At first I could not really see the point of this for me personally, but I added some of my favourite books for the sake of the exercise. This led to a great find of a book i didn't know about by an author I have really enjoyed in the past. I can see it being useful for customer for "who writes like?" queries, and to peruse the reading styles of those who appear to be interested in similar subjects. I have not had a great urge to use it since doing this exercise. On the other hand, I can't STOP saving things to del.icio.us and have urged my husband to use it also. The only drawback is he keeps saving his favourites to my del.icio.us by mistake. I'll be well equipped if anyone wants to know about Suzuki VStrom motorbikes.
I have slowed down in the training over Easter, so now need to get on to the next week.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Even more del.icio.us
Of all the Learning 2.0 topics so far, I have found del.icio.us the most enticing. I can't stop looking at the listings for other people who have tagged the same sites as I have. It's my day off today, and I'm (?wasting) my day in the sun sitting at the computer!
I'm looking forward to creating a delicious (tired of punctuation!) account for our library. I found the National Library's delicious/usefulresources site fantastic, and will be urging people to use it at our library.
I have finally forced myself to move on to the Technorati part, but must say that most blogs leave me cold. I simply have no inclination to delve into the ramblings of other people. I can't image how boring it would be for others to have to read what I have written.
I found the results for "bookmobile" different on the regular and advanced searches. I don't know why I would ever search using such a word under normal circumstances.
On Technorati, I did not get any results searching the blogs using "nswpln2008", only in photos, and in posts when I chose the option "with any authority". These were not posts from any of the Learning 2.0 blogs, so am assuming this is because they are not public? There were 5 posts by in librarian2librarian . Perhaps I am doing it incorrectly. I don't understand the concept of "authority" yet, so will have to find out more about this later.
I have had a brief look at Library Thing recently, but am looking forward to spending more time on this - after I hang out the washing and check out the garden. OH&S rules after all - need to move these muscles.
I'm looking forward to creating a delicious (tired of punctuation!) account for our library. I found the National Library's delicious/usefulresources site fantastic, and will be urging people to use it at our library.
I have finally forced myself to move on to the Technorati part, but must say that most blogs leave me cold. I simply have no inclination to delve into the ramblings of other people. I can't image how boring it would be for others to have to read what I have written.
I found the results for "bookmobile" different on the regular and advanced searches. I don't know why I would ever search using such a word under normal circumstances.
On Technorati, I did not get any results searching the blogs using "nswpln2008", only in photos, and in posts when I chose the option "with any authority". These were not posts from any of the Learning 2.0 blogs, so am assuming this is because they are not public? There were 5 posts by in librarian2librarian . Perhaps I am doing it incorrectly. I don't understand the concept of "authority" yet, so will have to find out more about this later.
I have had a brief look at Library Thing recently, but am looking forward to spending more time on this - after I hang out the washing and check out the garden. OH&S rules after all - need to move these muscles.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
del.icio.us
I have created a delicious account at the following link:
http://del.icio.us/cavalieria
It's very easy to get stuck looking at sites not directly relevant to the task at hand - you may have noticed my leanings towards Cavaliers. When I have more time I will add the websites for my favourite authors. This is something I find frustrating - when I run out of books to read (?sounds impossible - not for me), and I think of checking if any of my favourite authors are due to pop out a new book, I keep forgetting who is on my list. De.icio.us will be great for this purpose.
I have also been saving websites for future travel to places in the novels I like, so I can include these on del.icio.us.
Fortunately I use Firefox at home which is where I set up the account, so it was pretty easy. I will have to read the alternate instructions to set one up at work.
I think it will be very useful at work, where I currently have to use different computers throughout the day, which means access to my favourites is never the same.
I can see if being of immense usefulness for staff accessing and saving websites of interest for helping customers. In the longer term, having one set up like Sutherland's would be great for our library patrons to access. Again, this could take some time for setting up and maintaining.
http://del.icio.us/cavalieria
It's very easy to get stuck looking at sites not directly relevant to the task at hand - you may have noticed my leanings towards Cavaliers. When I have more time I will add the websites for my favourite authors. This is something I find frustrating - when I run out of books to read (?sounds impossible - not for me), and I think of checking if any of my favourite authors are due to pop out a new book, I keep forgetting who is on my list. De.icio.us will be great for this purpose.
I have also been saving websites for future travel to places in the novels I like, so I can include these on del.icio.us.
Fortunately I use Firefox at home which is where I set up the account, so it was pretty easy. I will have to read the alternate instructions to set one up at work.
I think it will be very useful at work, where I currently have to use different computers throughout the day, which means access to my favourites is never the same.
I can see if being of immense usefulness for staff accessing and saving websites of interest for helping customers. In the longer term, having one set up like Sutherland's would be great for our library patrons to access. Again, this could take some time for setting up and maintaining.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Embedding a video
This was much easier than I expected. I can see this being very useful for staff training - once we get our technology issues sorted. It was also easy to embed the video into our Info Services wiki. All I need now is more time to do these sorts of things.
YouTube and Google video
I have been working my way through the suggested items on YouTube and Goodle video and so far I would have to say they leave me uninspired. I can see that there is an opportunity for libraries to advertise their wares in this way, but realistically the videos for the New Jersey library are pretty corny, and preaching to the converted. I can't really imagine, for example a teenager, being inspired by one of these videos to use the library if they had never done so before.
When I did a search using "library Australia" as keywords, I came up with a bizarre video for the Brisbane library, obviously made for the amusement of it's creators, to make fun of the library.
I guess this is all good fun for someone, so each to his own.
The videos used in the training we've done are interesting and easy to understand, so I can see the usefulness of this type.
Sorry to sound like a party-pooper.
I just looked at the Mosman library videos of their author nights. These were much more interesting to me. I can see this is a great way to share the events with public, and publicise the library's activities to encourage future attendance.
When I did a search using "library Australia" as keywords, I came up with a bizarre video for the Brisbane library, obviously made for the amusement of it's creators, to make fun of the library.
I guess this is all good fun for someone, so each to his own.
The videos used in the training we've done are interesting and easy to understand, so I can see the usefulness of this type.
Sorry to sound like a party-pooper.
I just looked at the Mosman library videos of their author nights. These were much more interesting to me. I can see this is a great way to share the events with public, and publicise the library's activities to encourage future attendance.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wikis and Wikipedia
At last I have reached a lesson about which I actually already know something.
After attending the reference seminar last year, a colleague and I decided to make a wiki for information services staff to use. It took us a while to teach ourselves, and even longer to put on lots of information that is now accessible to info services staff.
We used wetpaint, and did not realise we could have had a choice.
If anyone reads this, do you know of a way to NOT have advertising on Wetpaint?
I would now like to make one using a different wiki-maker (or whatever they are called).
I can see that there are features we have not tapped such as adding videos,
It seemed very weird to edit Wikipedia - I added our council website to the external links for the town where I live.
After attending the reference seminar last year, a colleague and I decided to make a wiki for information services staff to use. It took us a while to teach ourselves, and even longer to put on lots of information that is now accessible to info services staff.
We used wetpaint, and did not realise we could have had a choice.
If anyone reads this, do you know of a way to NOT have advertising on Wetpaint?
I would now like to make one using a different wiki-maker (or whatever they are called).
I can see that there are features we have not tapped such as adding videos,
It seemed very weird to edit Wikipedia - I added our council website to the external links for the town where I live.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Week 4: RSS feeds
These are the sites I have added to bloglines:
I have saved eBay searches so I receive emails letting me know about new items appearing, but the format on bloglines seems better. The drawback would be I may not bother to check it and email comes to me automatically.
I was interested in the dog blog sites, using the search link suggested, but found that a lot of them were actually advertising sites, rather than blogs.
- french doors (eBay)
- Happy Pet Blog (6)
- Life with Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
- Paul Welch's Photos (10)
- Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day
- Tag: Health - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (10)
I have saved eBay searches so I receive emails letting me know about new items appearing, but the format on bloglines seems better. The drawback would be I may not bother to check it and email comes to me automatically.
I was interested in the dog blog sites, using the search link suggested, but found that a lot of them were actually advertising sites, rather than blogs.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Help me!
I was fiddling around trying different fonts and colours, only to find the default one was actually the best. Now I can't figure out how to make it go back to the first one. Whatever I change it to, it still stays the way I don't want it. I'm hoping that doing this post will make it revert to the original.
Flickr
I uploaded 5 photos of our library to Flickr with tags last night but so far have still not been able to find them. I understand it can take till the next day, so hopefully soon.
It's interesting looking at the photos of other libraries as they are all so different to each other. The one of Wallsend library is amazing.
I can see there is an advantage to loading one's own photos onto Flickr for security reasons, but it does seem like a time consuming task. It tool me a long time to load the photos from my computer to Flickr and ended up resizing them to make them load more quickly. I am certainly not an expert and I guess there is probably a better way to go about it.
I don't really have the urge to put personal photos on Flickr for the purpose of sharing them with others, with the possible exception of photos of my dog, as I really enjoy looking at all the other gorgeous individuals who are the same breed.
With regards to Learning 2.0 in general, we have had a lot of trouble accessing all the activities due to firewall restrictions, but I am hoping this will improve. Time is also a huge constraint, as members of our team are generally on information desk duties when they are at work. Because I have encouraged the staff in my team to undertake this program, I have had to help some staff to at least begin a blog so they can register. I don't think 15 minutes per day would be anything like sufficient for those who know very little about all this to begin with.
At this point I am thinking anything new I learn is one more thing I didn't know before, which has to be a good thing.
It's interesting looking at the photos of other libraries as they are all so different to each other. The one of Wallsend library is amazing.
I can see there is an advantage to loading one's own photos onto Flickr for security reasons, but it does seem like a time consuming task. It tool me a long time to load the photos from my computer to Flickr and ended up resizing them to make them load more quickly. I am certainly not an expert and I guess there is probably a better way to go about it.
I don't really have the urge to put personal photos on Flickr for the purpose of sharing them with others, with the possible exception of photos of my dog, as I really enjoy looking at all the other gorgeous individuals who are the same breed.
With regards to Learning 2.0 in general, we have had a lot of trouble accessing all the activities due to firewall restrictions, but I am hoping this will improve. Time is also a huge constraint, as members of our team are generally on information desk duties when they are at work. Because I have encouraged the staff in my team to undertake this program, I have had to help some staff to at least begin a blog so they can register. I don't think 15 minutes per day would be anything like sufficient for those who know very little about all this to begin with.
At this point I am thinking anything new I learn is one more thing I didn't know before, which has to be a good thing.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Woot, woot!
...as my daughter used to say. This actually worked!
I think I've had enough for one night, so will get back to uploading library pictures to Flickr later.
I think I've had enough for one night, so will get back to uploading library pictures to Flickr later.
Beach Mornington Peninsula
While I have been so busy at work, I have been mentally planning my next holiday and every time I see VPEN (the NUC symbol for Mornington Peninsula) I feel the universe is sending me a message about where to go. Needless to say, I work in Interlibrary Loans.
Week 3 - Flickr
I didn't think it was that interesting looking at other people's photos at first - until I started searching for something of my own - at which point I was totally absorbed in looking at photos of my favourite dog breed. I can imagine wasting a lot of time on this.
I can see the usefulness of uploading our photos for safety reasons, and the organisational aspects of being able to sort and search has definite potential benefits as we are highly disorganised in this area at present.
I didn't really follow the "Our Town" project -will need more time to understand this.
Overall, I haven't had much time at work or at home for the last 2 weeks, so have been cramming the tasks into short bursts of activity.
I have just tried to send a photo from Flickr to this blog. I guess i will find out if it worked once I post this and have a look. I haven't found it very easy. The instructions are a bit brief and unclear.
I can see the usefulness of uploading our photos for safety reasons, and the organisational aspects of being able to sort and search has definite potential benefits as we are highly disorganised in this area at present.
I didn't really follow the "Our Town" project -will need more time to understand this.
Overall, I haven't had much time at work or at home for the last 2 weeks, so have been cramming the tasks into short bursts of activity.
I have just tried to send a photo from Flickr to this blog. I guess i will find out if it worked once I post this and have a look. I haven't found it very easy. The instructions are a bit brief and unclear.
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