Thing 4

goodreads is kind of fun. like librarything, which I also looked at some time ago, it can absorb you. there's a lot to explore on there and the reviews other readers write are intelligently and thoughtfully written. i'm going to have to take a little more care with mine! don't know if I would have the desire sometime to post some of my writing. maybe....

i have NO DESIRE to do facebook or myspace. i tried it out one day, okay two days, and after receiving shouts from my two teenaged nephews (whose sites i did NOT want to see--what we can't see we don't have to know about, right?), i scrambled to get out of there. oh sure, i know some parents join for the exact reason that they want to see what their kids are up to. i'm not that curious! the alternative, where the rugrats won't be found--eons--just plain doesn't appeal. what would i do it for? i can find no reason. i already spend too much time at the computer. to me it's like t.v. watching: don't need it, don't want it.

For a Good Time, IM Cecilia!

Cecilia and I IM'd through Googlechat. We discovered that it's better to be doing something else at the same time, rather than sit around waiting for the other person's response. Patrons must be helped, afterall. Now here's a thought: if each department had someone on chat, we could ask them questions about the patrons, without the patrons knowing! For example, last night I had a disgruntled patron with a complaint about a reserve item. If I could have IM'd someone in Circ about the reserve without the patron knowing, I might have. I mean, it might have clarified the situation. I don't mean I'm devious.

IMing

looks like illinois is in the forefront with instant messaging--that's cool. read the library journal article, enjoyed the humorous blog about acronyms. i now see how this as a very useful tool for reference. instead of playing phone tag with someone or trying to explain to them what's available, with IM they can see it, with the URLs you send them, and you can have the quick exchange of information. less wasted time for the librarian, i would think, gathering stuff that is really not what the patron is looking for.

despite various expressions of frustration, this process is actually proving to be quite straightforward and easy.

Feeding the antigeek

I added a feed to my blog here, the sunday new york times book review. what i'm wondering is if the titles will change with each week. this is all still so mysterious to me. i also connected to three feeds but i'm not clear yet where i access them. i haven't watched the tutorial yet. i feel distinctly nontechnological. hopefully that will change. i tried to feed into a coworker's blog but was told there was no RSS thingy.

which brings to mind: calling these exercises things is really funny. it's a sort of concession to the nontechies among us who know no compu-speak, eh? (look at me acting like i do. ha!)

no, no picture for this one.

Sell yourself!

donkey woman

I do not apologize. Someday I will have (or be) a donkey.

Easier Said Than Done

Why is it that someone's directions, that work for them, do not work for me? Ruth is trying to help me and I'm not able to get from point A to point B. Is this an example of the world looking different depending whose eyes? Is there no one reality? Am I just incompetent?