#16 Wikis!

I first heard about wikis about a year ago through an article in a library journal and I immediately thought of a use for one - for the ISL group to collaborate on a standard for the reference interview. It was really easy to establish the page at www.pbwiki.com, however I found it pretty painful to create the body of the webpage because I wanted to cut and paste chunks of info from MSWord and every time I did that I lost all the formatting and had to fiddle for ages to fix text size, font, and other stuff. So we didn't end up using it much, but seeing we all have access to the same network drives it was easier to do it on there.
However I am a big fan of Wikipedia and loved the examples of libraries creating subject guides which community members can update, and also the community networking hubs. Wiki's can be a fabulous tool when the purpose is right.

#15 - Web 2.0 and where it willt ake libraries...

Wow, what a fascinating bunch of articles. I read them all. I;m a bit starved for inspiration at them moent, so they were a godsend. I reall liked Rick Anderson's article about the three icebergs. I studied the "just in casvs just in time" theory in management subjects at uni, and think his application of this to library collections fascinating. Especially non-fiction collections.

And I love the idea in both the metadat article and the last articlew about incorporating Web 2.o features from Google and Amazon into the library catalogue. I think it's a great idea to allow customers to review books, and an even better idea for staff to tag books they've read and a rating or very quick review. Loads of borrowers at Mornington rely on Zofia's recommendations, let's get this wealth of knowledge online! And imagine if we had hierarchical browsing by place, it would be like Google Earth and a LMS combined. Very Cool.

But perhaps we could start with a few more links to good book review blogs on our webpage.... Anyone got any good sites we should be recommending??

#12 and #13

I had a good look around Delicious and Technorati and they are pretty cool. I liked the "popular" function on Delicious, it was interesting to see what other people have been saving. Facebook also has a function for sharing weblinks with friends which I have used.
It's great to know about Technorati so that you can just search through Blogs, now that they are such an important information tool.

#11 Library Thing

Library thing's pretty easy to use too! I've checked it out before but didn't realise how quick and easy adding books would be , and what a handy search function... One for the Library Nerds.

http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=image-personalization

# 10 - generate this!

Hey this was so easy!

Well generating the picture was, turning it into a JPG so I could add it to the site was a little harder...

Can anyone get the literary reference??

This was created using "Letter James" which was so easy I feel a bit like I've cheated...
http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=image-personalization

#9 - RSS and Bloglines

I set up my Bloglines account a few weeks ago now and have been having fun watching a few blogs - like Robyns! And today I have finally gotten to exploring some of the other tools like Topix and Feedster. I added The Age to my bloglines account, and also The Aust. Library Journal as suggested through ANZ Ref Centre. I think these will be really interesting. And I've already enjoyed keeping up with the literature world with the lit links that Bloglines suggested. I just with Melbourne water has an RSS feed so that I could keep up with the storage levels. It's up to 40.3 today!
http://www.melbournewater.com.au/Default.asp?bhcp=1

More Piccies

I've uploaded some more photos of Barnaby on my Flickr site. Check them out at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14230689@N06/
And soon I will get back to doing Learning2.0 work! Maybe......