Guilty confessions LAST POST

After many sleepless and guilt ridden nights I have decided to unmask myself newmunch. I lied about my interests. I am not interested in taxidermy, mountain climbing( I have a bad knee- tennis injury), caving ( a bit claustro) scuba diving(see previous)parachuting (suffer from vertigo) hunting (its a sin to kill an innocent animal isn't it?)martial arts, although I did like David Carradine in Kung Fu and certainly not stamp collecting.
My favourite movies should read movies that stink ti high heaven.
My favourite music is pop, alternative pop, rock blues and classical.
On the subject of books i have only read a few Mad comics. Remembrance of things past is about 12 volumes so I ahvent even attempted that one. New munch unmasked is some American guy who likes to dress up as differnt characters.
I did paint the pictures on my blog though, one is by Egon Schiele and the other is byEmile Nolde. Of course the two monkeys are not my pets but I wish they were. On my Library thing all the books I put on there were to evoke a humourous response I hope it worked. Any way this is what I am not, maybe I will come clean if and when we contine with the 23 things project next year.
OVER AND OUT
the cleansed newmunch

Thing 22 Instant Messaging etc..

I havent used any of the Instant messaging services available but they certainly sound like a great networking tool to use in the library to communicate with our users, fellow staff members, community groups , in short our entire clientle. Some of my colleagues have used Skype, MSN and they said that it was quite easy to use.
One thing that does bother with thse new technologies is whether it will have a detrimental effect on actual library staff numbers. For example you could just have one reference librarian servicing many clients rather than many reference librarians working at various branches. This is probably the way of the future however, we must embrace change. Any technology that helps communication between people is very welcome.
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Thing 23 Summing Up

I can use the whole experience of learning about the new technologies in 23 things program to help me with my library job. It has forced me to "get with it" in the sense of learning about things that I had no interest in or was resistant to. Basically I think that being creative and lateral thinking is the way to go with these new information tools in order to improve our knowledge and expertise in providing a better , relevant library service to users. The library can use many of the technologies to communicate with its users to a greater and deeper level as many libraries around the world are doing already. One great thing about this is the collaborative aspect of between other libraries in coming up with new ideas and practices which improve service.
The 23 Things program could be improved further if people were encouraged more to help each other out. I didn't feel this really happeneed that much with my colleagues. Also staff needed to feel that this was a very important part of their training and not feel guilty about working on it in work time. The trainers were very helpful at all times.
I made the mistake of usin Wordpress rather than Blogger which frustrated me very much. I would encourage evryone to use Blogger for the purpose of the training.
I think I will keep blogging to some extent as I did enjoy a l posting some ridiculous things. My blog was actually an Anti Blog. People seemed hell bent on revealing themselves, I was hell bent on doing the opposite- alot of the time anyway.
Personal privacy and security issues worry me a lot but maybe I am Robinson Crusoe.
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Thing 18 Library 2.0

It has been an interesting journey doing the 23 things, albeit not always an easy one, however as with life there have been highs and lows. At first I felt like a luddite resisting a lot of the technology but still realizing that it may be very useful for todays library clientele. We need to be constantly innovative in order to remain relevant and provide the best service possible to our users. The idea of user user participation and feedback is a very good one. The one thing I have learned by this journey is we need to be continually creative and flexible and embrace change not fight against it because as Bob said "the times they are a changing."
I listened to the Talis podcast and found a lot of the discussion quite interesting.
As one of them said the new technology has caused a great seachange in libraries we must embrace it or drown.
Over and out

Thing 21 Podcasts

Hi gang, listened to a podcast today. i tried unsucessfully to watch a podcast but we couldn't get one to work.Ce la vie.

Thing 16 Igoogle is a Giggle

Had FUN creating my Igoogle page , you could get addicted to sitting 24/7 looking at your computer and letting the world go by couldn't you.
I tried adding a few gadgets as requested, will return to it now and then.

Thing19- things I forgot to mention

Hi guys, I had a look at some wikis such as wikipedia, untopedia etc and uploaded a photo of my pet chimp. I tried to put it on the VU Wikilibrary but the 23 things gang were not available today to assist me. I'll do it later with their help.
The finishing line is getting closer, or is it just a mirage and I am suffering from heat stroke.
Over and out