Nine

This one was pretty fun. I chose Weebly because I liked the name. It was fairly easy to do, but some of the features I couldn't get to work the way I wanted them to. I used a photo from Creative Commons because I'm so virtuous.

Eight

The Book Lush is a bad person. I tried, unsuccessfully, to get into this project. Don't much care about freedom, creativity, or any of the problems of people who do care about freedom and creativity. I tried not to be a facile punk about it, though, and I spent way more time looking around on Creative Commons than I wanted to. I wandered hither and yon, stifling many a yawn, I found some interesting music on Jamendo (baroque, 'cause I'm such a highbrow) , I did a Google search on how to hotwire a car, I found a picture of a Corgi's tuchis on Flickr that amused me. That's worthwhile, right? I could help a patron in this way. That'd be swell, wouldn't it? Oops, sorry, facile-punk alert! Bad-person alert! I wish I wasn't so insincere.

Seven

This task didn't thrill me so much. I took a cursory peek at all of them. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention, but it seemed that they were geared toward recommending the most popular, best-selling types of books. Also, plenty of book-nerd gabbing action, which is not my thing. I don't think I would use any of them my own self, though possibly any could be used to help a patron find something to read.

A correction

It seems that the Book Lush is a hypocrite. Somehow, perhaps while in a fugue state, I made a Facebook profile for myself. Maybe it was when the library was first plugging its Facebook-ness. Then, I visited a seldom-used email address and saw that some work chums wanted to be "friends" with me. Far be it from me to turn down friendship when so nicely offered, I said to myself. So there we are. Steeped in hypocrisy once again. Forgive, if you can, my previous self-righteousness on the subject.

Six

To begin with, when I clicked on the link to the"New Staff Orientation", my Avast security set off an alarming alarm and said that a Trojan Horse virus had been detected. I thought that was weird. I got on the site another way and saw that there were interesting links all over it, such as the Blogging Librarians' Wiki and a list of library and librarian blogs. The 123 site was all right--I took the attitude test and it was revealed that I have a great attitude. Who knew? I should probably take it again and not lie this time. Heh-heh.

Five

When I place holds for myself, I usually do them in Milennium. It's lots easier, to my mind. I guess that's the wicked and wrong way, however. I tried both the bookbag method and the logging into my account method. When I went to the bookbag and requested the checked items, the results were ambiguous--I didn't know whether they'd actually been requested. I like the other way of logging into my account much better. I guess if I have to request items for patrons, I would use this method

Four

Social networking:feh. I'd rather watch a Steven Segal movie than create a profile on Facebook or Myspace. And I hate Steven Segal with a fiery passion. Social networking sites remind me of the dreaded Christmas newsletter:communication from someone, who, if I knew them better or really cared about them, I would already know all about. So, I'm not a fan. But the Book Lush is a misanthrope with no friends, so why listen to me? I'm sure it's all very great, but the thought of posting the details of my humdrum life is too horrible to contemplate.

The Book Lush is a restless soul

I changed things-I got bored. I don't have many opportunities to customize things in this life, so I choose to exercise control over trivialities.

Three

Yippee-skippy for the Book Lush-I got 100% on my quiz. Thanks to Jennifer for help on #8. The site map was useful in many cases. I was sad to realize that there weren't many answers that I just knew in my head without looking them up. But it was a very useful exercise to navigate the website and it should make it easier to answer the people's questions.

Two

I was going to be cute and title this "Two is Through", but I couldn't go through with it. I am already acquainted with Pandora, so I tried LastFM and liked it fine. Very easy to use and skip ahead to the next offering if one's a dud. But I confess that, when I am actually working at the computer (as opposed to nertsing around on it for fun), I prefer background quiet to background music. And, actually, I don't spend all that much time computing when I don't have to. Sort of seems like a waste of time. Is it sacrilegious to say so? The Book Lush strives for honesty at all times.

One is done

I'm the Book Lush-I can't help myself. I must accumulate and read as many books as possible. If I wasn't such a lucky working stiff, I'd be reading right now. Interpersonal relating takes up valuable time as well, but I do my best. I'm glad to be doing Webolution 3.0 and I look forward to reading everyone's blog and learning fun facts and being entertained.