Well I found my RSS feeds on my bloglines site. Must put a link to it on my blog.

I just hope I remember all of this. It has been fascinating having time to actually look a bit closer at all of this new technology instead of just having a vague idea of what it all means.

Week 7 social bookmarking

I found all of this fascinating and probably spent too much time getting my head around all this, exploring websites and seeing how this might be useful for the library.
I thought the National library's list of useful resources great and added a link to it on my blog. I can see how adding your own tags would make it more user friendly.
From our library's point of view I think that a site like this would be great for us for reference queries but we could also set one up for our borrowers to use as well. We could also set up links to information on our locality as other libraries have done.

I loved the Library thing site, and added five of my favourite books to it with some reviews. I can really see this being a useful tool to set up in our library or for our patrons to use amongst themselves. We tried an online book club with our sister library in America but that never really took off, but if we encouraged some of our local people to join Library thing - then they could easily see what other people with similiar tastes were reading.

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just wondering if I did my RSS feeds the right way. I can't seem to find them on my blog site. Maybe I need to do again.

Embedding Videos

Really liked what I learnt about video embedding. I can see where it would be useful for libraries. Even something simple like a tour of the library video (even smaller libraries would benefit from one of these) which was the example video I embedded in my blog. Would appeal to the younger generation much more than just listing what was available in the library. Lots of people are still intimidated by libraries so this could be one way to make them feel as if they are familiar with the place even before actually visiting.

Tour of the library

Wow exploring the new generation catalogues I can really see how this will make library pages more interesting.
Explored the State Library of Tasmania's catalogue and loved the way the front page was set out. Really makes you want ot explore it.
I looked at the Stuff for kids and the playroom for under 5s. Especially liked the stoytime online site.

Progress so far

Have really enjoyed learning about Flickr. The one thing that concerns me though (being a small library) is the amount of staff time we would need to use this new technology and keep it up to date with latest news and pictures. I think you would need a staff member who is really keen on using this new technology and very adept at it.

Statue at Vigeland Sculpture Park Oslo Norway

This is my first attempt to upload a photo in my blog

Learning 2.0

Well so far this has been ok. Set up my gmailaccount and my blog no hassles. Must admit though I am way behind our other staff members as I have been away - so learnt from their tips. I really love all the new ways to interact on the web. I can see though visions of us becoming glued to our computer screens as the new way to interact with each other. I really love the way opportunites for learning are presented now.