Week 5 MP3

I looked at Amazon's music seemed to be the site that would cover the mainstream music and did some searching on people I have liked in the past. Searched for some NZ bands and classics (Kiri Te Kanawa) and found their music. No wonder people download music as they can choose the song they want without having to buy the whole album and can store lots of music in a very small container rather than a shelf, cabinet full of CDs and records - still have an old record collection.

It's easy to get around the website just like searching for book titles. Customers would have no problems using it and probably most people under 30 are doing this all the time and don't think anything of it. It is much easier to search for one particular song that you have heard in a movie (listed in th credits) or you when you have been to a concert/show and then download it.

I haven't downloaded a song will ask my colleagues to show me how to do it using the work ipod next week.

Week 4 good reads

After River by Donna Milner


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is set in the mid 60s when men left the USA to dodge the Vietnam war. River ends up over the Canadian border working for a family dairy farm and the impact he has on 3 of the family members (mother, brother and sister) stretches for the next 36 year. Very good read and could picture the farm surrounded by mountains

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I like Good reads as soon as you post the book you have read you can see similiar books in the right hand side. One of the authors listed is Chris Bohjalian and I have read his books in the past and would agree he is a similiar author in the Donna Milne genre. This is the online version of the "Good reads" in our reference collections on what to read next.
I think this is a great site to link up friends or even library customers who may read similiar books to you or wanting a good read. To be honest I am terrible at remembering authors and titles and admire my colleagues who can remember the details and then give a verbal review.
I would like this particular exercise to continue and hope that my library colleagues would add recommendations, online version of brwosing the returned today trolley.
Customers would like this perhaps it could be a link on the library website (reading and reviews) so that they could check it out. Staff running the book clubs could also discuss it with the audience and perhaps they could set up a laptop at the meeting so that they could guide customers through the site.
I need some friends on this website so will encourage my colleagues to share their aliases.

Twitter week 3

I looked at twitter, have signed up but not that interested to be honest. I will ask my colleagues how they use it perhaps to send brief info or perhaps they follow well known people??
I have checked out some tweets and how organisations could use this service to send quick bites of information to tempt the receiver. I think it's a good thing that it's limited to 140 characters which means you have to be concise and to the point which I like - no waffle.

Useful if you wanted to contact your list of contacts with the same message. Could link in with customers twitter address as well as their email address.
The library could send tweets about events, service upgrades, new books, send a tweet a week on one fact e.g.
Internet available at all libraries
School holiday programmes
No fines for children's books
New magazines

At a recent MCC meeting the speaker said that in the 1960s/1970s most people switched on to the 6.oopm news on TV or read the national newspaper or listened to Radio NZ but these days there are many ways people receive their information and the majority under 30 would not get it via these 3 mediums so all organisations have to use all the technology and traditional methods to get their message across so twitter is one of those options.