Thing 16

Book Lovers Wiki--I highly recommend this component of the Princeton Public Library's site.

http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/Princeton%20Public%20Library

For those of us who lead book discussions within the library and who advise outside book groups, I would suggest a look.
Among the features were: a list of monthly book discussion group, including choices of titles, and an index to reader's reviews posted by customers.

Since I chaired the Adult Summer Reading Game 2007 for Howard County Library, I particularly liked the description of Princeton's adult summer reading promotion in 2007, including a listing of prizes from merchants and the reviews from summer customers posted under the heading of "Library Lounge Blog."

Because all of the above information was so useful to me, I can say that this assignment for Thing 16 has been my favorite so far.

Thing 15

I read some of the perspectives on Library 2.0, finding some points of agreement with the thoughts of Michael Stephens in "Into a new world of librarianship."

He mentions the concepts of "technolust" and "techno-worship" in the context of cautioning against a blanket endorsement of gadgetry for its own sake. May I add my own concept of "knee-jerk" endorsements of technology--i.e embracing the newest model because it must be the best if it is the newest?

Several authors have alluded to the concept of the library world as now being in a state of perpetual beta testing.
This is another sentiment I might echo, with the questions for discussion: 1.) Does the beta test fit the needs of the end-users and 2.) How much testing is enough?

Thing 14

I did look at Technorati and tried doing a keyword search on "Learning 2.0"

There were different results. 25,917 hits came up in the "blog posts" search. I got 679 hits in the "blogs" mode.

Was there anything surprising about this site? Probably, just the very personal nature of some posts to blogs--the bearing of the soul that some people engage in.
But then again, blogs are personal by definition, aren't they?

Thing 12

Explored Rollyo to create a search roll which I called "Travel Guide"
Here's the link:
http://rollyo.com/cergy/travel_guide/

Thing 11

To accomplish this task, I created my own "library" in Library Thing.
View it at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cergy-pontoise

Thing 10

I tried Generator Blog and found the site http://www.languageisavirus.com/textcollage/linguasso.php

This has some collages created with words in varying shades and sizes of text.
Liked the name "linguasso" as combining the expressions "lingual" and Picasso...

The link above is the text collage for the word "peaceful."

Things 8 and 9

I have created an account in Bloglines. . .will be using my feeds both on the job and for personal interests.

By using Feedster.com, then typing "Francophile" in the search box, I came upon a site of interest to fellow history buffs
http://www.w3r-commons.org/forum/


The site is called the Washington-Rochambeau Daily News, and it deals with the Yorktown Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. There are efforts to make the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route,(W3R) where French and American forces co-operated in defeating Cornwallis, a National Historic Trail, beginning in Newport, RI and ending in Yorktown, VA.

The site also seeks to emphasize 225 years of co-operation between France and this country--a worthy goal in my opinion.