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Okay....really don't like Zoho. It is completely non-intuitive for me but loved Googledocs and will no doubt use it in the future. Micosoft Word only has a few templates but with Googledocs there is everything from making invitations, personal finance(household budgets)to spreadsheets and more. This is a feature I can recommend to our many frustrated Internet patrons. Also made a personalized calendar in Googledocs.

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Just spun wheels for far too long on the Sandbox site only to find out that it is not working. I can vouch for that. Frustrating.

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The use of Wikis by libraries is a natural. Potentially, it is another way to create an expanded community surrounding library use. Using a wiki for patrons' comments about books read, successful programming or services along with the library's postings about all library goings-on is a trend that can empower every library community.

I love SJCPL's subject guides---the Crafts link offers everything from current books to specific projects to library craft programs---this is the old community bulletin board, programming brochure and word-of-mouth rolled into one and gone virtual! Also really loved the BookLover's Wiki---great place to check for annotations of hot titles and more and there are pics!

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Unfortunately, I think that libraries are conceptually moving the way of newspapers in this country. As our newspapers disappear, they are being replaced by a sort of citizen's vigilante reportage, if you will, and what we are missing is the career reporter's in-depth journalistic research, especially in areas where only a reporter could go. This was the heart and soul of our free press and I believe we will begin to see libraries echo this trend. When you begin removing librarians and books from libraries beyond a certain point for whatever reasons, be it economic necessity or because the newest online technologies can mimick a librarian's reference skills to some degree, you have once again taken the soul from these institutions. There is no replacement for the neighborhood librarian reading to preschoolers or passionately recommending a book to a teenager. I venture to say that children will not have the same life enriching exchanges with an online library avatar in the same way they once did with a living community librarian. When the virtual library comes to dominate the library world, we will all lose more than we know. And that's my soapbox for the day!