Del.icio.us and others

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As far as I can see libraries use del.icio.us to list sights for further research and interests.
I must admit I like Cleavelands site better than Sutherland as it it easier to read. I must like lists because I don't like the CLOUD view.
Perhaps the library could make use of this in a library blog for HSC students. We could add sites that would help the students with further study, sites for coping with stress etc.
It also could benefit staff, as everyone could add their bookmarks of sites that may help for eg. readers advisery.
del.icio.us is easy to log onto and use, the instructions we were given were a great help.
searching "bookmobile" and searching bookmobile as an exact phrase in the advance search brought up the same results.
I had trouble finding nswpln2008. I put it in as a blog search in advance search and found it where as I couldn't under ordinary search.
The LibraryThing looks great, I will have to find more time to have a good look around. It would be a great help in finding books to read that are of similar interest, series and all books by authors.

Videos online

This video clip shows you what intersection to avoid in St Petersberg.

I found that YouTube and Google video can be very addictive. Many funny and serious videos. Searching both youtube and google gives you different subject matter on the same theme. I loved the young boy interviewing for NJ libraries, I thought it was brilliant, also the video clip to get information online all night ( must help the due next day project).

The oral histories I thought was a great idea and one that could be taken up in our library. Just imagine if once a month you asked one of your older borrowers to give a brief history of what it is was like growing up in their town or farm and how it has changed. Kids also would love the oportunity to give thier view of the world. This would be a great local history project and perhaps get more teenages involved in the library through giving their views on things and putting them in a library blog site.

This would be a great way of sending videos & keeping contact with family and friends that you don't get to see, eg interstate & overseas. You would of course have to watch the content for security reasons.

Embedding a video was very easy once I found the instructions in the blog help. I have found the blog help very useful and simple to follow, I have used on numerous occasions!!

Wiki World

The concept is good - everyone going to one page to place and edit information. Must make this a lot simpler than many emails and cc.

The first paragraph on the 'Full library success: best parctices wiki ' says a lot of what concerns me. People diliberatly putting fulse information or just using it for a personal vandetta site. You wuold be forever cleaning up content. A lot of staff time.

No doubt putting logins and password in place would help to put a stop to this to some extent.

What can you say about 'wookiepedia' - a Star Wars lovers dream. again anyone can set up a new user and put on what they wish - makes for entaining reading - not for vaild information.

The ' Book lovers wiki ' I can see real value in this site. We could set up a wiki on our web opacs for staff and borrowers to place book reviews and genre book lists. Beats paper copies on notice boards or book marks. A "readers advisory" dream.

It would take staff time to clean up and make sure content is legit, but I think this would be worth while. It would be forever updating itself, in that borrowers would be adding to it all the time, so when anything new comes out, no doubt there would be comment on it.

Having gone into the - Learning 2.0 wiki - I realised how simple it is to edit and manipulate content on a wiki page. I also learnt that nearly all library officers feel the same about their work. We are very passionate about our work in libraries!!

RSS Feeds

I can see a lot of potential for feeds. I don't know if I would have the time or inclination to read a lot feeds coming in but one I would glance at every day would be the ABC news as it would update me on what is going on in Australia and the world, so i had current knowledge to pass on for reference questions. I added the - ABC news just in - feed to my blog.
I added gardening feeds ( as I am a garden fanatic) as well as library references to bloglines but I will more than likely forget to check them out regurally.
Perhaps if you set up a blog for the library you would be able to put feeds for borrowers to be able to check out. We would have to be very selective as there are hundreds out there.
I found bloglines very easy to use and it was very simple to add a feed to my blog.
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