Summer 2011 Projects

B.E. Paper dated September 9, 1886

Fair-y Tales
Fair
Fair Week
Come to the Fair
Our floral hall is a daisy
Don't you forget the Fair
Bring something for exhibition
It is Thursday, Friday and Saturday
We will have a fair if the weather isn't foul
We expect a big display of cattle at our fairgrounds this week
Look out for fast trotting at our Fair Friday and Saturday
Six hundred dollars has been expended on the track this year
Don't neglect to come to the fair to see our new $700.00 floral hall
Just keep your eye on the display of wheat; it will beat the world
Don't forget to remember that we now have the best half mile track in the country
I you don't take THE POST step into the office while in town attending the fair, and get a sample copy
While attending the fair you are cordially invited to call at THE POST printing office next door to the Constans House
It is the only fair that you devote two days to the fair. Bring your fair partner and like a man, pay her fare into the fair grounds, and if you are not treated in a fair manner, it will be a strange af-fair
We shall not pattern after the State fair and have different days for different towns. But Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be Faribault County days irrespective of villages, township or section lines, and immaterial as to race, color or previous condition of servitude.

1917 Pavilion at Fairgrounds

#41 Mashup Your Life

#43 Online TV & Video

I just explored Hulu and some of Joost. Neither gave me what I was looking for. When I go to my computer in my home, I am going to have a feed to CNN News at 9 at night with Anderson Cooper. Sometimes I am unable to view this in the evening and just feel that I have missed my news for the day if I don't see it. I felt Hulu was a little better than Joost, but there is so much of everything in there that I am not interested in. (Daily Coyote was one of my favorite books to read.)

#47 Evaluation

I just completed the "More Things On a Stick." I guess I would say that it has had some very good experiences and some, not so exciting to see what comes up. Google Maps was one of my very favorites. I love to travel and it was good to just reminisce on where I had been. We take tons of pictures so I have tried to incorporate a few of these too. I did see just a very few times, maybe even just a single time, about genealogy. We use Ancestry.com at our library and it comes in very handy. Also, we have acquired thousands of names into both my husband's and my personal genealogy and that can be very time consuming. I do love doing it though.
I believe WJMN will prove to be very educational.

Mother Robin and Baby in our backyard

#46 WJMN

I have just recently signed into and joined WJMN. Since we were to have More Things completed by 05/20, I decided to do it and what I have seen so far in it, I will be very interested in attempting some courses. So far, I have watched two short videos, one on the proper way to repair binding on a book. It really amazed me to use cloth rather than glue. I do much of this kind of thing at our library so that is one thing that would be very useful for libraries. The other video, on the ice cream flavors and by adding more to have a wide variety, really makes sense to join with other libraries. Interlibrary loan books can add so much more for patrons to choose from by being able to loan these books to other libraries.

#45 Cloud Computing

A user could be at a terminal taking advantage of services, storage space and resources provided somewhere else on another computer through an internet connection. Emails could be in Chicago or documents in Seattle. Today, you could be moved to other servers, but the URL's have not changed. Cloud computing could be emails, favorite pictures, maps, webcams, blogs,ebay or check reconciliation. I personally, would not do my banking online but we are assured that it is safe to do.
Storing word processing in Google Docs or accessing email, using Ebay to purchase online are all forms of cloud computing.

Make a Smilebox photobook