Thing 23: Survey

My favorite discoveries were using the research tools such as academic magazines, scientific journals, and the book review and book recommendation sites.
I feel more comfortable; however, I am just glad to know that many of these offerings exist. I was unfamiliar with them before.
It was time well spent; however, once again I think we were all trying to cram time to complete this exercise at the expense of our fellow workers and getting our jobs done. It would have been much more enjoyable and fruitful to have it done in a quiet group setting away from our regular branch where we could have focused on all these resources without feeling as if our coworkers and jobs were suffering from time spent on the 23Things.
I think this program would be great if we could redo it away from our regular working hours. I found the resource sites fascinating and honestly did not know they existed. Similarly, I think patrons would be amazed to know such a wide variety of resources were at hand.
So yes, I think it was a great exercise, I wish we would have had more time to do it without interfering with completing our regular jobs. I suggest for the future it be held off-site. But I think a more advanced program such definitely be pursued for both library employees and patrons.

Good Reads-20-22

The Art of Not Sitting Pretty: A Biography of Alice Neel by Phoebe Hoban.

Bookletters: I subscribe to Bookletters Daily. I definitely use this daily email recommendation because if I think i would enjoy it, I go ahead and reserve it from home on the library's website and that puts me way ahead of all the slow people who may be inclined to reserve the book once it gets a more public favorable review.

NoveList: I chose Classics Revisited and Sports Fiction. I accidentally hit Arab Fiction but that was not my interest and now I fear I am on a terrorist watch list.
The Classics Revisited was interesting but not my taste. The Sports Fiction and Historical Fiction I will continue to use because those are my interests. I would think this would come in very handy in making recommendations to book groups and school groups and personal interest groups because their reading interests may be very specific.

Wiki

I edited. It was good. Seemed to work. (Ernest Hemingway)
I went to the Wiki page and edited favorite teams and favorite movies. I added the St. Louis Cardinals and several of my favorite movies.
It was easy to edit.

Browsed through most of the sites listed. Liked the uncyclopedia best. Looked at the muppet one, and bookshelf fantastica, and wookiepedia. I think the library could use these sites to keep people current on info, books, events, current news, local and national, and get input from the public about lfpl services etc.
The library-oriented sites could be used to implement changes and projects within our system that have been successful elsewhere.

Podcast, Week 7

I went to Acrocats YouTube video because I heard about them coming to Louisville and wanted to see what it was all about.

Ulysses by James Joyce is 42 hours and 20 minutes.

Listened to Louisville Sports News, Learn Out Loud and BBC, Scotland Funny Bits. The Louisville Sports feed was annoying because the feed did not come through clearly and was irregular feed. The interview was not complete. Learn Out Loud was very helpful because I study art history; however, the woman's accent was annoying. The BBC Scotland Funny Bits was not funny at all. But glad I know how to find it.

RSS

The three feeds I subscribed to are the NYTBR; the St. Louis Cardinals official site; and the Louisville Bats official site.  I found the use of RSS very interesting way to navigate the sites, certainly speedy.  Yes, I could see using Google Reader as part of my lifelong learning toolkit, especially once I build up a listing of all the sites I regularly visit.


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#12 answer to week 5

sorry, mistakenly overlooked answer #12.

Now that I have been introduced to these databases I am going to explore them a bit more before I make an answer.  Personally I would use the databases that house comprehensive book reviews because I am in so many book clubs and because I do research for the Speed Art Museum I am more inclined to use the Academic Art History databases, but need to explore those a bit more before I answer. 
As for as the public, I am inclined to say most of their inquiries are of current news info. and ProQuest has been handy for me in the past, but maybe that is because I worked there.

Week 5-Answers 10-12

Using the library access to Research Tools, the following answers have been found:
10(a): Arts & Entertainment: Acadeic Search Premier:  sent PDF attachment article.
10(b): Betty Jean McMichael's obit was found in the Courier-Journal database published March 18, 2008 and has 4 sons.
10(c): Telos was found in the MasterFile Premier and does not have full text. British Jounal was found in EBSCO-full-text delay of 12 months; History of Philosophy found in Academic Search Premier-yes, full-text; Clinical Med and Research found in Academic Search Premier and has full-text.
11(a). Morningstar Investment Research Center's manager is Duane F. Kelly.  The stewardsip grade is B; the Morningstar Rating is **** for Vanguard Target.
11 (b): LCD-TVs found in Consumer Reports in 2008-09 Master index, and yes there are articles.
12:  Local  coffee houses found in 40202 zip code.  The leading sales would be for Starbucks and Dunkin Doughnuts.