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!

Week 3 is a Disaster!

I managed to create an account in Bloglines as instructed, and thought I had added an RSS feed, even though I couldn't find any orange icons to use, but the next day (today) I didn't have any new items and the old items were gone. The feeder box was empty! I really don't understand the connection between my blog and the RSS information, although after watching the video twice I did understand the link between the reader and the sites you have to subscribe to. I couldn't find an icon to use on the photo of the day page and I didn't know where to take the url if I copied it. This just doesn't make sense. Is week 4 easier to understand? I hope so. And I 'm still a week behind!

This took 2 weeks to do and I had to get help from a colleague to upload the image. I didn't want to invade someone's privacy by using a picture from flickr, so used one I had in my own files. I'd rather be cruising than blogging!