Thing 14

Glad to see more attempts on the internet to organize-looks like a page from libraries as subjects are grouped and categorized by topic. Our little webmaster at HPL has already organized reference topics of interest to staff so that we just look for the topic, click, and away we go. Holdrege Public has topics broken down finer-nice job. Yes, I can see book clubs and groups using a site like this with keywords about genres. The public would probably understand these terms too.

Thing 13

Have heard CNN and others invite viewers to join their twitter sessions. Now I understand what happens but personally do not want to go public. If libraries have a large enough staff to have someone watch the twitter tweets, I can see a value. My library just has an e-mail that people can post reference questions.

Thing 12

Thought this lesson had good directions. I am getting a new computer so I need to look at Vista books. I added titles to my Computer books tab. See my titles at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/csweb&tag=Computer%2Bbooks

Thing 11

Technology is getting ahead of me. I used to love to learn, but when you start out with DOS and encounter change, change, change in software it can become overwhelming. Software programs start to look alike even though the details require attention. When you get proficient, you have to learn all over again and the frequency of new features increases. I used to be able to keep up but feel a widening gap now.
Nebraska Learns 2.0, although painful at times because the lessons use a trial and error learning method with very few guidelines, is probably how most internet users learn. Not everyone likes reading manuals, but some of us are more visual learners and prefer them. Can't do that with all the variety and choices you have to make as you are using the web. Don't know if all Web one users will be able to make the transition to Web 2. Libraries and librarians can perhaps help close the gap if we provide access and have a glimmer of understanding as a patron looks for help.