Sunday evening at the library.

There seems to be a lot of activity but no one needing my circulation skills. So alas I thought I'd talk to you.

Lots entering lots leaving. Usually by now it is completly dead.

hey someone just needed to know where the books on cd were. Yeah something I could answer. She had black hair with bright blue extensions, very striking.

There's a man in a suit at self check out and i would think he was coming or going to church but his wife and daughter are casually dressed, so maybe he had to work, someplace where dress is important. I would think that even Real Estate agents would could wear 'casual business' on sunday. Car salesman, nah he didn't look that smarmy. Maybe he sells mens suits so he must wear the product.

The clam puppet just went home with a nice young man.

Funny people tonight.

Woman came in to check out biographies for her son who had taken books on Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Pele in to read, but the teach said "no no no" Kurt and Jimi took drugs. Pele wasn't American! OMG can you believe it. So Mom came in and got no drugged up Americans.

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My Oh My Mariners.....Sigh

They've lost 5 in a row. Did we jinx them by putting money down on playoff tickets?? Are they tired from playing so many days in a row, most of them on the road? Well they better buck up they've got quite a few more, including 3 with the blanking Yankees who just went ahead of them in the Wildcard standings.

Sigh.

Sigh.

Though I do think it is a bit unfair that they do have to play so many games in a row because the schedulers thought it would be a good idea to play in cold climates that don't have roofs in April. They are being penalized for poor planning and the lack of roofs at other stadiums.

We should sue.

Alienation of affection.

Cruel and unusual punishment.

Irreconcilable weather conditions.

Sigh.

Cleveland today.

Toronto Tomorrow

New York on Monday.

A day off YEAH!! Sleep boys Sleep.

Then Detroit.

BASEBALL DISPLAY

Today I put up my annual baseball display at the library. Dare I say it looks good. I have so much fun doing these things and requesting the books to put up. I also made little Baseball Cards with books instead of players on them.

Here's the pictures.

Oh look it's time to go home, and watch the Mariners try to continue their amazing winning streak!!

MP3 PLAYER HAS BEEN CHOSEN

It is the Creative MuVo V100 2 gb. It looks great. I though am already Creative fan, having bought a Creative Zen a few years ago and recently filled up it's 40 gb capacity. Yikes.

Hey

When I went to the bank today, my favorite teller told me her nephew's band Danger Radio had been signed to a major label. She also told me I could hear some of their songs on MySpace, so I did.

They are poppy, the lead singer sounds a bit boy bandish. Very Peppy. As good as many of the pop bands that are out there now.

Also if you go to a Key bank this week it is Teller Appreciation week, fill out an Appreciation card for your teller.

I don't think the mission accomplished widget on the sidebar reflects it appropriatly, yep it's day 1500. Though sometimes I wonder why an even number is more significant than yesterday or tomorrow, or last week, or next year, since it appears we'll be stuck in this quagmire for a long time giggity giggity guh!

Yet what was the media covering today, Paris Hilton's return to jail. Good god what the hell is up with that??? Who cares, some rich young woman who has achieved nothing, has done nothing but show up at the 'right' places to be photographed. Alas this dangerous woman was released early and fearing for the community at large the judge ordered her back to prison.

So while American soldiers are being blown up and blowing up in Iraq and Afghanstan, innocent civilians are being slaughters in Darfur, this is what the media is worried about.

sigh

WHAT WOULD DEWEY DO?? Check out Unshelved.com and find out. Recently the authors gave us a challenge to turn their cartoon to a pop-up (no not the bad internet kind). Here is the result.

Lesson 26 Reflect on your Learning 2.0 Experiences


It's been great to see what every one's blog looks like, seeing if someone will be your 'friend' on myspace.

There are a few lessons I'd like to go back and either re-do or look more into.

How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
I always want to learn, and to keep learning so it has been a great asset.

What were your favorite Learning 2.0 discoveries or exercises?
I really like blogging and my space, I've had a lot of fun doing that. I've actually had this blog for nearly 4 years and I had never posted anything until Learning 2.0, now you can't stop me, I'm a posting fool!!

Did anything surprise you?
The biggest thing that surprised me about the Learning 2.0 is that it has been a team building exercise. People sharing what they've found,and talking about what they've found. More than once I've heard "HEY look at this!!" (and for once it wasn't something gross in the book bin). The best part of all that being everyone helping each other! As Library employees we are used to helping people, but when we get a chance to help each other it is special. It helps us to grow and know and respect each other a bit more.

I guess the other thing that surprised me was when I would read someones blog and they were B***ching about Learning 2.0, sheesh no one was making them do it!! But I'm always surprised when people complain about opportunities they are given.

Was there enough help available when you needed it?
Yes, as I said we all helped each other and if I had questions I e mailed Learning 2.0.

What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
I think it all worked well. Keeping us up to date is a good, there was little on here that I had done before, so that's good.

The speakers were good, but maybe a more interactive program would have been nice.

Would you like to see similar training opportunities as new library-relevant technologies emerge?
YES, emphatically.

And, last one, if you could go back in time and tell yourself to either participate in the program or skip it, what would you do?
I would do it. I don't like to be left out or behind of anything!!


Lesson 27 Suggest one more Web 2.0 topic you would like to learn

I found Google Alerts to be interesting and of possible use to patrons, but I found that along the way, but maybe there is more too it than what I made of it.

So what would I learn if I could learn something else that would help me and KCLS patrons? Boy oh boy that is a good question.

Gaming, I just realized that all the new X-boxes, Wiis, PSPs connect to the Internet now and can be social. I still play Gameboy, by myself, I've never hooked the cord up to another Gameboy person. What about the computer online games like World of Warcraft? I know KCLS has gaming in some of the branches. I wonder if patrons will come in seeking online games, and are there ones that will help children in school, help older patrons keep their minds sharp?

Decemberist, May 4, 2007, Paramount Theatre

Crane Wife 1,2 & 3
The Island-Come & See/The Landlord’s Daughter/You’ll Not Feel The Drowning
Leslie Ann Levine
The Bachelor and the Bride
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) with Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond
Shankhill Butchers
Culling of the Fold...The song too violent for the album according to Jenny Conlee
O Valencia
Billy Liar
Perfect Crime
Your Love(Outfield)-lead vocals by Chris Funk
When the War Came
Encore
Eli The Barrow Boy
Mariners Revenge

Right now I can't find the words, to describe this concert and it's way to noisy to think here anyway.

This weekend I bought the new Michael Chabon book The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

"BUY? but she works in a library!!".

I just had to because then I can get it and my other Michael Chabon books signed at Third Place Books on May 15th.

"OTHER?? she owns other books?? but she works in a library".

HEY pipe down, sometimes you just have to own something to put your hands on the nice clean cover, smell it when it's new (and not coughed, smoked or god knows what upon).

Which made me think about when he was on the Simpsons!

Lesson # 24 Podcast, Podcasts

I went to Podcast.com and listened to a little of Library Channel through the Arizona State University, I chose Native Voices-Native Amercan language materials in the Labriola Center. The podcast was about a book they had just gotten in by Frank Brannon titled Cherokee Phoenix Advent of a Newspaper which sounded like a wonderful book so it set me searching to see if KCLS had it, I didn't think it would since there were only 500 copies made, and they were made with handmade paper. See how much you can learn in a few seconds of listening!

Next I went to Podcast Alley after I typed in Library 2.0 (as advised in the lesson) 103 items come up.

Over to Yahoo Podcasts where I found KEXP has a Song of the Day podcast, which is what I had chose to RSS.

I must confess I'm not completely new to a podcst. I have listened to a couple Prairie Home Companions that way. One week they had the Flatlanders and I did not want to miss that!!

So what's the difference between a podcast and streaming? Ok I presume it means I can download it to my Creative Zen Nomad MP3 Player (nice of the world to give iPod free advertisement by nameing it PODcasts, and they were LATE to the MP3 world anyway sheesh).

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Lesson #23 - Video In The Post-Betamax World

So YouTube was recommended so of course I hightailed it over there and typed in "Decemberists" and a list of their few videos came up so I watched 16 Military Wives. It was very fun.


Would you like to see it too??



Yee haw on MySpace page, I have a video of Nora the piano playing cat. Also on MySpace I uploaded a snow travel video .


So I bet you're wondering what my obsession with the Decemberists, it's because A.)I love their music B.) I'm going to their concert this FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!

Web 2.0 Awards

Lesson 22

Of course I chose the Web 2.0 Awards, then of course I went to music where they recommended last.fm where I listened to

I couldn't figure out if I could add music to my Decemberist station. Then I went to tools, and there was some software I had to add, and since I'm at work, I'm not sure that would be appropriate. Last.fm had been talked up by Aaron Schmidt our Learning 2.0 lecturer last week.

So I went back to Pandora.com where I already had Carrie's Eclectic set up, which I refine more day by day, or maybe I expand it day by day. Where I have found it easy to add artists and tell them if I like something or don't like it and there is even a page where it shows my thumbs ups and downs. Pandora.com did get an honorable mention on the Web 2.0 Awards.

The advantage I can see to last.fm is that I could embed the tool to listen to the Decemberists on this blog. You can click Carrie's Eclectic to listen to the station I've made on Pandora. Maybe last.fm needs more perusal than I have given it. But Pandora (recommended by my niece Carmen) is very easy and no downloads.

LAURIE'S SHOWER 4/28/2007

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Blues name generators

Face the Music Blues

Outlier Music

Capital Gold



So my blues names came out:
Voodoo CC Pearsall
Crippled Liver Bradly
Feeble Dilly Hawkins

I was not satisfied with any of those, so I decided my blues name would be:

Voodoo Dilly Hawkins
or
maybe
it
should
be
Voodoo Dilly Pearsall.

I guess there was NOTHING I liked about Crippled Liver Bradly.

I was nearly famous yesterday, on the Mountain, here's what happened on the Morning show with Marty Reimer.

Marty had played Bill Mahr's earthday monologue and part of it was about the bees that are dying.

So then he proceeded to play a sting song, so I e mailed to the studio "I know why the bees are dying they are bored to death by Sting. Irony!!"

By the time I had done that he was talking about playing a cover song by Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave) and said I'm not sure if he still lives in Seattle or not. So I added to my e mail, "last I heard chris cornell was living in france".

So when the Chris Cornell song ended he said we got an e mail from Carrie :) and he read the France bit. The he said "Oh and Carrie added....(the Bee bit w/o the Irony part) then he said wow SLAM we usually leave that to Lee Callahan to Slam the artists, and she said that was ok she could use the help.

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Lesson #21 - the labs of Google

I checked out Google Labs. Clicked a link to Google Music Trends. All the songs looked WAY old, I saw a link for Participate in Music Trends, which looks like it might be fun, but it does use iTunes, which I do not (we'll go into that later).

As recommended I went to Google Trends and typed in 3 of my favorite musicians, one had TONS of activity, and the other two, one briefly in 2004 and the other a bit this year. So I wondered what activity there had been on Miss Baseball and Baseballs4me.


As you can see Miss Baseball is HOT in Jackson, Mississpi! Maybe I should go visit!! Or there might be another Miss Baseball around. Baseballs4me barely makes a showing. Oh well. Guess I'll have to search for my aliases more often.