#43 Midi Marvelous

What a toy! a major hobby right there, I can't help but wonder though where you stand with copyright.The program will only last for 30 days unless I pay up. I downloaded a midi version of Rainy night in Georgia and couldn't bear to alter it permanently. There is such a big range of midi music available from Google when I searched for a rainy night in Georgia a whole selection of blues came down with it. I sighed and immediately saved the entire site so I can play them while I work. I noticed that audacity was available from the same site .
The midinotate player program can locate midi files on the Internet and convert them to sheet music. It uses its own browser and as soon as you locate a midi file and down load it it unzips it and sets it in is browser you use the play buttons etc similar to most audio programs. I can see how this could be good for budding musicians and composers but it is s bit out of the requirements of a standard public library.Perhaps it is somewhere to point people toward however the program is an exe file, so I cannot see it getting past most IT restrictions.

#42 net Groups

Well now the affiliated group for peculiar library workers appeals to me but the general theme lately of persecution in the main soc library group is worrying. There are so many other options for group interaction on line now,inevitable that stats are falling but may be its because some of the information they wish to share is of a decidedly erotic or lewd nature (tsk tsk)lowers the tone. A lot of the library groups have not had movement since 2004 2005 .Only moderated groups seem to be active and it is the only way to be free of spam. Still so much out there one article in the library science education group reminded of Veropedia a verified source of information taken from wikipedia .
Must dive into them again

#41 Bongiorno

live Mocha: Learning other languages is something I have put off many times, I studied French at school (ovre la finetre ?? ferme la bouch ) needs work I know . I studied a bit of Italian at La Universta per Stranieri in Perugia but that was molti anni fa. It was the immersion method where only the language being learnt was spoken and the idea was that at about week four it all started to make sense. To some extent it worked but my sense of the correct grammar was lost in the experience. I never really used it and now most of it is lost. When I saw this site I thought great now I can tidy up all the loose ends, but at this point they do not have Italian I shall have to settle for French I do not have the will power at this stage to tackle a new script such as Mandarin.
If the site stays free it would be a draw card for some people to the library if they do not have their own computer or want to do a half hour class during their lunch break.

#40 Going backwards

Retroland a little wander through our Americo centric past worrying really how many things one recognised. Many are related to the USA television experience, not much of interest here but I can see how it would become a useful historical record a bit further down the track if you looked back a hundred years this would be an important record of social priorities .
Me I remember the Afro hair the Afro comb in the back pocket, the men's fitted shirts, the clogs the caftans.
The relevance to the library could be that it could be used as a template for a site that encourages people in the local area to reminisce and thus create a safe community place for personal stories etc about the area to unfold.

#39 animoto

#38 Comic relief

For your viewing pleasure ( you will need flash its more amusing to just scroll across)




A lot can be said with pictures may be we can channel this into something on the library web page to EG: to promote special events like the click goes the library series of events.
However below is my creation.

#37 Music

Streaming music is blocked in the work place and on the public PCs download limits etc make it difficult to get around this one . It is a natural progression joining radio and Internet and making them interactive . Users can select own music and listen while working with the inevitable invitation to buy. Groups grow up around the liking for a similar style of music similar to those that grow up around the books in " library thing" this to me is a more comfortable use of the idea of Internet community not just chattering aimlessly. Tried creating a quilt of covers but it leads away from the page promoting the album and with intrusive advertising.
How could this be incorporated into the library? Perhaps at the beginning of a special Internet training program with a theme, Chinese music? not for a while yet I suspect. For my radio widget I chose Fela Kuti a famous african protest singer his son now sings in a similar style but I like the old master and his highlife jazz