Week 5: Things 10 and 11 – Essex Free’s Facebook debut

I was working on a Facebook account for the library for a while before the 23 Thing’s opportunity came up, trying to create a forum for chat and recommendations amongst the patrons themselves, particularly the YA crowd.  However, I have had the worst time getting Facebook to accept the library as a “real name” – [...]

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Week 4, Thing 7b: My useful feeds

My feeds: Pop Goes the Library, NPR for news, Library Stuff, Technorati, and Lifehacker for resources/tech info, Unshelved for a little humor, and the Library of Congress blog because it actually looks interesting…. 

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Week 4, Things 7 and 8: Why? This is why….

One of the writing prompts for posting on Thing 7 was “How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?”  First given that question, I had no immediate answer, but adding RSS feeds per the exercise, I soon enough stumbled upon an answer in the LIS News – Librarian and Information Science [...]

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Week 3, Thing 7: Of technology related interest…

Of all things technology related, the thing of interest to me this week is the whole notion of time, and the paradox of timesavers becoming timetakers (or is it just that we try to insert that many more “to do’s” into everyday?).  Or is it that our sense of time has warped?  A few more [...]

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Week 3, Thing 6: Retrievr

tango,
originally uploaded by SebaMaya.

I must say, the Flickr mash-up “Retrievr” is sweeeet! I drew the outline of a house that looked like it came off a 4-yr old’s magnadoodle, and Retrievr came up with all sorts of beautiful photos (only one of which, ironically, was a building – a nice little stone shed – instead [...]

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Week 3, Thing 5, Option A/B : Interesting image and photo posting experience

old card catalog…,
originally uploaded by 7-how-7.

Wasn’t the justifying premise for the internet and its use “ease” and “speed”? Information at our disposal, in seconds or microseconds, with a few tappings of some keys? And, true enough, the internet and technology does ease many tasks – I’ve never had the dubious pleasure of filing hundreds of [...]

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