Jeans Genies at Coffs Harbour

The wonderful Travelling Jeans made the journeyn to Coffs Harbour recently. What a great opportunity to promote a good cause & celebrate the role of Libraries as a link in our communities.

Feedback Form Done

Oh DEAR!!!!
Meant to copy the feedback into here.....................


Stay tuned for the next exciting training schedule.

I'll be back when the odometer on the car reaches its next milestone.

Facebook - Library Training

What can we do with all this?

Well, what we have already done is held a Library Training Session for our community to explain to them how to use Facebook, How to joing teh Library Thing Community & How to create their own Blog.

Coffs Citizen is a "lapsed: facebook friend- I will have to get him involved again.

His Blog is a training tool, and the intention is taht the Posts will each be a different "How to", such as "How to reserve a book", 'How to place an oline request" "How to use Library thing" etc. The bones are there - we need to flesh it out.

So much to do! The Sky is the limit.

Five minutes till close of business

I was really trying to get this finished by today, andit is already 5.00pm. Just "Week 12" to go. Perhaps I can plead that I am operating on "Bellingen" time, which is never the same as anywhere else.

Big Huge Labs

Did this BHL thingy ??????

Fast Forward Flickr

Big Huge Labs looks interesting. Will investigate linking Flickr images. Do you go to Flickr first and organise that then link to BHL or the other way around?

The Elephant's Page

I will add here all the bits that I keep coming across & go "WOW - must remember about that!!!"


Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

"How to use the library" Pods

Listened to Curtin Library podcasts - great instructional help on how to use the library & detailed info on services etc. Reaches out to many people at one time. What fun we could all have recording such a series!

What a great way to have audio reviews added to the catalogue - useful for Home Library borrowers, and any vision impaired borrowers.

http://library.curtin.edu.au/research_and_information_skills/online_tutorials/podcasts/research_skills_podcasts.html

Podcast - Reviews & Genre Criteria?

Listened to Podcast
How Tchaikovsky Became Australian
-- an interview with Graeme Murphy about his wonderful adaption of "The Nutcracker".
A Podcast would be a great way to promote book reviews. Great opportunity for staff to share the books they are passionate about ----- or even to discuss what / why we divide books into genres. A description of what actually constitutes a "Family Saga" would be helpful for staff ( so they can explain to customers) as well as making the criteria clearer for the members of the public.

One step closer

The odometer on the car is now reading 123456 kilometres. I actually pulled over at that point & took a photo will post that when I can get it out of my phone!.

Well, have now Answered a Question on Yahoo Answers, Had a renewed look at Delicious, and selected Photos from Flickr = looking at the conditions of use & access etc.

Trouble is, I spend tooooo much time on Facebook to get finished Libraries 2.0. Can we log Facebook time & get credit for hours spent there Mylee?

Has it really been six months?

Well, I decided to get back on a "learning curve" and so with renewed interest, decided to complete the Learning 2.0 tasks. Didn't realise it had been six months since any action here. In that time, I have become a facebook tragic, have had lessons for the members of the library during Adult Learners Week on how to set up their own blog, use Facebook & use Library Thing. I have set up a Wiki to share information with our Children's Services staff in the NE Zone, and have assisted in presenting Web 2.0 info to Year 11 students. So throughout all this, I have been exposed to Delicious, and had actually set up a family Delicious page many moons ago. Have now joined with my Library hat on & hope to try again to get value from what it offers. I haven't found it that useful before, mainly because I tended to use favourites & forgot about Delicious. Will have another go - but realy think the benefit is using pages like the Ask.Now Delicious that has many many clever minds contributing to the overall knowledge. I think that's where the benefits could be. We do too much reinventing of the wheel. I will try get value out of what has already been done.

060708

Couldn't let this one go by. Great patterning in todays date. And, if I had been awake 7 hours earlier than I was, at 5 seconds past 2:34 this morning I could have seen 2:34.5 on 6/7/8. Eveyone at work will be glad it isn't a work day today, so they don't have to hear about this lovely patterning.

98765

I got in the car the other day & the Odometer was reading 98765. I was so pleased to actually see all the numbers in a row. Then I looked at the clock - I was hoping the time would be 4.32. That would have been a bit much to expect I know. It was, however, 6.32, so I was only one number away from 98765432 all in a row on the dashboard. Oh well, better luck next time!

Fantastic Candles

Wow!
I have just come home from a fantastic candle making workshop we held to celebrate Youth Week. What a steep learning curve. Although I boldly declared a few months ago that we would be doing so for Youth Week, my knowledge of candle making was zip! Now, just ask me....
Thanks so much to Alison & Denielle who did so much today - without them it wouldn't have happened.
Thanks also to Lynne at All Australian Candlemaking - who guided me as to what products would be easy to use & the quantities I would need. Her estimates were spot-on!
http://www.candlemaking.com.au/

We made Ice Candles, used Candle Sand in little glass coffee cups, made Flowers in cake moulds & embellished them with beads, and made candles of many other sizes and shapes.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the morning (especially the milk shakes) and as they left, many asked "What will we be doing next year?"
It was lovely to spend the morning with a group of well mannered, happy, inquisitive children.
I will have to start working on what we will do next year......

Happy Birthday Di

Well it was Di's birthday on Saturday 5/4

And --- she turned 54

Which means she was born in 1954!

In Roman numerals Di would be LIV.

If she was an atom her name would be Xenon (Atomic number 54).

Keogh coincidence

Well, - silly patterns of things again... I am organising a reunion for my father's family - the surname being Keogh, so lots of internet searching happening using that surname. So I went to post a comment on a blog just now, and the ending of the "code" that I had to recognise to publish was "jueogh". All it needed was the K in place of the U and there's my maiden name. So.... how are those codes generated??? Are they based on recognition of most frequently used key strokes in the past half hour or something like that???

Jon Sieben - World Record Swim

This was an amazing swim in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics by my cousin Jon Sieben - World Record holder & winner of an Olympic Gold medal at 17 years of age.
Jono recently joined with other former Olympians to greet the team for Beijing 2008. No doubt someone else will come through the ranks & be a world beater this year too.

Twenty four = zero three X zero eight

Couldn't let this one go by - I love silly number patterns & today (24/03/08) is just another. The numbers in today's date can make a correct mathematical sum without even having to manipulate them into a different order!

Day/Month/Year.

24=3 X 8.
Yippee!

RSS after further investigation

Well, now I know a little bit more about this component of Web 2.0. Have been looking at Google reader & have set up a folder with a "blog" list of all our library staff. I think this will make it easier than checking each one individually! I think having news feeds on Google reader will be better for me than using Bloglines, simply because it puts everything on the one starting point ie Google.I could see an RSS feed being a way of setting up a virtual "BookClub" with a library service blog to announce a book to be discussed, and then public / staff participation to discuss the book on line. Also added Blog search button to my toolbar - instant library information from a number of Blogs. Wow, the housework / shelving will never get done now!

Readers' Advisory Services Wiki

I have joined the Readers' Advisory Services Wiki - what a wonderful opportunity to share our collective knowledge of books and literature. http://readersadvisory.wetpaint.com/