NSW Public Library - Week 4

I have created a Bloglines account and added a number of feeds. There is a enormous amount of feeds available for every subject you can think of. I like that RSS makes it so easy to gather these sites together in an easily accessible format. I have made my bloglines public and included a link showing all of the sites that I selected http://www.bloglines.com/public/marianb. I think that this will be useful at work by providing a single access point from which information from many sources can be obtained quickly and easily.
Libraries can take advantage of this technology by providing a feed from their website, this will keep patrons up to date with what is going on in the different areas of the library. Libraries can also provide access to relevant feeds on their website to give up to date information on a particular topic or subject.
There were a number of different library related feeds, some of which I subscribed to and have found quite useful and informative.

NSW Public Library Week 3

I have been trying to link my blog and Flickr, unfortunately there appear to be problems and it won't work. Help in Flickr indicates that many people are having the same problem. Hopefully it will be sorted out, but if anyone has any suggestions?

I have been able to get it to bring up the grant access page by fiddling the URL, but when I try to grant access it says that something went wrong. The link in the Blogger help doesn't work either.

I have posted a number of holiday snaps to Flickr, all landscapes so that avoids having to post pictures of people, haven't worked up the courage for that one yet.

When I can get the linking working I will put it on my blog.

Week 6 - part 2.

The tag test worked, I'm shocked.
Anyway moving onto more Week 6 stuff, thanks to Katie's training I have already signed up to Del.icio.us and been madly adding sites to my favourites when ever there is a really good site in an email or on another blog.
Admittedly I haven't had time to go back and look at them properly, but at least with them stored in my Del.icio.us favourites I can access them whenever it suits.

After reading the info for "On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ... " I find the perspective of "To a temporary place in time..." to be very insightful and forward thinking.

Although Library 2.0 is the buzz at the moment we are often trying to catch up with library patrons that have already discovered and embraced this technology and have moved on looking for the next new technology that can be tried out, shared with friends and worked into every part of their lives.

Although we are learning a huge amount as part of 23 Things much of this is already out of date with what Internet savvy patrons are using or attempting to do. At the same time there are other library patrons that have also never heard of Web 2.0 technology and the skills we learn and develop will assist them.

Learning and embracing new technology should be a life long process for anyone working in the library industry to ensure that we have the most up to date information and information gathering skills to assist library patrons.

23 Things - Week 5 - Part 3

As per instructions I have created my own Rollyo searchscroll called 23 Things http://www.rollyo.com/index.html
Once I created my search scroll and logged out I returned to the site as a member of the public.
I found that you had to go looking for the search scroll that I had just created, I haven't found a way to link directly to the scroll I created.
I think that generally it is a good idea once the scroll is created, but you have to either have the list of websites to start with or the time to search for the websites that you want to add to the search scroll.

Once created I thought the search the scroll performed was pretty good, but maybe that was just because I added appropriate websites - they do say garbage in - garbage out. I think in this case it was genius in - genius out!
(Stop Laughing)

That completes Week 5, I think the bit I liked best about this week was Library Thing, I could spend alot of time there if I don't control myself.

Flickr & more

Venturing on to Week 3 of the 23 Things program, I have explored the website that is Flickr, viewed photos from others, created an account and uploaded photo's of my own. I must admit that I didn't upload photo's of the library, but uploaded some N.Z photo's instead.
However finding the photo you uploaded from a public view appears to be next to impossible. This may mean I have to get better at tagging!
I uploaded the Coronet Peak photo that appears in my blog, as well as a photo of mount cook, fox glacier and a view from near Lake Tekapo.
I have also explored my account settings and changed accordingly.

I think that's Week 3 accomplished.