Easy Button
Free Range Librarian discussed the idea of entering library book titles into Library Thing. Readers want, no make that, are clamoring for the ability to rate their books, share their ratings, and incorporate easy ways to make lists of their favorites. They want to be able to purchase titles others recommend and easily maintain wish lists of titles that others discuss on blogs. ME TOO! I want to remove more of the barriers to expanding my reading lists. I want the “easy button” of book sharing and dreaming.
On my checkout desk I have an “easy button.” When Staples opened up nearby, I received the button as a promotional gift. Press the button and it says, “That was easy.” When things get really stressful, you might hear someone press it as they pass through. “That was easy.” Where’s my easy button on the OPAC?
Other needs for the “easy button”: easy communication with parents, easy collaboration with teachers so they can run across an idea and instantly put it in their folder to work with me, easy technology updates with directions and practical ideas for increasing student achievement.
What seems so easy, just isn’t.
