2009

Good bye 2009, it is both sad and happy to see you go. There is a lot of hope for 2010. Will let you know how things are going as we move along.

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Reading Blogs

Found some new Blogs today that review books. But it is the same old story, which kind of makes me angry and sad...they are mostly books that we carry @ OCLS, but not this Branch.
What is it that can shake up the chain of command enough to make sure that the Children's Library should be the first in line to get new Children's Books. It seems to me this should be so obvious, but since we are only 5 years old, I guess the wheels of change turn very very slowly.
And then there is the thought, who do "they" think brings the children to the Library, especially the ones too young to walk here alone, or live too far away to walk. Seems that should be obvious too..ADULTS come here too. What is here for the moms' and dad's other than DVD's and PC's.
NOT MUCH>
Maybe for our 5th Anniversary in Jan. I can suggest a new policy on what we get when new books are ordered.

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Now Following

I am so excited, I have found a "lot" of Book Review Blogs to follow. The sad part is, a lot of the are J and YA book review, and we do not have 99% of them at our Branch. PLEASE won't some one take note and start making sure that we get a copy of the new books that come in. I don't see why "we" would have to order an more copies of the books. Just give us one of the 4 or more copies that go to another Branch.
Ok this is all I will say on this subject for now.

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Not a Language Learner Right now.

Maybe one day I will be interested in learning a 2nd language, but not right now. I guess I am intiminated by by sister, brother and sister in law. My s-i-l is from Holland and knows about 6 languages. They learn them in school. Maybe if I wasn't quite so old I would have had Spanish in HS. Although that ma;y not be the only reason it wasn't offered, I had only 30 students in my HS Class & around 300 in 1-12.. And now my brother lives in Holland with his wife, and he is learning Dutch. At least he says he is. I saw a picture of him supposedly on the Computer with headphones on learning Dutch. But I haven't actually heard him speak it yet. Hopefully if they come back to visit us some day I will be able to quiz him on it. And then there is my sister who has been studying Spanish for ever. I haven't asked her lately if she is still taking it. She even went to take courses at the Jr. College where she lives. And bought a PC program before there were WEB sites where you can learn for free. Or mayber there were but we were just to PC illietereate to know there were. So there are my reasons for putting it off right now.:) But the Webtopicks lesson was good, and I did read all the blurb's on OCLS Web site about what we offer.

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No Podcast

The Webtopicks for last week on Podcast was very informative. And it would be an interesting project. But, I do not have access to a PC that a microphone can be used on. I did see where one of the Websites OCLS uses has a means of using your phone to record. I would do this if I had a need to do a Podcast. But since I don't I am not going to pay the $99 a year that it would cost.

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77 Days of the National Book Award

This is an interesting blog to follow, because it is following the 1950-60 era. I was in my teens and early 20's at the time. It is "funny" how many books I do not recoginze/remember from that time period, even though I have always been a lover of books. I guess most of it stems from the place where I lived. A very small town in Central Florida. And my mama was my English teacher, who was raised mostly by a step-mother in Puritan New England. Actually she graduated from Winter Garden High School, and attneded FSCW. But I imagine her step-mother and Father brought along their Puritan ways when they moved to Florida.

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Folloing a blog

Yea I just found a new blog I want to follow and have been able to add it to my follows list.
Thanks to twitter and persistence, I got it.

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RSS Feeds

Today I finished the WebTopicks unit on RSS feeds. I had already signed up with Bloglines, so I will continue to use it. I have added some news sources to my feeds.
As for Blogs to follow, there is only one I am folloing right now, and I am folloing it on Blogspots.

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4th of July

Am looking forward to being with family on the 4th to watch Fireworks. Hope we can get a good spot, and it doesn't rain.

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Search engines

I looked up Library of Congress on each search engine. Lexe was my least favorite. It seemed to me that it didn't do much. And the first response was US Copyright Office. What is that!!
Hakia was ok. But my 2 favorite were Quintura and Bing. Although I had a hard time getting to
Bing. Actually Quintura also because I spelled it wrong and ended on bing, but not the one for the search engine,, or something that didn't look the same. I like Quintura because it has related words in a cloud on the side. The word changes with each deeper search. Bing was good too as it has a lot of information on the home page.
And in my searching I found another interesting site call eHow.
Hope I can remember all of these new names.

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Unit 3

I don't have a video camera, nor do I listen to a lot of music. When I do, it is usualy in my car.
If I did want to listen on the Internet, Pandora looks like a good place to do it as you can always choose the artist and/or music you want ot hear. I would not be limited to waht the DJ's decide to play, nor to all their "chatter". Maybe when/if I completly retire I would sign up for it.
As far as viedos go, I probably would do You Tube as my nephew is the Dad in David After Dentist.

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Picture This

My photo stream on flickr is mpdh591@yahoo.com. They are pictures of my granddaughter when she was about 1 years old. She is 2 now, so guess I better put =some new onse up.

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Found it

I think I have finally found what my URL is for this blog. PTL.
Now if I can just find the one I want to follow.

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Digital Pictures

I have uploaded OCLS pictures to Flickr. And I have done some personally. If I can ever find out what my URL is for this blog, I will share everthing with WEBTopicks.

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WEBTopicks

I finally found the URL for these "classes". I choose this site becuase we used it durning our 2.0 and 2.1 classes. And since I have a thing for :change", I will just continue using this site.
I really don't understand how other people follow your blog though. And I don't know how to follow other people's blogs. I guess if it isn't covered in this lesson I can leave it in the question box.

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Twitter and Facebook

What a great resource is Twitter. I have been find all sorts of places to follow that are helpful to Library news, and also Tech news. It is a great "addon" to Bloglines.

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MY PICTURE

I use my cat as my profile picture on Twitter and Facebook, but can't figure out how to move him to this profile, so will just use some pretty flowers from the WEB.

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SL

Well, I guess at one point I said I would not ever join facebook or twitter. Now I have done both.
So I guess I will not say I wll never do SL. However, haveing had a real life experience with a person who lived a good potion of his life in a fantasy world of his own making, not on a SL site, I am still very wary of getting into SL. So for now I will just say, way to go OCLS, for keeping up with new way to interact and meet the needs of our Patrons.

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learning 2.5

Am I ever getting computer "savey" HA HA I have joined Twitter and Facebook since we finsihed 2.1 Am excited about learing more.

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