So, podcasts. As entertainment, I have been harvesting podcasts since second/third year (whenever the 'Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy' podcast started) I listen to them mainly at night, as an alternative to reading a book or something, and these days am subscribed to a couple (Jonathan Ross, Rhod Gilbert and Front Row.)
I subscribe using itunes, for simplicities sake as much as anything else, but one definite upside of this is that I can keep them for as long as I want (I have about 2 years woirth of News Quiz's and the last six months of Russell Brand's old show) . I am not sure if this is possible with googlereader, and as it's so easy to use itunes I probably won't find out.
As you can see, I like my podcasts for entertainment: I approve of the idea of using them educationall in a library setting, and think it can be a great learning tool
Friday 26 February 2010
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Things 9 and 10
No you're not going crazy - I am doing 9&10 without doing 7&8. That's because I've not used picnik before and I want a chance to play around properly with it, and I haven't yet had time.
Delicious, however, is another one of those things I've been using for years. Though for the purposes of this exercise I started a new account which I will keep work related.
http://delicious.com/susanfgiles
As that has five bookmarks, and will probably only get a new once a month, I will now continue to talk about my old, personal account, which I have been using for years. On that one I have 400+ bookmarks, 176 tags and 16 bundles.
I feel now would be a good time to point out that I love delicious (though I use it for the 'bookmarking' aspect and not the 'social').
I saved my first bookmark back 2006 apparently, and I've used it constantly since then to keep track on lj links, writing magazines/comps etc etc. I like it because the tagging feature makes it really easy to keep track of the many links I have on similar subjects. These aren't links I use on a truly regular basis, maybe once a month or so - my most frequented bookmarks I stick in my browser bookmarks, usually in the toolbar and now on my iGoogle page.
I saw that Jess was not a huge fan of delicious. Having nosed around her links, I think the reason
for our differing opinions it the way we use it. I've built a structure of tag bundles (see right) with the tags indicating, for example, what format a writing magazine comes in, whether it allows unsolicited submissions, runs competitions etc etc. This means if I have a piece of writing I want to submit, I can easily track down the list of possible places and then see what the best option is. Or, alternately if I want to read/purchase something I can find it.
As a repository for bookmarks, Delicious really works for me. As a social networking tool, time will tell I suppose, but I doubt it is something I will ever use. I have enough of virtual socialising in my life.
Delicious, however, is another one of those things I've been using for years. Though for the purposes of this exercise I started a new account which I will keep work related.
http://delicious.com/susanfgiles
As that has five bookmarks, and will probably only get a new once a month, I will now continue to talk about my old, personal account, which I have been using for years. On that one I have 400+ bookmarks, 176 tags and 16 bundles.
I feel now would be a good time to point out that I love delicious (though I use it for the 'bookmarking' aspect and not the 'social').
I saved my first bookmark back 2006 apparently, and I've used it constantly since then to keep track on lj links, writing magazines/comps etc etc. I like it because the tagging feature makes it really easy to keep track of the many links I have on similar subjects. These aren't links I use on a truly regular basis, maybe once a month or so - my most frequented bookmarks I stick in my browser bookmarks, usually in the toolbar and now on my iGoogle page.
I saw that Jess was not a huge fan of delicious. Having nosed around her links, I think the reason
for our differing opinions it the way we use it. I've built a structure of tag bundles (see right) with the tags indicating, for example, what format a writing magazine comes in, whether it allows unsolicited submissions, runs competitions etc etc. This means if I have a piece of writing I want to submit, I can easily track down the list of possible places and then see what the best option is. Or, alternately if I want to read/purchase something I can find it.As a repository for bookmarks, Delicious really works for me. As a social networking tool, time will tell I suppose, but I doubt it is something I will ever use. I have enough of virtual socialising in my life.
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Library Day in the Life: DAY FOUR
I don't like Thursday's. For the rest of the world it's Mondays but I can't hate a day that brings with it both a lie-in and Hustle: two of my favourite things. Thursday however is my early, which is rubbish (it is also in that horrible no-place, close to the weekend but not close enough to get excited about.)
So, early. Not *that* early admittedly - 8.45 to help open up which is a relatively easy task in itself. It boils down to:
Usually I'll stamp the FT's and pop them out in the wait, and start the mail as well - which today was handy as Alice and I were both on the desk first thing and only had half hour between that and our reader services meeting.
We have reader services meetings every week during term, alternating days so that as many people as possible can make them. In the most part it's just refresher training or running over changes in policy.
Back on the desk for another half hour, then break, then shelving, then desk, then lunch. When I get back from lunch there's only half hour before I'm on the desk again (it's a desk heavy day) so after the post-lunch post I fill the lull with fiddling with my blog (as it's 23 Things related, I figure it's okay).
Time for an hour and a bit of quick repairs, and five minutes of clearing the bits of paper our desk has accumulated before home time, where I can look forward to silent witness: tonight a cracking episode but still not Hustle!
So, early. Not *that* early admittedly - 8.45 to help open up which is a relatively easy task in itself. It boils down to:
- switching on the issue desk computers/logging into OLIS, the staff blog, the library iGoogle
- switching on the reader pcs/logging into the system
- unlocking the discussion rooms
- emptying drop boxes using backdated system (to ensure no unfair fines are accrued)
- clearing the hold shelf of lapsed items (usually left to the senior staff)
- putting cash in the tills (ditto)
Usually I'll stamp the FT's and pop them out in the wait, and start the mail as well - which today was handy as Alice and I were both on the desk first thing and only had half hour between that and our reader services meeting.
We have reader services meetings every week during term, alternating days so that as many people as possible can make them. In the most part it's just refresher training or running over changes in policy.
Back on the desk for another half hour, then break, then shelving, then desk, then lunch. When I get back from lunch there's only half hour before I'm on the desk again (it's a desk heavy day) so after the post-lunch post I fill the lull with fiddling with my blog (as it's 23 Things related, I figure it's okay).
Time for an hour and a bit of quick repairs, and five minutes of clearing the bits of paper our desk has accumulated before home time, where I can look forward to silent witness: tonight a cracking episode but still not Hustle!
Friday 5 February 2010
Thing 5 (and 6)
RSS feeds are another thing I've been using for a while, though not always through googlereader: being lazy and technologically inept, I started with the closest (and easiest) thing to hand, which was the windows mail application I have on my laptop. This was fine when I was only accessing the internet from that computer, but when I started working and thus wanting to access my feeds in new (and not-so exciting places, it became completely redundant.
And, again being lazy and inept, I stuck with the google account I already had and used reader. I'll admit I was hardly reading any blogs: our trainee one, and then a couple of writer ones (fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, who is very interesting (and funny) and often has unusual insights into the publishing world, Sarah Salway who is a favourite writer of mine and posts alot of what she calls 'snaps' - microfictions of 50 words or less.)
As well as 23 Things though, I have now increased that list, mainly adding other trainee's blogs, couple of SSL staff members who are doing 23 things and updating regularly, that kind of thing.
And, again being lazy and inept, I stuck with the google account I already had and used reader. I'll admit I was hardly reading any blogs: our trainee one, and then a couple of writer ones (fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, who is very interesting (and funny) and often has unusual insights into the publishing world, Sarah Salway who is a favourite writer of mine and posts alot of what she calls 'snaps' - microfictions of 50 words or less.)
As well as 23 Things though, I have now increased that list, mainly adding other trainee's blogs, couple of SSL staff members who are doing 23 things and updating regularly, that kind of thing.
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