I liked using WorldCat. It seems easier to use than some of the other "tools" we have looked at.
I used two titles to "search": Laura Childs' "Dragonwell Dead " and the children's book "All of a Kind Family." OCL has them both.
I looked for Pauline Miller's book. It looks as if 29 libraries have it in the US, the farthest being 1300 miles away in Houston.
I guess WorldCat would help with the "request for materials" form. I have not had to fill those forms out, so I have no experience with them.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thing # 12: NetLibrary
I have been interested in what ebooks is all about. This exercise forced me to create an account.
I would have to work with ebooks much more before I would feel I was qualified to help other people find what they might be looking for in ebooks. I would have to read everything in the instruction manual part of NetLibrary and practice, but I would need to have a purpose or something specific to be looking for.
I would have to work with ebooks much more before I would feel I was qualified to help other people find what they might be looking for in ebooks. I would have to read everything in the instruction manual part of NetLibrary and practice, but I would need to have a purpose or something specific to be looking for.
Friday, April 11, 2008
OCLWeb Thing 11/Library Thing
Library Thing could help me in two way.
1. I can find out about all sorts of books that interest me and list them for future reference.
2. At home I could enter my personal library. Library Thing could help me weed my personal library.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maureliaj
1. I can find out about all sorts of books that interest me and list them for future reference.
2. At home I could enter my personal library. Library Thing could help me weed my personal library.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maureliaj
Technology and I are becoming friends.
The thing I like best about "technology" is the email technology, because I can "write" to people who live far away from me while I am thinking about them and not worry about a time frame.
For example, my daughter and her family live in Italy. My siblings live in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, and Florida, and I live in NJ. After I write to them, they can write to me in their time frame.
Now the younger generation, the children of my siblings, are challenging me to communicate with the family through MySpace and things like that. I have to overcome my ignorance of these things and get with it!
For example, my daughter and her family live in Italy. My siblings live in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, and Florida, and I live in NJ. After I write to them, they can write to me in their time frame.
Now the younger generation, the children of my siblings, are challenging me to communicate with the family through MySpace and things like that. I have to overcome my ignorance of these things and get with it!
Friday, April 4, 2008
Thing # 8
Question 1: I think RSS and newsreaders will be helpful to keep up with what interests me
once I get into a routine of checking my blog or my blogsline.
Question 2: It will be convenient to go to one source, sort of like a "reader's digest."
Question 3: Librarians can use RSS as a resource to answer reference questions.
Again, I thank LIT Carly Coulter from Lacey Branch for all her help in this endeavor.
once I get into a routine of checking my blog or my blogsline.
Question 2: It will be convenient to go to one source, sort of like a "reader's digest."
Question 3: Librarians can use RSS as a resource to answer reference questions.
Again, I thank LIT Carly Coulter from Lacey Branch for all her help in this endeavor.
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