#12 Overdrive

I've downloaded from Overdrive, given presentations on Overdrive, and told patrons about Overdrive. That doesn't stop me from thinking Overdrive is kind of useless and terrible. At least from a teen librarian's perspective. It doesn't work on iPods so I lose 95% of my audience when I'm talking about it. And while it might be a last minute alternative for homework when the book isn't in the library, anything worth checking out requires a hold to be placed.

These were the two selling points I used in presenting it to teens and it fails at both of them, so I feel it is hard to recommend it as an alternative source of information for them.

Maybe it works great for older patrons though.

#11 Del.icio.us

I have always found bookmarking too daunting. It creates a list of things I feel I should check every day (in the same way RSS feeds and listservs get out of hand). And Del.icio.us just seems bigger than all of that.

That is probably something I have to deal with on my own, but del.icio.us is just something that doesn't interest me. It is nice to know it is out there though.

#10 Wikis

At another library I won't mention we had teen author John Green visit certain high school classes. Later that week we found out questions he had answered during his presentation showed up in his wikipedia entry.

Due to the transitory nature of the wiki this has, of course, been changed.

#9 streaming video

Proof of my maturity.

I went looking for this video earlier this year. Nate at Snohomish found it for me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SN-t_mA0pjU

Thanks Nate!

#8 Social networking.

The library has a myspace we use to let teens know about upcoming events.

http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user

Personally I am on Facebook because it is more mature. and if there is one thing I am known for it is my maturity.

Thumbs up for Slurpees

This is the best use for Flickr I've seen.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8060206257543341917

Anything else kind of pales in comparison.