Task # 12

When I first started to work at the library I tried to use the novel list and I didn't have much success and so I started to just use google, but today when I tried it, it was a snap. Not only was it a snap but it is fun! I looked up Michael Crichton in author read-alikes and it didn't just give similar but told why it is that they are similar. It offered authors such as Dan Brown who mix science and fact with fiction in a similar way to Crichton.
I also looked up series. I did Harry Potter and Twilight and they were a snap, listing them with their publication date, so guaranteed I will use this in the furture.
The recommended reads page seems really useful because several times patrons came in with a genre but no title. I do wish this page had a genre for books without strong language and sexual content because that seems to be the statement I hear the most from patrons. Either I didn't like this book because there was strong language or I'm looking for a book without sexual content. It's still a great page but that would make it perfect.
I think that in the future I will use novel list for all of the things we have gone over in the exercise and you can bet that I will look around and see what else it has to offer. I feel bad that I held a grudge after my first experience.

Task # 11

I checked out The book report network and I personally would only use it for the Author Yellow Pages because I thought that it was easy to use however, I feel like it would be just as easy to google the author. I really thought thought that the Graphic Novel Reporter pages was the site that was put together the best. I think that with all the animation graphics on the site that it was the most visually appealing, I'm just not that into graphic novels.

I chose to look up Ken Follett on Biaography Resource Center because one of his books "Pillars of the Earth" is one of my favorite books. Apparently he is one of the youngest millionaire authors which I think is an interesting fact. I also think that it's interesting that he used to be a reporter and when he first started writing, he wrote under pseudonyms and based his his stories loosely on the cases he covered as a reporter. It was kind of funny because in this article Bookreporter.com was quoted. Best of both worlds I guess.

Task #10

Well I just had to find the gossip about Angelina Joli and so I looked her up on the Master file premier and it initially turned up 4 hits and it asked if I meant to look up Angelina Jolie so I clicked on it and then it turned up 2059 hits. While looking at what it had turned up I came across an interesting article about voluntourism.

Then in the Biography Resource Center I checked out several folks. Janet Evanovich and I got 4 hits. Then I looked up Stephenie Meyer and I got 11 hits. Finally I looked up Micheal Crichton and I got 10 hits.

Task # 9

http://sites.google.com/site/randalee79/ This is the URL to my website. I did my resume because I thought that it would be easy to create a web site from because then I could create a page for each of the categories.
I like all the options for layout but I wanted to do cool things to it and I couldn't figure out how to do that, but I got all the basics. I had initially tried to do my site on Weebly because it seems that Time wouldn't have written about it if it wasn't good but I had trouble with this site. When I tried to add pages the information would go from page one to the next one instead of starting with a fresh slate. Anyway I thought it was confusing so I switched to Google sites. I like doing this sort of thing and so I had fun with this and if I had more time I would add some animation and fun stuff like that. I hope you like it.

Task #8

Well Creative Commons seems like a good idea in theory. I tried to check out Pink, Fleetwood Mc, and Sheryl Crow with Jamendo but I didn't find much of anything except obscure references with one of the words in the title. I did however check out images on Flickr and I think that this could be a really usefull resource for our advertising. For example when the Orchard Mesa Branch did a Harry Potter moviethon we could have founds pictures for the posters with Creative Commons.
I can see how this would be useful information for patrons and in fact I already told one patron about it because he puts so many CDs on hold that I knew that he had to be burning them so I let him know about creative commons.
I tried to go through the Case Studies page and see who is licensed with Creative Commons but I had trouble finding anything so I will talk with someone else and see what I am doing wrong but I have to say that it's a little user unfriendly.