One last thing...

Sorry, but I can't think of any other things to include. The folks who put this together did a fabulous job.

It has been so much fun to read some of the blogs created by KCLS staff members. Some people are so articulate, and so creative, it is just amazing to see what can be done.

The end

This was a great experience. I loved having the chance to learn about so many things that I didn't know even existed. When I told my 25 year old daughter about all the stuff I'd learned at 2.0 U. she said, "you probably know more than I do." Woo-hoo, that is a rare admission!

It was hard to find time to work on the various "things", so my entries were very sporadic. I could have never gotten through it without help from the Answerline whiz kids, Peggi, Matt and Mary Kay.

I am very grateful that KCLS not only gave us the opportunity to pursue the 27 things, but let us do it on work time! That was a real gift. I would welcome the chance to do it again and hope that we will have the opportunity to learn about emerging technology as it becomes available. And I thank everyone involved for helping me to keep my brain active.

YouTube

YouTube is a lot of fun. Some of the library videos are hilarious, I'm going to have to work with the pages to make a video that we can post. The majority of videos I've looked at have been just for fun (love that Ninja libarian and wish we could have it running on screens around the library). In these days of short attention spans it would be a great way to have little training "bites" that could be used in a meeting or training session.

Women in art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

Zoho, Google docs

It is great to be able to go online and access documents from anywhere. What a cool feature! No more disks, or zip drives to lose. I like it. I did a spreadsheet on Google, which I copied from Excel with no trouble, and then fiddled around with it. It took awhile to figure out how to use some of the features, but it was fairly straighforward. With Zoho I made a Word document, very easy to use. I don't have a need to share my work with anyone else, but I can see how it would be extremely useful for some people.

Library 2.0

Some interesting ideas here. And I really loved reading what other people have to say about Library 2.0 on their blogs. As for me, I truly hope that we will always have real books printed on paper. The idea of reading in bed on any kind of electronic device is not appealing in the least. Back to Library 2.0, it was fascinating to read all of the ideas that are coming out in regard to libraries of the future. Libraries will obviously have to adapt to keep up with the electronic world...but what if some day all the electronic stuff just crashed, forever, and we had no books??

Rollyo, Google

I liked the Google format better, it wasn't so cluttered, no ads. I signed up for both of them just to check out the differences. I can see how these searchrolls would be helpful for library staff who answer reference questions, but I'm not sure I'll use them that much for my own personal searching. I don't want to narrow my searches down quite so much.