Genealogy sites

Found some great new sites for genealogy today - the 1911 Irish Census http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search
and the Victorian Government Gazette http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/

Tweeting not just for the birds...

I have 7 followers on Twitter! I am amazed, and know not what to say! Some of them are even people who don't know me and therefore didn't have to be 'encouraged' to follow!

A little goes a long way

So Saturday I learnt that a 1kg bag of flour goes a long way when it is hurled into the pantry a tad too enthusiastically. My poor mother - I know she's not well but that little tanty did her no good at all. Spent the rest of the day cleaning up - it went everywhere!! Very impressive - and quite funny (at least, after all the cleaning was done).

Twitter

Further to my efforts to reconnect to the current century (!!) I have also discovered Twitter, where I am using the name TorieLib. I like the immediacy of tweeting, although I think it will be a loooong time before I catch up with High Country Library (who I am following) who are listed as the most popular public library in Australia on Twitter, and number 140 Public Library in the world.

Ohhhhhh dear, it has been a disgracefully long time since I have updated this thing. I will attempt to crawl my way back into the 21st century. Not good.

Thoughts on Learning 2.0

I'm really glad I have done this course, although finding time was rather difficult, and I certainly did not give everything the time and attention it deserved. I could have spent hours exploring to wonders before me - but I have all my notes and will revisit many of the sites I have bookmarked - using del.icio.us, of course!
I definitely want to make use of blogs and wikis, both internally amongst library staff and with our patrons. My catalogue of books is growing on LibraryThing, my del.icio.us bookmarks and tags are growing almost daily, and I LOVE the bloglines - it saves me heaps of time. Others are just plain FUN to play with - flickr, image generators, the list goes on.
Thanks to all the staff who kept encouraging each other to keep going with Learning 2.0, even when time was tight and we had to move on before we were ready - we will have to do an update and refresher soon!

Week #9 - podcasts, video and downloadable audio

Podcasts were good, but loaded very slowly on my poor old chugging computer. This is probaby the one week where I had actualy discovered a fair bit of this myself - especially the audio (I LOVE my I-pod). YouTube I have played with a fair bit over the past few months, too, but the World E-book Fair was a bit of an eye-opener, and I know I will be revisiting that site a fair bit.