Online Productivity Tools Task #4

Book Review

The Camel Bookmobile

By: Masha Hamilton

This story follows Fiona "Fi" Sweeney and her journey to Africa. Fi is an American librarian who wants to make a difference with her life by helping others. She leaves her family and friends behind in New York City and travels to Africa to start a traveling library. The books are packed in crates and put onto the backs of camels. There is a limited amount of books because they are donated so the people in the settlements can only keep them for two weeks. The fine is stiff; if the books are not returned when the bookmobile comes back the camel bookmobile doesn't return. Scar boy, a young boy refuses to return his books and brings shame on his tribe. The bookmobile stops coming but Fi returns to the village alone to try to get him to return his books. Although Fi wants to help the people she is serving she doesn't understand the cultural differences and values collide.

RSS Feeds Task #3

I have subscribed to five RSS feeds. They are the following:

http://www.CNN.com This is an up to the minute news & information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics & more.

http://www.dictionary.com A new word is presented everyday with definitions and example sentences from actual published works.

http://www.NYTimesBookReview.com - This is feed with reviews of best sellers.

http://www.TheShiftedLibrarian.com - This is a feed for blogs for librarians.

Each of these 4 feeds will help me in my job in assisting patrons with current information going on in the country, it will be helpful in suggesting reading materials for patrons and keep me current on other libraries in the country.

The fifth feed is a personal choice. I chose http://www.iTunes.com lists Today's Top 25 songs.

Task #1 & #2

As of today I'm going to begin the process of completing ycltwopointoh by our September Staff Development Day. I believe we should always be open to new ideas and this will be a great opportunity for me to learn and to increase my knowlege to help patrons when they come to our library branch. It's good to be able to do a "class" like this at our own pace. Of course, the "prizes" are a good motivation also.