Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

And away we go....

1-I use the S drive all the time; Mainly for when I send Stephanie T. stuff to print for me. If she doesnt' delete them when she is done, I do next time I am in the folder.

2-P drive is a little tougher. I have put stuff there, but most of the children's stuff is stuff that our previous childrens librarian put there and I only use on occasion. I really hate using flickr because it is so so slow whenever I use it and I don't have the patience to wait, so I will put them on cd's whenever my order for new ones finally arrives. A circ assistant, who will remain nameless swiped all my cdr's and now I have none! I will revisit it later & see what I can delete, if anything...computer is running slow at the moment. Well, I deleted some stuff on p drive and it keeps malfunctioning. Egads!!

3-Can't get rid of much on z drive; need it.

4-Since I've not even been here 2 years yet, I don't think anything that I delete would shock anyone. No, I'm not more organized than I thought I was. I am pretty organized on my computer, it is just my desk that could use an overhaul.

Spring Cleaning #29 Email

Okay-
1-I have my own email account for personal stuff.
2-I already have folders in my work email for a variety of things...srp 2007, srp 2008, schools, volunteers, workshops/conferences, etc.; I try to keep on top of this as emails come in so I don't "lose" emails in my inbox because they took more time than I had at the moment to reply to and then get buried. I cleaned everything out thoroughly in January, but probably could do it again.
3-My address book is already up to date and not too overly big; I update it everytime I get a message saying address is wrong, etc. and don't include addresses I rarely, if ever, use, especially if they easily accessible elsewhere or I just know them.
4-My account is relatively up to date and relatively uncluttered. It could be better, but then I would have to do something like skipping storytime & I don't think I want to do that. ha ha

spring cleaning #28

GTD seems to be a lot like what I try to do now, although I do have a tendency for things get lost in my email box if I don't write myself a list of to do's. I try to do easy things as soon as possible already. It is just easier than trying to remember to do it later. I looked at Google calendar, which is easy for me to access since I already have a gmail account that I use. I could use it for big things, but I wouldn't go as far as putting my grocery list in it. That would probably be my electronic calendar of choice, although I still tend to like my calendar that I can write in and take with me where ever.

Week 10, #23

Final Post (thank goodness)
Favorite things were probably avatars, librarything, video, and library elf(even though I don't use it). I'm sort of used to learning online and independently, so I don't really think that this was really a big revelation for me, although it was nice to get credit for learning about this stuff. It wasn't hard for me, but some of my co-workers toiled for hours on some of this stuff for whatever reason. This course is not bad for people who are used to using computers, but for those who could barely get by to begin with, it was extremely time consuming.
If we had more teens and college kids in our library, we might get asked questions more (but they probably know how to do this stuff anyway), but most of our clientele is middle age plus or young families who either don't have time to do this stuff or are having trouble using the mouse and don't really care about all the 2.0 stuff. I imagine it will trickle down (or up) to them eventually, but I think having their own email account is a major accomplishment for some at this point. Most of this stuff I will probably not bother with after this is over because of time constraints and some of it just doesn't interest me enough to want to do it anyway. Ho hum. or Bah humbug? (ha ha)

week 9, # 22

Ok, I just lost my post. This topic is more useful than others we have learned about; at least with respect to what patrons ask about. I think more people are using now than not too long ago, but viewing books online is still iffy. Most people would rather have the book in hand, unless desperate. Audio books I could potentially listen to are Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke and Musicophilia And Other Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks. It is good to see that we have gotten the Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper; very good series. Most stuff I saw that was of interest was stuff I had already read. Videos could be of interest as well, children's anyway. I looked at librivox as well; they had classic public domain type books in a variety of languages. Wowio was not a thrill for me either.

Week 9, # 21 Podcasting

Ok, I looked at this, and it is interesting I think, but not really something I would listen to on a regular basis. The only time I can listen to stuff is when I'm in the car and I would rather listen to books or music than podcasts. I put one called Book Bites for kids in my bloglines account. This podcast airs interviews with children's authors. They do put music in podcasts & I found a bunch of that as well. I looked at podcastalley.com and podcast.net. This could be useful if you are really interested in this type of thing, I just don't have the time.

# 20 again

Well, I had imbedded a video of Marilyn Horne singing C is for Cookie on Sesame street, but I can't see it when I pull up my blog. I saw it once, but is just a blank spot now. I'm not going to bother with a ticket however. This is the link at any rate. C is for Cookie This would have been so great to have when I was in music school. It would have been wonderful to see other people perform stuff that I was doing. Lots of neat videos, many of them from when artists were early in their careers. I can't imagine that all of this stuff can't be violating copyright; if the artists aren't putting this stuff up, how did they get the footage...lot is from tv that has been recorded. Even filming stuff for library sites would involve copyright issues...storytimes for instances, books, songs, etc.