23 things

Yay! I got my gold star!

Thing 23

Feedback about the 23 things program.
An interesting journey, learned about a lot of things I didnt know existed. Would have been nice to have time to explore the things in more detail instead of just doing the bare minimum required for each task. I also would have liked to have igoogle introduced sooner, as I found this really useful for keeping everything together in one place. Delicious is one of my favourites too... its great to be able to access all my bookmarks from any computer, especially as I will be travelling for 3 weeks soon so that will be really usefull. Overall, an eye-opening experience :)

thing 18

I went to the links provided and read the stuff on Library 2.0 these are my thoughts -
I think libaries are contantly evolving anyway. When I joined VU in 2000 we had 4 opacs and 2 webpacs.Since then I have seen the uni embrace millenium, and the introduction of "mylibrary" so students can check their loans and the status of items they have put on hold. The HEIP project, electronic books and journals, and more recently, Bonus, Learning commons and encore. Just think how far we have come since the days of catalogue cards in drawers! Libraries have been changing and making improvements ever since they were invented, so, in other words.... whats in a name?

thing 22

finally found someone else online so I could test google talk. I have used msn instant messeger and yahoo messenger in the past and I think these are both better than google talk. They have more features that appeal to young people, like a lot more smileys and other pics to add to messages, and they have chat rooms as well as private conversaions. the thing I found annoying about googletalk is that it doesnt let you remove contacts, so if you make a mistake with the email address it just adds @gmail to whatever you typed , and you cant get rid of it

Thing 21

I found the Hamish and Andy "best of" podcast list, so I listened to a couple then I added it to my google reader

thing 19

Put a photo of my cat on the pet page. Had a quick look at wikipedia and some of its sister sites.

Thing 20

My kids have shown me lots of funny clips on youtube, and I watched the one from the 50's on EMW's blog about becoming a librarian ...funny too :) .... I had forgotten all about microfilm!