Now why have I not heard of LibraryThing before? This is a very useful tool than I can integrate into my reader services toolbox. I am always on the look out for a good book to read or something new for my Homebound patrons at work. LibraryThing is very user friendly and I would recommend this to some of our patrons. Some of my favorite reads were not very popular in other peoples' lists and that was a bit surprising. It reminded me of a quote that goes something like this:
"There is a book for every reader and a reader for every book."
Rollyo is working again -- interesting site and concept. Set up my account, made my search roll as I am starting a collection of websites for Readers Advisory services. Great to see where others go in serach of book titles. User friendly site.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Week 4 - RSS Feeds with Google Reader and Twitter
Great YouTube clip on RSS feeds! I really like the emphasis on a "new and fast" method of managing the amount of information that is accessed on a regular basis. Its an ideal set up of having your main/daily information websites send out rather than individuals having to go in search of. My Google Reader is set up and active and just adding in my new RSS feeds, having some difficulty linking in my RSS feeds from the ACL websites for my favourite authors. Says they were added successfully but not on my "subscription list". Will post the solution once I have sorted it out!
Resolved! I was linking the RSS feeds but they were getting stored on my laptop under the tab "feeds" within my Favourites instead of my Google Reader. I also found a feature on my laptop that tells me if there are any RSS feeds available on the webpage I am viewing.
Can I stop at adding just ten?
RSS feeds will be very beneficial in keeping up-to-date on librarianship news and events. As a student I am always wanting to be informed on the latest. For my work responsibilities, I am linking in some reader advisory websites for finding new titles for my Homebound patrons.
I have joined Twitter, I really have mixed feelings about this one as I don't really want to know all the small details that are happening in other peoples' lives between their blog postings and emails as explained in the YouTube clip. With respect to implementing this in a community library -- perhaps for quick reminders of events or a change in services. Would staff actually be able to manage the tweets from all the tweetple that would be their followers? How many patrons would need to be on Twitter to warrant adding this as a communication tool?
Today on my lunch break I was reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine (February 2010) and it had an interesting article entitled "America's Tweethearts" that stated "Google has signed a deal to prominently add Tweets to its search engine results". Its infiltrating!
Resolved! I was linking the RSS feeds but they were getting stored on my laptop under the tab "feeds" within my Favourites instead of my Google Reader. I also found a feature on my laptop that tells me if there are any RSS feeds available on the webpage I am viewing.
Can I stop at adding just ten?
RSS feeds will be very beneficial in keeping up-to-date on librarianship news and events. As a student I am always wanting to be informed on the latest. For my work responsibilities, I am linking in some reader advisory websites for finding new titles for my Homebound patrons.
I have joined Twitter, I really have mixed feelings about this one as I don't really want to know all the small details that are happening in other peoples' lives between their blog postings and emails as explained in the YouTube clip. With respect to implementing this in a community library -- perhaps for quick reminders of events or a change in services. Would staff actually be able to manage the tweets from all the tweetple that would be their followers? How many patrons would need to be on Twitter to warrant adding this as a communication tool?
Today on my lunch break I was reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine (February 2010) and it had an interesting article entitled "America's Tweethearts" that stated "Google has signed a deal to prominently add Tweets to its search engine results". Its infiltrating!
Week 3 - Photos and Images
This is an area that I have had some previous experience in as I do actually have a Flickr account set up to share photos with family and friends back home. The tags are a bookmarking system that allow you to organise and search for images based on their content. Groups, such as "libraries" will bring up a list of all names that have attached this group to their account name. I was able to locate the Victoria University Information Studies Flickr group page and find images from the 2009 Auckland Orientation Day. These types of features make for very efficient searching tools.
Took a photo of my lovely dog, Smudge and enhanced the image with Picnik. It is quite amazing all the applications that are available - I adjusted the color, added a shadow frame and of course, put her name on it.
The image generators were really fun to have a play around with and I could see this as a tool to use within the library for making personalised displays especially for children. My favourites are the batmancomics and the good old alphabet soup for Mt Albert Library!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Week 2 - Social Networking
Good to be back -- stepped out to enjoy my annual leave. Just did some exploring of the social networking sites. I have not really been keen to participate in this type of networking but I may consider using facebook as I found a "network" of acquaintances from work and as well as many fellow MLIS/MIS students and staff that are connected via the Victoria Information Studies Programme facebook page. I feel a little left out of the loop you could say.
My Space and Bebo I didn't have as much luck finding people I knew but did stumble across a some interesting sites. Linkedin I found the most difficult to navigate as the help secgtion and the "about Linkedin" did not really make it any easier for me to find organizations as it seemed to be based on personal name searches. Perhaps I need to further investigate.
My Space and Bebo I didn't have as much luck finding people I knew but did stumble across a some interesting sites. Linkedin I found the most difficult to navigate as the help secgtion and the "about Linkedin" did not really make it any easier for me to find organizations as it seemed to be based on personal name searches. Perhaps I need to further investigate.
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