Success with the calendar!

Ok...good news ya'll-
I was able to access the google calendar link this week and had a pretty easy time navigating things. Google calendars seems pretty friendly but, as i've said before about these things, i don't really yet forsee me using this much. I just don't see a place in my life where this would make things more convenient, rather than less. However, I can see how it would do that for others and i would much rather have the knowledge to use it and not need it than need it and...you get the point.

A sort of post script- Between jonathan, melissa and I, we've realized that some of the computers in the library just aren't able to produce the same AIT pages as others, which was probably why i wasn't able to get the video link last week. This morning, we looked at a computer in the adult reference back office and it had all the videos and podcasts available form the website while, at the very same time, we had a computer downstairs that offered none of them at all. I assume this is some sort of troubleshooting tactic so that shelvers and pages arten't just downstairs watching you tube all day, which makes sense. However, this, for me, brings up a bigger problem: the fact that, unless you have a personal computer at the library here, your options are incredibly limited technology-wise. It makes one feel a little annoying to keep asking others to use their personal computers...and those people shouldn't necessarily have to offer their resources up to us either. That's their private space with their private information. Since I do some programming here, I'm constantly taking much more time to do very simple task such as access a document, print out a poster, create something in microsoft publisher, etc. So many of the computers have so many different voids in capability. Neither the circ computers nor the computer lab computers can access a usb key (nor many of the public terminals), the circ computers can't access microsoft publisher...Becky has been EXTREMEMLY generous in letting me use her computer for programmin purposes, but even her computer rejects my usb key (i don't kow if it's that way across the board). This is costing the library money because, seriously, I've had issues where something that should take me a mere five minutes or less turns into an hour ordeal and then that's another hour on my time sheet. I'm spending more time on AIT today because a YSD reference computer couldn't access the video link last week and that cuts into time i could've been shelving or pick listing. I know I'm not offering any creative solutions for this...I guess I would just suggest getting all of the computers up to the same high functioning capability, which is awfully optimistic. But regardless, we'll be paying for it in all sorts of different ways until they are. And even if i am just complaining, isn't that what blogging is all about?
Ok, i'm done with the past now. i have to catch myself up to the present. Thanks to jill and melissa and everyone for all your help so far. Here i come week 6!