Thursday, June 12, 2008

Week 12: Wrap up: social networks and catch up

At last, we have come to the last of the 12 week learning activities. I have especially enjoyed the learning videos, simply done and to the point. By printing out every page for every week of learning, and keeping this in a folder, there is a ready reference on hand. The social networking services would be invaluable for any services, but would be a boon especially for libraries. By using the examples from the Powerhouse Museum as a guide - the research, marketing, energizing, supporting and enhancing sections could be incorporated. Our library has so many programs ie. Local History, HSC students help, Book Discussion Groups, Children's activities, and the constant new displays - which would benefit from the applications learned. The motivation is there, and practice will hopefully make perfect!

Thankyou all at the NSWPLN team, to enable us to start "living outside the square".

Week 11: Online applications and tools

Once again this was a really interesting exercise, and there were several ideas for applications that could be used in the workplace. I created a document with just the one book review, but this would be ideal for sharing with your co-workers from all of the branches, to create a monthly book review listing. One that could be given out to our borrowers at the same time as we give out the date slips.

Google Docs is certainly user-friendly, and you could see that there would be myriad uses for this particular tool.

My thanks to my co workers once again, with their great assistance.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Victorian London


Exercise 10: Mashups.

For this particular excercise, I have enjoyed researching the google maps, especially the example from the British Library called "London: a life." It was absolutely fascinating to see the layouts of london going right back from the Roman era up to the present day. Once again, I must thank my co-workers for their valuable assistance.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Week 9: Podcasts and Audio

The enormous variety of uses via the podcasts, re library services is unlimited. For the children's story times, both the pre-school ages and for the infants, there is a fantastic scope here. I would also think that for the historical archives ,it is especially useful, to be able to have oral historians featuring and telling their own stories of life in Australia and the challenges that came with the Great Depression and the First and Second World Wars.

Once again lack of time is our biggest obstacle, but we have all enjoyed the challenges of our weekly sessions.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

tiny baby bat! much cuteness ahoy!

I have had quite a bit of trouble posting this- I think using a communal computer has led to some confusion and has caused some mix ups - this time its worked after much trying and assistance

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Week 8: Answer Boards and social searching

This week's session should have been a lot easier to follow, however, my password was not accepted by Yahoo (the exact same one that I used for flickr). I still managed to look at the Amazon sites, and the Answer boards, and hopefully when we have our staff at full capacity, there will be more time to re-go over this particular session. This week, we are incorporating some more training with Janet Smith, and it will be the ideal opportunity to find out more about the exciting sessions ahead.