Week One, Week Two Combo

Greetings all, as I take the time to play catch-up. I reflect on this years events and goals.

Establishing Municipal status... HUGE!

It was official yesterday, when Rob G. came in and we scanned our first books towards automation. I was able to hire through the Seniors program two people to help with this process. What a giant leap from the weeding, sorting and continuous jobbing of books to add to the stacks.

A fun Summer program, and two awesome volunteers that ran the program.

A year of new Children's books from Libri and CLiF (smile-smile) and an additional supply of new Science books. The Home-Scholars group is now up to 15-17 children. The few teens that enter the building is a plus. I try not to share my enthusiasm as not to scare them away. LOL

The pawletpubliclibrary.blogspot.com is doing very well.

Looking forward to 2010 with courses to finish and ideas to learn.

Happy Holiday!


<3 Superpolly :-)

Week 5 Face Book

Hi everybody I am on face book and it is kind of fun... Especially when I got permission from my own daughter to be her friend LOL... I am also friends with many of hers yet I only respond if they ask me first. It is a weird set-up I became friends with so and so etc. Whoever made this wants everyone to get along. I invite anyone interested to check out Face Book and see my sons' pictures from his first homecoming. It is a great way to post photos and I actually like it better b/c know one can spam or sneak ads in. It is easy to manage and again seeing and getting back in touch with some old friends has been a lot of fun. That's all for now have a great week.

web 2.0

I consider myself in the office a organized know where everything is kind of person. You have to be when your the boss right :) at least I know where everything is? right? Well I also try to keep things as less complicated and easy for my volunteers. Many of which do not use the internet. Here is my assignment to check out calendars, which at one time I was good about updating and as of today (promise) I am going to update. Then when it came to spreadsheets, I did my basic best. I went back to college and learned to do excel and I use this every month for our board meeting to tally up books and budget etc...
However-Web 2.0 has me slightly stumpt I went on a site to find many sources for faster web services. Akamai is a service provider and a very large organization. If I were to have a business I would want to use something like this. I am a very small fish and have books to weed, shelves to reorganize and loving my blog. Simple, easy and not so complicated. That is me outside of the office. :) Three dogs, two cats, fish, turtles, oh two children lol... I wonder if we could have a 2.0 system in our homes. One that cooks, cleans, and does dishes ??? LOL so many options out there, and did I mention I love Vermont's 23 things. It makes you think, explore, do and have fun on the web... Well I am off to update my calendar. Have a great week.

Wikis-another option

Wow have I come a long way since going back to college after 20 years. I thought a powerpoint was way cool. Then My Space which as my daughter put it "mom your too old for that! lol" to Facebook which my friends and I have actually been using. I have had a lot of fun with flickr yet my computer at the library uses MGI and I prefer photoshop I have a MAC E at home. Kodak is a very easy web accessible way to share photos. I will say going techno I had a love/hate for my digital. It took me many years to switch from my 35mm to digital but easy access is a great way to promote all sorts of programs via the web etc. I now like my digital and have found it extremely useful.



Now a Wiki comes into my life and whoa it's not Star Trek it is an option :) Often if I go to wikipedia I sometimes find that it is not as accurate as Ask.com or even google but for postings it can be quit easy. It can cost some money $5.00-$20.00 for posts. I like this blog it is free to post and is easy to work on.

Pawlet Blog

For updates and the goings on at our Library check out
www.pawletpubliclibrary.blogspot.com

Check out You Tube and our Pawlet Blog tried Facebook but...

www.youtube.com/celticknights

So many choices, so little time to concentrate on a website I really like my blog. Easy simple not to complex. Adding visual a j.peg or two, but adding video I found You Tube the most helpful. My daughter a Celtic dancer/ soft shoe is on it and that site if you go to You Tube and key in Celtic Knights and watch the International Festival you will see a lot of talent from a great group of Saint Michael's college students. Face Book has been popular with my children and I think in comparison to a "My Space" page I would have a Face Book site just because of my adolescent age LOL a big child at heart.

I hope you can get the link off of me and check out the show.

This is the Pawlet Public Library

Once The Village School house, built in 1911.

Opening as the library in 2002.

We house approximately 13,000-15,000 books I think including Audio and Video. Upgrading to computer automation. Thus entails weeding, lots of weeding. I am glad to be taking the course with Grace and Amy this week on Collection and Development. This will be a huge help on a "newbie" such as myself : ).