Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Week 5
I would definitely use Pinterest just to get ideas for making displays and using the cartoons I found on there about libraries and maybe share them on my blog. The other one I thought I would use is YouTube. You could do so many informative and fun skits for your patrons and I love the idea of interviewing your patrons so others in your community can see who all is using and having fun at your local library. I can definitely see the usefulness of Facebook, if you have someone who likes to write about things happening in the library and your community. It could take some time, but would definitely be an expanding advertising source. Seeing as I have never used any of these except for classes, the second question is hard for me to answer. I would like to add that the shelfari site looks quite interesting and could be used as a personal or library site. Great info in this last class.
Week 4
The official Instagram of Warner University's PLRC.
Read more at
Marshall University Libraries
and a third:
Libraries around the world
http://web.stagram.com/n/worldlibraries/
The first two have all kinds of photos and comments about happenings in thier libraries or the promotion of things going to happen at their libraries and the third one has wonderful photos of some of the most majestic and grand libraries across the world. What a great site!
Week 3
The link below shows you how to download Adobe Digital Editions free software that allows you to download e books from Chatham-Kent Public Library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTr90uc6sQ&list=PL9C7893BFB57F59A7
It could be very helpful for downloading books from other libraries too. It is a very good step by step process with some minute details as far as things that need to be clicked at the bottom bar on the download site. I thought it was very good.
I thought Rhonda's choice for youtube was a really cute one and so helpful. Great job Rhonda---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO7RHoGR7hg
The link below shows you how to download Adobe Digital Editions free software that allows you to download e books from Chatham-Kent Public Library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTr90uc6sQ&list=PL9C7893BFB57F59A7
It could be very helpful for downloading books from other libraries too. It is a very good step by step process with some minute details as far as things that need to be clicked at the bottom bar on the download site. I thought it was very good.
I thought Rhonda's choice for youtube was a really cute one and so helpful. Great job Rhonda---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO7RHoGR7hg
Week 2
Well as you probably guessed I have been having trouble with my computer at home and so I'm now resigned to not being able to fix the problem immediately, so I have been given premission to finish this class on the computer here at work. I'm going to try to get this done in a complete manner, but in a very shortened time frame.
The two sites on pininterest that I really liked were:
http://www.pinterest.com/mgjsd/authors/
which is the pinterest site of Mary Grace Johnson. She has listed a great list of authors who skype with classes and book clubs for FREE! Authors for all age groups. We did skype intereviews with Jasmine's mother and the author of Cinder. It was really fun.
and
http://katiedavis.com/katie-davis/
which is a site of a young singer and bookwriter who has 13 adoptive children. What a great site for other libraries to use and get ideas from.
I am going to add one site
which has videos on library skills. This would be great for teaching young people those skills.
I looked at several blogs, Deb, Doris, Diane, just to name a few and everyone had wonderful sites. It is just too hard for me to pick a best, so I decided to just endorse them all. Good pinning classmates!
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Here I am trying desperately to get caught up with the rest of you and still not getting around very well in all the social media that is out there. Yes I am one of the ancient ones that like e-mail and google.
I have been on a few of the sites listed on the libsuccess site and have found lots of interesting things being done. The book trailers put together by the patrons of the Arapahoe Library and the quick guide for using the videos to read to grandchildren which was also done by the librarian in the Arapahoe Library are a couple of things that could be used by any library to expand their patron base. The facebook page for the DeKalb County Public Library showing the connection to twitter with their photos of the pumpkin decorating contest the library held and the introduction to their new fiction guide showing the different books available and how to find them in their genre search site are great ways to keep the patrons coming back to check out the library sites. I can see that flicker is mainly photos and tying the flicker page to the facebook page makes looking at the photos easier. Wonderful things to bring children and adults to all types of books. I also noticed that the Hennepin County library used their facebook page to let their patrons know they are looking for people to be on their library board. That is a wonderful way to get the patrons that use the services of their library involved in their library. The Hennepin County Library also uses their facebook page to let people know of events happening in their community such as the Westminister Town Hall Forum with Eben Alexander, the author of "The Nature of Consciousness". I could see that this would be a great way to get people that were thinking of reading that particular book to sit and listen to the author tell his story, which may bring in that person as a new patron looking to read the book the author was telling them about.
All of these are wonderful things to keep the patrons of a library informed and interested in the library and I can see how this would help, but I always have one big question, how do people find out about these great sites? Is the idea of showing one patron who then connects the site on their facebook page which is connected to all of the 'friends' on their facebook page which then is connected to all the facebook friends on their facebook pages and on down the line, enough? How do we get the patrons that don't use the social media involved? Wondering Minds Want To Know----
That being a big question, I'm signing off .
Opps! I missed the second part of our homework. I looked at several of the blogs and realized I'm a bit wordy. I could have shortened my response and numbered them to be more orderly. I'll try to do better in the future. Maybe this could be fun, as I did enjoy reading the blogs. What a great group we have at institute. I can really tell most of the instituters are really trying to improve their libraries and help their patrons with any means possible. Way to Go!
I have been on a few of the sites listed on the libsuccess site and have found lots of interesting things being done. The book trailers put together by the patrons of the Arapahoe Library and the quick guide for using the videos to read to grandchildren which was also done by the librarian in the Arapahoe Library are a couple of things that could be used by any library to expand their patron base. The facebook page for the DeKalb County Public Library showing the connection to twitter with their photos of the pumpkin decorating contest the library held and the introduction to their new fiction guide showing the different books available and how to find them in their genre search site are great ways to keep the patrons coming back to check out the library sites. I can see that flicker is mainly photos and tying the flicker page to the facebook page makes looking at the photos easier. Wonderful things to bring children and adults to all types of books. I also noticed that the Hennepin County library used their facebook page to let their patrons know they are looking for people to be on their library board. That is a wonderful way to get the patrons that use the services of their library involved in their library. The Hennepin County Library also uses their facebook page to let people know of events happening in their community such as the Westminister Town Hall Forum with Eben Alexander, the author of "The Nature of Consciousness". I could see that this would be a great way to get people that were thinking of reading that particular book to sit and listen to the author tell his story, which may bring in that person as a new patron looking to read the book the author was telling them about.
All of these are wonderful things to keep the patrons of a library informed and interested in the library and I can see how this would help, but I always have one big question, how do people find out about these great sites? Is the idea of showing one patron who then connects the site on their facebook page which is connected to all of the 'friends' on their facebook page which then is connected to all the facebook friends on their facebook pages and on down the line, enough? How do we get the patrons that don't use the social media involved? Wondering Minds Want To Know----
That being a big question, I'm signing off .
Opps! I missed the second part of our homework. I looked at several of the blogs and realized I'm a bit wordy. I could have shortened my response and numbered them to be more orderly. I'll try to do better in the future. Maybe this could be fun, as I did enjoy reading the blogs. What a great group we have at institute. I can really tell most of the instituters are really trying to improve their libraries and help their patrons with any means possible. Way to Go!
Friday, November 15, 2013
Okay! Here I am trying to set up a blog spot for myself---the none social animal that I am--- and I think I have it done. The class I took several years ago must have stuck. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Now that I have this made, I'm suppose to tell you a little about myself. I think that could take a while. I wrote about myself once for the library and if I can find that I will post it at a later date. A summary: papergirl, gas station attendant, grocery store clerk, carhop, waitress, hairdresser cleanup girl, army recruiter's secretary, dry cleaner attendant, bartender, metz baking worker, construction gopher, bookkeeper, bar manager, insurance secretary, flower shop owner, lottery machine dumper, menu maker, map maker, and last---but not least--small claims clerk and digitization technician at the state library. That kinda sums it up- a jack of all trades and a master of none...LOL
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