to Win her Heart

To Win Her Heart by Karen Witemeyer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Levi Grant has paid his debt to society and finished his prison term, but he still carries a mountain of guilt. When he tries to start over as the town blacksmith in Spencer, Texas, Levi remains on his guard - that is, until he meets a pretty and outspoken librarian. Eden has also been on her guard, her ex-fiance jilted her, - trust and integrity is hard to find in this town. As Eden begins to trust the brawny smith, especially when she learns of his love for books, Levi fears his past will undo everything.

A sweet story of historical romance, forgiveness, and hard-won second chances.





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New Database Page

Check out the new ACLS database page - more user friendly, simplified, and updated! Click the Start button to go to our General OneFile database or click one of the heading below. For all alphabetized databases, click the All Databases link.


http://home.alleganycountylibrary.info/databases.htm

For shame! Let's Twitter!

I'm ashamed - I haven't posted since July - for shame, for shame and that's because I've been twittering away!

Check out my personal and library tweets - I gotta warn you - it can be addicting!

http://www.twitter.com/spibrarian

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Twitter

Twitter is a online service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Sounds like some people are addicted to it! Whoo hoo, even the White House uses Twitter! Now, personally, I can not see me using this - there is never enough time in the day and you know what I mean. I think it is very popular with young people. As for using it in the library, I like how ALSC is micro-blogging about happenings in their library.

I had an account with Twitter, back when we were working on Library 2.0 - hmmmm, now to remember the password. Well, two hours later, I've created a new account, very easy. I like when you find someone to follow, such as YALSA, a little Follow button can be clicked - and tada - there you are. I actually found great teen ideas to use by looking at the YALSA twitter entries.

With Jaiku, you must be sent a personal invitation, so I did not follow up.

YourMinis

Personally I love widgets - I even love the name, widget, sounds like Gidget, but enough rambling on and about. As Jennifer says, on Learning 2.1,essentially, a widget is a small, interactive program that allows quick access to often-used tools or information. (or check Google) Most – though far from all – widgets are connected to the Internet. Some are very practical; some are just for fun. I have put widgets on ACLS's teen myspace page but I love to find more.

On myminis I clicked Startpage to try some out w/o creating an account. I grabbed a template of "news" to try out, followed by grabbing more minis, which is so darn easy,and dragged them over to my page.Fun, I changed the colors on the clock and in fact I had widgets coming out my ears!

I'm not sure about adding some to the library's website. People like to personalize their own pages and I hate to see our homepage get too cluttered. Perhaps adding the Flickr widget to our site would be helpful, (only if we could set it somehow to our pics)but for now we already have the free account and a new webpage is set up to house video and more.

New Kid's Page Idea

Possibly an idea when we redo our ACLS kid's page.

Wikis

Wiki, wiki, wiki, what a fun word to say! Wanna wiki? Back when I went to MLA, I checked the official MLA wiki site, which was neat. I could listen to my podcast - I was the first to do it after listening to Chris Anderson speak on "The Longtail" and check out other podcasts. I thought the wiki worked great for the conference.

I think the ability to edit and collectively work on a project is again, empowering to everyday people - and the project, article, etc. is policed by the online community. Where else can you find some of the latest info on stuff going on in the world - certainly not in a encyclopedia.

I really liked the Book Lovers Wiki thru (they even gave away prizes to patrons) Princeton Public Library. (maybe something like this for our MySpace teen page to link to) It uses the PBWiki platform.

Great Cartoon

Eli & the Scouts at the GC Library

MY DEBUT!

Here I am in small town, USA, working in a gorgeous library. Love it here; we have great patrons - young & once young - who love to read. I am really looking forward to the MLA Conference in OC. I have only been to OC once in 1993 for a short weekend. My husband & I went with some family members and young children and it was the first time I had heard the ocean roar! I had been warned how loud it would be - but to hear it for myself was amazing. It was my first experience of getting knocked down by a very large, salty wave. Thank goodness, I had taken my glasses off! Anyway, serious things to consider like - what to pack? Oh, by the way, the speakers sound pretty interesting too!