Sunday, May 11, 2008

Week 3: Play Week - Online Generators and Library Thing


I had a lot of fun with the image generator at www.pichacks.com.
Who has the biggest facial hair problem, man or dog?

LibraryThing

I've looked at LibraryThing before, but haven't really had a lot of time to check it out properly. This time round, what I really like about it is the ability to check out what other everyday people (instead of professional critics and publishers) have to say about the books that I'm reading recreationally and using for Storytime. In my current role as a young person's librarian, I can see this as a great tool for cataloguing books into different storytime collections. That way I could have a readymade list of books on different topics that I can draw on when preparing activities and programs.
By using LibraryThing, and it's connection through Talisplus, I could keep track of particular books easily without having to take them out of circulation and into a storytime collection. The link to my catalog is:

Anthony's catalog