Week 7, #16 - Wiki

Several of the library wikis that I looked at had information which is similar to what we put on our website. I guess the advantage of a wiki is that all members of the staff could add to the wiki, and update their subject area. Other really neat library uses are to allow members of the public to post book reviews. You would just need to be able to control any inappropriate content.

Week 6, #15 - Library 2.0

I read all of the articles, but I really enjoyed the article called “To a temporary place in time”. I loved the thought that in the future people “will collect librarians”, that we might receive ratings on how well we help answer questions, and that we could be popular or unpopular based on our success rating. What an amazing idea!
Library 2.0 means that we would encourage participation from our patrons, perhaps attaching extra tags or subject headings or reviews to book records in the PAC.

Week 6, #14 - Technorati

I did the keyword searching all three different ways, and the results were very different. The thing that surprised me most about the top searches is that I didn’t recognize a third of the names and terms. I try to stay on top of current events, but apparently a fairly specialized group of people is searching using Technorati.

Week 6, #13 - Del.icio.us

Like most of these exercises, I can understand why some people would find this truly Del.icio.us and find it to be the most useful thing ever, but in my life it has no current application. If I bookmarked a lot of sites and wanted to be able to access them from multiple computers, it would be useful, but I don’t do that. Anyone who did a lot of research on the Internet accessing publicly available articles might also find it useful. I just don’t do much of that right now. I am glad to know about this, both so that I can speak intelligently with techno-savvy people, and because I might find it useful in the future.

Week 5, #12 - Rollyo

I spend so much time doing the exploring, that I have fallen behind on my posts.

Rollyo would be more useful if I had been anxious to find a way to search several websites at once, which I have not really needed to do. This might be more useful to me in the future than it is now.
http://rollyo.com/ponyahhn/ashealthsearch/

Week 5, #11 - LibraryThing

It will take me a while to build up my library, but it is fascinating to be referred to similar books. I will have to explore this in terms of reader’s advisory. I am not always happy with Novelist, and of course it doesn’t cover non-fiction.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ponyahhn

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