Here, I hope, is a pic of my husband at work. What, would you say, is his profession?

Finally embedded pic from flickr!

Thing 9

This type of thing has always interested me. From the blissful days scuba diving in North Carolina, where I saw several sea turtles while on dives, to the present day, where I'm a marine stranding rescue volunteer for the NEAQ, I LOVE underwater and its life.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/sea%20turtle/zoemckeown/GreenSeaTurtle.jpg?o=3



Although I don't think the world is quite as visually oriented as some others seem to think (e.g the pictoral approach of Word 2007 is a thumbs down for me!), pictures are a way to draw people in for a closer look. I'll admit that I might be much more inclined to take the extra time to investigate further if I had to click on this picture, rather than having to click on the words, "marine turtles."

My niece shared her wedding pics with the entire family, from all over the U.S. by posting them on a photo site. Not only could she easily and inexpensively reach everyone, but she was able to do it with great speed.

What I have yet to discover is whether these photo sites allow one to end up at the photo's source when one is logged in (rather than the posting website--such as flickr or photobucket, etc.). One thing I like to use Google Images for, occasionally, is to quickly locate information. For instance, I just read a short news story about the tuatara (sp?) lizard. I wanted to find out more so I found a pic in Google Images from National Geographic and, voila, followed the links to the story.

Thing 7

In the medical library where I work, one of our services is to supply requestors with the tables of contents from journals they've requested. We have been doing this by scanning the tocs from the actual journals and then sending them.

I am working on setting up rss feeds to have tocs sent directly from the journal websites or from OVID. So far, though, neither works effortlessly. Either I am doing something wrong or the journals are not fully set up to do this---or our institution's firewall is interfering, unbeknownst to me %#*@&^@%!

I am also trying to set up an RSS feed to automatically notify me when when of our doctors has an article included in Medline. Still in process here too.

This may be way off, but I'm going to look into it.The public library I work at has a blog icon on its webpage, but it's not really a blog--and there is no enticing "come hither" info on the webpage to encourage the reader to click on the everpresent "blog." So, I want to see if we can somehow put an RSS feed link on the webpage that might hook up our users with a blog that is a bit more interactive, i.e. that includes some indication on the webpage of the daily blog's content.

Thing 6

Well, I prefer the feel of Craigslist, though, if I were doing something very seriously and formally, I'd probably go to boston.com.

Why I like Craigslist--it's informal-I landed there one day and was really drawn in by its simple and non-cluttered look. easy to use-each time I use it, I stay on longer than planned because it is so transparently easy to search by category, region, and word., easy to see how things are organized-with all the geographic areas laid out on one page, it's easy to begin, then narrow to one's specific area of interest. Category searching seems informal and easy to me. Local-best of all, it has a very local feel. I have posted once to offer an item and had great and immediate response. On the search front, I was happily surprised by serendipitously finding local musicians using Craigslist. I now am happily playing chamber music with them!

What about classifieds on boston.com. The elimination of classifieds from each day of the Globe must be affecting the online classifieds as well. There aren't many, but--First they are difficult to find. The only mention of the word, "classifieds" on the boston.com web page is way at the very end of the page. categories-much more formal. It is interesting that, though these classifieds are more strictly local than Craigslist, they have a more remote feel because of their formality. There is no option to go right to search. The first approach by huge subject categories. If you're not interested in jobs, cars, pets, or homes the "stuff" category covers an awful lot of "stuff." Once one clicks on "stuff," the subcategories sound like they're from some commercial catalog. Stiff approach.. The good thing about boston.com's classified's is that the more formal use of subject categories might be helpful both to people posting ads as well as those searching. Job listings are more serious and have much better information than the ones I saw in Craigslist.

Yelping about one of my libraries for Thing 5

Here's the link to my review of the public library where I work part-time.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/falmouth-public-library-falmouth#hrid:R3lHq3KQOJ2UqvgppR0TUw

I found using Yelp to write a review was really easy. The only stickler was "category." I had to see what other libraries used--Public Services and Government--before I was able to assign one.

The other problem I found is that someone/thing seems to find this category boring. When I tried finding reviews by clicking on the "find reviews" link at the top of the page, I was brought to another page that gave a partial category listing along the right side of the page. Problem with this is 1-there is no indication that it's a partial listing and 2-"Public Services & Government" isn't listed.

Also, "Public Services & Government" is such a stodgy sounding listing for something as alive and cool as a library.

For thing 4: social networks. I'm a little confused about the difference between blogs and social networks. I found a few places where medical librarians add information, comment on, ask questions, etc. related to medical libraries and information. So, to me this seems to be both a blog and a social network. I see that social networks will help me to find and connect with people who share my interests, both professional and avocational. So, a social network will help me stay up to date about medical librarianship, to meet others, and to find answers to questions. I hope they will help me find other string players who like to play chamber music just for fun too!

what's a librarian??

I'm a librarian. I've been a librarian since 1976. In those days, online literature searching was quite a unique activity. Now everyone searches the Internet, everyone finds their his/her information. So, what now for us librarians? Do we warehouse books? Do we digitize text? Do we teach how to use the Internet? Do we design web pages? Are we the Internet experts? What defines us?