Saturday, November 29, 2008

I had a little trouble navagating through Twitter but I think it might be interesting when I get used to it. I did a search for Burwell NE and was surprised to find some hits. I started following some of the people I found. I like the small blogs because I never have anything to say. I think libraries could stay connected with Twitter. It would be interesting to see what other libaries are doing.

Monday, November 24, 2008

My neice is doing research in Australia and has been sending pictures home by e-mail. Using my new knowledge I told her to use flickr.com so all of her interested family could see her pictures instantly. That has worked so well for her and for us. No more waiting for the e-mailed pictures to load and this way she was able to post a lot more. It even inspired my sister (another aunt) to create a profile of her own so she could post pictures of her daughter's dorm room.
I have created an account in Library Thing. I don't own enough book personally to really use this. I usually only keep enough books in the house in case there is a blizzard and I can't make it to the library. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jalee68823

Saturday, November 15, 2008

My thoughts about technology this morning involves operating systems. We need to purchase two or three new computers for the library and all our computers are XP. Now all that Dell offers only Vista ,I don't know if we can throw two vistas in with our XPs. After years of working on getting our automation up and running we are finally ready to buy the two new computers we need for that and now I am concerned that our software won't run on VISTA. There is no way we can upgrade all our public access computers at once. My son is wanting to buy a computer and my husband can't understand that once you have a computer there is constant upkeep. I told him it is like having a car or a dog, the upkeep doesn't stop. Monday I will have to make some phone calls and see what we can do. We also need to add a public access computer. Lately we have had so many people using our computers that we have too long of waiting line. When I bacame director twenty years ago this was a completely different job than it is now.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

MagMyPic


Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com


I tried the Flickervision and didn't like it at all. The others were fun but not something I can use.

Saturday, November 8, 2008


I used the flickr account I had set up in Kearney at the training with Michael. This morning I took some photos of the happenings at the library. It is a very cold morning but that didn't stop people from using the library. The DAR is having a meeting in the meeting room.

This is Marilyn typing a report for her church. This is the first time she has ever used a word prosessor.