Program Summary

Well, this has been a very interesting journey. I'm very grateful that the wonderful library I work for gave me the opportunity to learn about and yes, play with, a wide variety of web 2.0 tools, and all on work time! I've certainly learned and enjoyed a lot, despite my critiques, and have definitely found some applications that I plan to return to. And I hope that the Learn and Play folks, if you've been reading any of my schlepping, will realize that I wouldn't have spent the effort critiquing these tools if I hadn't been interested in learning more about them. I tried to be as thorough and true to my experience using these tools as possible. And I feel that it was time well spent.

So...can we keep learning and playing...on work time? :-)

Moldy MOLDI?

I had actually checked out the MOLDI offerings awhile back when it was relatively new to CML, and I remembered being disappointed over the lack of offerings and the lack of appeal of the few offerings available. Thankfully, it appears that the collection has been expanded significantly. However, it seems that the majority of the collection is way outside the mainstream. I'm not talking cool independent titles or thought-provoking documentaries or scientific specials, but rather a surprisingly large number of B-grade movies, old pulp fiction films and just really off-the-wall titles. I don't know if MOLDI is trying to appeal mostly to cult film followers or if those contributing to the collection have much better access to less popular films, but I'm wondering if patrons will be more than a little surprised and perhaps disappointed when they browse the collection. Still, there's definitely a place for hard-to-find titles, and the library is fulfilling part of its obligation to make more obscure titles in every media accessible.

I found a favorite documentary of mine, "Super Size Me" by Morgan Spurlock, and attempted to place a hold on the title. Unfortunately, I got the following error message:

System Error

The following system error occurred...
Error number: 0xC0001F42
Error message: Unable to open a recordset in the database.

If this error persists, please contact technical support.

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So much for "Super Size Me." I'll come back later when there's a little less mold in the MOLDI engine.