Whew!

Ya-ha! I think I'm done! Demos watched, sites visited, articles read, survey completed.

Likes: Demos--liked the 'look-here-click-there' format. Made it much easier for a non-techie.

Picasa--yum! What a great tool to have--basically for free.

You Tube--yeah, there's a lot of junk on it, but some great demos for learning, too. Plus getting to revisit my younger years via old music videos. I'm still not sure about how to imbed one, though.

One-on-one sessions--thanks, Brandy, for patiently--VERY patiently--answering my blogging questions.

NetTrek Wiki--Fun to read about others learning experiences and how they approached the assignments. Plus, seeing their photos or what images they chose to accompany their posts.

BiblioCommons--WooHoo! I like the new catalog. I want more training on the new catalog.

Dislikes: Not much, really. I hope there will be more interesting online training sessions in the future.

Facebook, Twitter, etc.--this isn't a violent--ugh!--kind of dislike. They're just not my cup of tea. I do good to get a blog done occasionally. Can see why others enjoy them, though.

The End of NetTrek Training--it's been fun. Hope we can do something like this again!

And what does the deer have to do with anything? We just saw five of them cross a neighbor's yard. And they're beautiful.

'Nuf said.

Yea, Bibliocommons!

Ya know, this is kind of fun! I've been playing around with the new catalog, etc.--rating an item here, creating a list there, doing searches--that I almost forgot we're supposed to blog about it.

Sure do like the search engine, though. The way it will focus in on what you're looking for much more quickly. Sometimes I'd put in what I thought were good search perameters on the old catalog and still come up with way too much stuff I wasn't interested in at all.

I like the way you can narrow searches down on the new catalog to show what is available on the shelf right now. And the "Browse the Shelf" feature is really great. Surely, that will be especially helpful with non-fiction interests. I've already found a couple of poetry books from "browsing" that I want to check out later.

ANOTHER POETRY BOOK

Yes, I've been looking at poetry books again--a favorite pasttime, I admit.

Caroline Kennedy's anthology "A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children" is worth a look. Or two. Or going back and looking at again and again. Though it's a fairly tight anthology--logging in at around 125 poems--the range is impressive. From Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" sonnet, to "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Frost, to Jack Prelutsky's "Today Is Very Boring," you'll find old and new, humorous and thought-provoking.

And then, there's the artwork. Take a look at the illustration for William Blake's "The Tyger." Just gorgeous. Then try the smaller painting for Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs." Are you smiling? Jon J. Muth--who also illustrated and wrote "The Three Questions," "Zen Shorts," and "Zen Ties"--has done a dazzling job with this collection of poetry. His beautiful watercolors, along with Caroline Kennedy's poem choices, make this anthology well worth a read.

RSS Feeds

O.K., I think I did it.
Feeds I'm now following:
DBRL
Awful Library Books
Library Garden
About.com.Children's Books

Should be fun!
And now. . .on to "video"!