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Here's my library thing link http://www.librarything.com/home/crumber

Library thing is a great tool for libraries to use in stimulating reading and thinking about reading. In spite of this it's not really something I'd use. Sometimes all I want to do is read a book but I'm distracted by all the choice. I have loads of books at home and see so much stuff I'd like to read. I don't feel that I need to discover more information about books through reviews etc.

Pretty tasty

Actually, maybe delicious is not quite the word I'd use to describe what Delicious does. It is a useful tool particularly since in the past few years I've lost many favourites or bookmarks due to a pc being replaced. I also remember that several years ago my job was to discover useful library websites and have them used by the rest of the staff. It was pretty time consuming and I don't think we as a library ever made great use of it. Much better to have your own and in a way that you can access them from any pc. It is also useful to be able to discover what other people are bookmarking whether for work or in my case travel. So, it's all fairly tasty.

Here's a link to my bookmarks. http://www.delicious.com/cccrumber

Favourites

A break from Cambodia

It's difficult to fit Cambodia and travel into this post if I follow the guidelines of the course. Before I start thanks to all those who sent me advice I got concerning my angst at facing the monkeys in Cambodia. On one travel website someone recommended taking four water bottles to the temples, one for yourself and the rest for the more aggressive monkeys.

Onto the course. I learnt a fair bit about wikis this week. I didn't know that all information supplied to Wikipedia needs to be referenced so that it can be checked out. In other words most entries are probably taken from books or journals.

I did think some of the Library wikis looked useful such as Blogging Libraries Wiki or the one about best practice in Libraries.

I also liked the idea of using wikis for our own purposes as a great device for sharing information. Maybe a brainstorm on things we wish to include in next years budget would be useful. Planning anything as a group could be aided by using wikis.

When searching for Wikis on monkeys I found a Wiki site called Wikia and it had an entry about a character called Lord Monkey Fist who studies Tai Shing Pek Kwar, or Monkey Kung Fu. http://kimpossible.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_Fist
Another bit of useless information. Maybe back to Cambodia next week.

Dreaming about monkeys

I've started worrying a bit about the trip and dreaming alot about monkeys. It's all because a Scandinavian guy at my work (we can call him Fred but that's not his real name) told me that he had fought a monkey in Thailand earlier this year. I can't believe this. What hope is there for world peace if a guy from the home of the Nobel Peace prize has a tussle with a monkey at the most sacred of places - a Buddhist temple....And it was all over a plastic water bottle. Not that a punch was thrown, more just a tug of war over the water bottle. He warned me to watch out in Cambodia as there's lots of monkeys in temples there. So I've started searching the internet for more information about monkeys and ways of defending myself.

I've also started adding RSS feeds to my account and some with a monkey theme. I'm calling them monkey feeds. There's one called '40 Random Facts About Monkeys' and another called "Video - Predatory Monkeys". I also found a feed within a Martial Arts blog called 'Are you smart enought to fight a monkey.' So, I've discovered that everything is out there in cyberspace and hopefully I'll arrive in Cambodia with a mountain of ideas in dealing with monkeys.

I've also added a couple of feeds on Cambodia, one being 'The official site for Tourism of Cambodia' and the other from the Guardian newspaper in England. With the latter I guess I'll receive a feed everytime an article is written on Cambodia. This could be very useful. And I've also subscribed to Pitchfork: Album Reviews, an online music site.