I didn't realize WorldCat offered so much information. I searched for a favorite book and found it at the Broken Bow Library. This is the library I made a favorite. I can see that this will be useful in the library if a patron is searching for a certain book. This way we can find the book in a regional library and the sight even tells the mileage from Burwell. I added a list to my RSS feed. I didn't realize how handy the RSS feature is. When I mention RSS to most people they look at me with a blank look. I have really benefited from the information I have learned doing the 2.0.

This is assignment part 2 and part 3. I did a basic search for Garfield County Library and found our library at the top of the list. The marker was placed correctly. All the info on our library was correct. Currently we don't have a web sight so there is no information on that. I went on to claim the library and tried to put in a picture of the library. However I went out and took a picture of the exterior of the building but when I went to upload it said it was too big. Then I looked at the requirements and it can't be bigger than 1MB. My picture was 1,233KB. Also can't be more than 1024 x 1024. How do I resize the picture I took to use it? I had a terrible time trying to put our hours in. We have split shifts and there is a check mark to put in split shifts but everytime I tried to put the hours for Mon, Wed and Friday and Saturday it put hours on Tues and Thurs and when I marked closed beside those two it took away one of the hours for Wed. Finally I just marked I prefered not to list the hours. I did get to the point they will send me a postcard with a pin to activate it. I am going to have to do some more practicing before I will be ready to show anyone else.

There is a lot more to Google Maps than I realized. I looked up the address 1445 K St. 68509 and found the state capitol. And yes I could tell the color of the cars parked around it. Especially the red and black. I prefered the map view. Watching the street view made me a little dizzy. I really liked the photos on the places we were to search.

Back to learning new technolgy of Web 2.0. I RSS the twitter alerts and the Google alerts and waited several days and I guess Burwell NE is not too noteworthy because I received no alerts. That is not too surprising because I think most of the people in Burwell don't know what Twitter is . I have had several people ask me about Twitter and I try to explain how it works. The common response is who cares what someone is doing every minute. Next week we are having the BIT mobile, Business and Information and Technolgy mobile, come to the Garfield County Library. We are offering three sessions for people to be introduced with the Internet and Web 2.0. We are not having very much success in filling the 14 seats for each session. Several people have commented that they don't need a class they know all about it. I don't think these people realize the scope of what there is.

Today I went to an auction. I bought one box of pans which I did'nt even know what was in the box. I got it for 2.50. There were two 9x13pans with snap on lids, a Revere ware skillet 10 inch and a Revere Ware skillet probably 6 inch. Some 8x8 pans and a muffin tin, two cookie sheets. After I left to walk to Mom's Ed bought the cast iron. I wanted to see the cast iron sell but Ed was wanting to go and he checked to seewhere the cast iron was and said it would be a long time. So I left to walk to Mom's and he was to pay the bill. When he went to the trailer to pay the bill he noticed the cast iron was on the table ready to be sold. He waited but didn't know how much to bid so Don Smith told him that one skillet would be about 30.00. So he bought the chicken fryer and a big skiller for 12.50 each and then a pile of smaller skillets and a griddle for 10.00 total. They need cleaned up but will be nice pans. Then we came home and watched the Kentucky Derby and saw a 95oo.oo horse beat the million dollar horses. When the band played My OLd Kentucky Home I think I saw a kid that Home Makeover did a house for. He was in a wheelchair and blind but he played the trumpet and his Dad pushed him in marching band. Today they just showed a glimpse of the bank but there was a kid in a wheelchair and an older man standing beside him. When they did the makeover that family did live in Kentucky. After the derby Jerryl and I went to the Prom Promanade. There were some real pretty dresses this year. A lot of ball gown styles with the skirts pulled up in those tufts. One dress was quite striking but different. Real sleek and fitting on a very skinny girl and the print was animal print. The larger girls looked better this year. Nobody wore a sack like they have in the past.
Ted did a good job today of mowing our back yard. Then Ed and Ted cleaned out all the corn husks that had blown in by the garage door. They were just finishing that when Carl Streeter came to spray the yard for the first time. Now if it will rain tonight that will be perfect timing.
Last night Jerryl and Mom and I went to Atkinson to shop at Smith's going out of business sale. We bought some fabric to sew some of Mom's quilt blocks together. Janny met us there and we ate at Subway. Mom was able eat the pizzas they have there.

I had a lady at the library show me this slide show today. I thought you would enjoy seeing it. It makes me want to go there altough I don't know if I could make the climb.

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Just a catch up: On April 14 Jerryl and I had club at the Community Center in Taylor. We had a preety good attandance. For the lesson I showed how to make a pie crust. I made 3 crusts in aluminum pans and then Sandy Cronk took them home and was going to fill them with something to take to the Morgan family. Their Bridge Club was fixing supper for the family so she was going to use that as one of the desserts. I still am surprised at how many people have trouble making a pie crust.
This weekend my Mom, sisters, daughters and neice went to Lincoln to the quilt study center to see the Grace Snyder quilts. The exhibit was very interesting although on the video about Grace's life they mispronounce Tryon, the town she and Bert went to live by after they were married. We ate lunch at the Olive Garden and that was very enjoyable. I have taken home Grace Snyder's biography and plan on reading it aloud to Mom. The print is too small for her to see. Also have taken home two smaller books by Grace's youngest daughters. I can't understand why that woman was making a giant block of Grace's flower basket block and I still think she was wrong when she said Grace had to work on that quilt from dawn to dusk. On Sunday we didn't do anything. I didn't even have to leave the house. Ed made pancakes and sausage that we ate pretty late in the morning and I made calzones for supper. I used some Italian sausage that was Johnsonville that I bought at Wal-Mart in GI. It was bulk not cased but it didn't have a very good flavor. I will be busy at the Sandstone the week of graduation. One family has ordered 8 cheesecakes and another wants mini desserts. I will be ready for a break.
Today is a cold and dreary day. No rain. It is light now when I go to work early in the morning and I don't have to scrape a window anymore. That helps. Tomorrow I have to do the calling to see which natural gas supplier is the cheapest and which we will go with. That is such a crock. It makes a difference what hour you call at what the rate will be.

Today we had another tragedy in the area. Roger Morgan's little two year old boy drowned in the Gracie Creek. I think it happened at the ranch Haven't heard any details yet.

Today March is going out like a LION. The wind is howling and howling. I heard it all night long. When I went to Mom's this morning she said she didn't hear the wind all night. She is lucky because her house blocks the sound. The streets were just a little slick. Burwell started with a late start but just when I was going to wake up Sam, Ted called from the nursing home, where he was working, and told me
Burwell had closed. Sam is still not up and it is 10:45. Time to be thinking about what to fix for dinner. We are going to have oven fried chicken. I need to have that in the oven by 11 because Ed and Ted will be home at noon to eat. I pack up Mom and my share and take it over and eat with her. For those that don't know Catherine has moved to Ord. She is renting an apartment and is enjoying it. On a day like today it is good she doesn't have to drive. She came home on Sunday to do her laundry. Valerie was home on Fri and sat. She was giving a Pampered Chef party in Ord so she came to Burwell after she was done teaching in Overton. She doesn't teach on Friday. She went home on Sat. because she had to take students to Norfolk on Mon for a show choir contest. This week at the Sandstone the owners have been pretty upset. There is a blog that people can annomously post any comment they want. The blog is from Ord but they have added a Burwell link. Someone and they think it is a former disgruntled employee has posted not to eat at the Sandstone. They said that they spit in food and drop food on the floor and make waitresses share thier tips. The administrator of the blog removed the post but not before some people had made copies of it and were showing it at the coffeeshops. My question is "Why do people care so much and why in Burwell do we always want people to fail?" The whole blog should be removed because people post on there anything they want without having to be accountable. The food inspector Larry always eats at the Sandstone when he makes his inspections so it must not be too bad. Need to get chicken in the oven and today I think I will make hot cross buns as a practice for Easter

Just an update, Sam is home and had a double Quarter pounder with cheese and saw no deer. Burwell is really getting beat.

I see on Jane's blog she has been checking to see if anyone has posted a new blog. I just don't have that much to talk about. Today was Friday the 13th and so far nothing bad has happened. Sam is gone with a friend to McDonalds. The friend just got his driver's license this week. This is a bad time to be driving because the deer are so bad. Ed and Ted took a load of furniture to Catherine's apartment on Tues. night and three times they saw deer. Sam has promised he will wear his seat belt so we hope they are safe. I went to see Catherine's apartment on Thurs. afternoon. It is a starter apartment. She doesn't have any windows. I told her that at least she doesn't have to buy any curtains. She and Travis are going to Valeries on Sunday to pick up a coach. Valerie has an extra coach from when she lived in Norton. Tonight Ed and I went to Verda's for the fish fry. Every Fri night during lent she has a fish fry and BBQ ribs to go with it. It comes with a baked potato or Mac and cheese and coleslaw. It is unlimited for 7.75. It is a fun time. Right now I am listening to the Burwell Longhorns play basketball. They are in the semi-finals at the State tourney. They are playing Mead and Mead is winning. If Burwell gets in the finals we are going to the game but right now it looks like we will be staying home. Burwell is behind by 9 points. It has been 11 years since Burwell BB boys have gone to State. If we don't go to Lincoln I want to start painting my kitchen cupboards.

Tonight I have had a good time reading everyone's blogs. Today it snowed until about 2:00p.m. then quit. when I got up in the night at 4:00a.m. to go to the bathroom I looked out to see how much snow we had because the weatherman said the snow should come at 3 a.m. but there were just a few flakes in the air. I didn't have to go to work early today because they had enough deserts to last the weekend so the alarm went off about an hour later than it usually does. Right then they were giving the closings and I was really surprised that Burwell was closed. I worked on a project I was sewing but didn't have the thread I needed and am low on quilt basting spray. It is really discouraging that we have to go 100 miles to buy anything. this week I had to order Sam a pair of black pants and black shoes on the Internet. He is in the youth singing festival next Sat. in G.I. and they have to wear those things. It is really hard to buy pants for him because he needs a 27 inch waist. I got e-mails that they had been shipped so I hope they get here in time. If not we will have to make an emergency trip to G.I. and hope for the best. Yesterday I took Dewey and Erma to a funeral in Ord. An old friend of theirs had died. Erma thought she could drive but Dewey wanted someone to drive for them. They found a lot of people to visit with. They thought the funeral would be full but besides family there were only 30 people there.

I really learned a lot doing the NE Learns 2.0. I also have been able to help some family members with info I learned. We used Flickr to post my neice's pictures from Australia, which helped because she didn't have good internet access there. I didn't know what RSS was until that exercise even though I see it on almost every website. I don't know unless I take a class like this how I would even find out about the available technology. Certainly everyone I talk to on a regular basis has no idea about any of this stuff. Would I take another class? Yes. Thanks for the oppurtunity and for the help along the way

I enjoyed the podcasts and found some I was interested in. I listened to one about the book Home. When I was listening it is different not to see video or pictures at the same time. I got tired of Annabelle the sheep.

I discovered the old theme from Reading Rainbow by doing a search for reading. I loved Reading Rainbow. When they moved the offices our Library received a lot of free books.YouTube has so much stuff on it and yes some of it is really bad!

I really had fun going through some of the tools. I especially liked the cooking catagory. I tried one of the geneology sites and was almost signed up when I discovered there was a download involved so I quit that site. I think this could be very useful for programing. This is an area I will have to explore more.

Web based documents would be useful if shared by users in different locations. Also can be accessed anywhere and wouldn't have to worry about software issues with different computers. I uploaded a file that will be useful to be able to access it from the web as it is a file several people will need to use. I might have a concern on all these internet based files in the security.

I think wikis can be fun. I like seeing what other people have added as favorites. It is a good thing we don't all have to agree on what we consider the best
Joye

I checked out all the wikis listed. I can see how a wiki would be handy to maintain lists we use for daily library use. We have a list of AR book tests the grade school owns and that would be handy to edit anytime they add titles. Also we maintain lists of the subjects for the Follett and that would be easy to edit anytime one is added. I also noticed that all the wikis has a login and password and one said that because of vandalism e-mail confirmation was required. I can see how easy it would be to have information destroyed.