i love the sesame street, cookie monster at the library video. sometimes i feel like that exasperated puppet-librarian!
i do love youtube, i think it's great. i don't use it often because i just don't have the time. but often people will send me links of funny video's and i'll watch it and than i'll use the side where it says 'related links'. i'm a sucker for anything animal related. my favorite video to rewatch is 'christian the lion'. it's a real tearjerker. here's the link, but i'm sure most people have seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTdWbVBgc
another favorite is the ninja cat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M
another favorite, sans animals is the aicha song. you can feel his heart breaking while he's singing on his minnie mouse sheets...and when he starts breaking out his dance moves...there's no stopping him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbJmLPhsmI
i like this site because it's easy to use and it recommends related videos. i can see youtube being useful to the library. i actually read an article about booktalking on video and posting it on youtube. i looked it up online and found that scholastic booktalks some books, like 'chasing vermeer'. this would be a great way to take advantage of this technology. librarians can booktalk and post it on the children's website and 'feature' a different book each week. i also know that patchogue library's ya librarian, brian, uses youtube to post silly videos of him talking about that week's programs. he did this last summer, so it might just be a summer thing. one of his video's had 101 views and another had 90-something. it could be brian just watching it over and over, but i doubt it.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
LibraryThing
ok, so i started a librarything page about 2 years ago and am surprised i remembered my username and password. i remember thinking, 2 years ago, that i would soooo keep this up. i mean, it's a great way to keep a list of everything you read, right? right! well, it's just too much work to keep an online record of everything i read. i have since started a shelfari and goodreads and those, if they were literal bookshelves, are all gathering dust as well.
i'm a simple girl and not into much online blogging or anything of this nature. i keep a notebook with a list of every book i read and a separate notebook with all the children's and ya books i read. so when i'm at work and get asked a reader's advisory question or something of that nature, i take out my notebooks and carry it into the stacks with me to help a person. this has worked for me for 3 years. what i can't do, is take my computer into the stacks and look up librarything when i want to remember a book i read in the past to recommend to someone.
i guess you could use it to keep up with what everyone else is reading, but i just am not really interested. if someone tells me they read a great book, i'll write it on another list of books to read. maybe i have too many lists, but it works for me. i need to see something in front of me, something tangible. i also wouldn't use the tag cloud to find other books or similar books. as a librarian, constantly reading reviews or cataloging, i come across so many books and that is usually how i pick my next read.
i'm a simple girl and not into much online blogging or anything of this nature. i keep a notebook with a list of every book i read and a separate notebook with all the children's and ya books i read. so when i'm at work and get asked a reader's advisory question or something of that nature, i take out my notebooks and carry it into the stacks with me to help a person. this has worked for me for 3 years. what i can't do, is take my computer into the stacks and look up librarything when i want to remember a book i read in the past to recommend to someone.
i guess you could use it to keep up with what everyone else is reading, but i just am not really interested. if someone tells me they read a great book, i'll write it on another list of books to read. maybe i have too many lists, but it works for me. i need to see something in front of me, something tangible. i also wouldn't use the tag cloud to find other books or similar books. as a librarian, constantly reading reviews or cataloging, i come across so many books and that is usually how i pick my next read.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
delicious
ok, i read a few other blogs and i can't tell how the majority of people feel yet about delicious. I went thru it and had a really difficult time figuring it out. i tried to leave a tag, but couldn't. though i was able to make a comment (i think it was a comment) regarding one of the bookmarks for the website etsy. i'm not sure if we were supposed to even do this, i just couldn't figure out what else to do on the site. i was the one who commented that it's a great site to buy unique jewelry. lots of one-of-a-kind, handmade items in there.
after reviewing delicious, i don't know when i would ever use it or why. i can't see how it would help me being a librarian and i don't know of anyone that uses so no one is going to convince me to use it. actually, after furthor thought, i can see how it might be useful, though i probably won't use it. i am a part time librarian at mastic while i work full time at another library and bookmarking the sites that i use the most is kind of cool. i often forget some good sites and i'm always using different computer stations between the 2 jobs.
i'm glad that i played around on it because now i know of another form of communication that i won't be able to keep up with, but i might try.
after reviewing delicious, i don't know when i would ever use it or why. i can't see how it would help me being a librarian and i don't know of anyone that uses so no one is going to convince me to use it. actually, after furthor thought, i can see how it might be useful, though i probably won't use it. i am a part time librarian at mastic while i work full time at another library and bookmarking the sites that i use the most is kind of cool. i often forget some good sites and i'm always using different computer stations between the 2 jobs.
i'm glad that i played around on it because now i know of another form of communication that i won't be able to keep up with, but i might try.
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