It's all good (Thing 6)

I am loving the Flickr letters app!

"Pura vida" doesn' translate into Spanish as "Pure life," which it appears to say, but as slang that means "Everything's OK." I try to remind myself "Pura vida" all the time. I get a little "sturm und drang" sometimes.

Onto topic: Mashups in my library. Since we are an academic library here at Flagler College, I’m having a hard time seeing the usefulness of some of these tools. I feel like the gravitas of online academic research would be mocked by cutesy web apps.

The only place I see something like the Flickr letters app being useful in my library would be if our education department had its own library homepage. Since it doesn’t, I don’t foresee particularly extensive use of these online services in our library.

However, if my library had young adult reader services, I would love to use mashups to capture the imaginative spirit of youth services.