CE Course Week 8 Exercises and Progress

I made it to the end ! Hooray. I went to the mashup, http://findnearby.net/ . I am looking for wooden blocks for my daughter to buy them for her birthday. Toys R Us and Walmart only carry foam ones. When I went to the site, I didn't see anything on Craig's List which is in Nashville. However, there were many listings on Amazon, so I will have to look at those. Initially, I tried to find a mashup under travel of hotels that will let you bring your dog. I couldn't find that or one with Christian music.

I went to Rollyo, and I found a story about a mishaps with the systems at the Lakeland Library Cooperative in Michigan. Unfortnately,15,000 library patrons’ records — names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, street addresses, children’s names and library card numbers — wound up being accessible to the public. The author said if she were a patron, she'd want a lot more information. I think it would be a nightmare.

The mashup about infectious diseases with a google map is something I sent to our infectious disease nurse and the 2 docs on staff. Although I can see a lot of personal applications, these would have to be part of our web online catalog with something users could get into if they wanted to see a list of their holdings as I wouldn't have time to maintain it. So I hope the vendors are looking in this direction.

The Public Library in Nashville already has a way for users to sign in online, renew books, request books, and look at their library accounts.

CE Week 4 Social Networking and Booksmarks

I signed up for a del.icio.us account, and it really helped me as I have so MANY bookmarks. Heaven forbid if the IT Dept has to reimage my computer. I have lost them all and at best instead of them being arranged by the frequency that I use them, they are in alphabetical order. With del.icio.us, I don't have to worry about that. I especially like it for consumer health sites.

I think it will be used more in the hospital library setting when my users start using it more. I am considering whether I want to offer a brief class with another librarian in the system. Childcare is an issue for me. Right now, I am doing it on a one on one basis.

Web 2.0 Week 6 Online Photo Sharing

I found flickr very easy to use. I had done some photosharing through pictures I purchased of my daughter through Sears. It was easy for me to share them with people via their email addresses. However, I hadn't used them for work purposes. I will have to add my photo to facebook when I get home as I can't access it at work. I can think of some ways that libraries and their patrons can use online photosharing. I have a kiosk project that was pictorial and used tutorials from the National Library of Medicine. I had an extremely hard time trying to find medical images. If I had known about finding images which can be used as long as the picture's source is acknowledged, that would have been a lot easier. I think this would be a good way to share photos from interesting cases from morning report with others.

I thought it was good of the Library of Congress to be so forward thinking and partner with Flickr. The photos from the 30s can be preserved digitally rather than in paper. This eliminates the problem of deterioration.

Web 2.0 Week 7 Podcasting

I liked learning about podcasts because I would rather see a video than read a lot of instructions when I am learning something new. I enjoyed the ones for this class, and I could hear the audio on the ones from UT. My Media Servcies Dept would let me do some kind of instruction, and schedule a time to tape it. Then they would be willing to convert it to a file. However, I would have to upload it myself. Since I am in a one person library, this would be pretty challenging for me to do as far as finding the time to write and produce something. I would probably ask another library if I could use their videos.

When I went to see UT's podcasts, I couldn't get any video. I couldn't get on Odeo at all.