Starting Thing 6

I was going to start Thing 6 while I was working my stint as reading room monitor, but even in a networked situation its difficult to get access to all your images when you're working on another computer. So, instead, I'm going to work on updating my Holmes & Doyle bibliography and get that ready for the end-0f-the-month posting on our web site. This image is a part of the bookplate used for our Holmes Collections and also seen on the website. Maybe I'll try making a trading card with this image. We'll see.

Finished With Thing 3

Done with Thing 3. I checked out the additional resources, played around with some of the search possibilities and now its time to move on to Thing 4. I've got six feeds on my reader and no doubt will add more. I have found it a very productive way to get the information I need in one spot without hopping from site to site. One of the things I'm interested to learn is how to set up your own feed. I'm thinking, for instance, that when I update an online bibliography it might be useful to some people to get those updates as an RSS feed. Obviously, something else to explore and maybe add to my list of questions. Onward and upward.

Don't lose this thought

A note to self. Part of the key with 2.0 stuff seems to be interactivity. So, for instance, I have an ongoing bibliography that I'm creating on work related to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. In an interactive 2.0 world, would there be a tool that could be created (if it doesn't already exist) to allow interested people to suggest additional entries to the bibliography? I do a lot of the bibliographic work using RefWorks, so would it be possible for me to create a basic input template somewhere on the web page that would allow folks to input a new citation and that citation, in turn, would be automatically loaded into my working file of things to check and edit before I add them to the bibliography? Just a thought, but one I didn't want to lose. And, of course, I'm wondering who (if anyone) will see or hear those questions? (Another part of learning about this 2.0 world!)