Edgar Allen Poe in Creative Commons

This was a difficult task embedding the audio file.  I am still not sure if this was done correctly.

The raven (Edgar Allan Poe), a photo by kevin dooley on Flickr. License also on this link.

License

•  Some rights reserved
• Request to license kevin dooley's photos via Getty Images

The Raven audio file from Internet Archive.org.
License for audio file. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds Fellow Classmates

I have subscribed to Arwa Merriman, Joyce Martin, and Rebecca Capehart's blogs.

RSS Feed News

I subscribed to Fox News and Wave 3 Metro Louisville news rss feeds.

What do I think of RSS Feeds?

I had already subscribed to a couple of rss feeds.  My daughter has a blog and I love tor read her writings of course.  But in general, I really do not like rss feeds.  I hate reading on the computer and I only do it when I have to for school or work.  I have enjoyed looking at other classmates blogs and maybe I will use rss feeds more in the future.  I just feel like computers take up so much of my time already.  If I want news, I would rather pick up the local newspaper and read it.

EVERGREEN INDIANA

A new technology that was implemented while I was working at Jackson County Library in Seymour was our migration to the Evergreen Consortium in 2008.  The purpose of joining this consortium was to provide more access to our patrons and to hopefully save our community money.  

Evergreen Indiana is a group of over 100 member libraries who share materials and the cost of sharing as well.  It was a difficult transition for staff and for patrons during the migration period.  We actually did not close our doors, but we did "blind checkouts".  We were unable to register patrons, take fines, or check in materials.  The only thing we could do was check out materials to patrons who already had library cards.  Of course, we could not tell if patrons had large fines, were expired, or were blocked for other reasons.  After migration was complete, and we began to upload transactions to Evergreen, we had some problems because of these blind check outs.  We also had about four days of items to check in as well.

Now, after the beginning hiccups, and a few troublesome upgrades, Evergreen has been a wonderful decision for our library.  Our patrons have access to millions of items from libraries around the state with no out of pocket cost to them.  We use InfoExpress and our costs our lower because of joining the consortium.  Patrons are excited to go into other counties and use their card as well as have items brought to them.  

Before Evergreen, our library would purchase or ILL items that we did not have for our patrons.  Now, we can place a hold on that obscure title that one library has in Evergreen instead of having to pay postage to get it out of state or ILL it.

We also do not have to pay for an ILS or someone to upgrade it.  Evergreen is open-source software that is managed by the state library.  We already had an technology specialist who helps us through the upgrades.