Thing 15

After reading the first article " Away from Icebergs" I just thought to myself for a second and this is what I thought .....in the article hat was talked about problems and disasters in the library system but I do not see and disaster nor do I see any problems at all with the way the library systems are currently. The whole thing about making it easier for patrons to find information is a good idea....But having a library on the Internet? I couldn't even tell you how that would work. We have information on the Internet and I think having a library in each area for people to use is good enough. Too much cant be expected because many changes are being made and I think that small changes are all that have to be made not drastic ones.

I started to read the next article and it made more sense then the last. I was starting to enjoy it but by the second paragraph it must have said "This Librarian" a million times....I couldn't take it.

Thing 14

I'm not sure if I started this out correct or not because I wasn't sure where to put the key word "Library 2.0" into.....Tags? Blog Directory? I just didn't see that but I might be blind. ^_^

I put the key work "Library 2.0" into the section of Posts. When I did this I found different comments from people and their opinions where you could leave comments in response to what that had to say about Library 2.0. Their opinions included things like news and web resources ,major challenges in the Library 2.0 world and conceptual Web 2.0 issues to practical advice regarding library funding elections.

After I put the key word into the section Post's I then put the same key word into the section blogs and I found a listing of websites regarding Library 2.0, libraries, and technology.

After I visited the top favorite blog, top searched and top blogs I thought that the amounts of member for these different blogs was amazing. I also thought that the top searches and top blogs were very up to date and interesting topics that everyone is curious about.

Thing 13

When it comes to thing 13 Del.icio.us , at first I was a little confused and really didn't know what to think about it. I then made a Del.icio.us account thinking well maybe if I make my own I might understand it better. But for some reason I just did not catch on. I think that this could have been a helpful tool for organization and keeping in touch with people and different topics the you are interested in but I still didn't really figure out how everything worked. I wish that I could have had a better understanding with this task.

Thing 16

I took a look at some of the different types of wikis and I thought that they would be helpful, but a few were a lot alike. Each one of them helps you find different facts and tips about a certain topic and helps you find articles relating to that topic. I thought a few of them such as the Book Lovers Wiki and The Bull Run Library wiki were cute because they only revolved around books which to me would give more information to someone such as a librarian about books than the others. But for those who are looking for information on topics that have nothing to do with books they are not going to be able to find what they need. I like the idea of a site that helps you find facts and information but I think that they should differ some how because a million sites with the same purpose aren't going to be used if everyone is only using one of those sites.

Thing 12

After exploring Rollyo....

I liked the personal search engine. I think a tool like this one can be very useful. It reminds me of a favorites section except from this website you can get other sites that relate to the topic you are interested in and you can make it more personal. I created a search scroll for a couple different category's that I like such as shopping and art.

http://www.rollyo.com/james1283/

Thing 11

I thought the the LibraryThing was pretty cool. I enjoyed looking through the different types of things you could add to your library. I liked posting a few books that I have read in my own library and posting things about myself to share with others. The only thing that I found confusing was when I filled in information boxes the information I put in the boxes would disappear when I returned to the page. Talk about weird ...I couldn't figure out how to save it.




http://www.librarything.com/profile/james1283

Thing 10

I thought that the image generaters were very interesting. I had fun making dolls with different expressions and characteristics.