Thing 13: Tagging

Tagging

I think tagging is terrific for personal collections of photos, documents, and posts. However when there is no control over what terms are used people are left unable to find many of the items thay might desire due to differences in terminology. What I might term as cooking or cookbooks is referred to in my library catalog as cookery. This I consider to be a poor design choice on the behalf of the catalog creators, they should have choosen a term that is more current with today's vernacular not that of the early 19th century.
The question posed was does tagging belong in the library? My current answer would be no to any physical collection the library possesses. However digital collections, such as photos of library events should be tagged for users to be able to easily identify the event they were involved in.

Thing 12

So I'm killing two birds with one stone with Twitter. One of my summer classes is encouraging us to explore Twitter so that is what I am doing today. I do't really care what everybody out there is doing at this exact moment and b/c I know so many people I would feel totally overwhelmed if I intended to use this service. At least with Facebook after I get tired of certain people I can just hide their post, which can also probably be done on Twitter as well.

Last time I heard about Twitter was this morning at work somebody was joking about Tweeting something even though they don't Twitter.

I really doubt I will use this service, but it interesting to observe the ever evolving methods of communication.

Thing 11: Instant Messaging

In the past I've used IM and found it very capable. When my brother went to college in TN we used IM some to chat with him, since he was constantly on the computer. I use the chat feature in FB now to chat with my friends and family when their online at the same time as me.
I would like to have an IM network set up at work to let people know when I need help at the circ desk instead of having to track down someone before I leave the desk or if I'm so busy and can't stop what I'm doing to get backup. I would be able to ask for backup with the click of a few keys and that would be the end of it. That is if they show up. Since I work in consortium this would also be a handy tool for asking questions to other branches and getting a quick response without me calling them and waiting for answer. IM is a great tool and would definitely use more if my computer time was more for fun instead of work and school.

Thing 10: Ning

I like the design of Ning it has a very newsprint feel to it. This site may come in handy as I further my library career. However since I have so many contacts on FB, I think I'll just stick to one social network.
I checked out the National Association of Female Professionals, since I consider myself on the way to becoming one. Not only does this association have a group for all professionals it also has sub groups like Women in Federal Government and Women in Education to name a couple.

I also checked There-U-Go World Travel Experience which has really cool music to it. Someone had travelled to Andorra and posted pics of it, While the pics were not of professional quality they were still wonderful to view. Andorra is on my wish list of European places to visit.

I also saw that Ning was being used like our blogpress to host several library's 2.0 learning programs like ours.

So what Ning did customers really isn't cool, it is a business and it must make revenue to keep running. I really liked that there not many adds on the sites that I looked, so paying for the platform not to have adds makes sense to me.

More FB

I don't really like joining groups, this is true in real life also. So I've been procrastinating on this Thing. Also it takes forever to search through the groups because there is no search option available or if there is I could not find it.

Here are the Groups I've joined:

Smith Mountain Lake Events - to keep up with the things going on in my hometown.

Runner's World - to get tips on how to prevent shin splints that keep me from running daily and gain other info about running.

A while ago I joined the Roanoke Valley Library Association group.

I really do like FB however the group section is not one I will use often.