Exercise 17.
I was impressed by Biblio.com and think it would be a very useful library tool.
The format is non-commercial and easy to negotiate. Also covers New Zealand material and has a broad perspective.
Felt this site had integrety.

Experimenting with Zoho

Exercise 16.

I can see how a sophisticated web player would love Zoho.

Particularly like all the options available eg. coloured text.

But not feeling confident about putting posting on my blog.

Will now see if I can do this successfully

http://export.writer.zoho.com/ZExport.do?tstamp=30,9,2008
I hope I have just transfered my meanderings on Zoho to this blog?
Whoops that didn't work, will try again! But at least I can now access zoho from here!
Yippee! This is the best thing so far!

Exercise 15.
I looked at Rollyo and thought the "Quick Quotes" search could be very handy. Tried to do a search on "Search Search" but found that a New Zealand option for searching for people was not available and Australia was the only antipodean option. Find the strong American focus on all these searches rather off putting. The culture of these searches is not something I want to take on board. But it's interesting to know all these things are out there.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/seymourvanessa

Was interesting the difference in the searches provided by Amazon and Library of Congress.
Library of Congress would be my preferred search and good for older books.
Some older books written by New Zealand authors were not locatable .
Enjoyed reading other readers impressions of the books I entered on my list.
Would be useful for readers advisory.

Found FD Toys the best site in terms of content but took so long to load that I lost patience.

Ended up using an image from the H Drive.

Sandbox offers the interesting potential for librarians to communicate from anywhere to keep in touch with colleagues and work committments.
Book reviews could be moved around and shared very easily.