Jul 27th, 2010
by pollyalida.
This week is Round 5 of Bobbi Newman’s great project “Library Day in the Life” week. Or day. Whichever! Are you participating? As of today 140 library folks around the world are sharing what their library work days are like. What a great way to find out about other parts of our profession.
A Day in the Life of a Library… Whether you are a librarian or library worker of any kind, help us share and learn about the joys and challenges of working in a library. Join us by sharing details of your day for a week on your blog..Not only is this a great way for us to see what our colleagues are doing and how they spend their days but it’s a great way for students who are interested in the library profession to see what we really do.
As an independent consultant who works from home, my days are probably a bit different than most library staff. Or maybe they aren’t? You decide.
Since I know I’m not likely to blog about my days, I’m using a nifty tool called QuoteURL to capture my tweets about #libday5 and display them here.
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pollyalida RT @sphericalfruit: Non-librarian followers: what’s #libday5? It’s a web-wide initiative for librarians to report their work. Ever wonde … 26 Jul 2010 from web
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pollyalida Today’s the first day of Library Day in the Life / Round 5, July 26th, 2010 http://ow.ly/2gR5X R U participating? #libday5 26 Jul 2010 from HootSuite
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pollyalida http://yfrog.com/17hvgwj 1 goal 4 this week- clean up my office! Been a very busy few months & it’s out of control. #libday5 26 Jul 2010 from Seesmic for Android
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pollyalida Spent much of the afternoon looking for YA book trailers 4 summer reading site: http://ow.ly/2gRDm #libday5 26 Jul 2010 from HootSuite
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pollyalida Caught up on some reading of articles tweeted by colleagues. #libday5 26 Jul 2010 from web
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Posted in: Libraries, Life, Work.
Jun 19th, 2010
by pollyalida.
It’s here! WordPress 3.0 arrived on Thursday. And so far it seems that upgrades have been going fairly smoothly. This site is now running 3.0 and seems to be running ok so far. Upgrading the theme I’m using overwrote my photos for the headers, but it’s time for me to find some new images anyways.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be upgrading the WP server I use for classes and updating my class to cover the new features.
Posted in: wordpress.
Jun 13th, 2010
by pollyalida.
I haven’t looked at Aviary in a while. Wow, what I’ve been missing!
Aviary is a free suite of tools for creating and editing images and sound. The image editing tool includes advanced features like layers and masks. There’s a color editing tool, a vector drawing tool and more.
And they’ve just added a Music Creation (Roc) tool. Even the most unmusical among us (me!) can create some great little bits of music. Save your creations and use the Myna Audio editor to create a complete song, the track editing, mixing and special effects are amazing in Myna.
I wish I had a free week to spend playing with all these features. If you make some beautiful music, please share!
Posted in: Audio, online tools.
May 16th, 2010
by pollyalida.
Think you don’t have time to be that person in your library or school who sees new trends and opportunities ahead? Think again! And take a few minutes to read this great strategy from Elisabeth Doucett in American Libraries: 10 Tips for Tracking Trends
- Step 1: Identify potential sources of information for societal and library trend tracking.
- Step 2: Develop a method for regularly reviewing those resources.
- Step 3: Search social networking sites.
- Step 4: Review each idea that you pulled out of your research, considering potential implications for your library.
- Step 5: Leave your idea list in a file until you start the same process the next week.
- Step 6: When you identify the ideas that you want to pursue for your library, get together with some of your fellow librarians to help you review the ideas and find the good and bad about them.
Read her article for more!
Posted in: trends.
May 12th, 2010
by pollyalida.
Jan Tunison, who is the Head of Library Services at the Scotia-Glenville (NY) High School forwarded this wonderful summer reading poster that she created with Glogster. Additionally, she’s in the process of creating ones for chapter books and nonfiction.
I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished project with all the linked posters!
Posted in: School Libraries, Summer reading.
Tagged: glogster · Summer reading
May 10th, 2010
by pollyalida.
ImageCodr - A handy tool that simplifies finding, using and crediting flickr photos for reuse on web pages. It creates a block of code that displays the photo, the photographer’s flickr name, links back to the flickr photo page and notes the licensing on the photo – all in one handy chunk of code that’s ready to copy & paste to the spot where you want the photo to appear. (via: Download Squad)
How to:
- Drop the bookmarklet on your browser toolbar
- Use the search page to locate photos in flickr or search flickr directly.
- Click on the bookmarklet.
- Choose what size photo you want to use
- Copy the code for use on your web/blog/wiki pages.
And voila!
Posted in: Blogs, Photos.
pollyalida RT @sphericalfruit: Non-librarian followers: what’s #libday5? It’s a web-wide initiative for librarians to report their work. Ever wonde …
