Beyond Method #4

Interesting segment on job searching which is something I have not had occasion to deal with much as I do not work reference very often. I hope that my reference staff are familiar with these resources and I know they have attended training on this subject. As a part of the strategic plan that we are developing we do have sections on job skills and are considering utilizing some of the suggestions in the video. Perhaps I will sign up for Linkedin. Who knows? Perhaps I will be looking for another job some day...

Lake House map - trying again

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Beyond Method #3

Well, I was finally able to embed my map on the blog. It wasn't the embedding that was difficult it was figuring out how to actually get the "embed" link to show up in google maps. I have to say, it looked much easier in the video than it actually was. I think that they are constantly making changes to google products so even when I look up Help! on the Internet some of the instructions seem to be out of date. Couple that with the face that the Internet at the library this afternoon is as slow as molasses and it hasn't been a fun day! I do think we should consider adding a location map to the library home page which was something that I hadn't even considered so perhaps that will be a next step. The tutorial was much more helpful.

Map of Friendswood Public Library

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Beyond Method #2

I am late to begin this so perhaps that is my problem but I had very little luck with igoogle. I can't even find an igoogle link on the google page or on my gmail or anywhere else. I can go to an igoogle page and it is defaulting to my information but it was fairly difficult to figure out how to customize the page further. I finally figured out how to delete but so far when I click on "Add stuff.." nothing happens. Maybe it's just a bad Internet day at work.

Because... I looked at the pages from the two libraries that are using netvibes and each page took so long to load that it was pretty much unusable.

I can see some small advantage in having a personalized home page for staff but not if it is so slow to load.

I will work on the igoogle page at home this evening to see if it goes more smoothly...