Learning 2.0 week 7

Web 2.0 conference

I discovered this above link whilst exploring and conducting our week 7 stage of the learning 2.0 course on Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us and LibraryThing.

Despite our Council Internet security unfortunately blocking Del.icio.us and connected sites (hence cutting us off from 60% of this weeks web 2.0 adventure) I still learnt quite a bit. I do like the ability to add our own books to library thing and tag them.

Since our council's obstructed del.icio.us I registered at home and I instantly liked its service, although I havent been able to utilize it's full features especially in the social bookmarking areas, I like the way my bookmarks are now much more easily accessible. I also really like the feature with del.icio.us where your most popular bookmarks are in the most convenient place above the browser.

Technorati was an excellent can of worms to be opened, and it was especially fascinating to see the 5 most popular blogs as well as top word or phrase searches that had been performed in blogs too.

Scanblog

If you had a look at the link to the blogs that I posted previously and investigated the blog hosted by 5 OCLC staff called Its all good. If you love a good read they have a link to a recent article on "why public libraries close" written by written by Christie Koontz, Dean Jue and Wade Bishop:

Dewey decimal system made easy

Dewey decimal classification (DDC)!

For all you library staff out there, for those random times when a school student wants to learn how to go about finding books and understanding how our books are arranged direct them to the above link. This has two powerpoint demonstrations that helps explain the dewey decimal system and shows how it is arranged in a visually pleasing format. You may like to show it to that eager student...

You may also like to have a look at their sponsored blogs that discuss the "intersections of technology with libraries, archives and museums." by using the link below.

OCLC blogs