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.

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.

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.

tiny baby bat! much cuteness ahoy!

tiny baby bat! much cuteness ahoy!, originally uploaded by magpie-moon.

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

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.

Week 7: Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us and Library thing

This particular weeks exercise was definitely a little long, even though it was good to be able to delve into the various sites. There is a great potential for research here, I especially liked the ancestry site within the Sutherland's Shire Library, together with the listing of the audio bookshops of available materials. The Cleveland's library site of "Homework now" would be invaluable for students of all ages.

I think that the camel bookmobile of Kenya was truly delightful, within the technorata site. Only time restraints prevented me from spending a lot more with this exercise. As with several other part-time workers, we are severely limited with our time away from the desk, and the priority has to be given to our collection every week of the books and materials for our housebound borrowers.

I look forward to going forward to the next weeks surprises and challenges.

Week 6: Video Online, Youtube & Google Video

For this week's work, I scanned both the Youtube and the Google videos. I found that the "We love our NJ libraries" was excellent, citing 3 reasons while the borrowers enjoyed spending time there. The "Showcasing oral histories" was really interesting showing Olive Riley returns to Broken Hill. Being able to talk about happenings and events during her lifetime of growing up in Broken Hill, is a great way to preserve our history. The State library of Queensland "timelapse construction" of the building was a fascinating look at what just can be achieved using this particular medium. I briefly looked at Paul Brunton giving a talk at the Mosman Library, and part 8 of Colleen McCulloch's dramatized novel of "Tim and Mary". Lack of time to properly explore the whole of the interesting videos, is the hardest part. I look forward to next week's adventure.

Week 5: Welcome to the wonderful world of the Wikis. There are so many wonderful places to visit on this particular site, a veritable "feast" in fact. I enjoyed the breast cancer research site, the woolworks, and the Lunar Planetary Institute. I also found that the Booklovers Wiki would be ideal, especially for library work. As I devour so many books in my spare time, this would be an absolute boon - to add my own personal choices.

Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day

Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day

Fun and games with the RSS searches

After a merry chase, and an exploration through the wonderful selection of searches, I have now added 13 feeds to my account. These include sites for animals, care and protection, library information, the quote of the day (!), and literature, I feel that I have more than enough to keep me busy.

Many thanks must go to my ever patient colleague, Judy, without her help, I would still be "lost" in a maze.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

garden

garden
Originally uploaded by paxromano

I have chosen the theme of a country garden for my first web page of flickr. Thanks to the wonderful help and patience from my co-workers, I have managed to get to this point.

My Maiden Entry Blog

Thanks to the wonderful assistance from our ever patient I.T. lady, Tracey, I have at last managed to produce my very first blog. I have ventured on to the "information superhighway".
Never-too-old it is, as I must be one of the more senior ladies (horror!). I will endeavour to record my progress as I go, and the more practice that I have, hopefully the more confident I will become. It was a great feeling to be discussing my upcoming"blogging" experience with my son, maybe I will be able to teach him something along the way!