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)

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
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
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 site has lots of interesting new stuff! (as the title says)
http://marylaine.com/lib20.html
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
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

Monday, April 23, 2007

This is more fun than weeding the videos at CHU!