Yea! I Made it to Thing #23

Even though this seemed like a long and sometimes scary journey, I must say I have learned a great deal about newer technology tools. Some of the tools will be useful in a library setting - Just the other day our library director asked me to hep her set up a blog for our library when I finish the Nebraska Learns 2.0.
I think my favorites were Instant Messaging, Flickr, and LibraryThing. I even suggested LibraryThing to a library patron the other night. She, like other patrons, say they think they should keep a list of books they've read, so they don't check out the same book again. I told her maybe using LibraryThing to list books she'd read would be helpful. I will suggest this to others who talk about making a list of books they've read or want to read, depending on whether they use the computer a lot or not.
I am very thankful that this class was offered - many of these were things that I had heard about, and knew people who used them, but because of my "busy lifestyle", I just never took the time to explore them. My 15 year old keeps telling me that I need to get on FaceBook, because my 2 younger sisters are on, but that never was enough to get me interested. You would think that I would have gotten on FaceBook because our oldest son in Washington has an account, and used to have time to post pictures of our grandson in his album. Now that I'm considering it, he has gotten too busy to have time to put pictures on very often!
And if you offer another discovery class like this in the future , I most likely would participate - I learned so much from this one. Thanks for offering the class Allana, Christa, Michael and Susan, and thanks for the help you offered along the way. (I would probably have asked for more help, but knew you weren't up when I was working on many of the lessons!)
Keri Anderson