23 Summary

I learned something new during every step of this process. I particularly liked the idea of the wiki and will try to implement one at the Swenson Center. Perhaps this will be a great opportunity for members across the country to become more active and informed about what we do. I also found the RSS feed and finding interesting library blogs useful. Overall, I'm pleased to have learned about the 2.0 concept, but still fell like a novice with a lot of the new interactive web technology available. So, I need to get to work and implement at least a few these new ideas in my current work setting! And I forgot to mention that during this process I have found that many academic libraries are adding their historical photographs to Flickr!

22 NetLibrary

Another new interesting resource. After wathing the tutorial of how easy it is to use the ebooks, I hope that I can find a local QC library which subscribe to this service. It was interesting to read the so called succes stories and note the wide range of subscribers -- local public library to private medical companies such as AstraZeneca. I imagine that we will see more of this type of service during the next decade. I hope this will not mean the end of the printing press, but heard at a recent meeting at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul that book sales are defintely in decline.

21 Podcasts

I did not have much luck with the three links provided in the guidelines for 23 things, but found this http://www.libraryspot.com/podcast/othercasts.htm when searching for library related podcasts. I think the site would be useful to bookmark regardless the type of library one might be employed in. Check it out

20 Mr. Bean at the Library

In the mood for some British humor? Check this YouTube video out on Mr. Bean visiting a very traditional library setting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDY0hiMZy8

19 Pandora Radio

For this exploration, I decided to find out more about Pandora Radio. This venture began in 2000 and the company was founded by Tim Westergren and a group of musicians. Pandora is free and you can created your own "virtual" radio stations. The interface lets you add an artist of your choice and the music begins! This website is really easy to manouver and it is great fun to create various radio stations. I hope that individual artists also benefit from the exposure. How does make money? Advertisements and occassional downloads by users appears to be the answer.

check the site out http://www.pandora.com/

18 Soho

Anther great discovery. I would definitly considering using this tool, if I didn't already have Word on this computer. Maybe its time for a switch. I need to try to and see how the software behaves when I am not online. And that will happen when I reboot the computer tomorrow morning!
Open source software will most likely be more common in the near future and I'm really interested in following this movement.

17 adding my blog to the sandbox wiki

I tried to add this blog to the pbwiki, but didn't have the right password, which must be something else but what is listed at the bottom. I will try again...