slideshare

I love slideshare! What a great way to share your conference papers... and not just your slides. I think it's a great way for people who can't go to some of the overseas conferences to get to see them!

Slideshare could also be used for Local History projects and could be displayed on screens in the library. Though, you'd have to make sure there is no copyright infringements.

Week 11 - Online Documents

This is the first time I've had a look at Google Docs and Zoho. I knew about the Google products, but I'd never had a reason to use them. I think they are useful for libraries who want to collaborate on grants or work with external groups. It's also means that you don't have to worry about incompatible software.

What I really like about both Google Docs and Zoho is that there is an offline function where you can edit your documents offline. This is handy for use at home where you can't always sit on the internet for hours.

Mysterious mashups

I always thought it would be fun to create a calendar from my photos, now with Mashups I have the technology to do just that! YAY! It was much easier than I thought it would be. Mashups have mystified me for a while.

We could probably use mashups to come up with advertising for events in the library... or personalised library cards! Mashups could also be used for an interactive map of the area or library and you can link podcasts to give a discription about the different areas...

A pod of Podcasts

I have just checked out the Library of Congress podcast site. I found they have a podcast of a talk with Terry Pratchett! He is an author I respect.I enjoy listening to him talk because he has some valuable things to say. He talks highly of librarians as well! I was very impressed to find him talking via podcast!

I think this is a very useful tool to use in libraries. If you have an event you can now have a permanent record of it! It also means that if you missed out on going to an event in person, you can still participate from the comfort of your own home!

I'm sure many Local History Projects could be enhanced with oral history podcasts as well.

I found the ABC podcast site has a huge amount of pod and vodcasts. I think it's great that some of the ABC shows, such as Enough Rope (which I always forget to watch) have vodcasts.

So many uses.... so little time....

Someone must have an answer! I hope it's a librarian.

I like the idea of Slamming the boards each month, as yet, I haven't had the time to participate... and sometimes I forget that it's on. Slamming the boards sounds like fun and a good way of marketing library resources and skills. I like a lot of the tag lines on the Answer Board Librarian wiki . My favourite one is Librarians - we eat questions for breakfast.

I had my first go at answering a question on Yahoo! Answers. I answered 2 questions about books. One was for read alikes for the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer and the other was for fiction suggestions about spousal abuse. I'm sure I could spend hours answering questions.

I am amazed at the questions people have asked. There are lots of questions asking for help with homework or rather asking for the answer to their homework questions. There are also many many questions about things I would never put out there for the whole world to see.

Tag, you're it!

One of my favourite web 2.0 technologies is del.icio.us. I love that I can save the websites I find when playing on the net and use them on whatever computer I happen to be using. I would love to use this in someway on the library website to catalogue useful websites for people to access. I also have started to check delicious before I do a Google search, just in case someone has already found what I'm after. This is my delicious, or you can see my recent additions in the right hand column.

I also like LibraryThing, though it's been so long since I logged in that I forgot my password for a while. I like the way some libraries have incorporated the tags from Library Thing into their online catalogues. We don't have subject headings in our fiction and if someone asks for a book with a particular theme it's had to find. I will check out one of the other suggestions. Here is my librarything catalogue

Ooh I have just discovered Gurulib. You can create different shelves within your library, and catalogue other things, such as CDs as well. What fun! It also looks like you can borrow other people's books... I'm not sure how that would work.... I will have to play with it some more. Here is my gurulib