Tuesday, March 3, 2009

HELP !

I am livid - I published a post earlier today and now it's gone - did anyone see it - any witnesses whatsoever??? Did anyone take it???? THis is what happened - I went in just now to edit and when I pressed save/publish I got this error message bX-c1muu5 and it said search this error on group blah blah and I did getting 00 hits so then I went back to look at my blog and the entire entry for Week 8 Google Docs is gone - not there - oh I see a light coloured message saying "Draft autosaved at 4:39 PM" maybe it isn't gone let's see - but how do I check this - well I'll publish this post now and then look for the missing entry bye

Week 8 Google Applications and Mousewatch

  • have rescued week 8 entry - found in drafts - it wasn't easy
  • enjoyed week off RULA (am writing like ______ British woman Name? to save time)
  • now want Sony e-reader like RU President has - been uninterested 'til now
  • want to make clear (Donna) that I bowl much better in real life than I did on wii sport
  • made new igoogle page and saved it but now very afraid to make it my new homepage because won't I lose Ryerson and all stuff tabs etc. on my real or present homepage or will it merge sort of ? don't think I can handle more than one home page at present
  • doc sharing for the library - my group leader shared with me a fascinating colour coded spreadsheet of theses received and to be catalogued - I hope she doesn't want me to tick off how many (few) I've completed so far!?! - I'll be sharing something interesting with her soon
  • have shared a message with myself via email - next step share with leader
  • Kelly D. and I could have used doc-sharing app last week to compile RUn-amok team etc. rather than grappling with all of those emails OR would a wiki be better for that? don't have handle on differences between doc sharing and wiki quite yet

Mousewatch - not sure about anyone else down here on one but I'm starting to get laissez faire -letting stuff pile up on my desk etc. - risky behaviour

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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.

Friday, February 13, 2009

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

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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.