Mouse Watch Week 6 Librarything

This will be short - bad mood - forgot to save previous entry - now typing it over again. Here's link to my librarything http://www.librarything.com/catalog/LiesW which I loved very much except that I don't have time for it. When I get really really old and have more time I might come back to Librarything to explore - check out books that others with similar entries have been reading. No, next time I'm looking for a book I'll probably search around on Librarything IF I can remember my darn pw and name.

MOUSE watch - they're gone, all of them, I guess they were just 'passing through', sort of like the birds.

Still Week 5 del.ici.ous.

I'm still not liking it - is it because I'm rushing, too busy? Confession - of the 10 thingys you asked for, I copied 9 from others - is that allowed - I went to step 4 before step 3 - can I still win a prize? Only one of the bookmarks is my own (Nathanial Dett Chorale). BTW there are way too many steps in RULA2.0 this week. Also, although I thought I'd installed bookmarklets I don't seem to be using them, because every time I add a bookmark an annoying box appears telling me I could do this better using delicious bookmarks.

I'll admit I'm a little bothered by the lack of authority control - what else would you expect from a cataloguer? When I get time I'll check out University of Pennsylvania's Penntags but until then I'm of the opinion that using social bookmarking in libraries would not be a great idea - I can't see how things would not get 'out of control' but maybe that's my problem. Also, would I still have a job?

Here's the link to my delicious page : http://delicious.com/eweijs

Week 5 of RULA d.el.ici.ou.s

My experience so far with delicious - YUK! First of all I don't use bookmarks in real books (I'm not proud of that but there it is) - so trying to use bookmarks and bookmarklets here has been horrifying - the creative craft video promised order from chaos - well I want my money back - at this point 40 minutes into the excercise I'd rather have a few .... you know what's on my desk - I do have a delicious account - I believe I also have installed (in spite of dire warnings that a malacious invasion would be risked) some kind of bookmarking tool of delicious's and some kind of tool of Mozilla's that works with delicious - BUT I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY GOT ANY WEBSITES BOOKMARKED in my delicious account and I understand I need to choose 10 that I think fellow library staff-mates should know about - never mind the technology, choosing those sites could be dicey ! At this point in the process I don't feel liberated or empowered - but I'm not giving up yet - I will consult with my leader this afternoon.

Mouse Watch 7 or 8,
This one will be quick - I'm on the Ref Desk for heaven's sake.
The Toronto Star has discovered where our little friends have gone - the Loblaws at Dupont and Christie - all of them, every single one - the food is much better there AND there's more of it - how they got there is anyone's guess.
Which reminds me have you ever seen that book Subway Mouse by the Canadian woman plastecine artist/writer?
bye for now

on WIKIs and Mouse watch too

I 'm dizzy - the RULA learning curve may be too steep for me. How the heck does one edit the name of a new page on the WIKI - I don't want to sound paranoid but I think there are people behind the scenes there that have much more power over this thing - if they're listening could they change my "Pasta e fagioli (soup - vegetarian option)" to "Pasta e fagioli (soup in 20 minutes)" - I think the latter is catchier - alternatively maybe someone can tell me how to edit it myself - maybe I'll contact my group leader - well okay I'll figure it out myself.

I could see using a wiki for committee work within the library - especially for planning teas, parties etc. I wonder if a Wiki for the reference desk would provide continuity, pass along info throughout each day by having us post FAQs and other issues that come up for the day etc.? (do you put .? or just the . in this case?)

Mouse - things are eerily quiet down here on the first floor - I think they have migrated elsewhere. The daily cleaning off of my desk has added substantially to my workload.

Blogline and Mouse Watch

Okay I've done my homework I think, I hope. What I don't like about RSS - there's not enough time, too many choices ... the top 200!!! ... I find it overwhelming ... I do well with lists of 10.

Seriously, now that I have a blogline set up, as I come across other RSSes, RSSs, RSSi (?) feeds that are of personal interest (choirs) and work related (ERM) I will add them but I'm kind of worried that it will end up being another growing list of things that are kine of rebuking me because I don't find the time to look at them. I don't read news, weather etc. online and I really don't want to start to - I love radio and magazines so - I mean if I want to know what it's like outside, I throw the door open and look, feel ... it drives my loved ones crazy ... why is that ... I know it is handy to find out what the weather is like elsewhere - for travel purposes, I get that ... but the weather here, right now??

... AS FOR THE MOUSE ... there's been a blackout on that story - I don't know if the news has leaked out to other areas but there has been at least one casualty on the first floor, and it wasn't the glue trap thank goodness, it was the other one, you know, the mouse trap, trap ... I have spoken to an "expert" in the field who suggested that "cleaning up" may in fact prevent more captures since these critters are smart, they'll just go elsewhere in the library ... so watch out everyone else, the first floor is now spotless ...

Here's the link to my blogline -- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/eweijs/

Mouse Watch Day 5.2

One of my blog 'followers' and her side kick helped me figure out how to get my clock on to Toronto time - but sorry for the life of me I can't remember what I clicked - not dashboard or many other things - but it might have been layout or formatting.