Week 8 - Answer boards and social searching

Consider is there a role for your library in “slamming the boards”? In what ways might your customers like to rate or review items in the collection or services you offer? Share your thoughts in your blog.

Week 7 - Tagging, folksonomies, delicious and LibraryThing

I have just created a Del.icio.us account. I see this as a easy way to create bookmarks that can be shared. 
I can see that social bookmarking could be of use for our high school in particular the year 12 students, where informative sites can be shared.
 

Week 6 - Videos online

I have used YouTube for all different things. But it is the first time I heard about Google video. YouTube and Google video have search options to narrow down the results and both are easy to use. What I found is that Google video has more sources to get videos from which includes Google, Vimeo, YouTube and others.


What possibilities can you think of for your organisation?
We could use this in the library for our author talks, library tours, local studies oral history. Possibly how to videos, such as using microfilm/microfiche readers, how to search different databases, correctly citing materials and where to look for the information.

Week 5 - Wikis

What did you find interesting?


There are pros and cons of having an open wiki, I agree with many people that it is worrying to rely on others to provide accurate and accountable information, but on the plus side it makes the information current.


I liked the Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library. Not only did it give a review but the hyperlink texts on the book titles links to the library's catalogue.
I couldn't resist taking a look at Wookieepedia and after seeing this I thought  I might have a look and search for other wikis and found a chocolate wiki, recipes wiki, and wikihow.






What types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki?
The applications can be endless but some of the uses I think would be useful for my library includes:

• the libraries procedures manual. 

• the libraries day book that is kept at the information desk. This could be made into a wiki, where staff can update the information and all staff have access to it either at their own desk or on the public library desk.  

•  suggestions for purchase.

• Book reviews - books that our patrons have borrowed from the library. 

Week 4 - RSS

I like how RSS and newsreaders allows the information to come to me and it is stored for later viewing. This saves me time so I do not have to check these sites as frequent and I do not miss any updates that may be relevant or of interest to me.

The sites I choose to add to my RSS aggregator (Google reader) are Powerhouse museum-photo of the day, LibraryBytes: Helene Blowers blog, SMH-Gadgets on the go, Galaxy Books, and SBS World News Australia-National.

I believe that this technology will be useful to keeping our library patrons and the public informed about the library events including author talks, book sales and other news that are irregularly updated. 

Week 3 - Flickr

Seahorse Couple, a photo by San Diego Shooter on Flickr.

There are so many beautiful photos to choose from in Flickr. I spent ages looking for a photo to add to my blog, but finally I selected this photo I just find seahorses fascinating and beautiful to look at. Some interesting facts about seahorses are most if not all seahorses can camoflogue quickly, their eyes are on the side of their heads and can move independently, the male seahorses have a pouch which means that they have the babies, and baby seahorses are called fry.

Starting web 2.0

• What do you hope to learn from the program?

Be able to understand what is web.20 and the uses.

• Can you see a use for blogs inside the Library?

Yes, if we have access in the library it could be helpful to keep staff up-to -date with news

•  How about blogging for a client audience?

Yes, keeping the borrowers up-to-date with what is happening in the library and other news.