CLOUD PROUD

Cloud computing is a way of outsourcing costly(yet highly effective)services that could otherwise drive your over head through the roof and waste important time and focus.
We here at the library, already use cloud computing for a variety of reasons. Namely, MARMOT could be considered a cloud network that oversees the technical and statistical comings and goings of our library.
The website (mcpld.org) employs many different cloud networks. It is because of this innovative method of service sourcing that we are able to provide our Grand Valley citizens with an exciting host of personal, financial, and educational tools.

The LibGuides are so great! I love Betsey's cooking/baking one! However, a concise spot that is easy to navigate, and covers all of the daunting ballot issues - it's a dream come true. I scored 100% on the quiz and that is strictly because the LibGuide is so user friendly!

THIS IS A MAN.

Augustous

Critical past is totally engrossing. I was really missing me old Pappy so I watched some Navy sailors rescuing a sunken submarine in 1939. My husband custom makes highly detailed GI JOE action figures. He loves Critical Past because it has allowed him to really observe the exact uniforms that soldiers wore throughout history. I also watched the Olympic games from 1936 and was amazed at how technologically advanced the stadium was.
Oh~ by the by, Cook yer pig till 160F or else.

The New OPAC

LOVE IT!
I love the updated look and the fact that it is a little more comprehensive than our previous options. The nice summaries really help me as I don't always have an exact book in mind that I want to read - and I need to shop around a little. For this reason I also like that you get a picture of the book that you have searched for; many times I judge a book entirely on it's cover.But that's just me. Don't hate the player. Just hate the game....

Newseum

Very interesting! I would indeed recommend this site to a patron. It's fun as far that little bit of wanderlust that overcomes me at about 2:30PM everyday....

e-books

So, of the three sites - I would definitely have to say that I really enjoyed Googlebooks the most. It was fun to look through and I was able to find tons of titles that I was interested in, I particularly loved the old issues of Jet magazine.

The other two sites were amazing in the fact that they had so many titles - I just had a harder time finding specific items.

OPtimus Prime

Optimal Resume is awesome!I can only imagine how this would help someone in an employment search. I particularly love the job search function. I will upload my resume and that of my husband. The tool kit that this library provides it's patrons with is truly a gift.

Print Friendly VS. Print Preview

For me, I will continue to use print preview. There are however, those times when you are in need of an article that is embedded in a web page. Print preview is just that tool.
It was super easy to use. Not only that, it makes the process of formatting something correctly (for print) quite speedy.I found it intuitive and will use it next time I want a piece of a web page without printing off 50+ pages of weird little internet noodling....

learn - a - test

This is so valuable! I had fun poking around the different tests and you can bet that I will share this information with our patrons. So many times, the library is the first place that people go when they are looking for a career change. I get that(career change patron) a lot. they are here trying to research what it takes to become a weed killer guy or a postman. Bravo on another great web.o.lution task. Oh, I like how you can stop your test and see how it's going...

Web.o.lution

The e-book reader from Adobe has been an interesting task. First let me say that making this our first task is very important.Most everyone that I've spoken with (myself included) has had questions about the Overdrive library.
That said...I dove in head first to tackle this downloading of e*books and ran into some hang ups. It seemed that every title I was interested in did not give me the "put in my book bag" option. Certain that my ignorance had soared to new heights I summoned the courage to ask why I couldn't download anything. My personal answer oracle (Sheila) clued me into the fact that we only secure the rights to so many copies of a given title. Ah HA! so I searched around until I finally found one that had availability.
My book downloaded super fast and I found the Adobe Digital Reader very easy to use.
You may think that this story has a happy ending - but it does not. When I went back to the computer that I originally downloaded both the reader and the e*book to - it said that my title had expired. I had only just downloaded this book today (the same day that it expired). Yeeaaah, so I'm a little confused. I'm sure it's something really obvious; but let me know. And even though I'm confused around seemingly every corner - I am learning.