Monday, January 28, 2008

Thing Two - Web 2.0

I think our 23 Things will take more than 15 minutes a day. But I think that many of these things are worthwhile, fun, and necessary to keep libraries one step ahead of the patrons.

Having worked at a college, I have become familiar with YouTube (I dare you to try to watch William Shatner "singing" Rocketman), file and photo sharing, and music transfer. I have an ipod, MySpace and Facebook accounts, and use wikis and RSS feeds. I am looking forward to learning Flickr, which is something I was about to do anyway. I think the 23 Things is a nice introduction and overview to all things 2.0, and I like that it is focused on why and how this is important to libraries.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Thing One - set up a blog

Thing one went pretty well. It was fun choosing and setting up things. I might do more tweaking on it as I go. I'm very excited about the 23 things! I don't particularly like having an avatar, but my daughter helped "dress" me.

Puellabiblio: puella (poo-EL-ah) is Latin for girl; biblio is book. The word for librarian is too long. (I was a Latin major in college) I've used Puella Press as a business name for my book preservation and repair for many years, so it seemed a logical extension.