It's a librarything...you wouldn't understand

Hey cowpolks.

Checked out library thing today. It's pretty cool. I do this to a much more basic degree already, keep a list of books I've read whenever I finish a new one, so really this seems like an "i might as well do this instead" sort of gig. I really like the ideas of trying to get people together through these means and found it's fun to do anyways...addictive even. I ended up listing somehting like 23 books because I didn't realize I had surpassed the requirement for this lesson already. But that's an issue for me as well. I don't know if I could really justify dedicating much time to something like this. I can't quite see what could come out of this that would be productive enough to justify it. I'm sure I would get recommendations of books to read that I would like...but I'm never short on that. I've always got a huge list of books in my head waiting to be read. I would probably make some long distance relationships based off similarities with other members in taste, but those, being long distance, could only be superficial ultimately and I don't feel they could transcend the stage of, like, an imaginary friend almost. I imagine I already know maybe all of the local people that have the same interests that I could connect with through this sight because we all get together based on our literary interests in different venues around the city (open mics at 716 art gallery, wilbur's bbq, the local college events, barnes and nobles...even the programs that the library puts on). What the heck...I'm a nay sayer. That's all it comes down to.

I spend so much of my life piddling time away on frivolous vanities that I don't see why this couldn't be one of them, if it was something I really enjoyed. It just isn't yet. I suppose I have only known about it for an hour or so though : )

Here are the positive things i have to say though: I, again, feel the fact that we're learning about this stuff is invaluable in tons of ways. As far as working at the library, I think it's the bare minimum for being able to communicate with my patrons and help them with their needs and I thank the AIT team for boosting my competence to this level, at least. And everytime I talk to an emerging tech staff member, they typically can offer insights and possibilities of ways to use these technologies that I hadn't thought of before. I guess that's just the bottom line for me though--if we can keep all of these things just as a jumping point for interacting with each other OFF line, then they will have served a wonderful purpose. If people never cross the boundaries of these safe internet forums to take relationships to the next level though, then I feel all of this technology will have been created in vain.

Big talk for a little shelver. Maybe I should try walking it.
I've finished my assignment for week 10 and find myself somewhat disgruntled still...time to reach out and talk to someone about why I am and why they aren't and see if we can reconcile the two perspectives! and exclamation point!

here's my library thing account:
http://www.librarything.com/home/ndemske

I was not successful with the library suggester/unsuggester. Every time I entered a book in (in either one) it just came back with results for the book like it had searched for it. And I was just going to the AIT link for suggester because I couldn't find how to get to it from my library thing homepage. However, all of that will not stop me fromt listing a book:
Ben Lerner is probably my favorite poet. His first volume of work, The Lichtenberg Figures, is really great and we have both of the two books he's published in our stacks.

Well I guess that's it. Next assignment.