week 9 # 23

I enjoyed almost every exercise we did during ihcpl. My absolute favorite was Library Thing. I will definitely continue to use that site. Some of my other favorites were avatars, flickr, and blogspot itself. The social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook I was already acquainted with. I also really enjoyed getting on to Overdrive and discovering the many items available online through our library system. I think this will play a big part in the future of our libraries. The only problem I had with ihcpl is that it was done so late in the year. I think any training this big should be done at the beginning or middle of the year. Also, I believe most people I work with went way over the 10 hours we received for doing this training. Some of the exercises were hard if you are not computer savvy. I know I probably spent a good 13 or 14 hours on the entire program. Over all I enjoyed learning about the different applications through ihcpl and would not mind having this type of training in the future.

week 9 # 22

I liked our site the best. LibriVox won't work because it's having issues and I didn't like the way the search worked on Wowio. I was surprised we had a lot of the new teen titles available for download and some to even burn to cd. I like the idea of putting these titles on an mp3 player or ipod. My daughter and I travel a lot and this will come in handy. Instead of having to keep up with all those cd's and cd player, we only have to bring the mp3 player. I can't wait to start using this site.