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Twitter: www.twitter.com Way to stay up to date on what's going on in Libraryland and great way to connect to others in the field.

A blog (www.wordpress.com, www.blogger.com): Share news with patrons, keep yourself up to day and invested in what's going on with the library, get feedback from patrons or other librarians on what your library is doing.

Facebook: www.facebook.com Way to stay up to date on what's going on in Libraryland and great way to connect to others in the field, have interactions with patrons and promote the library.

Youtube: www.youtube.comUse for teaching, for fun activities with youth, promote videos of library activities online.

Jing: www.techsmith.com/jing Good way to make screencasts, save them for free, and teach things to patrons.

International Children's Digital Library: en.childrenslibrary.org Database of thousands of books in over 54 languages available for free online

Elluminate: www.elluminate.com teach patrons who cannot come to the library or get speakers from outside the library

Aviary: www.aviary.com Use for podcasts, great for book talks or recording talks for library website

Google Reader www.google.com/reader: Keep track of what's going on in Libraryland in an easy way

Google Calendar www.google.com/calendar: Keep track of what's going on internally to the library and coordinate staff schedules.

Overdrive for E-Books www.overdrive.com: valuable because patrons can download free e-books and patrons usually need help with how to use it

RefWorks or Zotero www.refworks.com, www.zotero.org: Save citations and websites in an easily accessible account online

Google Docs Surveys www.docs.google.com: Easily create and share online surveys to get input from patrons about your library

Storybird www.storybird.com: Kids can create free storybooks online with lots of fun art, it's a great way to encourage kids to be creative and an outlet for self-expression.

LibraryThing www.librarything.com: Find ratings and reviews for books shared by others

Tidal Wave www.tidalwave.com: A free website that allows you to search for books and gives great descriptions of books with reviews by users of the site

Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com: A free website creator that is uesful for sharing ideas and encouraging contributions and communication about the website content

Creative Commons www.creativecommons.com: Find open educational resources that anyone can freely use for teaching and learning.

Google Books www.books.google.com: Search for books and preview them, can be useful when doing collection development

WorldCat www.worldcat.org: Find books around the world, useful for if your library doesn't have resources that a patron might need.

Flikr www.flikr.com: Free website to upload photos to and could be used to share photos of the library to promote it online

ALA Website www.ala.org: Lots of resources for library-specific activities and resources.

Google Scholar www.scholar.google.com: A way to search for articles and research on lots of different topics.