Thing #23 The End

Having never really explored Google other than as a search engine or for images I learned that Google has more things than I ever knew they had. I had never been on Facebook, Twitter or You Tube it was fun learning about them. I think doing some of the activities in a classroom setting would have helped me. The databases was challenging but with a little blood, sweat, and tears I was successful. All in all it was interesting and informative.I think there would patrons who would love to do some of the activities such as novelist and some of the databases.

Thing #22 Reading Recommendations

Using NoveList I searched the Thrillers and Suspense Recommended Reads list. I then narrowed it down to Bad Medicine where I found the book Lie Still by David Farris taht looked interesting. This would be useful for when you are looking for books that are similar in style to an author that you really enjoy reading.

Thing #21 Subscribe to a BookLetter

I subscribed to the Books on the Air. This will be useful when patrons ask about a book they heard about on the radio or TV and they only have partial information on the book.

Thing #20 Recommend a book

My book recommedation is tell No One by Harlan Coben.

Thing #19 Comparing Wikis

1.Browsed through Library Success: A best Practices Wiki and Blogging Libraries Wiki.
2.Looked at Wookieepedia and Muppet Wiki.
3.Lots of interesting info. A good way for libraries to swap information.

Thing # 18 Play in the sandbox

The two pages I edited were Favorite Author and Favorite Movies. My favorite authors are Stephen King, Dean Koontz and John Saul. My favorite movies are Sound of Music and Shawshank Redemption.

Thing #17 Podcasts

Tried to go to Grammar Girl but had a computer error so I visited Merriam-Webster word of the day podcast. I then traveled to podcast.com where I listened to Scientific American's Science in a minute where I learned I traveled about 584 million miles around the sun in a year. I listened to a CNN podcast. I'm not sure this is something I will use very often.

Thing #16

Explored NetLibrary and found the following eAudio, Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson. The duration on this is 6 hours and 1 minute. One of my goals for this year is to download an audio for myself.

Thing #15

Cute video if you are a cat person. Makes me smile every time.

Thing 14

The other 2 RSS feeds that I added to my Google Reader are Merriam-Webster word of the day and Library Journal. I never knew that Google Reader existed until I started this exercise. It is a great tool for checking different sites you are interested in without having to go to each site. I will use this often.

Thing 13

This is the shortcut I copied form the LFPL catalog. http://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/rss/NewTitles.aspx?type=1
I added it too my Google Reader.

Thing 12

The research tool I find most useful is InfoTrac OneFile. I feel that it is the one that most of our patrons and  myself would use as it has a broad range of subjects that are current and up to date.

Thing 11c

There are 94 coffee shops in the 402- zip code area. If you are planning on opening a coffee shop in the 40202 area your biggest competitor will be Starbucks. Maybe you should think about opening a tea room instead!

Thing 11b

Using Info Trac OneFile I was able to find 16 articles from Consumer Reports on LCD TVs. These articles were from 1/1/2008 to 12/31/2009.

Thing 11a

Using the Morningstar Investment Research Center I found the following information for the mutual fund Vanguard Target Retirement 2020. The manager is Duane F. Kelly, the overall stewardship grade is a B, and the overall Morningstar rating is 4 star.

Thing 10c

Using Ebsco Academic Search Premier I found out that LFPL has British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Clinical Medicine and Research in full text. LFPL does not have the Journal Telos.

Thing 10b

Using the ProQuest Database I found that Betty Jean McMichael's obituary was published on March 18, 2008. She had four sons.