Since our Outloook server is down, I decided to take some tiem and actually do an activity more thoroughly than I had been.  I navigated a few of the wiki sites recommended by our instructors and reviewed some of the technology available in order to create one's wiki.  Personally, I rather like Wikia ... must be part of the comfort zone since the site looks and feels more like the wikis I have been exposed to thus far.  I shall not use this post to "bash" some of the library websites, but in all honesty, if the site is not visually appealing, why would I care to visit?  Clouds ... tags ... this is a tad overwhelming and maybe my inner tech-geek has yet to surface. 

Like many others, this is my first attempt at a blog.  The course is the perfect excuse to dive right in and hopefully, at the completion of our five weeks "together," I will be sufficiently inspired to create a blog of my own!  Regardless, a little more about myself.  I am currently the Head of Library Information Services for the Occidental College Library.  I have been with Oxy for eight years; my department includes reference, interlibrary loans, bibliographic instruction, systems, and electronic resources.  I am also the campus coordinator for our Mellon Foundation librarian Recruitment Program.  I am hoping to use skills gained from this course to determine whether or not the library would benefit from a Facebook/MySpace account, a library blog, or something smaller like a unit (instruction? reference?) blog.