Super Librarian Video

Have you checked out the "Super Librarian" on Youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu-TijjVs_g

Blogpost #1 Flickrtoys Trading Card

If you haven't gone onto the Flickrtoys site yet to play, I would highly recommend doing so.

How easy it is to produce a trading card! It is so simple to do that it is actually fun!

The first thing I did was to enter www.flickrtoys.com but this site came up as "domain disabled". Using a search for flickrtoys, I ended up at http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrtoys/. The page is entitled fd's Flickrtoys which made me wonder who or what fd was? I searched around but did not actually come up with an answer to that question.

The flickrtoys page includes a discussion board, a photo pool, a map of the world with "photo deposits" geographically indicated, and an "about fd's flickrtoys" section. The "about fd's flickrtoys" includes: the purpose, the Big Huge Blog, the toy box, and contact information.

The toy box has nineteen different things to play with. There are tools for badge making, billboards, calendars, a Hockneyizer collage maker, mosaics, a Warholizer, and last but not least, the trading card maker. Click on the trading card maker, follow the simple instructions, and voila, you can easily produce a trading card!

Although I don't have many photos on flickr, I knew our library director had taken a photo of me at Halloween which had been uploaded. Through the magic of the season, our vehicle had been converted into a frighteningly fantastic BOO!mobile! and I had also been transformed into a fortune telling wizard. With this inspiring raw material from flickr at hand and carefully following the step by step directions on the trading card page, the above pictured Wizard of the BOO!mobile was created!

Flickrtoys trading card tool is so easy to use, it really is fun. In terms of marketing for the bookmobile, I can just imagine how much our young patrons would love to have us create trading cards for them. This could be used as either a reading incentive or simply as a draw to get patrons on board.

A new beginning!

Never thought I would be doing this...quite exciting!

Used Blogger to set up this account.

This is a photo of the Homer Township Public Library's bookmobile!

Greetings!

Hi there! I'm at Dominican University today!