Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Task 12


Hello Friends,

As a introduction to this post I will describe an incident which took place not too long ago.

The place is Ford City, PA. The thick east coast humidity makes me want a shower and the
sweat coming from my feet gives me what east coast folk call swampsocks. Ford City is the kind of place where I can recall the old baseball cards with the frame that looked like wood and licourice bubblegum. Watching the softball games across the road from my grandparent's house and catching fireflies in the evening. The look of the place is different from Colorado, I never wanted to live back there from November to May but the summers were special. Big, green, rolling hills that will forever remind me of times when things were as simple as whiffleball and being absorbed by another place.

Back to the Webolution task, I have already used Novelist quite a bit in helping patrons find books to read, it is very convenient for looking up a series by an author and for find books similar to a title a patron has already enjoyed. Using google to find this information is helpful only 50% of the time and Novelist has additional resources all in one place.

Novelist has also been endearingly useful to me in finding books for the new MCPLD book club, 1,2,3,4, Blastoff!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Task 11: Hey Crew



Once again I have been inconsistent in my posting, but this one will make up for lost time. I was a little disappointed by The Book Report's lack of material on one of my favorite authors, John Sladek. Yes, THE John Sladek. If you have not read his material you should do so immediately, Sladek is the reason that William Shakespeare decided to write, Sladek is the reason that strawberries are red. Sladek is the reason that pizza has those little puddles of of grease on them right before you eat a slice. Seriously, John Sladek wrote an incredibly funny novel entitled The Complete Roderick, it was actually a compilation of previous Roderick titles and it is beyond a doubt the best thing since grease puddles on
pizza.

I scoured the Book Report Network for information on Sladek but it was about as fulfilling as beating Robert's fantasy football team so I went to the Biography Resource Center and found an informative biography, it made me want to read Roderick collection

On another note, have you listened to music by MC Lyte? She is something else.