LibraryThing #11

This was soooo easy -- just entered the isbns and up popped all the info. I was hoping for a simple widget that shows me what books I am missing by this author. If anyone out there reading this knows of one --please post a comment

Meez #10

Just got back from a depressing shopping trip - four hours and nothing to show for it. Meez is a great antidote - so much more fun to create a wardrobe for virtual me

Merlin and Library Related Blogs

For capturing my initial thoughts, read mahjchick, or just read her blog because it is fun and anything that brings a smile to your day is a Good Thing. I started reading blogs with the great ones, like Librarian Avengers and the Lipstick Librarian. The technical blogs don't interest me as much, perhaps a bit of "been there , done that, have the scar tissue".

Looked at Feedster, Topix, Syndic8, liked Technorati although not the name which has this elitist connotation not borne out by the very down to earth interfaces.

My prize for best blog for pure reading pleasure is Books to the Ceiling If you are fortunate enough to know Robert Rood, she writes exactly as she speaks, eloquent and scholarly. Her readers advisory and recommendations have led me to both re-read classics with an adult appreciation for a well told tale (very different than that of a student up against a deadline for a paper :) and to discover new small press authors whom hopefully will continue to write so that I may read.

Bloglines RSS Feed #8 and more technology grousing

My bloglines feed is set up and running, my requirement is fulfilled. Now I have bloglines, yahoo feeds, feeds on my toolbars -- none of them are consistent, fueling my technology insanity. Where is that feed from Mike and Jen's Xanga? What did I do with Kim's Children's Literature wiki?

At work I use three different computers on a regular basis, two of them shared so that nothing is configured to my personal satisfaction. At home I use two computers regularly (I am currently on my XP desktop) and the wireless laptop in the great room. Occasionally I use my husbands desktop as he has some softwares I don't, as well as the household files. Too many machines. Don't even get me started on the difference in the softwares between those machines.

For any out there that missed this great video "Medieval Helpdesk"

A Few Thoughts about Technology 7

Libraries, we are the alpha and omega in technology, aren't we?
We have the first rock that someone wrote on,lovingly archived in the most space-age hermetically sealed advanced chamber produced:)
We are high-tech wi-fi earbudded Vocera wearing digitally correct folks who morph into flannel board producing , cassette playing, off-key singing (OK that's just me) high touch analog storytellers at the ring of a bell.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Librarian Trading Cards

Giles in the motorcycle jacket, you gotta admit, that was a hot librarian. So many great things about that show, the snarky dialogue, the quirky plot twists, and enough teen angst to fuel an entire YA Collection. Catch the reference to the Central Library?

A Drowned Maidens Hair ,

A brief digression from the process while I rave about this wonderful book by Laura Amy Schlitz. Chapter One "On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Grabbed my attention.

A very historically authentic story about an orphan girl adopted by spinster sisters who run a business as spiritualists, a very popular enterprise in the late 1800's. Maud Mary Flynn is eleven, passing for nine, when the sisters train her to become a key player in their deception of grief-stricken clientele. As a tween, I thrilled to the Mary Stewarts, Victoria Holts (precocious child) and this book has that same wonderful Gothic atmosphere without all the adult complications which I would skip over as uninteresting.

Laura Amy Schlitz is a local author, and the lower school librarian at the Park School in Baltimore. And now back to "Mashups"

Exploring Flicker Discovery 5

Daydreaming about my upcoming vacation -- Positano, some Rome - but the majority of the time in Positano. It is great to find really current photographs , or at least recently uploaded as this was taken last year.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanoastarita/
For truly current shots, I love the webcam at La Sireneuse
http://www.campaniameteo.it/webcampositano.asp

Let's see, bad knees, doesn't like heights, can't swim --- what was I thinking!!! On the other hand, beautiful scenery, great wine and food, and no one swims in the ocean anyway -- it is going to be great.

23 Things - 7 1/2 Habits of LifeLong Learners

The easiest and hardest of the habits is the same one - Having confidence in yourself as a competent effective learner. Recently graduating from graduate school, I feel confident in my ability to learn. There is a certain familiarity with technology. On the other hand, digital cameras frighten me and they seem to take pictures of feet where ever I point them! The confidence always seems to come after the learning, not before and during when I could really use it. Ever onward.

Read Watched Pondered

Will comment later -- must run

Read
The Accidental Florist by JillChurchill
A Family Concern by Anthea Fraser
Double Take by Catherin Coulter
The Bad Quarto by Jill Paton Walsh
A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris

Watched
Stranglers Wood
Death in Disguise
The Killings at Badgers Drift