A few words about PLA. Exhilirating. Exciting. Exhausting. I can't believe the high feeling of learning and meeting people from all over the world, to the completely whipped feeling I had each night I came home from the conference (or from my 2nd job right after the conference). It's Sunday night and I had a 9 mile run this morning and am still just fatigued beyond words. That said the conference was completely amazing, and the decision to close the festivities with Paula Poundstone was awesome! I have loved her Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! appearances (ahem, she was on this week, and yes, the Podcast is a free download. Just do it.), and have actually loved her since my high school days.....she was completely hilarious, esp with a room full of librarians, and she played off the crowd in amazing ways :) Oh, and Paula has 9, NINE, cats. And my good friend Heidi just emailed this to me. For all you cat folks out there.... CLICK HERE. (Thanks YouTube). So thanks PLA. You kicked my butt, but in the best of ways...and I'm very much hoping to try new things, and experiment with what I've learned at work very soon....
LibraryThing is fun to play with, easy to use, and can be super useful to libraries, if those libraries allow their staff to use blogs and other 2.0 things on their website. I'm not trying to get fired, or reprimanded by my higher powers that be, but at press time , we the staff, are not allowed access (ie posting or linking via our website ) to such things in our system. Very sad. (fwiw, of course I understand the want to keep all of the library website safe & secure). The good news is I keep hearing we're getting closer to being able to link such useful resources to our library's website. I strongly believe patrons would really enjoy & benefit being able to tap into the library web site, and look up what the children's librarians are reading and recommending in terms of new titles, topics (ie potty training or going to the dentist), or popular themes that are constantly asked for (trains, dinosaurs, princess books, etc). Right now we share booklists by paper only. The standard 12 or 13 colors (brights, pastels, etc) for parents to select from via a brand new display on the wall in the kids room in our branch. The display and the handouts are both very nice. However, I still want access, like the rest of the world it seems, esp when it comes to library websites full of blogs & other 2.0 hotties, to putting these lists online somehow. LibraryThing would definitely be a great, and current, addition to the paper handouts...I will do my best to wait patiently......(man it's hard though, esp coming off of PLA).
So, I've added some titles to my bookshelf, some of my recent favorites, some of my old favs, and I hope to play around with this more as time goes on (in terms of adding my humble reviews to what I'm reading or have read). Both adult and children's books are on my list, at the moment, in completely random order. I'll do "the librarian thing" and organize them super soon....so happy week and, like a Finish line, I hope to get at least 3-5 Things done this week since the deadline of completion is fast approaching, and I *am* starting to feel like this is a race......~jd
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