task 10: Library thing

What does a librarian want to do after a long day in the office? Cataloguing more books certainly isn't top of my list; however in the interests of 2.0 veracity I have listed four past reads on my new Library Thing site (while I try to remember yet another password). I guess this is the online version of a book journal where you can record the books you've written or create lists of things you'd like to read.
Funnily enough I don't have much trouble of thinking of books I'd like to read, it is finding the time to read them that is the problem - where is the 2.0 website which turns 5 minutes into 5 hours - now that would be a site worth visiting (2.0 Tardis?).

task 9: online image generator

What does this image say about me?

-I love Paris

-I am keen on libraries

- I wish I could speak French

tasks 7 and 8: RSS feeds

I remember years ago attending a focus group with high level academic and administravie staff at the university that I worked at and one of the pro vice chancellors said what he wanted was some way of feeding the information he needed directly into his brain as he was drowning in a sea of paper: agendas, reports, minutes, articles, agreements etc. Well it seems RSS is a partial solution to his problem - you no longer need to chase the information you want: it comes to you. Of course drowning in a sea has become email the modern malaise.
I am very impressed with the level of informal commentary coming out of the library world - so many young, passionate, articulate, thinking librarians out there coming up with wild, crazy, sometimes brilliant ideas about how to link people and information...it makes me proud.

Interesting new technology (this week) task 6

I read about dana boyd in a large profile piece in The Age and immediately admired her attachment to lower case - in keeping with the spirit of e.e.cummings. Interestingly, the secondary publicity and word around that I have heard around the library traps about her essay seems to be that Myspace is rubbish and eveybody want to be on Facebook - everybody wants to be officer class I guess.
Certainly the ability to communicate widely with strangers has interesting implications for action/reaction to the prevailing ideology, but is it really that chasing up people you went to school with is easier than dealing with the person you see everyday who is sometimes annoying and sometimes boring and sometimes adorable?
Anyway, if I am to get anywhere near finishing 23 things in the next 3 weeks I can't afford too much naval gazing, so on to the next task....

Step three..flickr

Well the plan to work on Library 2.0 once a week has taken a battering by the competing demands of end of the financial year responsibilities, meetings, Library Managers responsibilities, meetings, visits to other libraries, meetings, oh and ordering the odd book........and now it has taken an even greater battering as my plan to attach a flickr photo to the above blog was aborted and now I am, just like Dr Who, a few months in the future with my unfinished blog message dangling in cyber space.

I have linked a photo from my favourite place - Moggs Creek on the Great Ocean Road. I have been lucky enough to spend part of each summer for the past 35 years on this beach (the bushfires in 83 did curtail the holidays somewhat).

I have found looking at Flickr quite voyeuristic - especially looking at people you don't know in a familiar environment, doing familiar things, some of the photos on this site were taken in houses I know!

Task 2 - First blog post..in the beginning....

I've counted 2 tasks off on the 23 things list and watched a short video about the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners. I must say that the word tardy flashing on the screen did resonate as it has only taken 3 and a bit months for me to get started on the new technology journey. Meanwhile my colleagues have been flashing past blogging, flickering and whatever with mind-boggling proficiency.
While our boss is bringing the joy of cataloguing to the residents of Mt Hagen I will try to spend some time each week on Library 2.0 and be finished when she returns.
Now lets see if I can get this post to stick so I can tackle task 3.....