Thing # 10

Thanks to cooltext.com I now am the proud owner of a title logo for my blog. I'll try to think of other places I might use it although nothing comes to mind.

Thing # 9

Week 4 continued. There was a tomorrow; it just didn't arrive as soon as I expected. Life and other work intervened. However, I have had a fun 45 minutes exploring The Shifted Librarian. The first item I looked at was apropos of recent discussion at our service level meetings on filtering or limiting access for children to the MySpace site. Senator Matt Murphy of Illinois has put together a bill which would ban his selected top 10 sites from libraries. As it turns out Bloglines, where he has his own blog and from which he conducted an open forum, is on his top 10 list. From there I looked at "Things I've Learned from ALA 2.0 Lately". The Nick Baker videos are priceless, especially the "March of the Librarians". There was also a video created by some high school students, called Library Ninja, Defender of Books, showing how books may often be quicker in answering a (ready reference) question than going on the Internet.
I could go on, but I will spare anyone who looks at this. Other useful sites I visited were ALA Professional Tips Wiki, About Literature:Contemporary, and the NYT Book Review (which I already receive directly into my email).