Enlightment

For some people, knowledge is sharing, quickly becomes learning and is highly treasured.
To a special lady who watches from afar, many thanks for educating me.

LibraryThing, del.icio.us

I enjoyed using these sites. I can see the advantage for library services such as Reader's Advisory, new book lists, who writes like, post a review etc. Link them with the library catalogue and engage borrowers well and truly. Would also assist ILLs. I like the way the information can be retrieved and individually organised. I plan on revisiting these sites. Just as a postcript, I had no trouble adding the tag buttons at home, but found it was harder to add them on my toolbar at work. Could be because Mozilla is default at home.
Glad to see that I knew what a "widgett" was on LibraryThing

Great reads- highly recommended

Serene Sea Dragons

Many thanks for the gift of education

Thank you to NSW Public Libraries Learning 2 for the opportunity to engage in all this fantastic learning. Yes I have my Wiki key, have added to the Library Wiki, (more than a few times) have also added more RSS feeds. Still experiencing a few problems with loading images. Could be the prehistoric computer I am using at home. If I was doing this at work, there would be no output.
Really excited as long last I have a comment from a fellow Blogger!

Wonderful Wikis

Really enjoyed the video clip and learning about all the possibilities when using Wikis.
Marvellous to think how interactive they are. Learnt a new term "Widgets".
I look at three wikis that were suggested and the difference was clear. Found 2 good ones and one not so user friendly. SCIPL was my first choice. the use of subject guides reminded me of directories, which I usually find cumbersome, however the guides worked. Was amazed to find that links included Credit card payments (just how BIG are their fines?), and Online Borrower Registration. Yes you did have to leave home to pick up your card! Glad to see the use of multilingual text on the site. Out of 5, I rated this wiki a 3. It was okay, and easy to use.
Wiki number 2-- Wisconsin Heritage Online-- boring!!! Hard to locate where to enter search term. Did manage a search using drop down box for Oshkosh and retrieve photos on the Main Street
The best was left to last. Yep, it got a 5/5! Book Lovers Wiki-- very easy to navigate, good links. I did a search for Lisa Scottoline, was taken to Mysteries writers, quickly figured that entries were alphabetically by title, found the review. A click on the title took me back to entries on the catalogue. Decided this might be useful for Reader Advisory stuff, so did a RSS feed!-- would not have been able to do that two weeks ago!!
Wonderful stuff-- just waiting for the secret key.

RSS feeds

I like the idea that using RSS the information comes to you, however I find it annoying that to receive this information you have to be signed into something like Bloglines. This means if I had really good feeds I would be all the time signed in at Bloglines. Because our IT department monitor internet usage and report back to Council who are the highest monthly users, I don't like the idea of doing this. Is there a better way to receive RSS feeds, i.e direct into Outlook Express?
I also found this session frustrating with the searching. I wanted to get away from State Library suggestions and be a little more adventurous. One search term that I used was for Australian convicts, this was disappointing with the results, as it returned American results. I also used the term family history with the surname, again no luck. I decided to broaden the term to Australian genealogy, which wasn't really what I was after. However anything is worth a go when learning. An Australian genealogy blog was returned however as it was last updated in Aug 07, I thought it wasn't really up to date so it was discarded. In the end my feeds ended up being ABC news, ABS blog for Librarians (yes I forwarded the training dates to the Manager), Power House Museum picture of the day, Quotes of the day (I enjoy this one), and The shifted Librarian.
I also learned that AskNow! was actually Web2 technology, and I had used it without knowing this.
I don't know if our library will embrace Web2 technology, as it is impossible to even get a link on our Webopacs to State Library databases (even though other Libraries have managed to achieve this) Again this comes back to having our Webopacs open to Internet connections.
Again no comments have been post on this blog, so how useful are blogs anyway.