Ten more challenges to go! Can you believe it?
These challenges are all about teaching you how to do new things. Online tutorials have been made even more helpful by Web 2.0, and have the potential to be quite handy when answering reference questions for patrons.
Instructables is a Do It Yourself website that provides user-submitted instructions from everything from replacing a dryer belt to building a whiskey still. Have you ever had a patron come up and ask about canning? Making Soap? With Halloween coming up and all the books checked out, could you find a patron instructions on how to carve a Halloween Pumpkin? Not only does Instructables provide the instructions, but often the walk-throughs have lots and lots of pictures to help you along the way. SoYouWanna.com is another similar site, but there are more ads and less pictures, so I would check out Instructables first, and then move on to SoYouWanna.com if you can't find what you're looking for there.
Lifehacker is a blog that posts “tips on getting things done”. Many of these are computer-related, but occasionally there are real life tips as well. For example, here are all the posts tagged “health” on Lifehacker. I've been telling people about this article for days now.
Your Challenge:
Explore some of the sites above. Can you see these being useful in answering patron questions? Would you recommend one of these sites to a patron? What is your favorite thing you found?
Bonus:
Feeling overwhelmed yet? Maybe it's time for another silly video about the internet.
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