Most interesting to me was the Library Success/Best Practices wiki. It was very sensible to gather all the comments there such as having a staff intranet for a group project, instruction, planning and promoting collaboration. It encourages participation among all library staff.
A wiki also seems easier to use than tags or social bookmarking sites. On the other hand, having anyone able to interject "facts" without stated authority is misleading for those trying to write papers and reports. Bad news for students using wikis. I personally would not recommend them to anyone.
PBCLS Wiki was fun... favorite books, food, mangos etc. However, I had to enter my blog twice. It wouldn't take me to the blog site for some reason. I deleted it and did it again with my trusty helper.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Web 2.0
We are learning how to find new ways to bring library services to patrons rather than insist they come to us, but they they do still come to us in droves. One comment was to integrate our services into their daily patterns of work, study and play. We have to plan this but include patrons in the process...find out what they want.
The most interesing thought was the Library 4.0 Experience or knowledge spa. I could smell the leather chairs and hear the pages rustle! Pour me a brandy, would you Jeeves?
The most interesing thought was the Library 4.0 Experience or knowledge spa. I could smell the leather chairs and hear the pages rustle! Pour me a brandy, would you Jeeves?
Monday, June 30, 2008
Technorati
There were 75 blogs attached to our library website. When I saw the count for the tags , the first time I did it it showed as 15, 234. For some reason, I did it a second time and it changed within 3 minutes to 17,438 tags. Things are ever changing on the Web. And so many blogs, unbelievable! I found a few from our library staff.
Delicious
Okay, yes. It would be very useful for research purposes. The algebra teacher gathering websites explanation was helpful. We could create our own lists for patrons, I suppose. Accessability from anywhere is useful, too, although I do not even turn on my computer at home!
Monday, June 9, 2008
LibraryThing was fun,although I was glad I had kept my list of books I already read handy. A good way to share thoughts on books, if you are so inclined, with complete strangers, which I am not. My PBCLS family is as out there as I feel comfortable with for now, frankly.
I looked up my home town on Webfeat. A relatively small, local snack food company ended up going big time! They bought out Whole Fruit sorbet (my favorite brand,that's what caught my eye), and a huge number of other well known frozen treats. The public library also got a new director. Webfeat will be essential for reliable medical lookups.
I looked up my home town on Webfeat. A relatively small, local snack food company ended up going big time! They bought out Whole Fruit sorbet (my favorite brand,that's what caught my eye), and a huge number of other well known frozen treats. The public library also got a new director. Webfeat will be essential for reliable medical lookups.
Friday, June 6, 2008
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