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As I mentioned in the last blog, i really enjoyed library thing. it is a neat little site that gives you an oppertunity to discuss the great book you just read that your friends have probably never heard of.
The format seemed pretty good. I definately had an advantage in the program having been around computers for awhile now and having already used programs such as myspace and instant messenger. The only problem that I had with it was that I didn't even start at the library until late november so i was already behind and felt rushed. I would have liked more time to discover a littel more and maybe have a something a little more profound to say in my blogs. but of course that was my own personal problem.
I think I would participate in the future. I thought it was a neat program. Of course it always helps to have an incintive such as the Mp3 player.

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My favorite discovery excercise was learning about Library Thing. What a cool site! I thik of all the things on here, that is one of the tools that I may even use outside of work. It was also neat to learn about some other new sites that I have not heard of. I didn't know about all the cool image generators, so it was fun to play around with that as well.
I think that web 2.0 is going to be very helpful for me in the future. They way technology is changing and growing everywhere, it is really useful to get to have a head start on it.

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I liked Rollyo. It is a great way to get the best sites for a certain topic. I, for instance, am always looking for different sites that have song chords and lyrics. This was a great way to find all the sites that have what i am looking for, and seems to be more of an exact match, than just typing in something in google. I think this could be useful for the library. We could gather all sites including book reviews, best sellers, author biographies, etc. This would be helpful not only for staff, but could easily be shared with patrons as well.

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/laurenvbpl

I really like this site! There was so many books and ratings on there. I think it will be fun to leave reviews and discuss the books with other readers. I look foward to speding more time on this site.

Thing 26-Image generators

http://www.chinesetools.eu/names/?taille=76&id=2351&nom=Lauren&choix=1&police=2&dispo=1&valid=Ok

This was neat! This is an image of my name in Chinese.

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I really liked Arizona State University's Website and choices of Webcasts. I liked that it gave you an option of programs they had, such as history, music, and science programs. One thing that I wish they would have had, were stories or excerpt readings from books like the Denver library had.

I think that certain library patrons may find these links helpful, however like myself, i think some people prefer to have something physical to check out such as the audio cd or good old fashioned book.

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http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Faudio.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Faudio%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26sngid%3Db26eae9735be844c%26p%3DParadise%2B%2528Excerpt%2529&p=Paradise+%28Excerpt%29&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2Faudio%2F2000%2F10%2F05%2Fmorrison_paradise&name=morrison1.mp3&dur=9:47&rate=48kbps&no=1&tt=2&size=3.4MB&artist=Toni+Morrison&weburl=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.salon.com%2Fmp3s%2Fmorrison1.mp3

This like you tube might be something useful for the library website. This is a link to a reading of an excerpt from Toni Morrison's "Paradise." This could be somthing that library patrons might be able to link onto and hear some readings if they are iontersted in the author or might be interested in a certain book.

One of the problems is that most of the other audio downloads you have to pay for. So that would be something to consider when putting links on the library's website.