Week 9

Checked out podcasts for usefulness as a work tool. Would be good for local studies and storytime activities.

Week 8

I had a look at the Answerboards and wondered how do people find the time for this? Our Library should have a similar service on its webpage.

Week 7 Part 2

With a little help from a friend I finished week 7 - 10 months after I started it!

Week 7

It has taken me 2 weeks to get through to the end of the delicious exercise and now I can't understand how to get the bookmark into my blog. At least I created the bookmark successfully, but without someone to help me through this, I really can't see the point of it all. It is too frustrating not being able to find the time to do it in the first place, and then not understanding the jargon or mechanics of it all is another downer. This is not a very helpful training exercise.

Videos I Could Understand!

This was a good lesson with some valuable links to explore. The Allen County Public Library has a great Zombie Survival Guide video and I enjoyed the Reference Library tour. It would have been nice to sit and watch some of the videos from Mosman Library, but alas, it's not yet in my job description. We would need to have some technically skilled staff who could prepare the videos for our library service and it would be important to have quality equipment for the filming as well. The videos would be good for advertising our services to non-users who would not normally come past the library in their daily routines, but who might search for us online.

Week 5: Wikis

I looked at all the wikis. The SJCPL Subject Guide is very big on content with lots of pages to navigate to find what interests you. I searched for Robert E Lee in the Wisconsin Heritage Wiki and it gave me 8 entries that were scanned pages or books, but there was no immediate reference to him in the description fields, so I'd have to go through every book page to find him. The Mint Museums looks like a normal web page. The full Library Success was ok as I could easily see the edit button, so I knew it was a wiki. Book Lovers Wiki was a closed wiki so of no use to anyone but the members. Montana History Wiki wasn't open for editing, so how is that a wiki? And Wookieepedia was just too silly.

Who on the library staff would be assigned the job of maintaining the wiki? It would be very time consuming as it would need constant monitoring and updating.

It's really week 4 that's a disaster, but who's counting!