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My Favorite French Language Films from the 80s and onwards

2008-08-05T17:38:00.000-07:00

-Amélie

-Delicatessen

-Le Château de ma mère

-La Gloire de mon père

-Jean de Florette

-Manon of the Spring

-A Very Long Engagement

-Un Coeur en Hiver

-Trois couleurs: bleu

-Au Revoir Les Enfants

-The Piano Teacher

-The Barbarian Invasions

-Trois couleurs: rouge

-La Double vie de Véronique

-Monsieur Hire

Summer

2008-07-15T10:16:00.000-07:00

~~-Go to a drive-in movie~~

-Take the boy to play in the fountain in Olympia

~~-Get an Olympic Mountain ice cream cone at the Union Country Store, sit on the porch and watch the sun set over the Olympics~~

~~-Roast marshmallows over the fire at the Point~~

-Build a treehouse

-Pick wild blackberries and make a pie

-Drive down the Oregon Coast all the way to Yachats, eat good Mexican food, swim and roast hotdogs over a beach fire.

-Swim in the Canal on hot afternoons with the boy

-Take the rowboat out and have a picnic

~~-Camp out in the yard~~

-Eat lots of home grown tomatoes

-Drink my morning coffee in the sun on the back porch

~~-Read good books late into the night~~

Crow Cam

2008-05-31T13:09:00.001-07:00

~~Check out Jessica's Crow Camera. It's like being right in the nest!~~

Sites 4 Students

2008-01-30T10:26:00.000-08:00

I really enjoyed these Sites 4 Students---they're great resources. And I especially liked WriteBoard and Zoho. They're extremely useful in a public library setting where word processing/spreadsheets, etc. are limited to just one terminal. In the past I've recommended writely.com to patrons but with the broader capabilities of these two, I'll be recommending these for sure.

Twitter...

2008-01-22T16:31:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure what to say. I've explored Twitter and set up an account but I guess I really don't see any relevancy to my life. I may just be a little too private to be broadcasting my daily (or hourly) activities to the world (or even just to my friends) and am frankly not that curious about every detail of their lives. When it comes right down to it, I don't think I can see a situation where I would ever use Twitter. Hmm.

Facebook--I'm not a Luddite

2008-01-08T15:32:00.000-08:00

Hmm. I'm not sure what I really think about Facebook. As with a lot of social networking tools, I see the pros and cons--and the biggest con, to me, has to do with people getting accustomed to having their "private" information on view for all to see. It's not that anything will necessarily be done with this information (besides, of course, what we've already seen with Facebook and tracking), at least on the face of it--but, it could lead to potential abuse down the line (at a point when most citizens may be so used to displaying personal details online that no thought of privacy infringement even enters their mind). It may just be a first step in this direction. Scary.

But, having said this, I am not unaware of the fact that I'm a bit guilty of this, too (with my blog info--books I'm reading, restaurants I like, etc.).

Wikirama

2007-12-14T16:38:00.000-08:00

I've been editing the Port Orchard Library wiki that Wally set up and although most of it's been really straightforward, certain features have been extremely frustrating. I'm not sure why what you see in the editing mode doesn't correspond to the regular mode. Also, for some reason, I can't get the background color to be applied. Why????

I think that wikis can be a really useful tool--the library could really utilize them for things like patron book reviews, suggestions, etc. That being said, I know that at the reference desk, I'm hesitant to ever suggest Wikipedia as a credible resource.

YouTube

2007-12-01T12:06:00.000-08:00

Although I've been hearing about YouTube for ages, I've never taken the time to check it out. Until now. What can I say? It's great. I love searching for images on Google and this is even better. But it's also dangerous--I could spend a very long time on YouTube. Better not.

Library Thing

2007-11-03T16:34:00.000-07:00

I love Librarything! I created an account some months ago and since then have been adding to my list of things I've read. I'm up to 143 books (just the ones I can think of-I know I'm not remembering everything) and am getting close to the big 200. I probably won't opt to go beyond the 200 for $10/year though. Librarians Who Librarything is worth perusing every once in a while (especially for a laugh). Also, Librarything is handy for readers' advisory. I'm thinking about setting up another account to keep track of books I'd like to read...

Flickr

2007-10-29T17:32:00.000-07:00

Although I probably won't be setting up a Flickr account anytime soon, I really like searching random tags, seeing the photos of my friend's pregnancy progression---but coolest of all is the geotags mode. Can you get any better than that? Not for a mapophile like me!

RSS

2007-10-24T11:50:00.000-07:00

I find RSS feeds to be a great tool for daily updates on my favorite blogs although lately I haven't been checking any blogs daily--no time. I set up my account in Bloglines a month or so ago to experiment with this "push technology."

Del-icio-us

2007-10-19T17:13:00.000-07:00

Del-icio-us is delicious. I've come to really rely on it at the reference desk, especially for specific sites and I miss so much the now obsolete FirstSearch button... Oh, well.

For this assignment I tagged some of my favorite sites including chocolateandzucchini.com (an excellent French cooking and baking blog) and ethnologue.com, a linguistics site (which comes in really handy when I just have to know which language family a specific language is a member of). I know, I know--never end your sentence with a preposition...

Hmm

2007-10-15T18:59:00.000-07:00

Well, here I am posting on my brand new blog. What to say? I really enjoyed reading about the site 43 Things. I love it, I love it, I love it. I peruse it every once in a while when I need a certain kind of inspiration.

Also, read the Talis article Do Libraries Matter?. It's a good, relatively concise take on this timely subject. I thought the portion on ILL was really interesting--especially the bit about including library holdings in online bookstores as an alternative to purchasing materials. What a great idea. Though, wrought, I'm sure, with many issues.