10a. Emailed.
10b. Article published 3/18/08; 4 sons
10c. LFPL Does not physically own these journals according to Worldcat. We do have access to Full Text articles of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Clinical Medicine and Research in Academic Search Premier. We do not have Full Text access to Telos but do have Abstracts available through Academic Search Premier.
11a. Mutual Fund Vanguard Target Retirement 2020
Name of Manager: Duane F. Kelly
Stewardship Grade: B
Overall Morningstar Rating: 4 Stars
11b. LCD TVs Consumer Reports 2008-2009
We do have access to these reports through Ebsco's Academic Search Premier
Dec. 2008, vol. 73 Issue 12 p. 28-33
Dec. 2009, vol 74 Issue 12 p. 23-28
11c. No surprise, Starbucks would be the biggest competitor in the 40202 Zip code for someone that decided to open a coffee shop. (Unless you count Dunkin' Donuts which I don't.) No one can hope to compete with big business like Starbucks, so the next level of local competition in that zipcode would be Mocha Delight and the Coffee Pot Cafe which both earn between $160,000 - 200,000 and both have a credit rating score of a B.
What research tool do you find most useful, either for library or personal use?
For the average user, I think the most used source that we looked at today would be the Consumer Reports information or using the Periodical/Magazines databases to find things such as Obituaries. For students, the Periodical/Magazine databases are invaluable by being able to access and print off the articles they need for school projects. For the Business person, the Business Reference USA would be really exciting to have access to. I was really excited to have such questions to make me do some digging with the databases. When I sit down and look at them on my own, I tend to not have a question in mind so it's hard to come up with an abstract question to ask myself so that I can learn how to use the databases. It would be awesome if every now and then someone could throw us some questions (for those who want to do it that is!) to research to keep our database skills honed.
What research tool should we be telling more people about?
I think more people would be interested in knowing how many journals/periodicals/magazines have full text articles out there. The ones I saw today were not only full text, but were also in full color and were just a digital version of what was in the actual magazine. Just with their library card, they have full access to these day or night from a computer. Also, I'm thinking that if more people in the Business community both for work and personal use knew what a great resource Business Reference USA is, they would use it a lot more.
Pretty cool.
If LFPL could only keep one research tool to carry out its mission, which one would you choose and why?
Personally, the research tool I use the most is Novelist. If we HAD to choose, this is the one I would pick because it is invaluable in helping our patrons discover what book to read next in a series, how to find similar series authors, find all the books a particular author has written, etc.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Photo sharing
I have to admit, I have toyed with the idea of creating either a Flickr or a photobucket account. I never really could see the benefit of doing it, so I didn't. I see now. If you want your digital pics safe somewhere so in case your harddrive explodes or heaven forbid, your house burns and all of your pics were on a hard drive, you are hosed. I created a Flickr account last week and have decided that more than likely, I am going to upload our pics to the internet. It just takes motivation to sit down and do it!
I did some random searches for Louisville, Kentucky to see what I could find. I looked up Las Vegas, Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and my favorite dog breed the Shiba Inu. I found tons of pictures of everything I looked for. For the average person who is looking to travel, looking to see what a particular dog breed looks like, (or wants to see pics of their favorite dog breed) or wants to see what pictures are available from or about their hometown, photo sharing websites offer the world to them.
For work purposes, Photo Sharing sites have a ton of uses. We have patrons looking for a picture to add to their homework that they could use Photo Sharing sites for. Pictures from these sites could be used to spruce up a Power Point presentation. Someone could be creating a flyer for a service such as mowing lawns where they could find a nice picture to use. People could be on the Internet looking for cool places to visit where there are plenty of good photo opportunities or any number of other travel uses. And tons of other things I'm not thinking of at the moment.
I did some random searches for Louisville, Kentucky to see what I could find. I looked up Las Vegas, Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and my favorite dog breed the Shiba Inu. I found tons of pictures of everything I looked for. For the average person who is looking to travel, looking to see what a particular dog breed looks like, (or wants to see pics of their favorite dog breed) or wants to see what pictures are available from or about their hometown, photo sharing websites offer the world to them.
For work purposes, Photo Sharing sites have a ton of uses. We have patrons looking for a picture to add to their homework that they could use Photo Sharing sites for. Pictures from these sites could be used to spruce up a Power Point presentation. Someone could be creating a flyer for a service such as mowing lawns where they could find a nice picture to use. People could be on the Internet looking for cool places to visit where there are plenty of good photo opportunities or any number of other travel uses. And tons of other things I'm not thinking of at the moment.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Oh MY!
I'm very comfortable using Facebook, but I did delve into my privacy settings and paid attention to what things could be shared about me by my friends' facebook settings. It was totally beneficial to me to look at those settings and see how I could make sure my information that is 'out there' is locked down to my satisfaction. For the most part, I see our role with our patrons and facebook to be just being familiar with it and knowing where to go when they are having problems with it. The question I usually get about facebook is "how do I add my picture to my profile?"
I had a Twitter account as well, but don't tend to use it as much as my facebook. I was curious about it so I got an account close to a year ago now. It's amusing at times and is nice being able to look into the lives of those we admire such as authors, radio personalities, etc.. but for the most part, it's just ok to me. I can't really see myself using it for helping patrons other than something that is happening in the news 'right now' that hasn't hit the newspapers or the media yet. Even then however, how reliable can we count it to be? I'm a bit skeptical about using it as a source for questions. I think it is however very important to keep yourself in the technological loop so that you are aware of how these sites work just to be able to help people who get stuck using them.
I do not have a LinkedIn account and am unsure if I will create one. It would be good to see how it works and such for patrons who want to use it, but I'm not sure I want yet another username/password to keep track of out there in the vast space of the internet.
I had a Twitter account as well, but don't tend to use it as much as my facebook. I was curious about it so I got an account close to a year ago now. It's amusing at times and is nice being able to look into the lives of those we admire such as authors, radio personalities, etc.. but for the most part, it's just ok to me. I can't really see myself using it for helping patrons other than something that is happening in the news 'right now' that hasn't hit the newspapers or the media yet. Even then however, how reliable can we count it to be? I'm a bit skeptical about using it as a source for questions. I think it is however very important to keep yourself in the technological loop so that you are aware of how these sites work just to be able to help people who get stuck using them.
I do not have a LinkedIn account and am unsure if I will create one. It would be good to see how it works and such for patrons who want to use it, but I'm not sure I want yet another username/password to keep track of out there in the vast space of the internet.
Google services
Wow, I knew Google was awesome, but I had no idea it was so versitile!
The things I think would be most useful when helping patrons would be Google Docs, Google Books, Google Patents and Google Maps.
The only one of these I have ever used is Google Maps. I discovered this years ago and thought it was awesome I could get a 'real' view of streets and such. I think Google Docs is awesome for people who do not carry a portable drive such as a jump drive. It can be accessed from any computer that has internet access. Google books is handy when you are trying to figure out where a quote came from. From my experiments with Google books, it seems to have a variety of books both new and old that are on there. I tried a classic Shakespear quote and a random quote from an author I currently read. Both were there. Google Patents is very cool as well. We do have the occasional patron who wants to do a Patent search and we usually direct them to the Main Library. Well, NO MORE! I'm going to show them this. I am not sure that it is as comprehensive as doing an official patent search, but at least they have a starting point with this.
The things I think would be most useful when helping patrons would be Google Docs, Google Books, Google Patents and Google Maps.
The only one of these I have ever used is Google Maps. I discovered this years ago and thought it was awesome I could get a 'real' view of streets and such. I think Google Docs is awesome for people who do not carry a portable drive such as a jump drive. It can be accessed from any computer that has internet access. Google books is handy when you are trying to figure out where a quote came from. From my experiments with Google books, it seems to have a variety of books both new and old that are on there. I tried a classic Shakespear quote and a random quote from an author I currently read. Both were there. Google Patents is very cool as well. We do have the occasional patron who wants to do a Patent search and we usually direct them to the Main Library. Well, NO MORE! I'm going to show them this. I am not sure that it is as comprehensive as doing an official patent search, but at least they have a starting point with this.
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