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.