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.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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.
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.
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