Week 3 - Social Reading

Hot on the heels of my last post, there's week 3 finished. (Now only 4 weeks behind... sort of).

You may think that, working for NBPLS as I do, I would already be very familiar by now with the features and layout of the no-longer-all-that-new Vision catalogue... You may think it, but it was not so. Completing week 3's task remedied the situation nicely.

My list consisted of books and movies both, some encountered recently and some long ago. It's entitled "Sad but worth it" and I decided to leave it public in case other Vision users may also enjoy the kinds of wonderful works that some people call "depressing".

From that list, I chose to comment on Atonement by Ian McEwan (the book, not the film).

Finally, for Thing 10 I think I successfully found a like-minded reader to follow. I looked at comments on The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonardo Mlodinow and scrolled down until I found someone who agreed with my own assessment of the book as mindblowing.

Week 2

As everyone else embarks on week 8, I am just now getting back to this training after a seven week hiatus (oops) and have done week 2.

Twitter is easy to set up, and, so far as I can tell, easy to use. Some may think I stretched the definition of a library-related account by including Stephen Hawking in my list (although he is an author), but I made a point of also following two local libraries, Neil Gaiman, and the Human Library.

To make the most of this training task I gleefully signed up to follow CBC's Quirks and Quarks. On the whole, I think I'm going to enjoy Twitter.