#29 Scraps

Scrapbloging: Just how much time could you spend on this one (and then some ) scraps will be it from me, so far to go so little time . Could possibly see this used on a library website to promote an author talk but dedicated time is required for this one to look good. It is getting a bit repetitious here different sites using similar techniques.Scrapblog server was down a couple of times and flickr was having a massage? so will come back to it

#28 covering up

Had some fun with this, personal rather than work applications made one up for my husband to be on the cover of a golfing magazine (move over tiger). Continued the feline theme with this little creation

#26 minime

Played with the mini's and created tab of tools could be useful sitting in desk top for quick consult at beginning of the day google has something similar used to set up own page of tools.

#25 letterpop

Letterpop could be useful with so much marketing going on posters etc could be created as well as newsletters . Limited number of use free could lead to problems however. Check out my first attempt. Cats at work

#24 Yikes!! Zamzar
While I was out partying (I did a little) cooking up a storm, recovering, shelving, shifting, inhaling paint fumes, other folks were blogging on. The reality is this exploration of 2.1 must be done in home time you need to be able to convince family members that you are not obsessed or exploited that yes you will go out in the sunshine today. Having said that let me say this (polly speak) I wondered about the rest of the program being tackled overseas and meant to get to it this year (yeah when, I here you say) quite right I needed a nudge and so to I dare say do we all(shut up and get on with it)

Zamzar .....great tool, useful for training notes right format for the right situation etc. pdf for long document are easier to scan online than straight docs. Tried it with my local history resources (where the hell do I start) guide used in my branch but found I needed to tweek the contents again stay posted. Useful also for library users who need that another format to print or create that we may not provide the software for.

• Janeway boldly goes forth

#23 Finis

I chose the fool card from the Tarot as a symbol with the label "future librarians" because like the fool I see the future librarian in real danger of losing their identities falling over the cliff of change and not using the skills they have to save themselves. (curiosity,organisation, a drive to guide and honour the individuals pursuit of an idea, and to respect individuals privacy in that pursuit) Libraries like the fool are moving forward into a world of infinite possibilities. They have all they need to do or be anything they want, they only need to stop and unpack. Like the fool we are on the way to a brand new beginning.
But the card carries a little bark of warning as well. Stop look down, unpack.

Perhaps this is what we have been doing here with this web2.0 play, looking around before striding forward, just changing our names (not a fan of information commons, and knowledge managers) will not be enough in fact it could be a foolish move in re branding(yuck term) Most of the web 2.0 tools are already commonplace in this mobile phone souped up present. Internets have moved into libraries in a serious way we need to free up the controls and trust our users. (get up off the floor) If we strive to bring back respect for the institution of the library as a place of open learning and pleasure. The great unwashed will defend it for us as one of the last free,egalitarian,silent(why not, I think it needs to come back they will see it as a novelty)havens available in frenetic world.

So how do we market ourselves? We need to be aware of the new tools of communication certainly and use them ourselves but I believe symbols are powerful and if things continue the way they have libraries will cease to be a physical entity maybe there will be somewhere online a customer relations person? (cybot) Multi skilling has led to a watering down of the role and an inability to define just who we are and what we do.

(phew just got a load off my chest)
Bye all