iHCPL Next Gen #30

For this one we are supposed to clean out the different drives. I really never put stuff on the S drive unless I'm sending to the printer and then I clean it out after I get the print job. I also only save stuff on the P drive to my YA folder and I try to keep that as concise and clean as possible. I actually went through in January and deleted a bunch of files I didn't need anymore. I think it is a good idea to clean these drive out once in a while.

iHCPL Next Gen: #29 email cleaning

Well, I went through and cleaned out my inbox (which I've actually been meaning to do for a couple weeks). I tend to clean out every couple months and shift stuff to different folders/delete etc. I probably won't clean out my inbox every day, but I'll try to hit it at least once a month. I'm pretty good about moving emails to folders or deleting as needed. There are a lot of emails I get that don't fit in any folder though, or something I need to remember to do. If I move an email out of my inbox, I forget about it.

iHCPL NextGen: #28 - Cleaning Pt. 1

I actually like Google calendar (except that you can't just have it open on your desk top...you have to sign into it). I used Google calendar to map out when the main meeting room at our library was available during the summer. The children's programs move into the room in the summer, so having an average week mapped out on a visible calendar made it easy to see when I could book the room.

iHCPL #23

Finally done, yay!

I have enjoyed parts of "THE 23 THINGS", such as the Library Thing, Blogging, and You Tube. I think some of these things could be used to in the library. For example, since we don't keep records of items that were checked out once they are returned, a patron could use something like Library Thing to track his/her books. I also think that blogged book clubs could be a possibility, but you would need a core group. While I am not sure that most of what I learned is something patrons will be asking about with any regularity, I have enjoyed parts of the process, so here's to iStar.

Cows with Guns and Kitty Cat Dance

iHCPL #22

I looked at both the ebranch and the other sound sites listed by iStar. I found a few titles I liked on each of the sites, but a lot of titles I looked for were not there. I might have been doing something wrong. I thought it was a nice feature on WOWIO that it told you when something was in progress, so you would know to look back for it later. I think that HCPL's ebranch is easier to use than LibriVox, but I did like WOWIO's set up...

iHCPL #21

I looked under both podcast.net and podcastalley.com and didn't find either of them to be particularly user friendly unless the user knew exactly what they were looking for. When I searched for 'learn an accent' I got results including audio erotica spoken by a british man (that goodness I looked at the details before trying to listen). Eventually I found a couple podcasts that might prove inteteresting: "Write to Learn" and "Uncontrolled Vocabulary". "Write to Learn" is a podcast created to help people figure out how to write academic papers and "Uncontrolled Vocabulary" is a podcast about current library issues.