Thing #13: Delicious

I already have a delicious account. Delicious is one of my favorite Web 2.0 tools, as I explained in an earlier post. The PLCMCL2 account demonstrates one way in which delicious can be used as a reference tool as it brings together dozens of links and makes them into a kind of searchable database that participants can use. Perhaps the OPL's web link pages could be converted into a delicious account. It might be easier than updating the OPL website whenever a link needs to be added or subtracted.

Thing #12: Rollyo

I have created a Rollyo search engine that searches the OPL's three digitization projects: the Trans-Mississippi collection, the Early Omaha collection, and the Nebraska Memories collection. In the past we had no means of searching all three at once, but now we can. This, or something like it, could be a great boon to staff and patrons.

I have also added a search box for the new search engine to the left-hand toolbar.

Thing #11: LibraryThing

I first set up a LibraryThing account two or three years ago. I remember planning to enter every book I have ever read (I have a list of them), but after entering about a dozen or so books I came to the conclusion that the endeavor was pointless - or, at least, not worth the time it would take to complete - and gave it up. Logging in to my LT account today for the first time in many months I found that I had deleted everything I had originally entered but had, for reasons I can no longer recall, added Jack London's The Call of the Wild back when I re-read it for Omaha Reads. Now I have added the five books I have read most recently to my library.

Thing #10: Image Generators

From the Vinyl Record Generator.