Happy Halloween

I have scrolled thru pictures on flickr-soooo many and this picture fits my mood today!

RSS And More

At last I have finished learning Lesson 3. It was not hard but I had to find time to be able to sit at the computer and do the lesson. I finally finished during my lunch hours. Setting up the blog was EASY and the thought of going thru sights and adding them to anything was not. Imagine my surprise when I had 211 feeds coming to by blogline in ten minutes. Now I want to make a library page with all the links that the staff can use, even the ones who do not like computers. There is no hard way to find things, just scroll down the feed list and pick what is of interest. The easiest tool found to get the feeds is the RSS button! Just click and it is added. When the site did not have the RSS button, I just copied and pasted the URL. Organization!

blogging for the library

Creating a blog for the library will be an asset. For me, personally, blogging will be a fun learning experience. I have been involved with the library for 15 years. With the electronic times upon us, the library needs to be kept current. What I learn gets passed along to the library board and staff. I hope with accepting the 2.0 challenge and having fun doing it will make it easier for our library to be hip! I get smarter and the libray gets smarter with each lesson I learn.

Discovering blogs

I seem to have joined the electronic era and am learning and playing with blogs. After learning the 7 1/2 learning habits, I have found that the fifth habit will be the most challenging: Creating your own learning tool box. I have been doing classes with computer use, creating web pages, and making a internet and email help book for the library. These have been the hardest and the web page is still not done. The easiest habit to practice is "begin with the end in mind". There is so much information for anyone on the world wide web that learning anything about it will help small town libraries keep up with the times, even though it seems difficult. I believe that even small libraries are needed for all ages of patrons and want to do what ever possible to keep that dream alive.