Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WorldCat

Worldcat is great! I put in my favorite author, Dean Koontz, and found that he had written a Christmas book "with" his dog, Trixie. The nearest copy is in Camden Library in Voorhees, NJ, about 46 miles away.

As far as filling in the paper for an ILL it has all the needed information, so that makes things easy for everyone.

NetLibrary

NetLibrary was easy to use. I found it a bit limited on items, like I put in a subject search for "Cats" and was only able to find 5 books.
So I picked one and played around with it. It was cool, and I can see it being very helpful if you are unable to get a acutal book.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Library Thing

Well, the Library Thing is a very interesting site. I did add 6 books to my list, so far, and looked around to see who else has read books from my list. Quite a few people have read the same books as me. I also added a couple of people to my friends list, added a few tags and put in my location as being from New Jersey.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=OCLPage&shelf=list

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

2nd part of Techno Blog

Well, I was finally able to leave a comment on a fellow coworkers blog, but I was only able to do it from work. My computer at home does not like Blogger at all, it fights me everytime, so I gave in and found a bit of time at work to post my comment and this post.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Techno blog

I have been a big fan of computer technology since Windows 3.1 & Mac 7.5. I love being able to IM, email or post a message to people to keep in touch. I love that I have been able to research my family back 3 more generations in Scotland and found a family of 4th cousins living in England from one of those lines! All because of the Internet and the PC.
I love the fact that I can keep in touch with my family even if they aren't home because of mobile phone technology better known as cell phones.
I love that I work at a place where everyone keeps an open mind about new & old technology and are always willing to help out their fellowman in learning and or understanding it.

Finding feeds and news and.........

Ok, I bounce around a bit on the search engine Topix, and it was quite interesting to see just what would come up. It is a easy site to work with and I would use it again. I also went on Technorati and that wasn't too bad either, but I liked Topix better.