This was a brilliant few pages to read and digest - Icebergs made me laugh especially the Just in case collections - I've been in public libraries long enough to see the progress we are making. I've had a strong thought through these readings that as Public Librarians we have quite a task to be embracing the future trends, offering the current trends and still serve those in our communities that are happy with where our services are or have been. I'm sure we are up to the task - knowing our communities.
This learning is essential for all library staff to be aware of what is quite a quick transition into the Web 2.0 menu of delights.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Lesson 15 Technorati Discussion
Initially I wasn't too impressed by the Technorati site but when I had to search for Learning 2.0 it led me to a list of tags and one in particular caught my eye '23 things' That sounded familiar so I went on a search which is so what Librarians do......... it was great to see familiar language which is friendlier than the structured subject headings libraries traditionally use - so now I get it and appreciate after the negative Tagging word, there are also RFID tags and now useful searching tags!!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Lesson 14 Tags
Tags are such a gift to Librarians who like everything filed in a retrievable fashion. I personally do not surf enough to make good use of Del-icio-us but I've joined up for just in case. This would be a good feature to promote with library users especially if we offer a Web 2.0 tutorials.
Favourite Author Post to Manukau Libraries Wiki
Lesson 13 Doubledutch Princess: Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini are the two most recent books to come to life in my mind. Still waiting to read the 3rd in the Inheritance series Brisingr. Don't bother watching the Eragon movie - it is so disappointing - stick with the books. Christopher wrote Eragon when he was still a teenager so I look forward to many more books by this magnificent author
Lesson 12 Wiki
Wiki sounds like a creature out of Star Wars - furry and fierce. Actually the concept of the Wiki is really innovative and brave - letting anyone edit your content. The examples I viewed didn't trigger any huge inspiration of how this piece of technology could be used for libraries. We can already capture customer ratings on the books and I prefer the ability of people to add comments rather than rub out the previous and add new. The demonstration on how a Wiki works gave an insight to my work email inbox where emails fly around and totally clog my inbox. This new innovation would suggest a Wiki for projects - I would suggest a bit of both and sometimes the process work is still useful and not just the latest draft.
Lesson 11 Technology Post
My favourite pieces of technology are cellphone, email and digital camera as they all add flavour to my life and I can navigate and enjoy them. My family is just starting to get involved with Flickr and Facebook so is all still a little new. Sometimes you just have to give something a couple of go's to be confident your images are saved in the right place or you've given a level of access you are comfortable with. My biggest challenge is trying to remember all the passwords ..... My cellphone is not flash but gives me the ability to keep in touch with friends and family and I think it makes me smile the most - I have some very special people in my life.
Flicker Fun Lesson 10
Have finally managed to post my trading card to my blog - can see that you could spend hours or days creating and having fun. The other tricks with Flicker are interesting but not as relevant at the moment. Could see graphic design and art students would enjoy access to the gazillions of photos and adapting them.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Flickr fun
Not sure if I can get the picture I chose from Flickr loaded but here's the link
I just had an anniversary of my time at Manukau City Council but I definitely wasn't on staff when this pic was taken.
Interesting to see what libraries around the globe are using flickr for - one I saw showed screenshots from its website, another special events and book club pics, sure would have been useful when we opened Te Matariki and had lots of requests for photos - could have had a lovely selection already for people to browse.
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