Nervous Little Elf

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What's up Docs?

Online Productivity.
Oxymoron!
Wait , what did you call me?
No, seriously.

I have never really equated online + productivity before until I started to use Google Docs (GD). I am able to read work documents from my home computer using GD.
You see, I am one of the folks that doesn't have MS Office on their home computer, so I am pretty much forced to read all documents through GD. On those rare occasions when I have to do work at home I can fire up Google and start working. We have staff members who use GD to share read alikes for their specific subject areas and it is a big help to the rest of the staff. We appreciate their willingness to share the docs and make the rest of us look like we know what we are doing.

But then again I am the Reference Curmudgeon™ .

Is Amazon Taking Over the Book Business?

Is Amazon Taking Over the Book Business?

Interesting article on Amazon and book publishing.

Tag...you're it!

Tags.

I tried to get on board with delicious.com when i was first introduced to it a year or two ago, I really did. I added tags to our reference desk account. I checked them daily to see what tags other folks added, but I kind of lost interest. For me it was easier to bookmark the site or just remember where I need to go to find the specific resource.

I also had a tough time remembering what the specific tag was for the subject that I was using it for. My moods and thought processes change from one day to the next. Tagging items for a group project might be a good thing if the group decides what tag names they will use ahead of time.

But then again I am the Reference Curmudgeon™ .

Social N.

I have been on Facebook for about a year. I have found a bunch of folks that I went to High School with back in the 80's. i have also connected with a few CHPL'ers out there. You know who you are! (Shout out!)

At first I was kind of lukewarm about FB. Then I was on it all the time. Now I am kinda lukewarm again. I don't do updates as to what I am currently doing.

I am still not sold on how it could be beneficial to the library world or to the business world. Most of the stuff i have seen on FB is short lived excitement .

But then again I am the Reference Curmudgeon™ .

Krispy Kremes blamed for clogging N.Va. drains

Krispy Kremes blamed for clogging N.Va. drains | Richmond Times-Dispatch
(insert joke here)

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Jeux Sans Frontières

Gaming in the library...

Hmm. I guess i am old skool when it comes to games. If it can't be played on the dining room table, I don't wanna play. Monopoly, Scrabble, Life, Clue... you name it it's gotta be played on a board, at a table in a house with folks you can see ... and talk to.

The Internet changes everything, however. Some libraries in the system don't have the resources to allow 'Gaming Night' @ their library. What can we do? grin and bear it. Tell the student waiting to type their term paper to wait until the kid is done living in their Second Life

Computer games should be played on gaming platforms like PlayStation or Wii. Not at the library.

But then again I am the Reference Curmudgeon™ .