Where have I been????? Stuffing my del.icio.us and my Library Thing and every other 2.0 orifice I've been introduced to this past few weeks! It's like a great, bottomless maw of information!!! First del.icio.us...it's yummy. I say this BECAUSE when I was much younger two years ago, I had the horrible misfortune of loosing my mother board. A complete meltdown. I managed to hire someone to retrieve most of what I had on my hard drive but do you know what was like a stake into my heart??? Loosing 10 years of BOOKMARKS!! ARRRRGHHHH I thought to myself, "Self, there ought to be a way to have my bookmarks FOREVER!!!" Well! From my lips to the ears of the powers that BE! Voila! del.icio.us!!!! For anyone who's lost their mother.
Next Library Thing. I was so bummed! I don't own books. I work in a bloody library! What do I need to own BOOKS for? I have 6+ floors of books plus the consortium!!!! (I can feel my co-workers recoiling! Hands flying up to their mouths...gasps... Blasphemer!) Well, it's true. My name is Night and I have no personal library....well, none to speak of... So, well, I cheated when it came to Library Thing because I'm a Virgo and I can't resist a list! I thought of a few books that I really have enjoyed in my reading history and I listed them....if some stranger emails me and and wants to borrow my copy of Dharma Bums, I will direct them to their local library. Having said that, I'm not real clear about how all the sharing thing works and, frankly, I'm not totally comfortable with it yet. I need more time with that to decide.
Now you now know my dirty little secret about books. Please don't judge me harshly. There's only so much do-re-mi to go around and my nickels go to non-RIAA, independent musicians...the poor gypsies, anyhow....
I can't imagine either one of these features NOT being important in one way or the other to our library.
PS: Thanks for bringing in Anne Marie to talk to us last week, oh, technical ones......
PSS: Photo credit to Stacey Nightmare. I found this wonderful photo of hers on Google Images. I hope she doesn't mind that I used it.
2 comments:
Blasphemy? Hah!! We all wished we were as strong as you. Why, oh why, am I spending my lunch money on books when I have multiple libraries crying to lend me those same books. Oh that all staff in libraries were strong enough to reply -- books - nah, I get mine at the library.
Delightful to discover you on Ronni's blog. Unfortunatley, I own all those books you do not. I own them, or they own me, in every room, in alphabetical order.....and I too am a Vergo, Oh dear, thingies to add. lol Mage of......
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