Twitter

I think that Twitter is an excellent to keep customers informed about library activities. It's a great way to inform people about upcoming booktalks, the Just Desserts Book club, Heritage Room and Polley Music Library events. Just Desserts book club members could use it to discuss books.

Donna

LibraryThing

I created an account and added several Joe Guenther mysteries. Some of the recommendations that the site made are very intriguing. The blogs are interesting.

http://www.librarything.com/home/mysteryfun

Donna

Technology

Technology. It's a love-hate relationship. We love it because it so easy to stay in touch with family and friends. Information is so easy to access on the web. We can make all kinds of travel plans from buying airline tickets and reserving hotel rooms to researching things that we want to do once we get there. We hate it when our computers stop working and all that annoying SPAM that we get.

Donna

Trading Card

Here is the link to the trading card that I created.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25428576@N03/

Donna

I uploaded a picture that I took of a sail boat on Branched Oak Lake and created a trading card. It was snap.

Donna

Flickr Flash Gallery

The Flickr Flash Gallery can be used to run slide shows of library activities. It's so easy to upload photos to Flickr and to put them in a slide show. Connect your laptop to a digital projector and run the slide show at a library activity.

Donna

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/3038065587_029ef66c5a.jpg?v=0

I love photos taken in the evening or at night. Darkness hides many distracting elements. This shot of Hong Kong is a good example. All we can see are the tall lighted buildings in the evening.

Donna

RSS again

I added several more feeds. Very cool.

Donna

RSS

I added several feeds. It's very handy.

Donna

Instant Messaging

So many forms of communication; face-to-face, telephones, blogs, email, instant messages, web sites such as Facebook and pen and paper. Each has it's use. Blogs are a handy way to communicate with a group. Face-to-face for the personal touch. Email keeps you in frequent touch. IM gives you instant response but ties you to a computer. Letter-writing has become antiquated way of communicating. It's still great to get a letter in the mail.

Managing all these forms of communication can be quite a challenge. How do you manage all of them?

author Tana French

Tana French has two books out - In the Woods and The Likeness. Both are police procedurals set in modern day Ireland. These books can be classified as psychological thrillers as well. We go along for the ride as French gets into the heads of her detectives. Rob Ryan, the detective in In the Woods, revisits one horrible night of his childhood. It's the night his two best friends disappear. No trace has ever been found of either of them. Rob was with them and he can't remember what happened or why he was found covered in blood.

Cassie Maddox, the detective in The Likeness, meets her double at a crime scene. Her double is the stabbing victim. Eerier still is the woman's identification. Her name is Lexie Madison. Lexie was a personality that Cassie created for an undercover assignment several years ago. Cassie old boss from her undercover days convinces her to become Lexie Madison so that they find the killer. The police tell Lexie's housemates that Lexie survived the stabbing and will be back soon. Cassie, as Lexie, moves in and soon Cassie isn't sure where her personality ends and Lexie's begins.

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