YouTube

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

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

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

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

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

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.