Method 6

Wow, what alot of creative stuff you can do with youtube!

Some of the other libraries did some really cute stuff. I bet I could turn my group of teens loose on this and come up with something pretty cool!

Method Five

This was a long one! learned alot about Snapfish... really cool stuff you can do with it... wonder how much it costs... hmmm.

Then, the legalities of photos. That was tedious and a little confusing. From what I could gather, I think we are okay with the way we use our photos. I do worry about our library's MySpace page, however. Am tired of being afraid of lawsuits, thats for sure! lol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/newportpubliclibrary/2496876803/in/set-72157618067283741/

I thought this was a neat photo.

Method 4

This was a pretty cool method to learn as I was a complete rookie to RSS. I had no idea what it stood for and and what it meant.

I am grateful to learn that this technology is available but, personally, will not find it very helpful to me for the simple fact that I don't read blogs or really surf news sites to begin with. I've always enjoyed "The Shifted Librarian" when I came across it, but have never made a point to read that or any blog on a daily basis. I feel like I fend off too much info on a daily basis to bgin with ! lol

http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/
http://www.unshelved.com/
http://lii.org/

Method 3

Well, "Wow" is about the only coherent thought I can cough up after learning about "cloud"s. I really had no idea that this virtual plethora of services were available. The possibilites for uses and applications really does boggle my mind! On one hand, I can envision this being something of enormous value to not only our patrons but to our library as well. Why SHOULD we pay for bloated software packages when we can access them for FREE through Google Docs? I didn't peruse all of the documents offered but did get a general impression that they were not quite as robust as MS Word. In other words, my fliers for my teen group would definitely suffer!

Very interesting post by Miss Jenny Levine. I did not know that the "Big G" utilized our search history to insert ads on our emails! tsk, tsk... I will be interested to hear what our director has to say about that.

I will need more time to play, peruse, and contemplate before I am able to form a more definite opinion on Computing in the Clouds.

Method one and two

I believe the terms of "Library 2.0" and "Librarian 2.0" to mean that these are the new and improved versions of either. These will be the enhanced, technologically snazzy versions, capable of interacting with patrons and the public in many new and exciting ways.