Thing #16

I especially liked the Book Lovers Wiki developed by the Princeton Public Library. I think this type of wiki is a great way for libraries to promote books and reading. The reviews might also encourage readers to try new authors, subjects, or genres. The community information wiki is another resourceful & efficient way to gather information that might otherwise be difficult & time-consuming to locate.

Thing #15

I agree completely with the ideas presented by Michael Stephens in Into a New World of Librarianship. New technology that will help librarians process the needs of our users more efficently & quickly should be adopted wholeheartedly. The world is changing rapidly and librarians have to ready & willing to change along with it.

Thing #14

So far, Technorati is my least favorite site. I had to restrict my search results to "a lot of authority" to make the results more manageable. Otherwise, I was overwhelmed by hits from blogs that didn't look like they would be worth exploring. I also kept getting the message that the Technorati Monster had escaped again. I don't think I would be interested in using this site again. My first search was very general. When I tried to make it more specific, the monster kept escaping and I didn't have time to wait for it to return. I needed to move on to the next exercise.

Thing #13

I found some interesting links when I searched for Hawaii in del.icio.us. However, some of the tags were very strange or too general to be useful to me. It would not be the only search that I would want to do when researching a topic, but it would worth trying. I am more interested in using it for bookmarks.

Thing #12

I think I will enjoy using Rollyo. I frequently use the same Hawaii web sites so this was a good way to organize some of them. When I have more time, I will add other favorites to my Rollyo search engine. This is a great way to search. I didn't have to search each individual web site or wade through the results of a more general Google search.

http://rollyo.com/bgamble/my_hawaii/

Thing #11

I think I will probably continue to use this site. I don't have a list of the books that I've read over the years. I wish I had started making one when I was a child. Better late than never.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bgamble

Thing #10

The image & text generators were fun! I'm sure I will spend more time playing around with them in the future. I had trouble saving some of my creations. I need to spend more time on that part of the exercise.