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.