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!

thing 16 igoogle

This is the best thing yet! it has been driving me mad having all these different accounts, so to have them all in one place is wonderful! I have added gadgets for my blog, flikr, google book search, youtube, librarything, googledocs, google map search, google reader, facebook, deliciious, wikipedia, melbourne weather, and phases of the moon. I also discovered a feature of google maps that I didnt know about - I can type in a place then type in trian station, then backpacker hostels, and it shows which ones are closest to the station! which is great because I am backpacking to cairns by train in a couple of weeks :)

Thing 17

I had a look around delicious and found some really interesting websites, so I put the links in my blog. see list right

Thing 15

Today I looked at Google book search and google scholar. I found some books about organic gardening and vegetarian cooking and I added them to "my library" then I added an rss feed from google book search to my blog. But for some reason I when I click on it, it only shows the first book I added. hmmmmmm

Thing 14

see google doc ------>

thing 12

So I made a facebook for myself and I added 3 friends, but i cant find the victoria university facebook network mentioned in the thing 12 task. when I type in victoria university I get a few vu library staff but the majority are people from other countries. I found a vu student group but not a staff one. I was hoping to find old school friends or people i used to work with, but I dont think many people of my generation use these sites.... we are too busy! I looked at some of the library myspace sites, and they looked good, with lists of new books and "coming events" etc. but these could be included in any website couldnt they?
I read the article by Meredith Farkas which makes the point that just having a myspace or facebook for the library doesnt necessarily make it "cool" and I have to agree.... but maybe I just dont get it