#17 - September 17th

I'm back from dinner and I just read Jim DeArmeys blog, which makes the Sandbox Wiki seem silly somehow. I checked the knitting and the travel entries, but was not quite ready to add anything of my own. Perhaps it is the amazing amount of blogs and choices that discouraged me. Anyone can add anything they want at any time and the rest of us need to slog through it find what we may be interested in. I like the concept, but it is overwhelming.

I will check the "Notbymyself" blog however. This is one of maybe four or five that I have had the sense to read and I find them very valuable....both to the people who know them and for others with the same concerns to realize they are "notbymyself". Brav, Jim 1

Thing 16 - September 17

After visiting a number of library wikis I declare the Book Lovers Wiki the winner. Lots of information about lots of books. I'd put it in my Del.icio.us account if I only had time to find it.

Least favorite was the Library Success wiki. I'm sure in months to come it will be filled with perfectly useful information, but right now it needs some library nightowls to make lots of entries. Be that as it may, I did link it because I can see the value once people start adding more stuff.

#15 Library 2.0 - September 12

What a great read. Makes me realize how far behind I have gotten on thinking about libraries in the future.

I particularly loved "Away From the Iceberg" which probably should be required reading for all of us as we approach floating collections.

Technorati...#14...Wednesday

Too much information too much of the time. An interesting concept to have all the recent additions available... like watching the national debt increase in Times Square. You want to stop the billboard from continuing to climb but alas you cannot.

Thing # 13 is Delicious

Okay, this is the tool that we are all encouraged to use on our Information Desk computers. With a simple Delicious link we could have all our favorite reference sites for Parkville on the web so when machines are swapped out or replaced, the favorites will always be there. Now if we could just have lots of information questions we would all be adding links.

Rollyo Sept 12and also the 12th thing

So I have this Rollyo page element. And I can spend a lot of time adding all my favorites, or let Rollyo do it for me. I think I could grow to like it.

Wikis-September 12

I've been on a very long vacation....

Anyone who ever read the "The Professor and the Madman" would have to agree that there has always been a future for Wikis. After all the Oxford English Dictionary began as a cooperative effort to bring all the words of the English language into one book. That is what modern day wikis do for us. Everyone gets to submit, everyone gets to disbute the submissions, corrections are made and a body of knowledge takes form. Bravo for us!

I took a moment to view Library Success which clearly is in the process of beomming and the Princeton Public Library which is overwhelming.