Barn Quilts

Started a Barn Quilt on April 27, 2011 at Wells Community Ed. class held at Renee Holmes farm 12 miles East of New Richland. We painted the primer after sanding our 4 ' square plywood panels. May 3, 2011, we returned to work again. The panels were all primed, 2 coats, applied by Renee and Marilyn. We drew our design grid, taped the edges and applied the first color. A photographer was present from the New Richland paper. We were all photographed in front of Renee's barn quilt. We were told this is the first barn quilt painting class in Minnesota. Guess we could be famous. I chose a pattern called "old glory" in red, white and blue. It will be jazzing up my farm in a few short weeks.

February 2011

Posts are so rapidly accessed and obsorbed, a lot ot thought needs to be given to immediacy. Does this make people more introspective as they write or before? "Let it fly"
I like to share ideas. So I blog. May have to use this "learning blog" more.

Google Tools found interesting

Checking out Google tools by Donna Baker, I am looking for help with google docs. Planning to create documents to share at the library. Newsletters, new books, lists of Station Library materials and policies.

Library Newsletter

I have been part of the "First Edition" (title of Blue Earth Community Library's newsletter) for 3 years. We are creating the 45th issue for December 2010. I list new titles with name of author. We have a feature article that tells about activities going on here. The ornament workshop is being planned now. We have news of the Cookbook Club, an spot for "Ask Dewey", and a Technology news spot called "Bytes". There can be lots more: Particularly the book reviews written by staff or patrons. But I am usually looking for ideas from other librarians online. I follow a few in Twitter, 23thingsonastick ning, www.librarything.com, and facebook.
The letter amounts to one page, double sided, which is available at the desk and on the library website www.becl.org. I enjoy doing it and hope that it encourages people to read more and become internet savvy. I would like to do an article on searching online. Compare google with bing and yahoo. I use google for so many things, I don't need anything else. But it is good to look at other search vehicles. There is usually something to learn, for instance, the vocabularly (which I can use). People don't realize how many words to use and how to choose words for a search.

Twitter is great up to the second news!

The game was not on TV, I logged in to Twitter and got a play by play announcements and comments extraordinarily exciting!
That was the day I was hooked on Twitter. Since that time I log in when I am in need of news. Plus I have found authors, and book publishing firms announcing new books, giving opinions, links to book excerpts and articles. I have a weatherman I follow, also.
All the people I follow are people I have not met in person. Whereas in Facebook, I know all.