Week 9.0

We already use podcasts at our library, we put HSC talks and some author evenings on to the web. The HSC talks are very popular to the point that we are having trouble getting an audience for the speakers to talk to. They are all downloading it from home!

Week 8.0

I have never heard of this sort of open answering service. It sounds like a good idea, I like the way with a current question those answering can bounce ideas off each other before someone puts in a final answer. 

It makes it hard to conduct a reference interview though. As I'm sure you are aware a lot of the time people don't know how to ask for the information they really want.

I can see how librarians on the ref. desk could use some of their time to help answer questions, but when would we get the time to do our 2.0 course?

Week 7.2

Library thing is a tool we are going to integrate into our RA site. So I have spent some time playing with it. They have many useful API tools and have released 1 million of their book covers free to libraries. 

I had not actually signed up with my own account as I was more interested in the IT side of them, so it is probably a good thing to finally get an account.

Week 7.1

I couldn't find any difference using the advanced search for one word. Am I missing something?

It seems in the comments on this week that other people had problems finding nswpln2008 at the technorati site as well. Is this a tagging problem?

Week 7.0

Ah, it's been a madhouse here with the festival and other projects I haven't had time to get any where near this course. I have been playing with delicious and I think it's great. I have had numerous times that I have updated my computer and had to go through the pains of saving favourites from the three different browsers I use and then reinstalling them, or being on a foreign computer and forgetting the name of a site.

This could be very useful as a subject search tool for the HSC students, similar to what the Cleveland public library have done. I think if the people using it in a library sense were tagging in a more formal library style, it could be an easy way to create a reference handbook of authoratative sites.

http://delicious.com/twofruits