Week 6.1

Here is my daughter last year.

Week 6.0

After 15 minutes of searching I finally found one of the videos I put up on YouTube last year.

I don't use the account anymore since Blogger incorporated the 'Add Video' button. You don't need to go through a third party site like YouTube to upload your home movies anymore. They can go straight onto your blog.

YouTube and GoogleVideo are still fun to browse when your bored, but I don't use them at all anymore.

We are in the process of creating an RA site and we are trying to incorporate as many 2.0 tools as we can.

Week 5.2

The Mosman Library wikipedia site is quite good, it needs more references to become verified, but our web team has put a fair bit of work into it. There is a lot of room for expansion as the local history team could provide a lot more content.

Week 5.1

I put a little blurb on the wiki about animals I have removed from the library. It's nice to hear that other libraries have pets too.

Week 5.0

Where do people get the time to put all this information out there.

Wookieepedia! what can you say to that.

I like the idea of a library procedure manual online and one that any member of staff can add to, and I guess it would be a good way to sort out who had differing points of view about certain procedures that may not have been written down previously.

I find wiki's hard to look at, as they are often filled with large blocks of text and lists of links, that make surfing a trial. 

I prefer to find information in succinct paragraphs with pertinant links contained in the text. 

The mintwiki page was like this and looked to be created by a web designer, incorporating the snap view in the pages and keeping the text short and sweet.

The Subjectguides page was toooo busy and I couldn't look at it for long at all. It looks like it could be a very useful resource and has a lot of content, but it needs a make over so that your not blind after you have found what you want.

Week 4.0

Well, I have not had the best expeiences with RSS feeds before. But I am willing to give them another go. I think the trick is to not subscribe to too many sites as you get bombarded with so much information that you end up not reading any of it.

I subscribed to:

Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the day

ESPN

Librarian.net

The official Google blog

Guardian unlimited books

Keeping up with Google and other soft technology based companies is very important in my line of work and finding new products and services to integrate into the website is paramount.

Week 3.1

Here is a photo I took of some women washing their clothes in Panama. I love the subtle colours and the lighting in the arches.

Week 3.0

I have been browsing Flickr and as I already have a Flickr account and I work at Mosman library(which is the example) I am very familiar with the tool.

It is useful for finding images to use on web pages and promotional material but you have to be very careful with the copyright.

Week 2.0

This is a blog set up to participate in the NSW State Library 2.0 course. I have been conned into doing this by my supervisor so I hope it has some good stuff in it. I already use a lot of these tools so am hoping to find some learning gaps to fill.