Just had a quick look round Library Thing and have taken the tour... I like the idea of using this as an easy way to advertise our new books. It would hopefully maybe point users in the direction of the monthly accession lists for further information on the new stock, but seems like a good way to highlight a few cherry-picked titles.
Hmmmm.
I'll give setting up an account a go now!
25 August, 2010
Reflection...
Where to start?
What... have... I... learnt...?
The most surprising thing I've learnt about myself and Web 2.0 is that I'm far more IT literate and tolerant than I thought I was! Sure I love the internet for buying food, looking at shoes, reading bits of irrelevant gossip and fulfilling my insatiable need for information on ridiculous people such as Justin Bieber. However I'd always viewed the internet in a different light when it came to "proper work". That was just the catalogue, databases, and the prominent websites in the information world surely? No room for fun, photos and interaction! Cam23 has made me realise that libraries and the information world have become very sociable creatures, with many ways to interact with them and even more ways to extract very useful and specific information from them.
I have also been shown how to ORGANISE all this very useful and specific information so that I don't lose it in amongst my rather untidy bookmark collection, or as previously mentioned countless amount of self-addressed emails!
I'm looking forward to exploring the next half of the Thing experience, and using further applications that will prove useful to myself, the students and the other members of staff in the library. Finally I'm starting to feel like I'm catching up with the students and how they now approach their search for information...
What... have... I... learnt...?
The most surprising thing I've learnt about myself and Web 2.0 is that I'm far more IT literate and tolerant than I thought I was! Sure I love the internet for buying food, looking at shoes, reading bits of irrelevant gossip and fulfilling my insatiable need for information on ridiculous people such as Justin Bieber. However I'd always viewed the internet in a different light when it came to "proper work". That was just the catalogue, databases, and the prominent websites in the information world surely? No room for fun, photos and interaction! Cam23 has made me realise that libraries and the information world have become very sociable creatures, with many ways to interact with them and even more ways to extract very useful and specific information from them.
I have also been shown how to ORGANISE all this very useful and specific information so that I don't lose it in amongst my rather untidy bookmark collection, or as previously mentioned countless amount of self-addressed emails!
I'm looking forward to exploring the next half of the Thing experience, and using further applications that will prove useful to myself, the students and the other members of staff in the library. Finally I'm starting to feel like I'm catching up with the students and how they now approach their search for information...
Delicious
Well... Luckily I remembered that I had set up a Delicious account about 3 years ago for the library. I had played around with it at the time, saving a few tags for our various disciplines, general University information, general information resources and other library catalogues. Originally this was to develop a "tag cloud" for our library website... As with all good intentions it soon fizzled out owing to the start of the academic year, lo and behold we've had a further two and I haven't developed it further!
However, revisiting the account was enlightening... The style and layout of Delicious had changed, a cleaner and far more visually appealing platform awaited me! It's still an easy process to add tags and organise them. I will spend some time inputting more of the information already on our website and adding more links to new resources that I've now been exposed to via Cam23 (blogs, twitter, facebook and netvibes accounts of interest etc.)
It's actually inspired me to set up a personal account also (I'd always meant to do that), as I do hate realising that the link I saved for "that pair of shoes I desperately need to drool over" is on my home pc when I'm on my lunch break, and vice versa. It will put an end to my many self-addressed emails whose content amounts to a piddly link or two that seem to clog up my inbox...
However, revisiting the account was enlightening... The style and layout of Delicious had changed, a cleaner and far more visually appealing platform awaited me! It's still an easy process to add tags and organise them. I will spend some time inputting more of the information already on our website and adding more links to new resources that I've now been exposed to via Cam23 (blogs, twitter, facebook and netvibes accounts of interest etc.)
It's actually inspired me to set up a personal account also (I'd always meant to do that), as I do hate realising that the link I saved for "that pair of shoes I desperately need to drool over" is on my home pc when I'm on my lunch break, and vice versa. It will put an end to my many self-addressed emails whose content amounts to a piddly link or two that seem to clog up my inbox...
17 August, 2010
Sliding shares...
Sorry, sharing slides!
With the start of the new academic term and the new-techie-in-me looming, slideshare seems like a good way to erm... steal... I mean borrow and be inspired by other library and user content. Good examples of other library inductions, tutorials and presentations are available and easy to find. Great place to host our own (when we produce them of course!) presentations and tutorials.
Amount of advertising surrounding the content is slightly overwhelming at times though..
Having been engrossed in my own fascinating world for such a long time, the start and significance of Web 2.0 technologies (especially in relation to the library experience) sort of passed me by. I mean, I used Web 2.0 technologies avidly, but was never aware that I was? So a lovely simple presentation from 2006 (Library 2.0 Cookbook by K.G. Schneider) actually summed it all up for me, made me realise how much I already utilise and how our users probably have no concept of Web 1.0 anymore! The philosophy behind the content of this presentation represents the direction that I hope our library is currently moving in, and definitely represents the spirit of 23 Things.
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
With the start of the new academic term and the new-techie-in-me looming, slideshare seems like a good way to erm... steal... I mean borrow and be inspired by other library and user content. Good examples of other library inductions, tutorials and presentations are available and easy to find. Great place to host our own (when we produce them of course!) presentations and tutorials.
Amount of advertising surrounding the content is slightly overwhelming at times though..
Having been engrossed in my own fascinating world for such a long time, the start and significance of Web 2.0 technologies (especially in relation to the library experience) sort of passed me by. I mean, I used Web 2.0 technologies avidly, but was never aware that I was? So a lovely simple presentation from 2006 (Library 2.0 Cookbook by K.G. Schneider) actually summed it all up for me, made me realise how much I already utilise and how our users probably have no concept of Web 1.0 anymore! The philosophy behind the content of this presentation represents the direction that I hope our library is currently moving in, and definitely represents the spirit of 23 Things.
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
library 2.0
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Looong time, no.... Anything!
End of fiscal year, reading lists, book ordering and mini Kenneth's holiday plans seemingly took over my life and drained me of any energy that was reserved for 23 Things. However I am determined to get through them all and blog relentlessly for the next couple of weeks . Not sure I'll make the deadline though! Eeeek, watch this space.
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