Monday, March 31, 2008

YouTube video

Hi all,
The video I am going to embed in this blog shows where we went on holiday last year at the start of the trip. Right at the beginning of the video, there is a view of the Kona/Kailua waterfront showing the resort which was our first stop on our holiday.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Bloglines

Hi all,
I had trouble finding the RSS feeds at first and then because I don't ordinarily view newsgroups or other blogs, it was difficult to think of ones that I might be interested in. I finally found enough, but I will probably not have the time in future to keep looking at them. If you had a hobby or outside interest, it would be great to use Bloglines to keep up-to-date. Of course, I could have been a good girl and added a lot of library blogs that I'm afraid I would not find terribly interesting at all (sorry). Libraries in general would benefit from Bloglines in keeping up-to-date (of course).

Debi

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Lesson 3 - Flickr

Hi all,
For this lesson plan we are supposed to provide a link to a photo from Flickr that interests us. This photo http://flickr.com/photos/spikebot/123473089/in/set-1815258/ is of one of the first libraries that I have worked at. My children's great aunt was also the first librarian to work at this library. It used to be the Council Chambers, and I remember a room in there that used to be the safe. I first worked there as a Casual Library Assistant, and I remember the day of the Newcastle earthquake. We were changing the whole non-fiction collection around when all of a sudden the shelving started to shake. It was a wonder the old building didn't fall down. It has been completely redesigned inside now and includes the Council building at the back as the Spike Milligan reading room.

Bye for now