Library Thing

More playing.....

Is that me? DoppelME

Hooray for Play Week

This is from a ribbon generator website. I couldn't work out how to add the ribbon I created straight to my blog...(I'm sure there's some easy way), so I saved it as a picture and added it as an image.

I RSS fed myself

After being shown how to put RSS feed links onto my blog, I couldn't resist trying to do it myself , and I succeeded - YAY!! So now I have a very professional librarianish RSS feed to 'quotes of the day' and a very unprofessional gossippy RSS feed to people.com / celebrity goss!!!!

RSS - Really Silly Stuff

After weeks of looking at the RSS feeds information; reading and re-reading it and just being totally bamboozled by it all, I've finally swallowed my pride and asked for help!!! Thanks to Jess (a techno-whiz!) I now have an RSS feed and I think I'll be leaving it there and trying to catch up....I'm weeks behind!
I managed to create a bloglines account too. There's nothing in it yet - I'll get back to that at some stage!!

My techno-friends

Just realised I haven't finished week three's assignment ; a blog entry about anything technology related.

I don't usually like to admit that I've made friends on the internet. I worry that people will think I'm a desperado or something!!! But the amazing world of technology has led me to some of my most wonderful friends.

When I was a new mum, at home with a baby and a three year old, I 'googled' upon the Huggies website -complete with a forum full of other 'stay at home mums' from all over Australia and New Zealand. I joined the forum and began participating..(it was quite addictive!!). A group of about 20 of us decided to create our own msn group so we could chat and share photo's of our kids in a private forum.

Three and a half years later and our group is still going strong. The "Melbourne Mums" have become great friends and meet regularly. And in May 2006, we had a 'mega-meet' on the Gold Coast with attendees from Victoria, SA, NSW, QLD and New Zealand. Our story even made the nightly news and featured in New Idea and in Australia's Parents magazine. And a photo of our group heads the Huggies website (see above pic - I'm the one giving the royal wave!!)

Glitterfly - WOW!!

[Glitterfy.com - *Glitter Photos*]

Third party mashup stuff ???

My kidlets

I'm probably blowing my anonymity by posting photo's of my kids. Never mind - they are so damn gorgeous I just have to share!! Luke is four and Ellie is seven.

I've finally Flickr-d

Just had a quick look at Flickr. I don't know that I'm ever likely to upload my personal photo's onto such a site. I only want to share my photo's with my friends and family. And I'd simply email them, not put them on a photo-sharing site where zillions of people can look at them.

Having said that, I do enjoy looking at photo's and have always been a 'photo' person. So I had fun looking at some of the pics on Flickr, and I could easily waste hours browsing at all the fascinating shots on there.

I thought this photo was cute and very true. We should order a whole batch of these T-shirts for us to wear on the info desk!!
Librarians - the original search engine.

Librarians - The Original Search Engine

Knitting needles in the library workroom.......

It's absolutely amazing and mindboggling really to think how far technology has come in the seventeen years since I first began working in public libraries. My first day in a public library back in June 1990 (not that long ago really) was spent sorting coloured transaction cards back into numerical order using a knitting needle! I was not impressed.
When patrons borrowed back then, their library card (which had their name and address typed on the front) was placed under the big camera thingy (can't remember it's technical name). A coloured transaction card with a due date on it would be inserted in the back pocket of the book (which had the title, etc typed on it), beside the membership card...and a big button on the camera would be pressed to take a photo of what was being borrowed.
As items were returned, the transaction cards would be removed from the pockets. The purpose of sorting the cards back into order (with the knitting needle!!!) was to determine which cards in the sequence were missing and therefore overdue, hence needing an overdue notice. Every Monday, the microfiche would be examined and overdue notices typed on a typewriter. This would take one staff member the entire day, and often part of the next day!!!
Gee whiz, and this was only in the 90's; not that long ago really!

Hello to any of my old friends who are still out there in Library Land, nodding your heads and remembering those cursed, coloured transaction cards at that little library service (always a little behind the times back then!!) down by the sea!

Wow...look now! To think, back then we didn't even know what emailing was yet! Never mind googling, blogging, flickring, myspacing and all that other techno-stuff. How much further can it all go? What more can possibly be discovered? How did we live without it?

Well, that was easy!!

All that stressing and procrastinating for nothing! Phew!!!