DYI Professional Development

I went to the Library of Congress and discovered they have a lot of webcasts which are available on their web-site and on Youtube.  I watched a video about the Digital Public Library of America or DPLA.  The DPLA is a portal which instituions across the United States are using to share historical data, documents and pictures.  As items are digitized by smaller organizations they can be added to teh DPLA making them accessible to everyone. 

Here is the video for anyone who is interested. 

Multimedia and YouTube

Wayne and Shuster were two of my favourite comedians.  I glad to see some of their sketches on Youtube. 



Here is Wayne and Shuster with Shakespeare's Take on Baseball.

Pinterest

Some of my colleagues already follow Pinterest but it doesn't appeal to me.  I think I prefer to search for things using Google.  I created a few boards about Gardening and Library related articles and I've started following the Library of Toronto. 

Wordle is Fun!

It took a while to come up with something to paste into Wordle but once I thought of something it was fun to play with the different combinations.  Here is the Wordle take on New Brunswick Heritage Week.

Images

Even kids that have difficulty reading enjoy reading to a dog.  Here is a shot of a girl participating in a Reading to Dogs event at U.S.Marine base Lejuene in South Carolina.

Courtesy USMC via Wickmedia Commons

Social reading with Bibliocommons

This was fun.  I already use my Bibbliocommons account but it was good to have a refresher in how to make lists and comment on books.  It took me a while to find someone to follow, but I did finally find someone with lots of good suggestions.

Twitter

It's harder than you would think to come up with a comment that's short enough for a tweet.  Thankfully one of my co-workers came up with a helpful suggestion.  It is sort of like reading the headlines on newspapers.  You get an idea of what is happening but no details.