Yeah!!! I finally made it!
Monday, June 18, 2007
GRAND FINALE!!
I've learnt about a wide range of new technologies that I just didn't have an inking about, especially as I don't have a computer at home. I'm sure even if there are technologies that I wouldn't want to personally use that it is very useful to know what younger and/or more tech savvy people out their in the community are using and how these technologies are being deployed socially.
It has been important to see how other libraries are using Library 2.0 technologies and I now have the tools to keep up a bit at least!
I wonder whether we will need to think about keeping our less tech savvy students and academic staff comfortable depending on which way the library goes with implementing Library 2.0 stuff. Perhaps a couple of the Library promotion series next year could be devoted to some of this. Maybe another mini library marketing campaign?
I am finding it a bit difficult to sieve out the Library 2.0 stuff that I think will be useful from stuff that I don't find appealing. For instance, my basic reaction to Second Life is pretty negative but there are other tools that are going to be terrific. I think wikis for different projects within the library for staff to communicate will be very useful. It would be fun and probably useful to be able to exchange favourite websites.
I do find it difficult to think of how some of this new technology and how we use it compares to serious research. How much are we falling into the same kind of trap of the Catholic Church making the mass more 'relevant' and in fact just pandering and making it more banal.
There is definately aspects we can use...
I like how sites like Amazon give you other suggestions for books that might interest you. I wonder if our catalogue will be able to do that. I also think it can be most helpful to have a record of the history of your searches easily visible.
It would probably be good if Julia and Lyn could do something through the Teaching and Learning Forum to have some discussions vs library staff and academics re some of the Library 2.0 stuff.
I do think stretching the course out a bit will make it easier to have enough time to get to the really important bit which is how we are going to use the technologies here at ECU. For some of the sessions it took a long time to actually get through looking at and experimenting with things that there wasn't enough time to really thoughtfully have ideas about whether/how to implement it here. I would have liked to have taken more time to have looked at other people's blogs on the project, but really didn't have enough time.
Having said that I want to thank Dan Julia and Lyn for the opportunity to have participated in this project. There have been times when I probably should have been attending to far more boring work but got way laid by some Project 23 Things because it was different and fun!
There will need to be a project group at the end of the roll out to work out what we are going to implement and how.
I would like to see a Library blog (I don't want to get involved in subject specific blogs) start up next year. I think we should consider wikis for library projects. I think we need to think about doing some podcasts audio and visual for info lit. Perhaps we should think about trying to do one next year for Finding Resources for External etc students.
I wonder whether students could set up libraries of their favorite books to act as "reading lists' for other students - I guess they may use their own tagging? Is it worth asking students to tag books with the e-book experiment of David's? (Not sure where this would lead - I wonder whether students can be lead to the advantages of library and database subject headings when they see the messes that can result with non consistent language!)
Running out of steam...
I've learnt about a wide range of new technologies that I just didn't have an inking about, especially as I don't have a computer at home. I'm sure even if there are technologies that I wouldn't want to personally use that it is very useful to know what younger and/or more tech savvy people out their in the community are using and how these technologies are being deployed socially.
It has been important to see how other libraries are using Library 2.0 technologies and I now have the tools to keep up a bit at least!
I wonder whether we will need to think about keeping our less tech savvy students and academic staff comfortable depending on which way the library goes with implementing Library 2.0 stuff. Perhaps a couple of the Library promotion series next year could be devoted to some of this. Maybe another mini library marketing campaign?
I am finding it a bit difficult to sieve out the Library 2.0 stuff that I think will be useful from stuff that I don't find appealing. For instance, my basic reaction to Second Life is pretty negative but there are other tools that are going to be terrific. I think wikis for different projects within the library for staff to communicate will be very useful. It would be fun and probably useful to be able to exchange favourite websites.
I do find it difficult to think of how some of this new technology and how we use it compares to serious research. How much are we falling into the same kind of trap of the Catholic Church making the mass more 'relevant' and in fact just pandering and making it more banal.
There is definately aspects we can use...
I like how sites like Amazon give you other suggestions for books that might interest you. I wonder if our catalogue will be able to do that. I also think it can be most helpful to have a record of the history of your searches easily visible.
It would probably be good if Julia and Lyn could do something through the Teaching and Learning Forum to have some discussions vs library staff and academics re some of the Library 2.0 stuff.
I do think stretching the course out a bit will make it easier to have enough time to get to the really important bit which is how we are going to use the technologies here at ECU. For some of the sessions it took a long time to actually get through looking at and experimenting with things that there wasn't enough time to really thoughtfully have ideas about whether/how to implement it here. I would have liked to have taken more time to have looked at other people's blogs on the project, but really didn't have enough time.
Having said that I want to thank Dan Julia and Lyn for the opportunity to have participated in this project. There have been times when I probably should have been attending to far more boring work but got way laid by some Project 23 Things because it was different and fun!
There will need to be a project group at the end of the roll out to work out what we are going to implement and how.
I would like to see a Library blog (I don't want to get involved in subject specific blogs) start up next year. I think we should consider wikis for library projects. I think we need to think about doing some podcasts audio and visual for info lit. Perhaps we should think about trying to do one next year for Finding Resources for External etc students.
I wonder whether students could set up libraries of their favorite books to act as "reading lists' for other students - I guess they may use their own tagging? Is it worth asking students to tag books with the e-book experiment of David's? (Not sure where this would lead - I wonder whether students can be lead to the advantages of library and database subject headings when they see the messes that can result with non consistent language!)
Running out of steam...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1985302,00.html
I want to add the sites announced in this article re award sites as sites worth watching out for, I guess especially for us the library one, and I find as education librarian there are very interesting things for me about how blogs are being used in all kinds of educational institutions.
I want to add the sites announced in this article re award sites as sites worth watching out for, I guess especially for us the library one, and I find as education librarian there are very interesting things for me about how blogs are being used in all kinds of educational institutions.
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/schools/aussiekids.php
This example of what Australian school kids are doing is a real eye opener for someone like me who doesn't have kids and even though I'm the education librarian finds it hard to know how teachers are teaching and the way that technology is being used in the classroom these days. The podcasting site this is part of looks to be a very worthwhile one to bookmark!
This is a very good example of one of the things I have learned from doing the course. Having some idea of the kinds of technologies that are part of the classroom and younger or more tech savvy people. Also not having a computer at home I just wouldn't have been exposed to sites such as Flickr which I can see is tremendous for using for work projects or work fun or home fun.
This example of what Australian school kids are doing is a real eye opener for someone like me who doesn't have kids and even though I'm the education librarian finds it hard to know how teachers are teaching and the way that technology is being used in the classroom these days. The podcasting site this is part of looks to be a very worthwhile one to bookmark!
This is a very good example of one of the things I have learned from doing the course. Having some idea of the kinds of technologies that are part of the classroom and younger or more tech savvy people. Also not having a computer at home I just wouldn't have been exposed to sites such as Flickr which I can see is tremendous for using for work projects or work fun or home fun.
http://bulibrary.blogspot.com/
Via a circuitous route in exploring ODEO I came across the Bond Uni blog. I do think a blog would be a nifty way of alerting students to what's happening at the library and getting feedback and would work better/be received better than what we do now.
Tried to make the link live with editing but I can't seem to!
Via a circuitous route in exploring ODEO I came across the Bond Uni blog. I do think a blog would be a nifty way of alerting students to what's happening at the library and getting feedback and would work better/be received better than what we do now.
Tried to make the link live with editing but I can't seem to!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I finally managed to find a podcast that I could see an RSS feed for. I had found individual podcasts that I liked but didn't easily see RSS feeds - I don't think the individual ones had one - I would have needed to get to the master series from which the podcast came. Anyhow I finally found one and put it into Bloglines successfully.
One of the problems I found that occurred very frequently when I was trying to access some music podcasts was getting the message "Windows Media Player can't find file" - I was trying to access quite a few videos by a musician Gillian Welch. Many of them came up with MP3, so does that mean I needed to download it first onto an MP3 player to listen to it????
Hoping someone in the group will make a comment although it is probably too late in the day - I guess everyone else has probably finished 23 Things by now!!!
One of the problems I found that occurred very frequently when I was trying to access some music podcasts was getting the message "Windows Media Player can't find file" - I was trying to access quite a few videos by a musician Gillian Welch. Many of them came up with MP3, so does that mean I needed to download it first onto an MP3 player to listen to it????
Hoping someone in the group will make a comment although it is probably too late in the day - I guess everyone else has probably finished 23 Things by now!!!
Yeah!! About 2 weeks ago I found a marvellous video from David Attenborough on snow leopards in the Karakoram, but in almost illegible writing at the bottom of the screen there seemed to be the words All Rights Reserved (of course there would be!) so this didn't look like a good choice for my blog. I then found some wonderful videos of a musician I liked but had trouble playing some of them because was going to be required to use Real Player which at one point required a credit card + I didn't know if we were allowed to download that program + thought that uploading her performance would probably be breaking copyright. So I just searched using term
copyright free
and came up with this really interesting little interview with a writer whose book I would now like to read!
copyright free
and came up with this really interesting little interview with a writer whose book I would now like to read!
Friday, June 8, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
I just checked the Pennsylvania Uni's tagging site PennTags at http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ which rates a mention in the ACRL blog and even though I think the idea of social tagging for work groups sounds like a great idea I'm not overly impressed with the content of what they have. In theory it sounds great, but like everything it depends on the quality of the information. I don't want yet another source of information to wade through unless it is really good. Yes, tagging does give one a chance to be selective in who one follows the trail of, and I can see that it would be worth our while trying something like this in various groups in our library at ECU. Could be handy for various projects teams.
I listened to the sirsi website talk on social tagging which I thought was a useful introduction. Maybe out of this will come the usefulness of our library consistent tags. This speaker used the example of someone wanting to follow leads on films and how they would need to follow the tags for movies, film, cinema.
I listened to the sirsi website talk on social tagging which I thought was a useful introduction. Maybe out of this will come the usefulness of our library consistent tags. This speaker used the example of someone wanting to follow leads on films and how they would need to follow the tags for movies, film, cinema.
I'm now really far behind!! Did lots of work on Week 7 in Week 7 but didn't get round to the last bit and the making comments and am now two weeks behind! I think it would be good for staff next semester to have a bit more time to do the entire exercise. I found I just had to drop doing work on the project if a major priority came up and this might mean being part way through the activities for that week which then meant having to spend quite a lot of time doing a recap, in fact lots of time!
Monday, May 28, 2007
I'm rather behind with Week 6. I saw the Four Corner's program when it was first aired as Doug and I basically watch most 4 corner's programs that we are interested in unless going out to a concert/film etc, and don't get around to taping it. My first impression was 'boys with toys' and how clumsy a lot of it looked. Today I looked at the slides mentioned on our library blog, briefly looked at bits of the interviews with the other people that Ticky Fullerton interviewed and had a look at a segment that the ACRL put on Second Life. I think almost especially because I am reading a book about the Alaskan composer John Luther Adams I am finding it very hard to take the atrocious musac that accompanies the couple of Second Life sites I looked at. My first impression of the ACRL which was created for a conference poster session was that there are probably some useful sites that are out there but this wasn't one of them. I couldn't believe how clumsy and clunky the whole thing looked. Looking at porn (of course depending on how skillfully and artfully done!!!) was becoming quite an attractive temptation...
I'm sure there are some good library sites out there and I will look at other people's blogs in our group. I do feel rather a Luddite with this, and I'm sure we do need to explore the possibilities, and I do want to see how this is being used academically, but I feel that this is such a world away from say the scholarship that I associate with research in libraries... It will be a while before I can come up with what I think are good directions that we can take with any of this - sifting out the useful from the purely jumping on the bandwagon stuff.
I would also be really interested to hear what other alternatives there were and have been to Second Life. Where libraries/are libraries experimenting with presences in those virtual worlds?
On a last note - I love THIS sensual world that we are in the process of destroying. I can just imagine the survivors of the cataclysm, those few who have access to electricity, sitting in their bomb shelters, playing in their virtual world because they can't go out into the real one.
I'm sure there are some good library sites out there and I will look at other people's blogs in our group. I do feel rather a Luddite with this, and I'm sure we do need to explore the possibilities, and I do want to see how this is being used academically, but I feel that this is such a world away from say the scholarship that I associate with research in libraries... It will be a while before I can come up with what I think are good directions that we can take with any of this - sifting out the useful from the purely jumping on the bandwagon stuff.
I would also be really interested to hear what other alternatives there were and have been to Second Life. Where libraries/are libraries experimenting with presences in those virtual worlds?
On a last note - I love THIS sensual world that we are in the process of destroying. I can just imagine the survivors of the cataclysm, those few who have access to electricity, sitting in their bomb shelters, playing in their virtual world because they can't go out into the real one.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
SnowflakesWilsonBentley
Again, I hope that this isn't doing the wrong thing! I adore looking at photos of ice and snow crystals. I recently read a novel that mentioned this guy Bentley and it was great to see some of his photos.
Kathy
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Aurora Borealis
I am reading a book on Alaska at the moment and I would love to see the Northern Lights (or Aurora Australis for that matter!). Unearthly beauty!
Kathy
Home of the 'peacock throne'
I have just finished reading an absolutely superb Indian novel titled
The Peacock Throne which I rank as right up there in the pantheon with Such a Fine Balance by Mistry - this would be a good illustration for the book.
Kathy
Thursday, May 10, 2007
One idea I got from looking at some material on
http:libsite.org/ was to use a wiki for library documentation (not sure if depending on what it was there would need to be someone who signs off so is official)
Another idea I had was to have a staff whereabouts wiki - might be useful. That means across campuses we could know who is on hols etc/who is contactable.
KL
http:libsite.org/ was to use a wiki for library documentation (not sure if depending on what it was there would need to be someone who signs off so is official)
Another idea I had was to have a staff whereabouts wiki - might be useful. That means across campuses we could know who is on hols etc/who is contactable.
KL
I did most of my Week 4 work last week and of course now can't remember what I wanted to say about it except that I think wikis could be very useful for us for some work such as staff contributing to a wiki on our preferred priorities for improvements to Innopac.
We could have wikis for all work that required lots of collaboration and a wiki for terrific new ideas/websites that we wanted to alert our colleagues to.
More posts to come when I have refreshed my memory!
KL
We could have wikis for all work that required lots of collaboration and a wiki for terrific new ideas/websites that we wanted to alert our colleagues to.
More posts to come when I have refreshed my memory!
KL
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Homework so far including Week 3
I think our library could have a blog for some of the items we at the moment place on our Website as news + other stuff:
new books
highlighting databases
changes to opening hours
problems with databases
I'm not sure that I want to go down the road of individual subject blogs. I am wary of being periodically obliged to come up with rivetting stuff. I haven't read many library subject specific blogs, certainly in education that grabbed me. If anyone else has seen one in their subject area that they thought was fantastic it would be good for us to see.
Week 3 refreshed doing RSS feeds. I had a little demo to psych academics last year and I hadn't really had enough experience. Perhaps what I may do for my Database Promotion exercise later in the year is to do some of this stuff for staff/students who haven't got round to it for some of the Education and ICCS databases)
I think our library could have a blog for some of the items we at the moment place on our Website as news + other stuff:
new books
highlighting databases
changes to opening hours
problems with databases
I'm not sure that I want to go down the road of individual subject blogs. I am wary of being periodically obliged to come up with rivetting stuff. I haven't read many library subject specific blogs, certainly in education that grabbed me. If anyone else has seen one in their subject area that they thought was fantastic it would be good for us to see.
Week 3 refreshed doing RSS feeds. I had a little demo to psych academics last year and I hadn't really had enough experience. Perhaps what I may do for my Database Promotion exercise later in the year is to do some of this stuff for staff/students who haven't got round to it for some of the Education and ICCS databases)
Thursday, April 26, 2007
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/podcast/howtopodcast.html
This is a great lesson on podcasting from the Smithsonian Institute
This is a great lesson on podcasting from the Smithsonian Institute
The latest edition to this blog about innovative academic libraries looks really worthwhile to follow up
http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2007/02/user-20-innovative-library-sites-part-1.html
http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2007/02/user-20-innovative-library-sites-part-1.html
I just found out he set up a blog specifically for his Masters!http://mchabib.com/2006/11/22/toward-academic-library-20-development-and-application-of-a-library-20-methodology-my-masters-paper/
This guy's blog has links to a number of his really relevant paper on Library 2.0 for academic libraries.
Kathy
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/01/the-academic-library-20-model-an-ala-ts-blog-interview-with-michael-c-habib.html
Kathy
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/01/the-academic-library-20-model-an-ala-ts-blog-interview-with-michael-c-habib.html
Here is a good example of an academic library blog. http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=1
I have just discovered this great blog for academic libraries
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Academic_libraries
Kathy
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Academic_libraries
Kathy
Monday, April 23, 2007
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