Playing Around With Great Results

This afternoon I treated myself to some playing around online time. This is a luxury I seldom seem to be able to enjoy lately. I love looking around, letting one site lead to another, and thus finding exciting things that I can use or share with colleagues and students. The agent of my serendipity was Twitter, and this was my method: First I went to Search and looked for "school librarians." Then I visited pages that looked like they might belong to school librarians that I would enjoy following. I clicked on their icons and went to their pages, and often from there to their blogs. Sometimes the blogs then led me to other great sites. Here are some new-to-me discoveries:

• The Lunar and Planetary Institute is right down the road in Houston, part of NASA. They have a library, a library blog, and a Twitter page. Here are the links:
• Their website: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/LPI_Library
• This is a little embarrassing to admit, especially since I just got back from the SLJ Summit, but I did not realize SLJ was Twittering: http://twitter.com/sljournal
• The Unquiet Librarian has a nice blog: http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/
• And Twitter Page: http://twitter.com/buffyjhamilton
• This blog has a cool staff development idea...Speed Dating! The blog is The Wee Librarian: http://theweelibrarian.wordpress.com/
• And Twitter Page: http://twitter.com/weelibrarian
• LIS Blog describes itself this way: LISNews is a collaborative weblog [aka blog] devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and Information Science: http://lisnews.org/about_lisnews/
• Twitter Page: http://twitter.com/LISNews
• Here is something I picked up at one of the many sites I visited: FREE WEB 2.0 BOOKS--who knew these were waiting for us to use? http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/db/web2/doc_page4.html
• This new tweet of mine has a great school web page: http://www.ilovelibraries.com/
• Here is her Twitter page: http://twitter.com/sraslim
• This is a great tool for Boolean searching! http://www.boolify.org/
  

Here is hoping that some of these sites are as interesting to you as they were to me.