Finale

Thank heavens for Project Play! Learning some of the tools now available like blogging and LibraryThing has helped me feel prepared for what's coming next. (Isn't there always something else right around the corner, just when you feel caught up?)

We are already using some of these tools at MPL. Our MadReads book review blog is a great addition to our web site, and it's fun to track how many holds are placed on books we've reviewed. I would love to see us add tags to our catalog as a way to improve access to it for our patrons. I haven't begun to use any of these in my personal life, but may try del.icio.us for those pesky online recipes. I would love to have a family blog - especially with family photos, but I'm sure 90% of my technotard (I'm one of them!) family would read it and not add to it.

Looking forward to Semester 2. Happy Holidays!

Wiki Week

I finally made it to Week 9, one day before we're supposed to be done. Wiki's seem somewhat useful for me, in the same way those word processing/sharing sites work when more than one person are working on a written document.

I found the examples given of libraries that are using wikis a little confusing....I couldn't quite figure out what aspect of each page was the wiki, and how it was being used. (Could be that if I had more time to look at them, I could figure it out....I'm a bit rushed today.) I know we here at MPL are thinking of using it for circulation policies, problems and updates. I'm not quite sure how the Reference department could use it. But I'll keep thinking.