Lighthouse Lark

The End in Verse

2007-09-13T09:41:00.000-07:00

In an ALA library in a quaint college town
A middle age worker sat with a frown

Then early one summer, with out a first clue
She was given 23 news things to do

Before she could close out of Alice catalog
She registered, and was starting her blog

A few mashups later and a flickr account
Her knowledge was growing and starting to mount

She was chugging along, going full speed
Before you know it she had RSS Feed

A magazine cover from an image generator
What’s next on the list… I‘ll do it later

Rollyo’s up, and she’s falling behind
She just doesn’t get it, she’s losing her mind

She's 3 weeks back, much to her frustration
That's what she gets for taking vacation

Tagging, Technorati, This is Del.icio.us?
She can’t catch up, & Jo Brown is just vicious

Wikis are wacky, then Online Productivity
Web 2.0 sucked up all her creativity

You Tube videos, her first podcast
The ending is near, but will she last

Social networking is last on the list
She wants that ipod, tight in her fist

As a wrap up of Library 2.0
She has to admit, it has helped her grow

She's DONE! Hallelujah! & Amen!
Moderators ask would she do it again

Sure, Let me check with the devil below
Forecast only calls for 10 feet of snow

This is it; we’re all out of time
If only she could stop this penchant for rhyme

Finis, the end of all this abuse
Done with the ramblings of one Lulabelle Seuss

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Week # 10

2007-09-12T17:44:00.000-07:00

I have been avoiding using the task numbers in my blog. I think it is getting me in trouble. Task # 22. I joined Facebook but of course I only have 2 friends on there it could be no one can find me because I have been using the alias of Lulabelle for every task we have done through out so I blithely signed up in Facebook under the same name giving all kinds of false information. OOPS, maybe not the smartest move. I gave my birth year as 1912, I might have trouble making social connections with people who think I am 95.

Week # 9

2007-09-07T10:52:00.000-07:00

This week is all about You Tube. My first experience with this medium was when Chad posted our farewell to the Dean. I have keyword searched squirrels, funny, music. I found the Marching 110. ENJOY!

At first Podcasts seemed anticlimactic, I had only heard audio podcasts. But as I find out more about them and how you can subscribe... Will podcasts one day take the place of classes in college? Will people go to Podiversity one day with out leaving home?

Week # 8

2007-09-06T10:36:00.000-07:00

This week I looked over the spreadsheet function in Google. I might start keeping track of the items I get from Frontier in this spreadsheet. As for the items in Web 2.0, I went to the award winners under the subject of books. The top one in this group was Lulu a name after my own heart. It was interesting a mini Amazon. Of course when I play around in some of the other spots- TOO MUCH INFORMATION, TOO MUCH INFORMATION... INFORMATION OVERLOAD MAYDAY- MAYDAY M..... A...... Y ..... D..... A .....

Week # 7

2007-09-06T08:16:00.000-07:00

I added a book to the library wiki. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Does every girl who grows up as a tomboy identify with Scout? I know I do. I am starting to read a novel based on the recommendation of the Book Lovers Wiki The Girls: A Novel by Lori Lansens. I will go back to that wiki to find books to read.

Week # 6

2007-08-03T06:41:00.000-07:00

I'm getting behind. I signed up in del.icio.us, but am not sure that this is my cup of tea. I get sidetracked too easily. I guess if you are a very mobile person, having access from any computer you sit down at would be a plus. Technorati looks interesting as a search tool for blogs, but I also get the feeling of Big Brother watching. As for Rollyo I have visited it a couple of times. I am not sold that Rollyo is for me. Many of the popular search engines were political in nature which if you tailor them to suit your views how are you going to broaden your horizons.

As for the articles regarding Library 2.0, Away from the Iceberg at first I was apprehensive I do want to cling to the collection, then I read Into a New World of Librarianship article, With all the new technologies WOW! What can't we do? I got really excited- to use the boat analogy from the Iceberg article- it makes it sound like the world is changing and librarians are in a boat on the crest of the new wave. I want to be on that boat. I continued to read the next article To More Powerful Ways To Cooperate all of a sudden my excitement falters, COOPERATION... we can't seem to cooperate among ourselves in one library, every department has there own agenda. Many of our librarians have great ideas, but they rely on the cooperation among ourselves and it ain't happening. To quote Rick Anderson...

We need to shift direction, and we can’t wait for the big ship of our profession to change course first. It’s going to have to happen one library—one little boat—at a time.

Our problem is all the departments in our library have their own paddles, some large and some teaspoon size, we may be in the same boat, but if you have a strong paddle on one side only- the boat will just row around in circles.

Week # 5

2007-07-13T08:57:00.001-07:00

Well as you can see I generated a magazine cover. I just can't stay away from the squirrels. Most of the generators are okay, But I want to edit every aspect. Which was never an option.

Librarything. So many books... so little memory.

Week # 4

2007-07-06T10:12:00.000-07:00

RSS- Wow, So much info, so few hours in a work day. Are we sure the powers that be want us to learn more activities that will interfere with our productivity? Anyway, I have established a Bloglines account and signed up for feed from a few news sources. I would have to train myself to use this, because this morning without thinking I went straight to CNN. I feel that I don't gather enough info to make this worthwhile.

Week # 3

2007-06-29T11:21:00.001-07:00

Well.... About Technology, I don't want to say I am
reluctant, if technology manages to find me, I will
embrace it..... eventually.

Anyway...I like wet sand in my face, it cools me down.

Janet sent me a link to ShinyShiny- A girl's guide to gadgets. There are a lot of useful and or frivolous items on this website to keep a technically inclined person up to date. Me...? I just like to point and laugh.

2007-06-28T10:50:00.001-07:00

Just got back from Portland, Maine. The weather was gorgeous. This is Portland Head Lighthouse which I visited.

Week # 2

2007-06-26T10:36:00.000-07:00

There are 7 & 1/2 habits and I am to choose the hardest and the easiest, the hardest habit is #3 viewing a problem as a challenge. Did Pollyanna write these habits? Is this like, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade? I don't know what tiny inconsequential "challenges" this person has, but the kind of problems that tend to come my way are the ones that bite you on the ass, apparently, we are supposed to smile and pretend we only felt a little pinch. (wooo....Someone had to vent) Whatever, well obviously the easiest habit is 7 1/2-play (and who ever says different is lying, they are the same people who will say War and Peace is their favorite novel when really it is Harlequin # 487- Love's Burning Torch)

Week # 1

2007-06-26T10:21:00.000-07:00

The initial post, how life altering, will the world ever be the same?