Two Great YAs to Recommend

Just finished Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It. Book Talked it to my Volunteens and they got excited.
Family with two teens in Penn when just before end of school term the moon gets hit with asteroid. When it hits it throws moon out of orbit and closer to earth. Just imagine all the natural disasters that begin to occur! Takes readers through almost an entire year as Earth undergoes all the changes. Very engrossing read.

I am now in process of reading Caroline Cooney's book Diamonds In the Shadow. In this story, a wealthy Conn.family of four hosts a family of refugees from war-torn Africa. The oldest son quickly realizes that something is going on with this family. To start with, he is pretty sure the couple aren't the parents of the two teens. What the host family doesn't know is that a fifth refugee came into the country on the same plane and this man has a violent agenda. The entire refugee family live in terror of this man showing up. You'll have to read to find out what happens.

Zoho Picture

What I Look Like After SRC Program Day

 

 

A Zoho Experiment

 

Oh ho its zoho

Oh Ho It's Zoho

 

I'm writing this in a Zoho document.  So far, as Meerkatdon already mentioned, the default text is Verdana 10pt.  After typing title I had to switch back to Arial again and change point type.  But this is definitely easier to use than the Google docs page.

 

 

Google Docs

Well I played around with google docs. The use of this is to upload docs or to email a quickly prepared (and very simple) doc to send. Other than that it is lousy software. I haven't had time to play with the others yet - like Zoho that all you others have been mastering.

Checkout the TagMashup on Library Thing

Ew Ew Ew. Just saw a new feature for readers advisory that is very cool. It is called a tagmashup. The tags are put into an aquabrower window on the side of the website page. Just click on a tag and you get a list. You can get down to english detectives - and get a list of authors and titles. There are some lists by subjects like chick lit and the complete Star Wars titles are under a feature called series. Very useful. Keep tagging the hell out of the books you put in there.

Utubing and Wikis

I'm jumping around a bit in this post so bear with. I posted a response to my investigation of Utube and mentioned Mashups and Google mashups. From this information I developed my own Google map. The map idea actually came out of reading about Utube. I have uploaded two little films to the programming blob so take a look.

How can this type of informatin be used in the library. The libraries can be registered as business links on Google Maps with information about hours, etc. that would be a practical application of a Mashup for us.

I already posted comments about podcasts, etc in the library. I think the programming blog is becoming a practical application for sharing visual information about programs taking place in the branches.

I just completed the Wiki readings. I think the article on what can be done with Wikis in the library covers many ideas. An additional idea that I have is to suggest the input of staff in the long range plan process with a Wiki. Goals and objectives could be written on a Wiki web site with invitations for thoughtful recommendations for implementation. These could be used/or not while the committees consider their final recommendations for the upcoming plan.
The Wiki could then be maintained for purposes of following the implementation of the plan in future years.

Another idea for a Wiki in the branch is the programming plan. We start with general ideas and set programs. As the ideas are finalized and staff assigned, the wiki can be used as the basis for the plan with team input. These programming wikis could be shared by other programming teams at other branches.

Read the "Onion" Article

Take a look at the picture caption that goes with the Onion title "Sanitation Workers..."
I think you will enjoy the library-related caption.