don't have those "and who wrote that book about the girl again?"  I had to use Horizon and Amazon to find some of the titles I wanted to add so that just made my needs even more obvious.  You may notice that I have a love for girly inspirational chick lit (pretty much books about women like me), books on youth ministry (my other vocation), Mo Willems (some of the funniest pictures books EVER) and the Nerds series (the BA ladies all read them last year and had a hoot).  There I'm http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jessi_page.