moving along from the 2.0 course

I am now just getting back to the technologies that I was exposed to in the 2.0 course. If I don't return to it within a certain timeframe it just disappears off the radar....never to return sometimes. I am learning how to make silver jewelry & that is really demanding and challenging but I just love it.... A place to direct my creative energy.

I am currently off work..sick...heavy cold type of thing..aching...congestion etc etc. I think that I just became vulnerable due to doing too much. Great trip up to Mt Warning but maybe just a bit much trying to fit in so much fun, plus the actual journey took 3 trains, 2 planes, 1 bus and a stretch limosiene. No kidding the whole trip ended alone in a stretch limo that delivered me to my door. Boy it would be good if a few neighbours saw that one, they are prone to be impressed by things like that. As often happens one positive turn of events brings with it a little hitch. In this case it has to do with the faulty airconditioning. Me feeling sick even then, me usually too hot not too cold, the air was freezing. When I asked the driver to please raise the temp she made the comment that it was set on 24 centigrade. I was freezing, like give me a knee rug. I started thinking that i was sicker than i first thought. Then i felt the vent and it was cold air.



But the day is clear and windy...Friday the 13th.

week 12

Well here we are at the end of Learning 2.0 and I am most grateful for the opportunity to have participated in it. I have learned heaps and expanded my view on emerging technologies. The only really frustrating thing has been being constantly blocked by our IT department. I have been able to access most of the links from specific computers, but still not all. I feel that if we are going to really expand the use of these fabulous new technologies we have to bring it to all library staff, easily, otherwise they will not be supporting new programs and methods of service delivery. But for me personally, I am ready for it completely.

week 11

I just think the Google docs are fantastic. I can see me switching over to using them in preference to my usual Microsoft Office suite. Since starting this 2.0 course I have taken a completely different view of the portability of my email, bookmarks and documents. I travel a fair bit and look forward to using these tools from remote locations. Provided I can get internet access!!! Likewise I can see how our library patrons can use these. IN the past we did not offer word processing services, now they can have their own freedom in that regard

week 10

I would like to see all Aussie libraries on Google maps. I haven't had much time yet to explore the Mashups, but have had a look here and intend to return to it when time permits.

week 9

Podcasting really works for me. I just love the convenience of being able to listen so selectively and not worrying about missing out on programs that I want to hear.

Week 8

I use Yahoo answers frequently. I do see a role of 'Slamming the boards' Altho I do not work in the reference section, I have in the past and remember some particularily difficult queries that we just could not find the answer to, no matter how tenacious we were. In those cases I can't think of anything better.

week 7

I am already a complete fan of Library Thing and am rather slowly getting my entire book collection cataloged. Through using LIbrary Thing I have become familiar with tagging and the functionality of it. I also have created a Del.icio.us account and am using that.

Week 6

I loved the Olive Riley videos and can see how useful this using utube for Local Studies and oral history would be in the library

Using wikis in a Local Studies context

I was just wondering if any libraries are using wikis as a way to collect local information. For example, I believe that there are many people and organizations in the local community with lots of valuable local knowledge. Organizations like Historical Societies and Family History groups would be especially important. On the library website,where I work, we have Local Profiles, which is a list of suburbs within our library area, with historical information, like early land grants, industries etc. Included in these profiles are "timelines" which bring us up to the present. Our library has stopped cutting out articles from our local newspapers and filing them in cutting files. These are newspapers which are not indexed on ProQuest and not indexed anywhere. I have an idea that wikis might be used as a point of local knowledge collection. There is some concern about having to check the validity and quality of the information etc, but surely there would be a way to limit the contributers to avoid complete crackpots contributing.

So if any of you have any experience with this, it would be great.

link to delicious

http://del.icio.us/skarpin

Delicious

Finally managed to get the buttons working on delicioius, which helps. As I continue to move (altho a bit slowly) thru the weekly tasks, I am getting a greater sense of freedom, in terms of portability of information. For example, when I am overseas, being able to connect to all my favorite sites using Delicious or Google reader etc.

RSS week 4

I basically just had time to subscribe to Google Reader and bloglines. I did find a blog from a person with very similar interests to mine. First up by just typing in "orchids" So I will definately be following that one up. I have always been a bit sceptical about social networking because I barely have time to fit in all the passions I already have into my day, but now I feel a slight pull towards it. Very interesting.

Tassie in snow

2.0

I am loving the new journey and exploration of possibilities with 2.0. A great opportunitiy for NSW public libraries to expand into the new age.

Last day of summer

Last day of summer, leap year Friday, moving into autumnal mode. The changing seasons externally and internally. Knowing that it is nearly spring in the northern hemisphere, just the opposite.

So many new and stimulating ideas and directions. It almost feels like spring in my mind, a greening. Like bulbs poking through the earth.