Step # 9 Social Networking

I am familiar with both Facebook and My Space, learned about Linkedin a few weeks ago from a patron at another library (he said it was great for work networking), but was not familiar with Eons, so that is what I joined. However, my email continues to act up and when I tried to “click [...]

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Step 8 Overdrive

i listened to 7 sections, including how to place holds, on the Overdrive how-to site, and followed the instructions.  It was easier than I imagined to download the book I chose, Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace. I’ve always had a fondness for this historical series, and discovered a wonderful thing as an adult: there is [...]

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Step # 6 Wikis

I listened to “Common Craft, Wikis”, read the info on How Stuff Works, revisted Wikipedia, newly visited Wikihow and Wetpaint.  Wikihow did not have anything on Rose of Sharon bushes, how to grow lilacs, but did have an article on how to make your hair smell like lilacs (a situation that is rather dependant on [...]

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Step # 5 One Stop Search (federated searching)

This is great for finding information from a variety of sources about a topic.  Some databases are very specific, such as Auto Repair, and a person needing to find out about how to repair a car would absolutely want this specific source, instead of taking a global view and getting too many incidental hits.  When [...]

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Step # 4 RSS

I signed up with bloglines for an account.
I have added Shifted Librarian, Dictionary.com Word of the Day, Scientific American, CNN World News, CNN Top Stories, CNN U.S. News.
I’ve looked at Debbie Winarski’s PowerPoint presentation, and emailed it to my email account so that I can share it at a Dept. Staff meeting.
Having the aggregator be [...]

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