Monday, November 12, 2007

A bit of a thrill......!

.....well, at least to a knitting librarian.

I am starting to load my resources to the IPL. Why did I not do this sooner? ITS SO COOL!

For some reason I thought I would have to collect all my resources and then get only one chance to load them up. Why did I think that? It's much more fun to see them loaded....kinda in person. And more official! This weekend I loaded a chunk I had found and written the abstracts for, maybe 25 or so. Its not done yet.

A few steps that need to be taken:

1. Some of my resources are also listed in the TeenSpace. Mike Galloway suggested that I cross-reference them with the adult one. I have done this for some of them--I'll probably add more. Knitting is ageless!

2. Waiting for approval. I have made all of my posts PENDING and emailed Mike about them. He needs to check them before I can be more ACTIVE!

3. More sites. Surprisingly, good, non-commercial knitting sites are tough to find. So many are just terrible, and one of my faves, the Dishcloth Boutique, is offline. I dug up some more really great knitting blogs (with the help of Alexa for rankings) and have written their abstracts. I'll then post those after I receive the green light for my past posts. I am aiming for at least 30 sites total.

I cannot wait to see my sites approved.....Its like I am archiving for the ages, controlling the flow of craft information for the ages, increasing good knitting and good writing about knitting.....for the good of mankind.....!

Or maybe just for fun.

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