Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Week 5 Music Files


The Music File sites are very interesting. It is apparent that you can get free downloads. All the sites appear to be user friendly. I know of another called I lounge too. You tube is also very user friendly when searching for music.
As for customers using unsupervised, I feel sure that most people are up to speed with searching although the odd more senior person may need a little help, however, we have not had such a request yet.
However, I believe what most people would be interested in is getting and paying for the more popular music eg the latest gaga who reminds me very much of the picture I have put in this week and that would mean paying. I would like to see libraries have some sort of way that we could access and pay and then charge the customer and maybe make a slight profit. Probably not possible as I am sure this has already been explored. Still technology is changing as we speak.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Week 4 - Good Reads


What a week - celebrating New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards - wearing pajamas and gum boots on Wednesday night - yee haw - running round the library to the Gumboot song!


Friday night and wanted to blog before the week is done - An interesting site which I can see will be useful to find good reading!! Sometimes I am stuck finding a new author and again this site will be useful.

I can see the possibilities of an extension of our bookclub, sharing information about books.

However, this will be in a world where we have the time to do this. Maybe................... um.

Really though, I think all these website are fantastic to know about, it adds another string to our bow!!

Tosca - if you read this at the weekend - hope you are enjoying a lovely coffee or a glass of the red stuff!!


Sunday, May 9, 2010

Week 2 Twittering or trying to whistle!

Found this one a bit confusing - instructions on what to do not clear. However I did mange to be put on as a Birdie! but haven't managed to get back to try to tweet again - run out of time today, yet again.

Will revisit this this week to make sure I know what I am doing.....................