Thing 17- Social Cataloging

I tried LibraryThing. I am a member of PaperbackSwap which is similiar in a way. It has discussions boards and reviews and chat rooms.
I find all of the entering and discussion takes away from my reading time.I hate writing so writing reviews would be a distressful thing for me.I appreciate those who do have the time to give their opinions. Maybe when I retire I will get more into social cataloging. I carry around a little notebook with lists of I what I want to read when I run across something when I am reading the journals for collection development.

Thing 16 -E-books

I love ebooks for research and quick information. But lots of our students are resistant to ebooks and I can not figure out why. They seem to want to have the printed format. Some of the faculty are still slow to come on board also by putting restrictions on format types.

I do not like to read on digital devices. It is hard on my eyes. One thing that bothers me are the restrictions on sharing. I love sharing and borrowing books from friends. I gave my Kindle to my sister. I do like books on tape for long car rides!

Thing 15 -Creative Commons

I can see how this would be very useful for student creating digital works for class projects. It would help with the copy right problems. It could be mentioned in library orientations but I doubt there would be enough time to to go into great detail. It seems there is more and more to try to cram into 40 minutes of library orientation.
It wasn't hard to search but the different rights might be confusing to some. I found several images that I could use and I searched some music that could be intergrated into presentations.

Thing 14 - Online Surveys

It is either the pain meds I am on or Blogger is problematic. I have trouble uploading things to my blog.
I created a library survey on Google docs. We use surveys in the library to gauge library particpation and usuage
.https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGc5aVZ1bTRXQnJ2QVU5bU1qRVY4emc6MQ

Google has some pretty neat applications.

Thing 13 - Document Sharing

I  have been going thru cancer treatment. Much to my grief, cancer is treated by many doctors and other medical specialists. Keeping the appointments straight and nonconflicting takes a lot of effort so I created a calendar to share with all of them so they don't over lap.
I used the calendar feature in Google docs.


.Since we don't have an aquistions system in our library, it might be nice to share a spreadsheet among all the collection development staff so we can keep track of what is being ordered. Also useful when the librarians are creating documents together.

Thing 12 - Cloud computing

Well I have been using cloud computing for a long time and didn't know it was called cloud computing! Amazing what you can learn! I store all kind of stuff in the cloud! I called it online storage!

Thing 11 0-Shortening URLs

Now this was very useful! I love being able to compress those long URLS. It is so frustrating when you make one mistake in typing an URL that is several lines long and trying to figure out what went wrong. This could help me and students tremendously. I used with some of the database articles links and it worked like a charm.