I don't see myself using twitter. Santa Fe Public Library includes library hours and reminders of their events. I can see a library using these tool to post reminders if they have a lot of patrons that follows their twitter. Toronto Public Library has an interesting entry, eat or not to eat is a hot topic for their board. My twitter is oreocoqui

Thing #18

I went to the wiki after reading the introduction of thing #18. After I sent an email for help, I figured out how to edit it. Then, I went back to read the exercise, and surprise!! I found the instructions. Next time, Ipromise to read everything.

I looks that PBwiki is very easy to use. I'm glad that this is the case because as I said before I would like to use it but I don't have much time to spend on this project. Also it will be easy to teach other to use the wiki.

Thing # 17

One of the sites that define wiki mentions how libraries could use a wiki to add to the catalog reviews and synopses for books. I think that this is a great idea, another good idea is to create a wiki as a one stop shop for the community. SJCPL wiki includes a list of local authors. Another feature that caught my attention was sandbox, where you can 'play' with your contribution before you add it to the wiki.

Wiki could be use in libraries for discussions, sharing ideas, keeping all the staff inform of changes in the library. The other day a patron ask me where we have the phone books and I was having trouble finding them since they were moved and I didn't know.

Maybe I could use a wiki to encourage businesses in Schuyler to sponsor our summer reading program.

Thing #16

I read all, except better bibliographic services. To me Library 2.0 means integrating the users in all the decisions taking place in a library. It's really a very different way that most of the libraries are operating this days. I'm glad that I'm working at Schuyler Public Libary since we are willing to listen to our users. I think that for some of us the problem is budget. We would love to do a lot more but we are short in staff. I really like the "way from Icebergs"article. I'm glad that our library offers e-books, database, WiFi, our collection can be access through the Internet. We have Auto REpair database also.

Technology

Technology can be very useful, can provide a lot of entertainment, and knowledge. Is difficult to keep up with all the advances in technology. I though that your avatar was cool so I needed to create my own. I was surprise how easy is to use this tool.



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Thing #10

I visited all the sites under Discovery Resources. I was amazed about all the available applications. I'll plan to use some of them when working with teens. The one where you can make youre own cover is really fun.

Please see the magazine cover that I created with my little cat, Fiona. The link is below

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Finding feeds

I used Google Blog, Topix.net, Technorati, and I also used Yahoo and Google. I used the phrase "children book reviews". I was surprise to see that the feeds search results didn't list reputable sources in their first page results. Maybe I'm been to naive, just let me know. Technorati pulled the national book and literacy alliance, but the best results I found was using Yahoo.com and Google.com and searching feeds AND "children book reviews". In one of them I found Fresh Content.net, which want to explore more since I can see that it will be useful for libraries to use since is free and offer most popular feed, entertaiment headlines, US news headlines,music headlines, financial and World News Headlines. Another site that I found and I'm planning to use is News Press.com, it had a blog about Kids Learn science of Grossology at library.

I think that these tools should offer more options to refine the search.