week 12 - Wrap up: social network and catch up

Discover
Watched the video on "social networking online".
Viewed the Map from Lemonde which showed the popularity of different services around the world....interesting.

Explore
Looked at most of the examples of social networking suggested.
Have viewed and read about "second Life" ,"avatars" and read about the "second life library project".

The possibilities of using social networking at our library is endless. It can be use for client interaction, marketing and networking, but this all involves a lot of time, which none of us seem to have lately. It could be used for children's activities, youth, author talks and for CWA ladies, just to name a few.
All these modules that we have learnt about in the 12 weeks are fabulous and could be used so much in public libraries, its just mind boggling, but everything comes back to how much time we have.
I have enjoyed most of the learning experience of web 2.0 ,but I don't think i will get to use much of it again unfortunately, as I don't have a computer at home and most of my work at the library doesn't involve using it. I have enjoyed creating my own Blog.

I have completed the feedback survey and form letting you know I have finished the program.

Week 11 - Online applications and tools

Explore
Have watched the video on google docs and how it works.
Viewed the slide show on other free online tools, its just amazing how much is out there.


Discover
using my google account I created a document and shared it with nswpln@gmail.com and my friend at work Chris, just in case it didn't work this is what I created below......


week 11
create a document and invite people to share it.

Just letting you know that as from Friday 17 I will be on holidays for a week.
I will be heading up to Yamba to spend a week with my partner and my 2 dogs.
I will be spending my birthday on Wednesday on the beach with a hamburger and chips.
I can't wait....only 4 more sleeps to we leave.

this is all I could think of to write about.
see you when I get back with a tan I hope.
Leona Broekman (Thomsen)

I like how google docs can be use anywhere anytime and its free. Its pretty straight forward and easy to understand and use. It could be used for many applications in the library and at home or with friends. The list is never ending.
one week to go!!!!!

week 10 Mashups

Explore - I had a look around big huge labs, google maps, had a look at th example from the british Library.

Discover - using big huge labs, I have created a mushup using a picture from one of my holidays.

You could use mashsups at your library to create fun advertising and events for the library and I could see it used in local studies.

I found this week interesting and fun. Google maps was interesting to use and I wish I had more time to create more fun mashups.

Week 9 Podcasts and Audio

Discover - have watched the common craft video on "podcasting" I like these videos because they are very easy to understand a new concept.

I have watched the podcast from the British library called " Frank Hawkins on birds of Madagascar".

From the ABC I listened to an interview that Andrew Denton did on his show. He interviewed Tim Rogers from the popular band "who am I".

Explore - I have explore and listen to some podcasts linked on the library success wiki;
Book talks quick and simple, Cornell university Library and Uris Library historical tours, and Orange county Library.

Our library could set up on our website something similar to Orange County Library. We could offer RSS to distribute information and up and coming news and events. We could let our clients know the dates of book sales, author talks, children activities, and books that are being read at our book group. We could have podcasts of any of these events so clients can listen at a later date if they are unable to make the event.

week 8 Answer boards and social learning

Discover- I visited the Answer board Librarians wiki and view the Exemplary answer section. I saw that members of the public rated Librarians responses highly, which is a very good thing.

I also looked at the "signatures and tag lines that librarians use on answer boards.



Explore - If our staff had time to participate in "slamming the boards" I think it would be a good thing to do. It would be a real hoot to read and answer some the questions. As there is no need for the reference interview, people would probably ask questions they wouldn't ask in person. It could also come in handy if there are no more books left on the shelf to use as your reference, so why not ask the question and get the answers online.

Our customers will soon be able to rate and review online when we get our new upgrade in a few weeks time. I have been told by a systems staff member, a customer will be able to post an review or rating on any item, book,Cd,DVD etc in our collection. Once a staff member has viewed it and it has met our policy and is acceptable it will be able to be view by all clients. We haven't had any staff training on this yet, so I'm not totally aware of how it will function.

Week 7 - Tagging, folksonomies, delicious and LibraryThing

I taken a look around Del.icio.us and had a look at how Sutherland and Cleveland Public are using del.icio.us. I was impressed with Cleveland Library tags. I also had a quick look at the tags label "food", some nice recipe's to print out and try.

Have created an account with Delicious.
link to my ....
Delicious account

My experience and thoughts on using this tool;
This is one of the weeks that I have enjoyed, apart from you tube.
I can see the value of using this tool in the library. Making it public so every one can access it is really good too, it can save time if other libraries have already done the research on a particular topic and have found great websites. I could see it particularly good for HSC topics.
For private use, this tool would be good to have as well, as you can access it from anyway on any computer. And buy making it public as well you can share it with friends and family.

Technorati:
I have had a look at how Technorati works and I have decided I don't want my blog to be track.
I'm only have a blog for this learning activity and I really don't want everyone to be able to access it than is necessary for this exercise.

I have gone the search for bookmobile and was suceessful, however doing a search for "nswpln2008" I didn't get a result.


Library thing
completed the tour on "librarything" and created an Librarything account and posted onto my blogg

week 6 Video online,google video and you tube

Completed searches on you tube and google video with the subject headings
Lego, Liverpool plains & Kogarah .

I have checked out " we love our NJ libraries" and Qandanj: now your library is open late too."
the other examples I looked at where: National library week 2008: super sized and No cookies in the library- classic sesame street ( couldn't resist, I loved my sesame st. when I was little).

I have search "Mosman Library" on you tube.
Tamworth city library could put videos on the you tube of our events.
For example, some of the functions we have had recently are:
author talks, children's activities, Home lending morning tea, and CPLA conference that we recently held.

Have completed the half way survey.

I really enjoyed this week, it added some fun to the course. I hope to put on a video that I took of sandman and flacco at the conference that I have on my camera, I just need to work out how to do that.