#50 Hold the cheese

Cooking in libraries? or is it the community site idea that is relevant here? a group of like minded people with a passion who forgive little mistakes because they all have the same interest.
Lasagna all ways intimidated me with all the different cheeses, but Bill and Daves version complete with oil spatters on the lens of the camera and the bottle of Chianti (that was consumed during the making of it I kept wondering when they were going to add it) made it all seem so much more approachable.
That is the value of this homey type of video a non threatening demo that anyone can relate to. A too technically perfect style may not be the way to go.
However the site does give tips on how to create more professionally and links to tools that can convert different video files. Small videos can be created with a digital camera ( and tripod for steadiness)and windows movie maker a free download if not already on your computer.

#49 Sounds scary

Soundsnap Ok I know sounds are the go with mobile phone ring tones going off all over the library (I liked it when we had a group of Irish backpackers wandering around the library little Irish fiddles and ballads would suddenly erupt behind the ref desk) but how to make this work for us. Possible intros to book talks, EG: the crime novel so popular in Melbourne (lets not get into the why just now ,suffice to say that this city has had a colourful past and not just a long time ago, may be the intrigue of it all rubs off on the general populace) anyhow I found a chilling sound that would work a treat just before the Author talk. Perhaps a science fiction sound like" ambient tension" could be introduced into the teenage booktalks or in the sessions "about the boys"

#48 let the music run free

Here was I thinking I had made it but no ! onward ever onward Music download a good site a logical progression for new musicians and for established ones to promote new work and give out some free. I can't really see library users coming in and asking "show me the free music" but you never know. I cannot see us helping them to burn Cd's just yet but watch that space. Found some jazz from "the Shapiro project" some of this is great might just visit now and then. May just have to hunt up their albums "true colours" and "open road" May need investigating just how free is free? Can we use these samples in a public space or is it just for private enjoyment.

#47 Just Jammin

Ok, so I am on holidays . Just checking and jammin, heres a questionable creation 'GOING" from jam studio sounds a bit like lift music Not sure where we could use this tool a little catchy intro to a training guide or a local history photo collage perhaps?

#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!)