Detective Rosie heads north after solving her latest case....

I'm feeling pretty happy with myself today. I did some detective work to try and find the date of death of an ex-resident of Williamstown. The person enquiring had the death notice, but no date.

It's times like this my mind wants to go blank and not think...and I wasted a bit of time trying to locate a certain online resource which I could not find, and then I thought, well why not try the most obvious?? This is what we were taught in Uni! So I clicked on the libraries online databases link and then scrolled down till I found 'Ancestry.com' and then clicked on that and typed in the name of the deceased along with what state (VIC) and got the result he'd been looking for..the date of death along with location of burial (Williamstown).

It was a good feeling afterwards. It's the first time I've had to use 'Ancestry.com' in a work setting and I liked it and found it incredibly easy to use.

I like results! Good results!

Must have a proper look at the other databases and keep in mind for further info. requests.

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Anyway, work hat off, I am supposed to be loading the bike up with luggage/camping equipment at the moment. Tomorrow morning I'm heading off on a two night ride up to the Snowy Mountains.

I'm heading up via what is supposed to be a great dirt/gravel rd called 'Barry Way'...I think it's got about 70km of dirt on it. Takes you up past Omeo to Jindabyne - from there we're (Marty and me) heading around the Alpine Way and then off up to the Snowy Mtns Hwy and who knows where :)

We're camping each night. Marty has a trangia and burner and I've packed tinned Chunky and powdered mashed potato for tea. I'll grab a bottle of red wine or something tomorrow before we set up camp and sit back under the stars, drink wine, eat tinned Chunky and undehydrated mashed potatos and relax.

I better go pack. And I have to wash my bike jeans tonight because we bought the most delicious Chinese takeaway from Footscray tonight and I loved it so much that I did the 'drink the juices out of the bottom of the plate' thing and it spilt all over my new bike jeans I was wearing....seafood juice too! Smelly!

So wash bike pants...

Pack rest of stuff into bag...

Load it all onto bike...

Bed...

zzzz

Have a great Friday and wknd all - whatever you end up doing! :)

Saturdayzzzzzz

I'm tired. For some weird reason I had it in my head that I started work at 8.45am today. Last night I set the alarm for 7 so I'd have time for a shower etc beforehand. I just double checked the roster to see it's 9.45am. I could have slept for another hr!!!

Today I'm at Newport with Russell. I've never worked at Newport on a Saturday before. I wonder if it's busy.

It's only a short shift till 1 and then I'm coming home to get the girls and we're going to do something. I'm not sure what, but it will be something.

We're in the city now - so many options. It's great!

This is the end....

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But also the beginning...


The biggest thing I learnt whilst doing all this Webolution stuff??

My biggest 'enemy' is myself.

It's quite easy to close your mind off to all this stuff. If we didn't have to learn it - would we? Would we go out of our way to discover what Podcasts are and how to tag and how to create our very own motorcycle search tool? Would we let the World Wide Web world pass us by? Can we survive without it? In our personal lives - sure. In our roles as library professionals? I'm not so sure. I think that as library staff we need to keep up to date with everything that's happening.

I often look at YouTube for various clips etc...however I have never noticed all the options that are available to users. I was blind to them. By doing the WEbolution I suddenly became aware of all these little colored boxes all over the page...boxes to send here and do this and do that. I really didn't see them on my other visits there. BLIND!

So the Webolution has opened my mind up and my eyes up to what is happening out there in the WWW. I feel kinda relieved - I knew I was falling behind this new technological age of persons who know all this stuff and are adept at it and use it like it's nothing. It's just something they know. I envy them that! And I guess now that I've been 'exposed' to it all I will keep at it and every now and then refresh my 'skills' wtih the various applications and keep my eyes open to whatever else arises in the future.

I'm going to keep this blog because I like it. :)

Thanks Katie for the WEbolution! Thanks for the support and encouragement and colorful emails!

And thanks to those who've read and commented on my blog!

And thanks to all who've kept at me to complete it. Good stuff! :)