Week 4 RSS

I found this task much simpler than week 3 and actually a sense of enjoyment rather than frustratioin.

I found RSS to be much the same as my favorites listing that I already have and use all the time.
I selected the following:

Yahoo News - to keep up to date on whats happening in the world
Cats - My favorite pet
Library bites - Just to what it is all about
The girls guide - a girls got to know what the latest
Powerhouse Museum's Picture of the day - because it was a definate to be added.

How I think it may be able to be used in my work and how libraries use RSS I am not really sure of at this stage only being in the library industry for a short time. I will need to think about that a bit more but I feel it does have a definate future.

I did find good examples of other library bloggs and will be able to learn from what they are doing and hopefully make our library a better place.

This is a picture of my new cat

I tried unsuccessfully to download an image from flickr but gave up after many hours of frustration.

Intead here is a photo my new kitten asleep on a toy mouse. I needed something calming to look at to soothe away the feeling of failure of not being able to accomplice what I wanted I started.

I hope I am not the only one that was not able to complete the task.

I have only been working in the library for 4 weeks with no library background in a small country town. This is a wonderful opportunity to link with other libraries and to learn about for example blogging, and know what the teenagers are talking about. It is so important to be able to know and have an understanding of what they are talking about and hopefully be able to meet their needs if they come to me with any requests.

I look forward to learning so much during this course because being located in a country town it is very hard to get to the city for any seminars that are held. To be able to learn sitting here at my desk or from my home without having travel is just great.

Lifelong learning to me is thinking of my wonderful mum who enrolled at University at the young age of 70 which was a lifetime dream and to see her buy a computer and master it with ease. Her quest for learning was a real inspiration and I hope that I can follow in her footsteps and never stop learning.

1st of many to come.

Wow, This is my first entry of many to come. Being a real novice at this it is a really good feeling. Much more to come!!!