Week 6 Videos online

Well this has been very informative and often amusing. I have looked at both You tube and Google.
I believe Google will give longer videos than You tube ?? which may be helpful if you want to use them for staff training purposes. I think in our libraries the video is ideal for staff training.

I found this video as I was searching. A great encouragement for us all to share our excess resources, so long as they are up to date and appropriate. The empowering of the written word is easily taken for granted in our society.

The ability to show videos on our library links is a great opportunity to showcase or advertise the regular or special events at our libraries e.g. visiting authors, special @your library activities and especially promoting youth/young adult services.

Week 5 Wikis

Looked at video clip and Library Success Wiki overview.Followed up the details in communiti of interest, workplace application and government.
The 3 wikis I explored were the full Library Success: a best practice wiki, Book Lovers wiki and the Montana History wiki. I found them all different and interesting.

The Book Lovers wiki was interesting and entertaining with review contributions in many genres and a featured review, for what seemed an informative history of the plumbing of civilization.
A good point was made about reviews going direct to the catalogue. Reviews there might be very helpful to a borrower. I wonder are these contributions checked before they go to the Princton Public Library catalogue. There would probably be a screening process of some kind.
The reviews on the LHS did include some Australian authors.
Something like this could be used as a site on our website, linked to the Catalogue entries. A useful resource for borrowers and staff, and something all the library patrons could contribute to at some time.

The Montana History wiki was not open for editing. Any comments need to be emailed to the group's email. A way to vet the contributions for accuracy I suppose. Contributions from the public are acknowledged, their sources listed and at bottom of the page any revisions are listed.
When dealing with history there is a need for the most accurate records for the time. These principles would need to be considered if the Family history section of the library was to incorporate such a wiki in its collection.
The full Library Success: a best practice wiki was a great site and up to date. Good to access for rural librarians for sharing ideas, however when I went to Services for Specific Groups I was disappointed not to find any entries.Perhaps I have to log in but I have to follow this up at work.???????????????MB I also signed in but didn't receive confirmation. Will go back to it again
Many interesting and useful sections and headings for RA. Went into Find A Good Book.net. Good for RA help and I would take info from but it was not possible to give info to. Book Club Resource.com - Reading resources - Classic Bookshelf does encourage contributions to "comments at classicbookshelf dot com".
It would seem there are many forms of wiki and not all are like Wikipedia where anyone can contribute.Some are closed to staff only. I found one site Antioch UNE that was an inhouse wiki for library staff and training support wiki. This would be a good ready reference to be up to date with changes.
You could use a wiki for reading group reviews perhaps but a blog might be more appropriate as you wouldn't be editing their comments.
It would be good to put your libraries blog on The Blogging Libraries wiki. All part of sharing and learning!!

Took PB wiki tour. Added an entry to the NSW learning 2.0 wiki re reference services.
Looked at the Possible Next Generation Catalogues - National Library rethinking the catalogue.

RSS feed finds Week 4

Well I have been working my way through RSS feeds and aggregators and I have greater confidence - I think- the more I use it the better I guess. Some sites, e.g. ABC New England Northwest radio has a feed but when I tried this I could only get a white page with computer instructions and some text mainly down LHS.
I have tried fluking an RSS feed with sites I hoped would have one, but could not see on their site, by using their URL, e.g. the Bureau of Meteorology, but no joy. Overall I have had success using the RSS feeds or their URLs.
Over time I will add and remove feeds. Not all sites I trust have feeds so it will take a while to collect those I respect or find useful.
One feed that I have found interesting so far is to the National Library, in particular an item on a calculator of copyright status for different formats ie., a procedure to follow to determine whether the copyright has expired which could be useful in the public library especially with some local history materials.
We may be able to use rss feeds, flickr and a blog to share information, and more visual information, with users of our CWA country of study site too.

If the walls could talk!! Week 3

What a well kept rural village hall in the north west slopesof NSW!! There have been generations of school plays and Christmas Tree parties , fund raising dinners, weddings, twenty firsts, playgroups, preschools, exercise classes, council consultations, farmer's meetings, dances and more held in this hall.
Here the community regularly and unwittingly reinforces its identity while it works and "plays" together.


Another purpose built community building
where creativity, education, imagination and information converge. This houses the Tamworth City Library and The Regional Art Gallery.
Here as a community we can be entertained, challenged and informed.

Firstly I realise now as I have moved down the Learning 2.0 site that you didn't want me to use my name for the site, etc. Should I change this? It doesn't bother me and I don't know how to now.

This is very exciting. I think I'm going to enjoy discovering what can be done and shared via a blog and the many other facets of this 2.0 training. Next step find a picture I like to share with you.
The blogs shown in the earlier examples showed great diversity of use and application of blogs sites. This site will be very experimental.

Once I feel comfortable with blogs I will be able to use the skills with our bookgroups, for sharing responses to the titles we have read with the other groups that meet over the area covered by our library service and to also post photos of our groups. Hopefully this will be a great way to share ideas and build contacts.