Thing 12! and derby. Lots of derby.

Naturally, when creating my own search tool with Rollyo, I did a subject that is recently dear to my heart. http://rollyo.com/bibliofemme/derby_grrrl_gear/ ROLLER DERBY! Hooray! I am now a Sac City Roller! If I succeed in surviving my probation period, I will become a full-fledged team member and get to select my derby name. Which I already chose: The Dewey Decimation System. My number will be 796.21 (look it up). Back to Thing 12 - using Rollyo is incredibly easy but I am not really a fan. I can see the potential for use within the library but I have no interest in doing so really. I prefer Google for all things. But my love affair with Google is well-established so . . . But if anyone needs derby gear, use the above search. I need to stretch more than anything else.

Thing 11: the LibraryThing

I do REALLY like LibraryThing. Mmm, sharing books is a great source of joy. One of my favorite people back in Vegas, a girl with a "Jack Skellington holding books" tattoo, was a major collaborator in my reading preferences. She shared with me and I with her, the most recent suggestion from her being The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. Yum. Here's my quick catalog.

Thing 10!

I entered the Paul Eluard poem "La Terre est Bleue . . . " into Wordle and made an entertaining word cloud. I can see how this might be interesting to make signs in the library for poetry programs. Oh, and if you click on the image, it will direct you to the website where you can make your own. Fun. Check off Thing 10!

Things 1-9 (from a busy little beaver!)

27 Things for SPL, Part 1:

Thing 1 - well, I'm here, aren't I?

Thing 2 - (I'm beginning to feel a little Seuss-y) The easiest of the "7 1/2 Habits" is definitely the play habit. Being a Youth Services Librarian makes a girl very familiar with work as play. The hardest is the teaching of others. I am not a teacher. I tend to figure it will be easier to do things myself.

Thing 3 - Set up a blog or, in this case, continue with my existing blog, left over from library school.

Thing 4 - I did indeed email SPL 27 Things to let them know of my participating ways.

Thing 5 - See previous post.

Thing 6 - HA! I made a "me" trading card! Now that interests me. Maybe I can convince the rest of the Sac City Rollers that they need to make a team deck of cards . . .

Thing 7 - I have an RSS feed for LifeHacker in my iGoogle. And I read it daily. Though my favorite for work (and not necessarily technological but work with me here) is the WikiHow site. This has such a huge variety of things to do in and out of the library, for kids and adults. The program for Mother's Day will be making recycled plastic vases found on WikiHow. Hooray for technology!

Thing 8 - I have a significant amount of RSS feeds on my iGoogle. In a variety of topics. Feminist feeds, vegetarian recipes, BUST magazine, trashy stuff like The Superficial and DListed, School Library Journal, and a cavalcade of others. Plus . . .

Thing 9 - . . . I have news feeds, like CNN, Gay News and Unshelved (naturally).

Okay. I have completed 1/3 of the 27 Things.

Jumping through hoops in the name of participation

Bored and Horny,
originally uploaded by agitprop.

Requirements for ensuring I am an active participant in the Web 2.0 community and my current library district necessitate my blogging about a Flickr image. Hence the Glenn Barr image of a woman (apparently Betty Rubble of "The Flintstones") looking bored to death. I ADORE Glenn Barr's work and have a framed print of his. Fabulous. Okay, this ought to suffice. On to hoop 6!