I haven't really looked much at You Tube (and never Google video) before starting this course. Although my 12 year old son was having hysterics looking at clips about funny animals last weekend at home [kittens featured a lot], which were quite entertaining.
Working through this activity has opened my eyes to lots of possibilities for using short videos on library websites:
* oral history videos
*staff orientations
*guides to using library services
*book reviews
*author visits e.g Colleen McCullough at Mosman Library (45 min. on Google video)
*exhibitions
As an example of an overview of a public library's services, I have copied below a link to the Ferntree Gully Library Promotion video (4 min.).
Ferntree Gully Library Promotion
Monday, March 31, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Wikis and libraries
Wikis are great. What I found really interesting is how easily and quickly they can be updated and added to.
I though the manual of style was interesting on the Wookipeida site. I found the wikis on heritage/history sites a bit difficult to navigate around, but are a great idea - we have a local history collection in some of our branch libraries, and it would be great to have photo collections etc. available on a wiki site for members of the community to contribute their knowledge about events, people in photos, etc.
I think that wikis have great potential within libraries, particularly for staff manuals, and also for book reviews linked to items in the library online catalog.
I thought the Antioch University New England Library Staff Training & Support Wiki was fantastic. Some of the pages I looked at were Display policy, Journals on display, Emergency procedures, Journals shelving, Library server, and Open-Closing library.
Working for a public library with that has 11 service points using a wiki to facilitate quick and easy access to from all service points, and being able to immediately add information/update the site would be great. At the moment the "manual" is printed in a Word document, and kept in folders at each branch, and it takes time for updated pages to be freighted to each branch with weekly delivery boxes, etc. Its great to be able to have lots of pages, and links to other pages/sites, etc.
I thought the Book Lovers Wiki at Princeton Public Library is a great way to get book reviews from individuals and to make these available to other library users to read and add their thoughts to.
I bookmarked lots of the wiki sites I visited so that I can go back and have another look at them when I have more time - time to do some work.
I though the manual of style was interesting on the Wookipeida site. I found the wikis on heritage/history sites a bit difficult to navigate around, but are a great idea - we have a local history collection in some of our branch libraries, and it would be great to have photo collections etc. available on a wiki site for members of the community to contribute their knowledge about events, people in photos, etc.
I think that wikis have great potential within libraries, particularly for staff manuals, and also for book reviews linked to items in the library online catalog.
I thought the Antioch University New England Library Staff Training & Support Wiki was fantastic. Some of the pages I looked at were Display policy, Journals on display, Emergency procedures, Journals shelving, Library server, and Open-Closing library.
Working for a public library with that has 11 service points using a wiki to facilitate quick and easy access to from all service points, and being able to immediately add information/update the site would be great. At the moment the "manual" is printed in a Word document, and kept in folders at each branch, and it takes time for updated pages to be freighted to each branch with weekly delivery boxes, etc. Its great to be able to have lots of pages, and links to other pages/sites, etc.
I thought the Book Lovers Wiki at Princeton Public Library is a great way to get book reviews from individuals and to make these available to other library users to read and add their thoughts to.
I bookmarked lots of the wiki sites I visited so that I can go back and have another look at them when I have more time - time to do some work.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
RSS and Bloglines:My Feeds
First thing this morning on coming in to work (early so I can do some more coursework!) I checked out my feeds on Bloglines - it was great to see so many new messages.
I think I will make it part of my daily routine (once I add some more subscriptions) first thing every morning - a good way to catch up on e.g. what is happening in world events, new delopments in my work field interests, etc.
I think I will make it part of my daily routine (once I add some more subscriptions) first thing every morning - a good way to catch up on e.g. what is happening in world events, new delopments in my work field interests, etc.
Monday, March 17, 2008
RSS and blogging along
What I like about RSS and newsreaders is that you can select what sites I am interested in receiving posts from - tailoring the information I want to read, and having it sent automatically is really great.
Sites I selected for my RSS reader are:
7 feeds
ABC News : Australia (0) (0)
ABS Blog for Librarians (0) (0)
Bloglines News (0) (0)
The Cataloguing Librarian (10) (0)
Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day (10) (0)
The Shifted Librarian (0) (0)
VH1 Movie News
I think I might be able to use this technogy in my work by using it as an alerting service for updates about new material on e.g. the ABS website to assist me keep up to date with reference services, and developments in cataloguing which may be of interest as well.
Libraries can use RSS to take advantage of this new technology to facilitate staff current awareness of new developments in their area of work.
I found a few other good examples of library blogs by searching Google Blog Search (where I found The Cataloguing Librarian blog.
Sites I selected for my RSS reader are:
7 feeds
ABC News : Australia (0) (0)
ABS Blog for Librarians (0) (0)
Bloglines News (0) (0)
The Cataloguing Librarian (10) (0)
Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day (10) (0)
The Shifted Librarian (0) (0)
VH1 Movie News
I think I might be able to use this technogy in my work by using it as an alerting service for updates about new material on e.g. the ABS website to assist me keep up to date with reference services, and developments in cataloguing which may be of interest as well.
Libraries can use RSS to take advantage of this new technology to facilitate staff current awareness of new developments in their area of work.
I found a few other good examples of library blogs by searching Google Blog Search (where I found The Cataloguing Librarian blog.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Flickr and blogging along
I can really relate to the Online photosharing in plain English session - we lost most of our photographs when I was 12 when our house burnt down one night, and only a week ago I lost everything (including photos) on our Internet PC at home, which I had to reset to factory settings. Thankfully I had most of the photos on that PC stored on a USB stick, and another computer, so was able to copy them back onto my Internet home PC - so, I see the value in keeping photos backed up on the Internet somewhere.
I searched under my hometown in Flickr, and found lots of interesting photos of animals at our local zoo, including a few of this fellow. I'm not sure if I have dowloaded this correctly, so the URL for the photo is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tihari/192568466/in/photostream. I created a Yahoo! Flickr account to dowload the photo.
Slowly blogging along..
It's hard to find the time to continue with the coursework, but I had better get stuck into it now! Good thing I wrote down all my passwords.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Blogging for the first time
Hey! I'm blogging! (What a dreadful sounding word).
I have seen a great change in technology used in libraries while working in this field over the past 20 years - from card catalogue days through to PCs, web catalogs, web-based databases, and and all the emerging web-based technologies on the Internet.
Not having worked much in the reference services area for some time, I feel that I have much to learn about the newer emerging technologies on the Internet, so this course is very timely.
I look forward to learning all about blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites.
It was good to have a look at some libraries' blogs, to get an idea of some of the many possible uses for blogs within the library environment. I can see great opportunities for borrower participation on a library's website, for example, providing feedback on book reviews, maybe a blog book club, etc.
I liked the Alternative teen services blog - I will have to investigate what other blogs have been set up for librarians to share information and experiences.
I have seen a great change in technology used in libraries while working in this field over the past 20 years - from card catalogue days through to PCs, web catalogs, web-based databases, and and all the emerging web-based technologies on the Internet.
Not having worked much in the reference services area for some time, I feel that I have much to learn about the newer emerging technologies on the Internet, so this course is very timely.
I look forward to learning all about blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites.
It was good to have a look at some libraries' blogs, to get an idea of some of the many possible uses for blogs within the library environment. I can see great opportunities for borrower participation on a library's website, for example, providing feedback on book reviews, maybe a blog book club, etc.
I liked the Alternative teen services blog - I will have to investigate what other blogs have been set up for librarians to share information and experiences.
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