St. Joseph County Public Library's Subject Guides

I'm absolutely amazed at St. Joseph County Public Library's May Calendar of Events. How on earth can they offer such a variety of programmes for people to attend?

I followed the link to their Subject Guides (http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page) wiki. I clicked on Crafts under the Hobbies heading. This displayed a range of entries, from new books and related magazine titles in the Library Collection, to webpage links and instructions on how to decorate a t-shirt.

But what amazed me even more was what I discovered when I clicked on the link to "the Monthly Calendar of Events for more information about these exciting craft programs happening at all of the Library's branches" and downloaded the Calendar. From movie screenings, computer classes, storytimes (including bilingual), language classes, music classes to book clubs and author talks - it all happens at SJCPL...

News Feed Loaded onto Discovering New Skills

I'm proud of the fact that I have just managed to load a news feed into my own blog! My husband has been advised not to eat wheat so we are trying to learn how to vary our diets, I'm hoping this feed will help!

Week 4 Update

I've only just read the Week 4 update posting! If I'd seen this additional video first it may not have taken me all afternoon to get the RSS feeds onto my Bloglines site. But because I worked this out for myself I guess I'm unlikely to forget it!!

Real Simple Syndication

I knew nothing about RSS before today. I found the YouTube film very informative. I had no trouble creating my Bloglines account but struggled with attaching my selected feeds. By clicking on the incons on the various websites (if I accually found one) I seemed to subscribe directly onto my computer rather than my Bloglines account. To overcome this I started copying and pasting the RSS website address into the search function on Bloglines. I'm very happy to report I now have 8 feeds directed to my Bloglines account!

I used a couple of the suggestions from the NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities week 4 list. To add some variety I ran 3 Google searches using the words "rss feeds". One was to find a travel feed related to Australia and the second was for recipies. I suspect I will be looking at these feeds more often!! The third search was to see how public libraries in NSW were using the RSS technology. I quite like the idea of setting up a RSS feed to advertise events happening in the library and other things you would like to inform the public about.

Flickr

I enjoyed learning about Flickr. I have not investigated it until now, although I knew that our Library had posted some images, particularly of events held. It was interesting to look at them!

The Picture Australia collection is certainly interesting and very board ranging, the variety of contributing organisations is impressive.

Blue Mountains

This image was taken by me at the Blue Mountains. I love the contrast between the tree trunks blackened by fire and the fresh green shoots.

Picture of Manly Ferry

http://www.flickr.com/photos/supaluminal/461367095/

This is a picture of a Manly Ferry, the Narrabeen, travelling to the City from Manly. I enjoy commuting in this way, it can be a relaxing way to travel into the city for a night's entertainment.