Tallest meets shortest

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Answer boards and social searching

I do not think that there is a place for us to survey answer boards and provide feedback on answers, because time consideration at our specific library does not allow us to provide that depth of service. If our library had a blog promoting our collections where patrons could provide feedback then they could do so via comments or we could add a poll to the blog to rate books and library items.

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

NEWSFLASH!

Has web 3.0 arrived? or should I say Web 3D?

If you see my links page to the right you will see a
new link called 3D internet. This exciting technology
was featured on today's sunrise program on channel 7.

Basically as far as I can tell it is a virtual 3D internet
browser called Exit reality. Where you can transform any
website into a virtual 3D website. Don't worry if you get lost
it is as easy as clicking a button to twitch back into the
normal 2D view that we are used to.

Is this the future revolutionary step to internet so
please download the program and explore and let me
know of your experience with this.

Please note the Exitreality program is only in beta format, so
it is certainly not the finished product.

Snail's thought of the day

Thinking back to the early days of the learning 2.0 course that the staff at our library (If you haven't already guessed the Snail works at a Australian library) have been undergoing for a while, one of the excellent video's that we watched (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=related) hinted that web 2.0 will force our society to rethink the way we do many things including copyright, commerce and even relationships. This has become apparent to The Snail as I have become more exposed to web 2.0 and even library 2.0 lately. For example I have come across official policy's from governmental institutions that are created in a blog format, so as to provide the functionality for people both internal and external to that institution comment on the contents.

Pepper

If the world was Dr Pepper it would look something like this

Updates Amended

Also I forgot to mention that I love feedback, if you have any suggestions for how I can run my blog more effectively please post them as comments. Thank you for those who have already posted comments.

Updates

Hi all,

You might have noticed that I have made some cosmetic changes to my blog as well as updating my profile. Check it out.

Online video

We have explored the wonderful world of online video courtesy of Youtube and Google video. We liked the concept of online 3D book reviews, it seems more appealing than a traditional book review. After watching the World of Warcraft parody video, people at the library in which I work would like to create a video where we are represented by digitally created superheroes. In which our everyday working life is depicted. I was amazed that video's have been made of other everyday work like farming and posted on the internet for all to watch.

wiki-ness

Off the top of my head from last week's wiki session, I was encouraged how easily
it seems to create a wiki. Also as a serial emailer I can relate to how wiki's can improve communication flow. There was also some great examples on the internet of what other libraries are doing with wiki's and just how detailed some of them are.

Learning 2.0 has paid off!

I just happened to check my google RSS reader a few weeks after the initial session and I got a pleasant suprise when I checked the powerhouse museum's photo of the day feed. I found this excellent link to a mash-up (Im excited about mashup's before we have even got to that week's installment) (you will need to copy and paste this link into your browser).

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/08/27/flickr-meets-google-street-view-paul-hagons-then-now-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-your-data-6247

Credit for bringing this information goes to Paul Hagon (http://www.paulhagon.com/) and Seb Chan (http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/).

Its a mashup between a flickr collection and google streetview. Where on the left you see a photo of a building that is quite old, and the location of it, and on the right you can see the current google street view of the location/building of how it looks in the 21st century, great!.

http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/sw018.gif

Pocoyo?

This photo is courtesy of Iron Lung on fLiCkR

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/2788843421_0c1b331930_m.jpg

Check out: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/show/

Rss and newsfeeds

It's good being able to receive online updates and news so easily. I chose board game sites and soccer feeds because of personal interest. I could subscribe to Library news feed to keep uptodate with the library profession.

This photo is courtesy of Philippe Sainte-Laudy's photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pilou/2284200542/

Learning 2.0

So far I am enjoying the experience of learning 2.0. I am already quite computer literate and am familiar with blogs and flickr etc. I hope to delve deeper into these new collaborative environments and gain a deeper grounding and experience more benefits from this. I'm also hoping to learn how other information proffesionals are benefiting from this course. For someone who has been studying for a very long time and who works in the information industry, lifelong learning is a key desire. Not only do I want to keep learning, gain wider experiences personally but I would like to do better that I have done previously in encouraging others to pursue lifelong learning. Ive discovered and found other library related blogs as well as obviously personal friends blogs related to overseas trip's etc. They are just great forums with ease of access for communicating in the digital age. The formats and layouts are very easy to use and navigate.

There will be a place for blogs in libraries, because I have noticed that our society is moving towards communicating differently, especially with these virtual mediums. The younger generations have been at the forefront of these changes too. Hence to keep interest among these groups, then blogs will be a valuable tool for users to interact with libraries in new ways. In the future there may be opportunities to blog to clients.