Weeks One and Two

King Kitty and my ownee have decided to take part in the Library 2.0 Challenge so that we can expand our minds and technical skills to keep up with the omnivores of technology, especially the kids, teens and young adults of the library world and beyond.

Setting up a blog is very easy...so easy I think my ownee should set up several....one for each of my nine lives. It would be very easy to become a blogger and if we find some interesting blogs, we might even become regular bloggers. Of course documenting my nine lives should keep my ownee a blogger for some time.

Of course, perhaps there is a way to use this technology to provide new, different or even the same library information and services (yet repackaged in new and improved bell and whistle technology) to the children and teens. I am a 17 years young kitty and my ownee is falling way behind the technology curve. She still doesn't text message or have a virtual pet...except me...hopefully when I go to kitty heaven, I will then become her virtual pet. In the meantime, I am missing out on my daily pet pets from the kids because they are too busy playing games on the computer. Sure my ownee can type, use a cell phone, fax a letter, e-mail, and create a webpage but she is so behind the times with the new, cool tricks of the trade such as blogs, wikis, setting up meetings and even uploading pictures to the web. Perhaps these new tools and tricks will help my ownee work smarter, learn more about the kids and teens in the community and what they find useful, find fast and fabulous carnivorous recipes for my dinner, get my lovely feline face into the spotlight of the worldwide web, archive my lovely personality for decades to come, and along the way, discover some new and different tools that would be applicable for the library, specifically for the children and young adults of the community.

To make use of a blog for the library, my ownee needs to learn more about the users of this technology, specifically the kids and teens, how they use it, is there relevance for it in the library, and how can we capitalize on it.