#46 keeping up

Great use of Zoho by Jamie on the PLMC blog to keep up to date with tools that are constantly changing I can see we will need to be regularly checking for updates or it will get messy. Which tool do you go with?. Do you change when they do? Can you move information over if they close ? Will you lose information? ( backups backups) I like the use of the very tools we explored "zoho" to maintain currency
I see in the update that Google have added something similar to librarything to Google books but without the social aspect, the emphasis is on research not socialising although the tags and personal libraries are accessible to others.
Just an interesting aside, Kingston library have incorporated" library thing" into their public catalogue good on them, worth watching to see how the community use it.
I decided to check out one of my favourites web 2.0 tools Zotero (really useful research tool only available with Firefox browser) and yes, updates were available it now can search, upload ,link export and take snapshots of flickr ,you tube pages as well as many other formats and provide a wider range of citations. You can snap shot a web page see it within the tool highlight sections and add side notes just as you would to hard copy.

#45 Oh yes, in the flow

Isn't it nice to know where you are going. A novel experience por moi. Thus I have all ways looked on mind maps as a way out of the avalanche of possibilities. (me I all ways see the grey) Me and Mr hats ( you know the fella ) are like that(attempt at crossed fingers on line) Played with Giffy Flow chart, created a fun flow chart
' what do cats and librarians have in common " Not a bad tool, but clunky, much the same could be done with paint or with word. Mindmapping is the precinct of de Bono as well .Stopping to plug all this in might inhibit the flow sometimes a pencil and a paper will do it. Mind you it's rarely readable to oneself afterward let alone others and this is where these tools come in handy.Is this where we are going?? mind map of future librarians

#44 Jotting Not

No,I won't do this, it will cost me an arm and leg (fore arm and paw) phone chatter has never been my strong point. (I used to run away from them, no joke, it was the country, I was ten and the operator at the local exchange(very very rural) was a cranky cow) so the idea of paying out to get arrested for using a phone in a moving car ( no hands free) does not appeal I will just have to remember with out the jolt. No phone messages to my self for me.
I can see how in a few years this could become commonplace,but at the moment it is unnecessary ,unworkable, expensive (for me ) and unrealistic.( winge winge wine... oops!)

#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.