Wiki Week

I weally enjoyed the Wiki Week. Gweat way to cweatively solve pwoblems - no, not with wascally wabbits! With pwoject pwoblems like CCing hundweds of emails, delegating woles, making it all twansparent. Wonderful!

YouTube learnin'

Hi all,
Loved this week's exercise. This lego sikorsky helicopter video was filmed in my backyard during the last summer holidays. My 18 year old, a little bored, resumed his love of lego and made a few little videos. The video that I have embeded is one of his that he published on YouTube. However, now that I'm watching it again, I think he should have made a movie about lawn mowing...

Can I think of something that I could use YouTube for? Sure can. I'm starting to see a whole new dimension to library tours that I could be offering the local high schools. Simply log on to our website, click on a link and there you are - an introduction to the services and the facilities that our library offers via the school's PC. No permission forms to fill out, no transport headache... and colleagues would still love me because I wouldn't have to leave the desk. Everybody's happy!

Talented son

Frustration...

I can't say that I have enjoyed the week four experience very much. I do love my Internet and I consider my computer one of my essential 'can't live withouts' but its also one of the biggest time suckers I've ever had the privilege of connecting to. This week was a prime example. I have used too much time subscribing to feeds and blogs. Some I know I will read but others I will not. I have to limit myself for the sake of my own sanity.

I'm impressed with the Powerhouse Museum's use of Picture of the day and I'm wondering how much information they receive from the public about their uncatalogued items. I think that would be one of the most interesting jobs ...getting the info from the public and then verifying it. Does anyone in the library world doing this course have one of these positions? I would love to hear about your experiences.

Does this technology have a place within public library services? Yes, I'm sure it does. Publishing the latest news of library events onto a blog and encouraging users to subsribe to it would certainly remove some obstacles associated with the distribution of paper-based promotions. I seem to spend a huge amount of my time addressing those types of issues as well. It's all about time and efficiency isn't it? If the new technology can remove barriers and improve work flow then I'm all for updating my skills and knowledge.

Entertainment

This is my week four optional task and is for experimental purposes only.


Hmm, okay, I don't think it's worked all that well but I can click on the heading 'entertainment' and it takes me to the blog that I've subscribed to...

Turbo

Turbo
Originally uploaded by dory45

This is my friend Turbo. He listens to all my ideas about how I could improve youth services in my library. He was very excited when I told him about our new youth art/advisory group that meets on a fortnightly basis. Oh, how he wagged his tail when I mentioned the activity that the group was going to host in the foyer. 'Leave your mark' the teens called it - they wanted all library visitors to leave their mark in support of National Youth Week. They had lots of shiny, metallic paint that screamed out to all the hands that went past - 'hey, leave your mark HERE'. And they did! Over one hundred hands left their mark on the black display paper! Turbo was very proud of the local teens. They did an excellent job of setting up and facilitating the afternoon. Turbo would like to come to the next youth group meeting in the library but he's not old enough yet. I told him he'd be more suited to the Baby Rhyme Time program...

Going somewhere

Hi,
I've been going nowhere fast with this Library Web 2.0 Learning so I have made up my mind to go somewhere today - my first blog for the course. Where will it take me? Somewhere 'cooool', innovative, practical and useful for a librarian to be. See you there!
Dory