You Tube (Thing 18)

1. What I saw: The Adventures of Super Librarian
What were they trying to accomplish: promote outstanding assistance provided by librarians, what materials they have you can check out and services they have at the library.
How effective: Pretty entertaining, probably had just the right amount of information in it.
2. What I saw: Super Librarian
What they were trying to accomplish: promote how valuable librarians are, that they are right at your fingertips in your neighborhood and encouraged them to get to know their librarian.
How effective: Pretty effective. Simple advocating of librarians is always a good thing to do. One scary part: They said librarians could find the answer to any question. (We do our best and then refer them if we have to)
3. What I saw: A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto
What were they trying to accomplish: to make a pledge to embrace the future of librarianship.
How effective: words very effective. Pledges I particularly want to embrace: take an active part in moving library forward, embrace change and promote it even when other resist it, let go of previous practices (ouch!), libraries need to remain vital and a relevant voice in information seeking and techniques.
4. What I saw: Allen County Public Library Channel
What were they trying to accomplish: advertise and provide minimal information about the Summer Reading 2010 program.
How effective were they: pretty cute advertisement promoting reading. They covered the what, where, when and how in regards to the summer reading program. Listed prizes kids can earn by counting the number of hours they read this summer.
5. What I saw: Abilene Public Library: Storytimes & Children's Programs
What were they trying to accomplish: two people staff I presume were trying to promote, talk about and explain their storytimes and programs.
How effective: For nine minutes these two staff sat at a table and batted back and forth information about storytimes etc. It was too long, quality of production and their bouncing back and forth with conversational talk about their programs no so effective. I could hear one staff hitting the table as they talked. Could have been much shorter with quick snappy information and visuals. Could not stick with it for nine minutes.
6. What I saw: Webster Public Library/Storytime with Miss A
What they were trying to accomplish: she was teaching the song Little Bunny Foo Foo and then sang it with her audience who were there and who could not physically be there at storytime.
How effective: for the child who recognizes Miss A and who was sick and could not attend storytime but can still experience it in some way, very effective.

* Other uses to promote: Could use it promote most anything in the library; author readings, new databases, tutorial on how to use self check, computer classes.
* How can we address "authoritative" in You Tube searching. I suppose it would be just like the Internet, check the source. Look for links from .gov, .org, .edu, news for authoritative sites.







Other uses to promote:


How can we address "authoratative" in You Tube searching?

Google Docs (Thing 16)

I created a word document, Storytime Prepartion for this summer storytimes and invited Pat and Kelly as collaborators. I also think the Storytime Teams could share what they havefound to use duriing storytimes; such as books, fingerplays, flannels, prop story ideas and music. If we use Google Docs we can share, and add to each theme document centralizing our planning templates. And,Volia! they are done.

The Bluebonnet Program Committee used Google Docs to create, share and edit our Powerpoint slideshow for our presentation, Bluebonnet 101 during TLA so I have a little bit of experience using this.

As far as how this is different from other programs I have used is several people can work on a shared document, its cut down on the number of e-mails back and forth with revisions, you can view revisions which normally once a change is made unless you save as, the previous document is no more once you make changes and save, and you can easily choose a format for your document and all of the products are right there in a list to choose from.

Music Streaming and Sharing (Thing 17)

My experience: I opened an account with Last.fm. It was really easy to use. I had a lot of fun listening to all kinds of music. One track of The Temptations was not very clear; the quality of the sound was lost because it was recorded live but you could really see their moves! I really like the site as a whole; you could get biographical information, see videos, get the latest news, events, listen to tracks and so much more. It is nice to have so much information and the music of artists/groups at your fingertips on one site.
Suggestions of other artists were helpful. The music is similar to the music by the particular group/artist you are listening to and jogs you memory of other groups you might have forgotten about.
As far has helping patrons, you can get a lot of information quickly for them. You can tell them if an artist or group is on tour, they most listened to song, biographical information, a list of the group's/artist's albums, pictures just about anything you want or need to know about an artist or group.
I think eventually people with stop purchasing CDs. My daugther stopped wanting CDs several years ago. You can build you own music library, pick and choose the tracks you want right in the comfort of you own home.

Google Maps (Thing 15)

This is the link for directions to the Frankford Village Library in Carrollton Texas.

Got the directions from my home to the library. Checked traffic currently but also check traffic on different days and different times.

E-mailed map to me. Clicked on my street to see a camera view of my street with an arrow. Could click to receive street by street directions with pictures. Checked traffic on 75.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=408+Tenbury+Ct,+Allen,+TX+75002&daddr=Frankford+Village+Library,+4220+North+Josey+Lane,+Carrollton,+TX+75010-4600&hl=en&geocode=FYL7-AEdJE89-imbNZngvBBMhjHiEKssVlVOPQ%3BFYzv9wEdtKs5-iE0ZVoPyJJq_ykXKDQxByVMhjEHSH1S7q8JFg&mra=ls&sll=33.029678,-96.883621&sspn=0.180762,0.307961&ie=UTF8&ll=33.043781,-96.764145&spn=0.187928,0.307961&z=12&layer=t&dirflg=d>




This is an amazing site. You can do so much. Will want to play with this and explore more later.

You Send It (Thing 14)

Very easy to use. The Powerpoint Presentation for our session at TLA, Bluebonnet 101 was a very large file plus we had a link with a portion of the DVD we wanted to include. So I sent the just the clip as a practice to myself using You Sent It. You Send It indicated this was a large file and the next step was to create an account which took less than 5 seconds. The link of the clip took 2 minutes 30 seconds to be sent by You Send It to my e-mail. Once I was in my email, You Send It opened right up, with a button to download file. In seconds I was watching the clip. Useful tool.

Tiny URL (Thing 13)

To look at the car go to http://tinyurl.com/1997BMW.
I also shorten url to get to Driver's License page and to a picture of a Mori Lee gown.
There have been times when I have looked up information for a patron and have gotten a long url. This site will come in handy!