Medina River Natural Area 001

Medina River Natural Area 001
Originally uploaded by mysaplstaff

I finally got this photo embedded!

23rd thing

This has been a great fun crash course in exciting web possibilities. Maybe in a few years I'd be willing to hear of new ideas and review what I found in the first 22 things.

Downloadable media

I'm glad to have had some hands on experience with our two services. When I checked on an Overdrive book, I found there was a wait of several people ahead of me. I greatly enjoyed NetLibrary's "find in this material" feature.

A podcast directory

I've always planned to publish classroom materials that I developed as tutorial materials for simple mathematics and introductory chemistry. I'm thinking now that podcasts could be the way to go!

Unfortunately I was unable to view my podcast choice (http://www.isallaboutmath.com/isallaboutmath.xml) after I downloaded podcast viewing software.

As the time approaches for me to start my podcasts, I'll try this again.

You-Tube

When I searched for toddler storytime, I found a great commercial for storytime at Barnes and Nobles. It seems each SAPL location could have a similar story time with familiar faces--and, of course, permission.

Award winning site

I've always wanted to compare different travel aides and farecast allowed that. I concluded I can stick with my usual favorite for air travel. One site did not openly properly and, maybe coincentally, I did need to clear my cache afterwards before I could log into blogger.

In the library I'd like to recommend farecast rather than any single site.

I look forward to playing with the other award-winners.

Online productivity

Fascinating! I don't foresee using these tools in the near future. They could be useful for some folks.

Wikis

As a children's librarian, I think especially appealing wikis would be those involving book recommendations and created for a local community and specific age groups there.

Library 2.0+

I only considered librarianship after the Internet started gaining popularity. It is impossible to have available in one small collection all the print materials that local customers might need. The wealth of online resources and giving guidance in Internet use were my ultimate motivations to start library school after 20 years of teaching kids. Although most of our local customers do not have Web access, such access is increasing.

I was in the second class at UT Austin for the new course "Understanding and Meeting User Needs." It amazed me that such a course was still evolving. I appreciated the warning about reliance on user education.

I believe in continuous improvement of what we offer. Field testing and concomitant modifications will surely be more productive than designing products simply based on anticipation of user needs and inclinations.

Regarding improved bibliographic services, I eagerly await such improvements. A few years ago I was happy to discover that WorldCat is much more effective than SAPL's OPAC at finding relevant SAPL materials.

I love the idea of library as "knowledge spa"!

My Flickr photo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysaplstaff/3114375120/ I was not able to embed the photo here.

Technorati

I like playing with words and enjoy seeing other people's wordplays, e.g. one post's knowledgeable vs. knowledge-able.



The list of related search terms is interesting and possibly very valuable.