Week 3 - Twitter

Well I've heard a lot of hype about Twitter and to be honest, it wasn't that great lol, don't hunt me down Tosca.

It's very easy to use, customer's should find it easy to use. It could definitely be used in both the learn.nets and workrooms. If I wanted to find out what any of my family were doing, I would pick up the phone or simply invite myself over to their homes. We are that kind of family, no invitation needed - whanau, whanau, tatou, tatou.

I have followed Twitter before when I overheard Tosca talking about tweeting. I was like, huh!? I managed to find out what it was. I think this could work with our patrons who are into the whole social blogging, networking stuff. They would find it interesting.

I would use Twitter to spy and stalk people (lol)see what they're up too. I'm not sure my own friends and family would be into it but I can definitely see myself promoting this, especially if it's for the best for our libraries and communities.

Week 2 - Zamzar

I LOVE THIS!!!! This is awesome. This website is so easy to use and will definitely come in handy, not just for patrons, but for anyone who's ever wanted to convert a file but have had to download the software. (This is sooooooooo annoying when it happens). My sister is going to be rapt when I show her this new website. She's going to buy me new shoes for showing her how to convert her music files. We can finally convert all her WMA files to MP3, yay!

We have a lot of patrons who have old computers and therefore have old applications. A lot of the files they bring in are quite old and we can't seem to open them. Some of them are formats I've never heard of. With this new website, I can show patrons, family and friends how easy it easy to convert files. Images, docs, music, videos - how cool is that? I think it's, Awesome!

Week One - Blogging April 2010

Has it been that long since I've been in here. It's hard to believe.

Wow. The school holidays are over and gone, thank goodness. When you have programmes running every day, twice a day, it tires the body and weakens the mind. We're not getting any younger folks. Check out some of our photo's below from our April Holiday.

Mask Making

Scrabble Competition

Looking for Alice in Library Land

Looking for Alice in Library Land

I hope your all ready and geared to go for the next school holidays. Fun times!

Latest Reads

Hi everyone,

Thanks Dejanee and Dorz for letting me know that your both reading my blog. Don't forget to leave comments.

Anyway the Teen Club, Legit, is due to start back shortly. I'm hoping to have things up and running by March, so please bear with me everyone. I have not forgotten you.

So what have I been reading? The Carter Girls Series which contains 4 books. The author is Melody Carlson.
1. Mixed Bags
2. Stealing Bradford
3. Homecoming Queen
4. Viva Vermont
It's your typical girly set up. Girls living away from home and boarding at an ex-model's house who just happens to be a grandmother now. There's heaps of drama in these books and typically what you would expect from rich catty girls but there are friendships formed in this house.

I would probably give them a 4/10 rating. I'm not really a fan of girly books.

I also read:
1. Marly's Ghost: a remix of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The author is David Levithan. This was ok. If your've ever read and liked Charles Dickens' A christmas carol then you'll enjoy this. In this case the main character has given up on love because his true love has died. He's bent on destroying everyone's perception on love until he's visited by the 3 spirits.

I would give this a 5/10. It was ok but not great.

So everyone..keep reading and if you want to request these books come in to your local library or just check us out on our website http://www.manukau-libraries.govt.nz keep me up to date on what's happening around. Till we meet again...later's.

Any questions

I'm letting you all know that this is an awesome resource to use. If you need help with your homework, log into this website http://www.anyquestions.co.nz/

This is really handy for those really tricky homework questions. The great thing about this network is: a nationwide network of librarians at your disposal. Remember everyone, this is to help with your homework.

Pasefika Month

Hi again,

March is Pasefika Month. Yay!!! Mangere East is celebrating with events like:

1. A Tivaevae Demonstration
2. Bilingual Storytime
3. Read Aloud Story Time

Information on what's happening around our other libraries and how they're celebrating Pasefika will be posted on our website soon http://www.manukau-libraries.govt.nz

So, keep an eye out everyone.

2009

Hope u all had an awesome New Year and redi 4 wat we have in store 4 ya'll dis cumin year. I know a lot of you went away 4 the holidays or just hung out with famz and friends, so I hope ya'll had a reali gud time.

We had a couple of comps ova da Xmas/New Year period

• All eyes on Manukau
• Twilight Competition

The first one didnt' really go down well with the local teens around Mangere East but dats algud. Althou I was surprised cause we have so many vain peeps LoL buh if ne of u have photos you'd lyk to share, send dem my way n I'll post dem up.

If any of you have read the series Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, then you'll know what I'm on about. You could go into the draw to win 2 tickets to watch the movie at the cinema or you could buy you a ticket for the measly price of $7.50. I know, thats cheap as.....

This year will be our year again and we have Manix to look 4rd too....so keep in touch everyone and hope to see ya'll soon....