Week 7 -iGoogle

Hey, I had lots of fun with this one. Added weather, clock, buddhist thought of the day (comes in handy!) and book of the day.

Week 6 - Google Tools

Google Books

I've used Google Books off and on but I see it has a new look - more visuals. I've found it useful at different times, even for reference queries, although it's frustrating when the page you really want isn't available. It does feel like Google is taking over the world!!

Google Maps

Another one that I have used on the odd occasion. Can you print out the maps??
It's a fun tool.

I pick up my new kitten tomorrow! I wasn't planning on this but my sister and I were out to lunch on my birthday and walked home via the Vets where there were kittens on sale and we went, just to have a peek mind you. My sister, who is not a cat person at all fell in love with this Tabby boy who is also part Siamese. He is rather gorgeous. I just hope my cat at home agrees!

Week 5 - Facebook and MySpace

Not sure if I'm repeating myself here and I did a new post but then I got a smart and now I can't find it, so here we go again.

I do have a Facebook page as a fellow librarian invited me as a "friend". I haven't used it as I don't feel comfortable with it, particularly with private stuff up there, although I know you can limit it to "friends". I can see some good uses for libraries - raising your profile, communicating etc. A s for MySpace, I have always seen it as a teenagers thing - not for us oldies, as my son spends most of his time on it. Once again, though, I can see some potential library use.

Week 4 - RSS feeds

I used Google reader to set up my feeds. Although I've heard alot about "feeds" this is the first time I have actually set some up. Very useful.

Librarything

Thanks to Leslie, I now have my librarything widget on my blog. (some sort of problem with my brower). I just have two books, each describing the dark side of Sicily and Naples. These were recommended to me just the other day by a very old school friend who now lives on the island of Stromboli. I hope I get around to reading them some day. I checked but my local library (Yarra Plenty) don't have them. Maybe they could get them in????