Social networking

I feel that social networking can be used in libraries for networking between libraries - organising conferences, meetings and educating staff: they can be used between individual libraries and their borrowers for promotional and reader advisorypurposes but the best use is youth clubs and book clubs. Their are almost unlimited possibilities for librarians with suitable skills.

Google docs

I can see the value in being able to share a document with other parties for informational, developmental and editing purposes. The only disadvantage I can see is a need to be connected to the internet continually.

Wiki

I managed to contribute to the library wiki set up for this course and I was quite proud of myself for succeeding.

Mashups

I hope to provide an example of a mashup here if it works.

Oh great it did work!

Podcasting

Podcasting is a great new facility for librarians. We can actually tell borrowers about our library services, book and movie reviews etc. I particularly liked the podcast from Orange County library where they discussed their Disney collection. The British Library use of podcasting was particularly good for promotional and educational purposes.

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Slamming the boards

I guess slamming the boards is the way many young people will receive answers to questions but it is very impersonal and how do you analyse whether the answer is authoritative or not without further investigation. Given that we receive less reference queries in the library these days it is probably a good way to practise.