Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Posting an entry
Nothing of interest to say here ... just trying to work out a few chinks with a test posting.
42!
42!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Farewell, Twenty-Three ...
As my unofficial farewell to 23 Things, I offer my all-time favorite comedy routine: Eddie Izzard on Technology. It's a continuation of the video posted on the 23 Things blog, although this video features Eddie himself instead of the great little Lego cartoon. This video also features the full routine, which is wonderful, because once he gets into printing at five in the morning, it goes from delightful to awesome. I love it!
There's also something so sweet about his closing remark, I nearly tear up. Enjoy! :)
(WARNING: There is a bit of language; be warned!)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
"Week Nine" -- Two posts in one day!
I have a thing for lighthouses, so choosing which flickr photo to go with wasn't that hard. This is a gorgeous shot (and why can't my photos ever come out this well?). (Alright, granted, occasionally they do, but it is usually when I wasn't actually particularly trying.)I didn't bother to set up a flickr account of myown -- I'll wait till I actually get some photos off of my digital camera to do that -- but I can definitely see the appeal, particularly if you're something of an amateur photographer and want to make it easier to pass along your best shots to family and friends.
(It would also be another way to put up photos of library programs and events for our webpage, come to think of it ...)
Anyway. As for my video -- YouTube being something I've spent quite a bit of time on -- my love of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (the first few seasons, anyway) and my, er, not-love of "Twilight" made my choice of video pretty easy (and quite a bit of fun):
Enjoy!
"Week Five" -- In which I actually compose a second blog post
So it's actually been many weeks since Week Five, but I'm the Teen Services Librarian in the middle of Teen Summer Reading and, when it's Teen Summer Reading, and the choice comes down to drafting Twilight questions for your trivia challenge program or getting anything else done, TSR always wins out. Such is the life of the Teen Librarian.
But it's a Saturday morning on the Reference Desk on a semi-quiet morning (this won't last the day, mind; I'll come back from lunch and it'll be as if a non-stop revolving door was installed at the front of the library while I was out, and patron after patron after patron will be in, one after the other, keeping me pleasantly hopping until closing) -- for now, though, I've got a bit of a chance to play catch-up.
Which is how I found myself jumping onto the eiNetwork catalog this morning to try my hand at downloading an eBook. I wish I could say it was complicated (not because I'm wishing undue complication on myself, but simply because it would make for a longer blog entry after all my neglecting of said blog), but it wasn't. I did an advanced search in the catalog for a favorite author of mine with the Material Type set to "Ebook," and after a few clicks I was staring at the cover of a downloaded copy of Lisa Scottoline's "Daddy's Girl." (Yes, I've got a thing for legal thrillers. No, I don't understand how that fits in with the sci-fi and fantasy love, either. Go figure. Does the catchphrase "Denny Crane!" mean anything to anybody out there? No? Well, we all have our quirks, I suppose.)
I fiddled a bit with the digital reader, jumping to different pages and playing with the layout, before I decided to try another type just for the heck of it and did a search for any eAudio Scottoline in the catalog, hoping to find an audiobook for my new iPod. Unfortunately, the one I wanted, "Courting Trouble," is not in the virtual library's collection, but it was still interesting to try the search just the same.
I don't think I'll be bothering much with ebooks for my own use (I spend enough time staring at the computer monitor as it is at work), although it might come in handy with patrons someday. Lack of Scottoline aside, however, I will most certainly be trying out the eAudio books for my own use. I'm sure there's some other legal thrillers out there waiting for me.
"... Denny Crane."
But it's a Saturday morning on the Reference Desk on a semi-quiet morning (this won't last the day, mind; I'll come back from lunch and it'll be as if a non-stop revolving door was installed at the front of the library while I was out, and patron after patron after patron will be in, one after the other, keeping me pleasantly hopping until closing) -- for now, though, I've got a bit of a chance to play catch-up.
Which is how I found myself jumping onto the eiNetwork catalog this morning to try my hand at downloading an eBook. I wish I could say it was complicated (not because I'm wishing undue complication on myself, but simply because it would make for a longer blog entry after all my neglecting of said blog), but it wasn't. I did an advanced search in the catalog for a favorite author of mine with the Material Type set to "Ebook," and after a few clicks I was staring at the cover of a downloaded copy of Lisa Scottoline's "Daddy's Girl." (Yes, I've got a thing for legal thrillers. No, I don't understand how that fits in with the sci-fi and fantasy love, either. Go figure. Does the catchphrase "Denny Crane!" mean anything to anybody out there? No? Well, we all have our quirks, I suppose.)
I fiddled a bit with the digital reader, jumping to different pages and playing with the layout, before I decided to try another type just for the heck of it and did a search for any eAudio Scottoline in the catalog, hoping to find an audiobook for my new iPod. Unfortunately, the one I wanted, "Courting Trouble," is not in the virtual library's collection, but it was still interesting to try the search just the same.
I don't think I'll be bothering much with ebooks for my own use (I spend enough time staring at the computer monitor as it is at work), although it might come in handy with patrons someday. Lack of Scottoline aside, however, I will most certainly be trying out the eAudio books for my own use. I'm sure there's some other legal thrillers out there waiting for me.
"... Denny Crane."
Monday, May 11, 2009
Ms. B's enthralling first blog post
I suppose using Facebook has left me with the urge to write about myself in the third person, hence the blog post title up there. The thing about writing about yourself in third person, though, is that it's really only fun to the writer and really very irritating to the reader -- so I'll try to limit myself to third person subject headings only.
Anyways.
So. First post. First post on my new blog. Not my first blog, actually, as I took over the MPL Teen Summer Reading Book Review blog when I became Teen Librarian here, but that's definitely more of a group effort, after all. (You can check out all the teen reviews from the last several years here.) And speaking of groups -- since I'm sure some of my teens will eventually find this, linked as it is through my username to the summer reading blog, I will add here how awesome and wonderful all my teens are, and how each and every one of them are my favorite, the ones who may actually be reading this even moreso.
On a slightly more serious note -- all my regulars really are a lot of fun, and make my job worthwhile. Fantastic group of teens that come into this library; we're lucky. :)
As for 23 Things, I've found it interesting so far (the How-Do-You-Learn quiz really fascinated me, for some reason, possibly because I have such myriad and mostly-fond memories of my college days). We all (and by "we all" I don't mean "we the people taking this course," really; I think I mean "we Americans") need to spend more time learning how to adapt and benefit from change, instead of always going into it kicking and screaming, and since that seems to be a big aim of this course, I'm all for it. And I don't feel bad about making these sweeping generalizations and judgment calls about everyone else, because it's a sweeping generalization and judgment call that definitely applies to me, too.
Although the irony is that, deep down (DEEP deep down), I think we really do like change. Or need it, anyways, which eventually works out to be the same thing if we're trying hard enough. I had a professor who used to say, "We want things to stay the same, but we really really don't."
It's true, so, all things said, I'm looking forward to the rest of this course. Allons-y, then!
Anyways.
So. First post. First post on my new blog. Not my first blog, actually, as I took over the MPL Teen Summer Reading Book Review blog when I became Teen Librarian here, but that's definitely more of a group effort, after all. (You can check out all the teen reviews from the last several years here.) And speaking of groups -- since I'm sure some of my teens will eventually find this, linked as it is through my username to the summer reading blog, I will add here how awesome and wonderful all my teens are, and how each and every one of them are my favorite, the ones who may actually be reading this even moreso.
On a slightly more serious note -- all my regulars really are a lot of fun, and make my job worthwhile. Fantastic group of teens that come into this library; we're lucky. :)
As for 23 Things, I've found it interesting so far (the How-Do-You-Learn quiz really fascinated me, for some reason, possibly because I have such myriad and mostly-fond memories of my college days). We all (and by "we all" I don't mean "we the people taking this course," really; I think I mean "we Americans") need to spend more time learning how to adapt and benefit from change, instead of always going into it kicking and screaming, and since that seems to be a big aim of this course, I'm all for it. And I don't feel bad about making these sweeping generalizations and judgment calls about everyone else, because it's a sweeping generalization and judgment call that definitely applies to me, too.
Although the irony is that, deep down (DEEP deep down), I think we really do like change. Or need it, anyways, which eventually works out to be the same thing if we're trying hard enough. I had a professor who used to say, "We want things to stay the same, but we really really don't."
It's true, so, all things said, I'm looking forward to the rest of this course. Allons-y, then!
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