Challenge #7 - Learning more about Outlook - Due December 4

i looked at how to schedule a meeting using outlook - directions were simple and easy to follow. i'm not sure how useful it will be to use here in the branch - but we could give it a whirl and see how people prefer setting up meetings.

challenge #6

i scanned p. 40 from the emergency notebook & edited for HP, but i wasn't feeling particularly creative. i emailed the scanned document as a word attachment to oclmanages.

challenge #5

i searched america's newspapers using waretown (instead of tuckerton or tr) and as i selected different search options (all text, lead paragraph, headline) the results reduced dramatically - search all text had over 11,000 hits, headline had just over 900. i browsed through the 900 results by limiting the search to headline, and found some interesting articles - like a man had just been found dead a couple of weeks ago by oyster creek channel in barnaget bay, and the candidates the committeemen have to select from to replace van pelt.

i found an article on the Reagan Inauguration in the washingtonpost from jan. 1981 and emailed to oclmanages - but i dont know if it worked because i might have misspelled the address.

challenge #4 - second blog entry

google's main blog is a little boring. so i followed a link to someone's public reader account and found an article on the stewart/cramer interview i totally missed and never bothered looking into, probably only because i was sleeping. then i followed a link to the social web blog, which talked about apps & other technologies re social-ability of websites/pages. then i went to the ukraine blog - which was kind of wacky, because it seemed to be mostly all about selling google to ukrainian businesses.

challenge #4 - first blog entry

wow - that was quite a lot of reading, did that take more time than challenge #3? how is that possible? anyhoo - a couple of things i learned from the exercises in this challenge:

1. 800 GOOG 411 - so that's like directory assistance for free? but you would be using your cell phone minutes ... either way, that's pretty cool if it actually works. i don't know if i would ever use it though.

2. package tracker - that's interesting ... but why would you use it if you can already track your package through ups or fedex or usps, or whatever it is you used to ship something? i'm not sure i get the duplication.

i liked practicing a search with a keyword, and then limiting it to .gov & .edu. its kind of like, if you use just the keyword - you get all the junk, then when you limit it to a specific type of site - you get all the good stuff.

and - my goodness - using google to search nj.gov for the underground railroad and nj town names makes a world of difference. i knew the nj.gov had a bad search feature, much like some others i know, but i never used google to make up for it.

i added a feed for epicurious.com's new recipes. i couldn't think of anything to add.

challenge #3 - gvrl

gvrl... grrrr

did a series search on the "staff" catalog for gvrl, 528 titles came up. sorted by pub date and selected *poetry for students. volume 27* bib #1016806. then went to "public" catalog and did a series search for gvrl and 528 titles came up. sorted by pub date and my selected title (*poetry for students. volume 27*). the title was listed as number 37 - in the "staff" catalog it was listed as #4 - both after sorting by pub date... hmmm... is that interesting? clicked on the web link on the "public" catalog, which brought me to the gvrl page for the book. i clicked on the etable of contents and found an "article" on "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery" by CLAUDIA EMERSON to email in as a pdf attachment. then did the citation thingie & emailed it in. and now i've translated my "article" into a language i can't really read.

i searched the vhgmr for soylent green - the electronic version matched up word for word with the print copy i have in the branch.

i used gvrl today with a couple of students who had projects due on francis drake. it was nice to be able to show the students & the parents how to use an online database instead of google - and how to cite.

challenge #2 - projector & laptop

i set up the projector & laptop for a staff meeting where i gave a refresher on ebscohost. i will have an audience member email about how the refresher went/confirm that i actually did it?