GoogleDocs

At first this was somewhat confusing to me. I can see how I could use this personally and could see its advantages in the workplace. Since at CML we have many working groups and collaborations among staff regarding SRC, policies, procedures, and best practices among other things, I see this type of sharing of documents really is more efficient and practical.

Wiki

The use of wikis seems useful to individuals and libraries. I can see the connectiveness it fosters. With the use of the internet evolving rapidly we are breaking it down into manageable pieces that make sense to us and the work we do.

Wikis seem to have merit. I like the idea of the community involvement and the easy way to edit and improve the content. Making the library and its respective branches responsive to the needs of the individual communities is a definite advantage.

After reading several posts about Library 2.o I'm a little more informed about what it is about. The idea of not entirely new ideas but the compilation of those ideas in different forms is somewhat new. I agree with some posts that libraries tend to market to the younger customers but the 40+ generation and baby boomers are still very much a vibrant part of our society and shouldn't be forgotten. While the increasing minority population and poor regions of our country are still underserved in all matters, not just library interests, these demographic populations should get attention also.

I signed up for the delicious account but I really don't see the purpose of it. I'm not a person who needs to talk on the cell phone continually and tell others about the minutia of my day. I think the running social commentary of ordinary days is boring. If you have important news or ideas, sure go ahead and share them but to comment on the cup of coffee you're drinking is a waste of time. When this country is behind in the math and sciences and we are struggling to maintain an intelligent work force I think minds and the internet could be put to better use than using and microblog such as delicious.com. Just my opinion.

I went back to Library Thing and read the reviews of one of the books I recently read, Off Season by Siddons. I was interested in reading another of her books and a review mentioned one of her previous books which I think I'll try.

The library thing was probably the easiest of the 23 things I've tried so far. Most of the things take me longer to do than is planned. Since I'm just part-time I am behind but I hope to catch up in the remaining weeks.