Thing 21

"Podcast" - I was keen to give this a go and once I spent nearly two hours on this. I was a bit disappointed. I searched "book review" and " library news" through "Podcast.net", "Podcastally.com" and "Yahoo Podcasts", the results were most came from America. End up I tried International Podcasts on "Podcast.net", I got a title called "Tofupod" and added the RSS feed to my Bloglines account. It was just for fun.

Thing 19

Played around with the Web 2.0 tool "upcoming event". It shows me what the upcoming events are for Auckland, or where I live. Very easy to use and very informative. I can add my own events publicly so that everyone can see or I can add events to remind me or my friends.

The useful features of the site is that I can see events based on my location. Help keep track of what is happening as I usually forget or don't know about these events.

I can see it being very useful for library to have an event page, displaying what is happening at your library. It could also be used to display new books arriving at the library.

Thing 20

It is very interesting, like watching tv. Lots of shows I can watch when I want to. Can also see videos made by or taken by other people, such as their pets (especially the video below), holidays. Good thing is there are no advertisements : ).

It will help the library by displaying documentary or children education related videos so that children can watch and be entertained or even help them with their homework.

"reminder" Thing 18

Ha!Ha! I did it. Created account with Zoho Writer, created a document "Reminder" and used Zoho's publish option to post the document to my Blog........ I did it!!!

One funny thing that... when I tried to use Zoho Writer's spell check, the message came out "spell check is not supported for English..." What language they are using?? I needed to change to "English NZ" from drop down Manuel and it worked.

Ten most admired qualities in a person are :-

1. sense of humor
   
2. sincerity
   
3. honesty
   
4. openness and receptiveness
   
5. positive attidude
   
6. compession
   
7. patience
   
8. good listening ability
   
9. confidence
   
10. politeness
    

Thing 17

Finally, I did it!!!
I tried several times to get the link to my blog to work properly, following the instructions but it did not work. I noticed that there was a link in the top right hand corner that said "switch to classic mode". When I clicked on this it changed to a different editing mode, the language I did not know. So I clicked back to the "Edit page" and tried again, it worked this time.
Through the "PB Wiki Tour", I got the clear idea of it. It does not look hard to do. I will try if I have time later.

#16 (week 7)

"A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content" It is great !!
Looked at some library wikis and blogs, I like Wiki "Library Success" which was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. I like that ideas -- sharing information about the profession.
Book Lovers Wiki was great too -- looked at the difference types of reviews - it is good guidelines for patron and librarian.
Only one thing, will that be easy to work on and meet the purpose it serve.

Thing 15

I agreed that we librarians are working hard, with the best intentions, to serve our patrons well in a world that has changed dramatically in the last decade. In a new digital lifestyle, Library 2.0 makes the library a social and emotionally engaging center for learning and experience. Our patrons will expect access to everything - digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. I don't think there's any question that we'll help and educate patrons when we can.
The problem is as more information becomes more accessible, people will still need experienced tour guides. This will be the main challenging for librarian to be a good tour guide to access right information for patron.