I found this today, need to share!

Since librarians are the masters of information (has a nice ring doesn't it?) I'm sure most of you all know about this, but I felt it was good to post. You go man!

"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."
-Carl Sagan(1934-1996)

NEED *twitch* MORE *twitch* CAFFEINE!

Ok an FYI, I have two cans of Full Throttle here and I"m falling asleep, can anyone else see a problem here? Fortunately I got things to do today but still...

*frothing at the mouth*
I think it makes a rather good motto :)

The final thing, Thing #23

Dr. Seuss would be proud! We managed to proudly make 23 of his things...hmmm my bad they are quite different aren't they...Well on a happier note then, I would have to say that my favorite part of this whole process has been the image editors. I LOVED the trading card thing, and feel like we should have all the staff make a card and put out our own trading card set, or even better make a game out of it. Given the right ideas, it could be awesome fun and something we could let the kids play at the branches! Most of the program was pretty well done for individuals with no experience with online tools. Yes, I am putting myself high on that list of known tools (Ya wanna fight about it?) . But I will still walk away with alot of new things that I will continue to use, like RSS and google doc's :). But all in all, it was very fun and exiciting to play along. There really isn't much I could change to improve it though, I am a computer person so of course this stuff should be known to me, and given the chance I would still participate because even though we may have mastered some things, there is always room for improvement, somewhere down the line someone will use something you've not seen used in that manner and it will provide you with a whole new way to do alot more information. Take word for example, learning about the wildcard characters in the replace function I was able to edit several hundred pages of documents in a matter of minutes (rearranging information for an associate so that they were listed as name records and didn't contain all the pointless information that was also in the records) This process used to take him weeks, and with my help, it takes only a few hours (after all you need to verify the information changed is correct still) but I'm babbling now, good luck everyone!

Thing #22

Yaay, I'm so close to the end now I can taste it.

Netlibrary...yummy :). I have used it frequently to discover books we don't have in the system *coughs* about computer programming languages like C#, Cold Fusion, and a few others *coughs again* It is extremely helpful though, searching for books can be a bit rough you end up with loads of titles that are cross referenced and therefore pointless to my searches but still, I eventually find what I'm after and grab some much needed info.

Need INPUT!

Thing #21

Podcasts are sweet!

Ah yes, listen to rock and love the morning show, they do a podcast! Its great for people who work in the morning and can't listen. And it help support our local broadcast shows, go San Antonio!

Thing #20

Youtube!!! Talk about a technological revolution. Here you can express yourself and grab your 15 minutes of fame, assuming its actually good enough! I chose to embed Naruto abridged, kinda vulgar so YOU ARE WARNED, but insanely hilarious. Lets face it, if you can take something decent and turn it into something so funny you are practically begging for more...you know its good :) As for applying it to the library. All sorts of uses can be found. Public training videos, giving teens the ability to post things like game nights or tournament play on their personal myspace page (embeded video) would give them loads of pride and have them begging for more.

Thing #19

Hmmm what to say about the toolbox thing...

I chose to look at the widgets awards and went broswing the number one pick: yourmini's. I love widgets, don't get me wrong, but the ones they are coming out with these days are kinda boring and dull. I want something exciting like, oh I don't know, the binary clock I have on my personal laptop. Jeez, am I a nerd or what?!? =8)