What you see

Seeing is definitely not believing any more. It's at times like these that I wish I had a really terrific printer to do justice to the cool pictures we can create online.

Overdrive

It is cumbersome and time-consuming to download the Overdrive console. Unfortunately, the patrons who need it most often have the most difficulty with setting up the system.
Although the selection is limited, there is enough to choose from, and I would be happy listening to many of the titles. My favorite authors were included, so if I had a car with a CD player, I would be downloading titles onto CDs every week.
The only surprise was a book listed as young adult fiction in the Overdrive Audio Book list: Gorilla City (Charlie Small Series, Book 1) by Charlie Small aka Andrew Dennis. The actual book is classified as juvenile fiction.
I love this service and look forward to having a station in the library where patrons can download onto their player.

Delicious, but is it healthy for you?

Searching Del.icio.us for information was not as easy and clear as one would expect after hearing great things about it. On the topic of graduation parties, it really fared little better than a Google search, which is worthless. All the sites focused on selling items rather than giving ideas, checklists, or a strategy. The Del.icio.us websites seemed random instead of focused. In fact, I wondered why some were listed as graduation parties. I dislike not knowing how many hits there are when I end up with a list after a search.
Signing up with Del.icio.us and saving favorites with new tags was interesting, and I can see using that for program ideas in the future.
At the Information Desk I use Del.icio.us to take advantage of great websites others have found.
I can see that depending on how social bookmarking is used, it could be extremely healthy for work in addition to being fun for some.

To Wiki or Not

The concept of a wiki is interesting within a defined group. There is some truth in the Colbert Report (Thank you, Leslie for providing the link). If the wiki is open to all, then without an editor, or committee of editors, it is problematic.
Within a library I can see a wiki working well for any group of library staff. Within the children’s department we could share such things as program ideas, presenter critiques, child development news, and training information.