Facebook Actualized

I feel this way about Facebook a lot of the time. It's a love/hate relationship.

Link via Library Garden.

Week 9: #22 The Joys of Downloadable Media

Since I am intimately familiar with the HCPL Digital Media Catalog, I decided to look at LibriVox. I though the selection of free recorded books was excellent considering that all of them had to be recorded by someone. While they aren't up to the quality of a professionally recorded book, they aren't bad. I took a brief listen to two different titles, one of which was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - one of my favorite books. My two issues with this site are that there were multiple different readers for the book and that each chapter begins with a notation of what the recording is. I'm glad this resource is out there, but I think I will stick to the Digital Media Catalog for my recordings. Right now I'm listening to A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton and have been listening to Tamora Pierce's Tortall books - which I adore.

Week 9: #20 I Tube, YouTube, We All Tube

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How silly is it, that I LOVE the above commercial. I can sit and watch it again and again. I suppose it's because I have a part dachshund named Scrappy, whom I adore. That's the thing about YouTube and other video services, we can get to video of our favorite TV shows, old commercials, and just about anything you can imagine. I think we have used video very effectively during iHCPL, thanks to Beth's amazing skill. Each week we've had a relevant video to introduce that week's topic - all thanks to YouTube. We've already started embedding video on the HCPL website. Video is going to become more and more integrated into the web and we need to be along for the ride.

March of the Librarians Video

Came across this on Stephen's Lighthouse. I don't even want to think about Librarians mating at ALA Midwinter.