Social Networking

I think that social networking sites would be a great idea for the library. Since we would be using sites such as Facebook and MySpace, it would be a great hit with the younger crowd and would attract more people to the library. Also we could create a site for the library and people would be able to become friends with the library and receive updates and newsletters from the library on upcoming events.

I have not used these websites a lot myself but by the amount of time my son spends on them I think that incorporating them into the library would be a great way to attract new younger members.

Google Docs :-)

Hi Guys
This week I have looked into Google Docs and let me just say that this is a great find for me. I have always struggled with having to update documents for other people and having to go through sending email after email even for the smallest changes.

This would be great in the library for example when somebody wants a procedure checked out by other people, they can log in and alter it and all the people can work together and produce an efficient result. This would greatly reduce the time and emails needed to get several people to work together.

Hope Everybody is well

This is a quick Mashup which I created. Hopefully everybody enjoys it :-) .

Mashups would be great to use in the library for showcasing events and activities which have happened and the photos taken from them. Each photo could be accompanied by a clever heading and subtitle. This would be another way of the library keeping up with technology and appealing to more people.

See you all next week :-)

Podcasts

Podcasts would be a great tool for the library because it would give people and alternative to reading text when they need to find out about events or something which is happening at the library. Also if implemented with the RSS feature listeners would be able to receive updates and new announcements as soon as they are made available. This would increase the number of clients at the library.

Slamming....

This concept of slamming the boards sounded fairly strange to me at first but when i saw what it achieved , I found it to be quite helpful. Many boards are filled with false answers and it is a great relief that proper librarians can come on and post helpful and correct answers. :-)

The public would be able to rate books and videos in terms of their reliability and how much they relate to their topic which they are discussing. This will help students and researchers in using books which are helpful and which many people have read and considered to be very helpful.

The same concept can be used with CD's and videos in the library. Nobody wants to listen to a bad movie or cd, but then again the library only buys good stuff ;-)

Library Thing

This is a great place to show your book collection and also to find people who share the same interests :-)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Huantino

Shared Bookmarks

This has also been something that I have discovered due to doing this course and let me just say that I absolutely love it. I always make bookmarks from my favorite websites and now that they can be accessed by anybody anywhere is excellent.

This would be an excellent addition to the library because it can give people a better tool when researching. This is due to the fact that the public would be able to look at websites picked out by staff who know informative sites. Also people can bookmark sites that they find and share them with other, thus also letting people to work together; as they say 2 brains is better than 1.

http://del.icio.us/Huantino1950

Frozen People

Human Tetris!!!

The Video Phenomenon

This week I have focused on videos on the internet. Through the use of YouTube and the newly discovered Google video, I was able to see some quite interesting things which people have posted. They range from the strange to the funny to the quite informative as can be seen with the tutorial videos which we use every week. I searched for Mosman Library and found out some videos of guest speakers that they had on , which I found to be a very interesting way to use this technology.

If this technology is implemented into the library I think that we can use it to showcase the library and its features; items such as guest speakers, presentations and also to give a tour of the library.

The Wonderful World of Wikis

Wikis replace the traditional way of gathering ideas/information on a task that has to be done by a group/team of people. By using this manner of communicating and organising it eliminates the need to get everybody together and which in turn saves time and resources.

In the library, wikis can provide and excellent tool for not only the public but the employees of the library too. For example if there has been a certain way of carrying out a procedure in the library and it has been set up as a Wiki, if somebody finds a better way to carry out the task then they may go into it and change it allowing people who use it in the future to benefit from the new knowledge. Also we may put up ideas and designs for new thing s at the library as wikis and the public can come together and input ideas into making it better.

RSS... what?

Well today I discovered the wonderful world of RSS Feeds. For those who are unfamiliar with them they are these neat little feeds which you can subscribe to and whenever they get updated, you receive the update.

The great thing about them is that they are available for a wide range of topics so I am sure that if you look for something in your area of interest, they will have a rss feed for it.

I love my sports especially soccer so I signed up to a couple of sport feeds one of which is ESPN. Also I signed up to Powerhouse Museum picture of the day, which has some great shots and also to the Daily Telegraph which will keep me up to date with the news. Hopefully the feed can bring me some good news in regards to soccer... Go Arsenal!!!

Honestly if libraries used this technology to its full potential the results would be great. Not only would they be able to give people updates on new activities in the library but they would be doing it through a media which is becoming more and more popular. It will definitely attract more people to start using the library.

So ladies and gentlemen , in conclusion RSS feeds are something which I which ifI had been made aware of before, I wouldn't have to check on every different website the scores for the footy and the latest transfers... ah well better late than never :-)

Discovered Photo Sharing Sites :-)

I found a good picture on Flickr "http://www.flickr.com/photos/classicpep/159047710/". I just thought I would let everybody have a chance to look at it and have a good laugh. There are alot more pictures on Flickr that should be checked out.

I personally found it very interesting and as you can see by my picture choice very humerous also :-). So if anybody has not checked out picture sharing sites then the time is now because there are alot of engaging and humerous pictures on them.

P.S I am starting to get the hang of the "blogging experience" :-)

I hope to learn a lot of things which can allow me express myself in a variety of ways. This program will hopefully teach me some new skills which I can use to help clients out with regards to communicating to other people their own news.

I believe that LifeLong Learning is a great concept and one which I truly believes that applies in a lot of people... especially me. I would have never thought that I would have been able to set up a blog but through the use of the learning website i have been able to understand what a blog is and set one up for myself. This has given me the confidence to try and learn some new things.

I have discovered some blogs of other people and I just like how they express themselves and how everybody puts forward their feelings and thoughts in different ways; which makes for a really good read.

Blogs in the library would be a great tool for announcing many activities and events which are coming up and also to report on activities which have happened. it also gives the clients a space where they can comment on our activities and events and make some suggestions on what they liked or disliked about them. We can use these comments to build better activities in the future.

As stated above, blogs can be used heavily with clients. It will be a new form of communicating with them and will greatly increase the appeal of the library due to the fact that we are using a medium which is becoming highly popular and trendy.