spring cleaning #29

My e-mail was pretty up to date. What I did was took any emails having to do with policy or anything else important for future reference and created a folder on my P drive to save these to. This is what I will do in the future, instead of just saving them to different folders on my email account.

SPRING CLEANING # 30

I love using these drives. In going through the P drive I did find a bunch of old files. One was from 2001. I keep my personal drive pretty organized. I like the fact that we can download our emails to this drive to keep for future reference.

ihcpl # 28

From GTD I liked the 43 folders idea, although I don't know where I'd put them. I really like the google calendar, it's just a matter of getting into the habit of bringing it up every morning to keep up with your "to do list."

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.

week 9 # 21

I liked podcast.net and yahoo podcasts. They are great if you are looking for a specific subject or person but other than that it is just so much information to sort through. I prefer to go to sites I already visit and watch their podcasts. I had no idea you could subscribe to one though, so that was neat. I subscribed to "mugglecast" which is off the mugglenet website for Harry Potter fans.

week 9 # 20

I love youtube! I have been using it for years to look up old clips from my favorite shows like SNL and of course SCRUBS. As far as it being useful at the library, it seems to have come in handy for ihcpl.