Monday, April 7, 2008

Another try with YouTube



This is a very cute video of a 3D alphabet picture book - not exactly public library material, but interesting.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Libraries on YouTube

I don't think this was the way we were supposed to load our video - but it seems to work which I haven't managed any other way....

This is Julie Andrews on libraries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieUD9vCeXu0

Thursday, March 27, 2008

This looks really interesting....

One of our staff came across and article about this library vending machine - it looks really cool!


http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6535617.html?desc=topstory

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Perils of Blogging #4

I love the Book Lovers Wiki from Princeton - great way to find out information and book reviews under various genres. It's good that some of the books reviewed are older titles, not just latest releases.
Also really interested in the level of accuracy reported for the German language wikipedia - I wonder how the English one compares?

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Perils of blogging #3

You get really caught up in following one thread or another... I'm been playing with the RSS feeds and have Accidental hedonist as one of them. If you want to see (pictures, recipes and descriptions) of some really interesting food, this is the feed LOL for you.
I unsubscribed from some of the book review sites because they were totally overwhelming - I have trouble getting through the journals let alone the amount of information they churn out.
I can see some potential uses for libraries - customers could subscribe and be updated whenever we had something new going. The probelm, as always, is that someone needs to keep it up to date :)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Perils of blogging # 2

Well, finding time to blog is the next problem - it seems to be either at home or staying late at work...
The other thing is finding time to read and post to other people's blogs.