Beyond Method #12

I have been trying to complete the evaluation form , but the site will not open up. I will try to do this at a later time.

I enjoyed the "Survey says" the most because it was explicit and gave good directions.

I believe it is always good to stretch oneself. It's the only way we grow.

I wish I would have had some of the equipment to do a better job on the last of these exercises.

Twf the exercises gave explicit instructions. A few of the others were not quite so easy, but I managed to stumble my way through.

I will definitely take another course like this if it is offered.

Beyond Method #11

I thought this was perhaps the easiest of the lessons. It was not hard to create a poll and I am hoping this will post to the blog.

Replace audience response hardware with Poll Everywhere

Beyond Merthod #10

I have never personally used any online conferencing tools, nor has the Carl & Mary Welhausen Library that I am aware of at this time.

The staff and patrons have not expressed a desire to learn this and it is not one of the areas I feel we need to focus on at the moment. I believe this could be a useful tool, but I am not sure how I would incorporate this into our library or if we need it.

My daughter came home last night from college after I had phoned her and said she had a friend whose webcam I could borrow for the weekend. She told me I had to install two things first: Yahoo Messenger, and the disc from the webcam. So, we installed these and then attached the USB cable to the hardrive and the webcam. I then signed into yahoo and then clicked onto Messenger tab, then scrolled down to "My webcam option". My picture came up and she told me to click the broadcast button. My daughter called her friend on the phone and told her I was ready and then when her friend came online , Christina told me to click accept and we were able to view each other. Then we began to type texts back and forth to each other. I think this would have been more fun if I'd have had one of my friends to talk to instead of hers, but it was interesting.

Summation of Beyond Method #9

I have found this to be the most difficult of all, since I do not possess the equipment to do this discovery exercise properly. Most of this was confusing to me and I just tried to do the best I could with the resources I have. If I get the opportunity to have someone help and loan me the equipment I will try to do a better job and post it on the blog.

As to the question which method did I use: I took the path of least resistance (pictorial) with a few captions telling about the Carl and Mary Welhausen Library. I would have liked to have had all the picture s on one blog, but was unsure of how to do this, so they are on 3 seperate postings.

Do I see a use for digital storytelling? Yes. I feel this would be a good electronic, visual of all the many things your library can offer to the patrons; with a cool fun kind of edge, that would be more engaging to to our patrons.

Beyond Method #9

City officials offered the old Municipal Power Plant Building to the Friends of the Library after the building had been deemed to be of historic signifigance and worthy of adative reuse. The plant had been used as the City's mechanic garage for twenty years.

Renovation began in 1988 backed by financial donations from the citizens of Yoakum, the primary donor being Carl and Mary Welhausen for which the library was named.

Other funds for the project were a matching federal grant for $100,000.00 and $50,000.00 from the Meadows Foundation. The facility was completed in 1991 and the opening dedication was held on Sunday, April 21 1991.

Beyond Method #9

City financial support began in 1942; however, the library was officially accepted as part of the City's organization in 1971.

librarian Virginia Ferrell was hired in 1975 and served for over 29 years, her leadership was essential in the development of the Library as it is today.

The library became a member of the South Texas Library System in 1976 with the Friends of the Yoakum Library being organized in June of 1978. Today the library is directed by myself, Lynn Mixon.

Beyond Method #9

The Yoakum Library was organizedin 1933 by the Philomathic Club with the help of the Works Project Administration.

J. W. Cook offered space in back of his office to house the newly organized library. In 1955 the library was moved to the old Beck building on Nelson Street where it remained until 1968 when it was relocated into the old City Hall building on West Hugo Street.