Library Rap

Friday, February 15, 2008


ImageChef.com Flower Text

Thing 5 & 6?-My creation

This could definitely be addictive...I've now made a trading card and 2 mosiacs, and used some of the editing tools. There is so much to play with, but I really want to learn more, so I believe I'm on to Thing 6. Hmmm...Thing 5 & 6 seem to overlap. I went to do Thing 6 and I had already played around with many of the things there.

You could create a very patron friendly, teen-cool blog for your library with some of these tools. Since teens, kids and young adults are so into techno stuff, they would be very drawn to a site that had this many fun, eyecatching attractions. I can't wait to create a branch library blog with this info...

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Thing 4

Well, I enjoyed learning more about Flickr. I think I will use it frequently, both professionally and personally. I'm not sure about picnik as a stand alone service. I had a difficult time finding my photos for some reason...I didn't from Flickr. It will take more play time...oh I've played some more and am having way too much fun!

And the winner is...



Just couldn't resist adding my baby to the page, too. This is my darling daughter after she won the crazy dance contest during Mr. Twister's performance. Her prize was the crown he created right before our eyes...

Mr. Twister holding the audience captive!


Mr. Twister holding the audience captive!
Originally uploaded by #1crazylibrarylady

What fun options there are to create on Flickr! I see many opportunities to use this both on a library blog with pictures of activities and events and personally to share photos with family. I've used walgreen's to share photos and had family members not like the commercial aspect of doing that, so this will be great. And it was very easy to upload to my blog. Question...is it acceptable to use a photo like this when it is the backs of heads, or will I run into issues with parents? I blurred the kids and put them in black and white to de-emphasize them.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Thing 3

Well, I've set up an aggregator and added some feeds. Not much action on the library feeds so far. It really was a bit of a time consuming process. As I come across more feeds that I actually want to track it will probably be useful. For now the main thing I'll be following is blogs for the 23 things. The process did cause me to add some other links to my blog that did not have RSS capability.

On to Thing 4...

Thing 8-Zoo to You slideshow

Teeny Fish Tank

23 Tunes from 23 Things on a Stick ning

My Library Thing