Final Post

I gave myself a pat on the back:) It has been quite a journey. It was good to review things I had forgotten as well as learn new things. As with anything we do, there are pros and cons. I certainly enjoyed creating my blog, but I'm not sure how often I would personally be able to use such a tool or have the time to spend on it. I guess I still prefer to interact with others "face to face." At the same, I do see the use of Blogs as a great tool to effectively communicate with a certain portion of our community if we were able to have one at APL.

Delicious, LibraryThing, and Bloglines are certainly ones that I will continue to use as tools to improve my productivity at work and to keep up to date with what is going on in our profession.

I did have fun doing the exercises, but it was hard to get to at times. This made it somewhat less enjoyable because I didn't feel that I could spend more time exploring some of the tools (in depth) without compromising something else.

I'm glad I had the opportunity to do this. It has certainly been beneficial in that it has forced me to keep up to date with what is happening in our profession and the world today.

Thanks for putting this together and making it possible for us to do!

Podcast

I like the idea of having a way to look up podcasts by subject. I found Podcast.net easy to use, but that may be just me. I wanted to find a library related RSS and liked the SirsiDynix Institute one, so I added it to my list to my Blogline account. I found this one that was of interest because Jenny Levine posted it and she was one of the presenters for a lecture I attended at TLA. Here is the URL link: Gaming in the Library

NetLibrary

Well, I've finally created my account and surfed a bit to see what NetLibrary offered in the way of eAudiobooks. I looked for uncommon titles both fiction and non-fiction, but didn't have much luck. I did find a few when I searched by author. I was a bit disappointed because I couldn't find the newer books by the author, Mary Higgins-Clark, but was able to find three of her older published works on eAudiobooks. I've had similar complaints by patrons. Hopefully, this will change in time. I'm sure it is a matter of licensing, etc. Looking forward to downloading a few on my MP3 player, yes I caved in and bought one:)