BookJetty.com & Occupational Therapists
by Hazman Aziz ~ May 25th, 2008. Filed under: Book Reviews, Community, Latest News, Occupational Therapists' Network, Profession: Occupational Therapy.
Okays, I am trying to tag various Occupational Therapy (OT) Books for this blog. One of the reasons to share out with the OT professionals and students about book sharing and recommendation of books. This to mobilize a knowledge round the sphere of allied health care industry. Well, how did I do this?
Let’s me introduce to you guys BookJetty.com. BookJetty.com is a social utility that connects you with your friends’ bookshelves. Doesn’t need to be OT related. Novel and any type of storybooks will do. You can share and reckon all the books that you wanted, reading and read to your networks of friends. Make new friends through the interest of book. Plus, check out the widget above, that I have mashed up and reckon to the OT community to read.
If you wish to know more about BookJetty.com, you can visit to BookJetty.com.
If you wants to know and meet the community in BookJetty.com via Facebook, here is the url.
Lastly, if you want to find more Occupational Therapists based in Singapore, via Facebook, here is the url.. Join us in this Singapore Facebook Occupational Therapy and we can share our knowledge practice in this industry via social networking approach.
What can BookJetty.com do for us?
- Connect with Your Friends’ Bookshelves
- Discussion Boards
- Recent Discussions
- Import Books
- Invitation
- Notifications
- Smart Bookshelf
- User Wall Posts
- RSS Feed
- Unicode Support
- More Bookstores
For more detail, you can read from the developer of BookJetty.com’s blog, here.
What can I wish for in the near future?
I hope La Trobe University’s librarians would also connected their university’s OPAC with BookJetty.com. Just like NTU Library, NLB, UOW Libraries and the other 300 libraries.
By the way, La Trobe Libraries has facilities for people with disabilities & special needs. Wow, this is a good. In Singapore, lot’s of the libraries here actually miss out this part. For example, in NTU library (the older buildings, as also in NYP Libraries. In fact, most of the library entrance in Singapore are actually unfriendly to disabilities with the 3M Gates greeting all the patrons right door of the libraries. I hope, local librarians would actually look take this serious, as Suhaila did mention to me, the next few year, there will be more elderly in Singapore, especially the public libraries. The Government has to cater such needs.
What come to my mind straight?
Unfortunately, I spend with my paternal grandfather only till I was 7 years old. He left us in a misfortune accident, due to a flight of ladder. And couple of other stories from my friends, on how their grandfolks left them. At least 60%, are due to unfriendly infrastructure, such as in vehicles, homes and public areas. One thing, I learnt about having grandfolks at home, they are the best librarians (plus with any former training). Their knowledge and strories share with the grandchildren are great. It is seldom to hear father and mother sharing their childhood stories with their children. But between grandfolks and children,tones based on my observations. This is one of the factors that actually contribute to generation gaps.
Anyway, that is my view point. Till now, I left you guys, with BookJetty.com.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Thanks! I must agree with you that despte their age, most elderly has wisdom. Since they have gone through life in a different era, they have a special set of views about things in life. Sometimes, it is good to sit down and LISTEN to what they have to say rather than just hear them.
I am glad to be in the profession who deals with elderly most of the time. Every day I learn a new thing from them. Although it may be something that I have already known, their words just reinforces it. For eg. today one of them mentioned to me that ‘Health is wealth’. It is something I knew for so long. But hearing his life story makes me really believe the mantra and want to do something about my life!
Hence, never ever put the elderly words away coz there will always be deep meanings into it. Remember that their words are backed up by experience.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I realised that not many OT in Singapore knew about Bookjetty. I’m still getting the hang of it.