I am going to attempt to put the link to my facebook here. http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?ref=name&id=100000705154504 I think I've done it! I plan to have my daughter show me more about Facebook this weekend. I am feeling totally overwhelmed by it all.

A Foray Into Facebook

Well, I think I have a Facebook account set up. I can hardly believe it. I'm not sure how I am going to like it. I must say I was stunned when suggestions for possible friends popped up and one of my best friends from high school was one of the first ones! How does it do that?! Amazing. And then there were many others....so basically I had a little trip down memory lane. I think I had envisioned "friending" a couple of co-workers, so that is why I am so amazed. It is just a little bit mind-boggling. But, I am at least set up, and have a couple of friends already, including my old friend from high school. So far, I am a bigger fan of blogging than facebooking, but we'll see. I will put my facebook link in tomorrow.

A Serendipitous Library Experience

Here at TSCPL, we are always striving for new ways for our customers to have more of a serendipitous browsing experience. We have, for the last couple of years, been establishing "neighborhoods" to help with this endeavor. We have a travel neighborhood, a health neighborhood, and a jobs and career neighborhood. And we are working on new neighborhoods for this year--cooking, lawn and garden, home improvement, and pets.

But today, I was working the Reference desk, and I had a customer who had an unexpected serendipitous experience! He came to the Reference desk and asked where the books on love poems were. I looked up several options for him, and off he went to the 800's. I walked past him a bit later, and he was having trouble finding one that I had written down, so I stopped to help him. He was very excited. He had found several books of love poems, but ALSO (his serendipitous experience) he found a book by Larry the Cable Guy, and he was REALLY excited about that. You just never know what a serendipitous experience might entail.....love poems and Larry the Cable Guy. And one satisified customer.

My name is Kay Galbraith, and I work at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. I have worked here for....I guess it will be 30 years this July. That is almost incomprehensible to me. For the first 23 years here, I worked the Reference desk, and loved it. For the last 7 years, I have worked in the Collection Development department. I get to order roughly half of the non-fiction collection. I love this job too! I have 2 twenty something kids who are well into all the social networking, so I have peeked over their shoulders and have a basic knowledge of some of this stuff, but this will be good for me to do it myself. It's probably about time.....

What little experience I do have with blogs involves food. My daughter is always sending me blog postings from some food blogs that she really likes, always with lovely pictures of delectable dishes, and I have found a couple of food blogs on my own that I enjoy. That should tell you quite a bit about me right there!

I'm pretty sure I will have to talk about food sometimes in MY blog....