patiencerewarded

Social networking

2009-08-12T03:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-11T03:23:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-11T03:21:00.000-07:00

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

Mashups

2009-07-29T18:47:00.000-07:00

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

Oh great it did work!

Podcasting

2009-07-29T18:21:00.000-07:00

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.

link to delicious retried again

2009-07-29T00:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.delicious.com/patiencerewarded

Slamming the boards

2009-07-28T23:45:00.000-07:00

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.

Tagging

2009-07-28T20:13:00.000-07:00

I've managed to succeed with the delicious tags and I quite enjoyed this segment. I quite liked the Book Thing site. Cheers.

Embedding

2009-07-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

My daughter assisted me with embedding which I was thankful for.

Father and Son. Cat Stevens

2009-07-21T21:26:00.000-07:00

RETURN TO WIKI

2009-07-20T03:54:00.001-07:00

I've finally returned to the Web 2.0 course after a year's break. I was interested in the book review and the wookipedia wiki sites because I can see the potential in those sites. Wikis enable everybody to contribute an opinion. I'm concerned about the work practice application whilst it encourages all staff to participate it could include wrong information.

Re RSS

2008-05-18T20:53:00.000-07:00

Apparently, I have practised rss before as I had already subscribed to about 50 daily updates - so I reduced these subscriptions to a more manageable number.

Return to Blog

2008-05-18T19:34:00.000-07:00

Monday, 19th May
I've haven't had a chance to blog for a while so I'm refreshing and restarting Week 4.

2008-03-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

Monday, 10th March, 2008
I've just finished restarting my Flickr account as for some reason our photos became intermixed and we had to restart our accounts. I haven't had time to blog for a few days. The Flickr account seems like a good idea. Hopefully, I won't have any more trouble.

Gradually Improving!

2008-02-27T17:03:00.000-08:00

Thursday, 28th February, 2008
I'm having a much better day today! I'm learning a little about gmail and blog facilities such as voicemail etc -except its unavailable in Australia apparently. It seems confusing and fascinating. I'm a little intimidated by yet more changes. Does everything have to change so quickly!

2008-02-27T16:16:00.000-08:00

Thursday, 28th February, 2008

I've had to restart my blogging course as I've had difficulty accessing my earlier account - so I'm a little behind everybody else. Though I have completed Lesson 1 and started Lesson 2. Hopefully, I will be more successful in future.