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I found searching to be intersting. It sure has a little of everything. I found Arlington Reads which is affiliated with our East Branch Library. Also, there was one for Church Librarians which looked great. I've always wanted to start a library at my church, and this would help.

It seemed to me not as user friendly in searching as it could be. You seem to have to look through a lot of hits to get what you may be really looking for. For example I put in Arlington High School and it gives me 12,467 hits. Not just Arlington High school. Too Many.

I could start a group for the Book Discussion Group we have at our branch to spread the word.

It opens the world to us, as us to the world with networking.

I could also could use Facebook to promote my book discussion group also. I look forward to exploring these great resources more.

Facebook Part Two

This is starting to get fun. I have added four groups and a couple of friends. The groups were my Church, the old and new , and my Junior High School page, and High school band page. I came across a person when I was joining the Bailey Junior High School site, that was a neighbor of mine when I was growing up. Fun.

I added the senior pastor of my church as a friend and he responded after just a few minutes. This is interesting and I can see how it can be of a benefit to me as a librarian. I can keep my friends, as I add them, aware of what's going on at the library.


Great.

New to Facebook

I have set up a Facebook account. I entered just the dasic for the time being. I am hesitant to put a lot of personal info up until I see how I want to use the service.

I could see this could be a way to humanize the library, by showing we are real people, just like our patrons. Also, I can promote services I am currently involved with to spread the word. It's another tool to use to enhance our ability to make the library current and relevant.

Personally I am a pretty private person, so it's going to take a while to get up to speed on these new ways to communicate.

But I'm keeping a positive attitude.

Blog Reader RSS Feeds

That was very interesting info. I have subscibed to the cartoon humor site unshelved and the Library of Congress and Library and Information Science sites.


I love cartoons, and am always looking for ways to see humor in my library work.

This can save me a lot of time and keep me up to date with the new, by not having to search for the info by visiting the individual sites.

The list of Library blogs on the Salem site, will give me plenty to look into for future postings.

Blog Reader

This is great. Everything is in one place. I have subscribed to several blogs already and will add more. One feature I liked was being able to see my blog and then if I wanted to post something new it was as simple clicking on New Post. I only had to log on at one place, and from there I can view, post comments, subscibe, post a new blog entry, etc.

This is a great tool to organize your blogs and communicate with people.

I look forward to using this excellent tool to keep up with whats going on.

That was fun using the Magazine Creator on Big Huge Labs. I don't look too bad as a Scarecrow. This was photo from last Halloween. Librarians are not boring.

I could use this to personalize publications I use for programs, etc. It gives me lots of options to make publications fun, current and tailored to my library.

This also provides me options I can communicate to my library patrons about the tools available for their own projects.

I also played around with making wallpaper from the same image. I liked the calendar being on the wallpaper.

One thing I had trouble with was that if I clicked the back button I then had to start over. This seemed to happen if I waited too long and it timed out.

The choices are many and I can see how I could use these in my work. Pictures of the librarians and staff working at the library incorporated in publications can create another way to reach out and humanize the library experience.

I look forward to exploring all the other choices.

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