Biblio.com

This is a great site for buying used/rare books. I found several that I wanted to buy at terrific prices. What caught my eye next was the fact that this company participates in reducing their eco-footprint with every book they ship out! They keep track of the miles each book is shipped, and keep track of the miles their employees travel to work, and then based on that, the company donates money to NativeEnergy, a privately-held Native American energy company that helps build community-based renewable energy projects. How cool is that?! I even had a patron on Friday who was looking for a book from 1970 that we could only get for him through ILL, which I did, but then he mentioned he might go on Ebay and see if he could find this title. I suggested he also look at Biblio.com since they had used books specifically, and showed him the site. He said he likes to buy used books and thought this site was great!

google docs practice

"Now is the time for all good men & women to come to the aid of their country!" We must live in an environmentally sound way with greater dependence on solar and wind power, and lessen our use of quickly depleting oil. This was my first entry in Googledocs, and I wanted to see how it all worked if I published it to my blog. Yaay, it worked! These web based productivity tools were a total revelation to me - I had not heard a whisper about them, but I think they are incredibly helpful and easy to use, too. In reading some of the users' stories I could see how useful these shared documents could be for long distance collaboration on projects (both fun/personal and business).

wikis

I can see the value of a wiki for a group's effort to create something and share ideas & resources. It still seems less than perfect for scholarly research, but can certainly be a part of that with the ability to update the wiki frequently with the latest information. I liked the Library Success wiki for great ideas and successful approaches.