I have spent 90 minutes following this last tutorial and STILL have not finished the session. Not being entirely sure of the lesson plan, I chugged through a bunch of what I suspect is revision at the top of the page, and now have 6 minutes to add books to LibraryThing and bookmark it here.
Note to self : on librarything I'm galpalsal.
On a sad note, I have just found out one of my favourite authors died this year. Kage Baker, thank you for the many hours of quality reading. The first time I read her, I opened to a page describing cyborgs snorting lines of powdered chocolate. I'm glad that I found that hilarious paragraph, I found a real affinity to Kage's style. I hope I find you again in my next life.
Meanwhile, I think I will be coming back to this blog in future, as I would like to get further into librarything.
cheers,
Sal
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
RSS Feeds
Now, RSS feeds I like. As I am unimpressed by most of the newspapers I buy, and am disgusted by TV news most of the time, this is going to be my new way to keep up with the news without the gruesome entertainment of personal tragedies and knee-jerker stories.
I've signed up for a few news and library feeds that were suggested by bloglines. It will take some tweaking to get to know which to keep...but I can see the value here. As I go offline occasionally, sometimes for extended periods, the backlog of RSS could be overwhelming. Luckily I am a chucker rather than a hoarder. I need to spend some more time looking at my bloglines account after a couple of days away to see how easy it is to delete older or already read posts.
More on this later...
Sal
I've signed up for a few news and library feeds that were suggested by bloglines. It will take some tweaking to get to know which to keep...but I can see the value here. As I go offline occasionally, sometimes for extended periods, the backlog of RSS could be overwhelming. Luckily I am a chucker rather than a hoarder. I need to spend some more time looking at my bloglines account after a couple of days away to see how easy it is to delete older or already read posts.
More on this later...
Sal
Social networking
Hmmm.
Facebook seems like a nice way to find those friends that have moved overseas or married. In the library context, social networking looks good for big events like conferences. Or perhaps as a way to keep up to date on org change without bogging down the email inbox. So you could have a page for each subject in a faculty, students then can join and keep up to date with changes to timetabling, meet people to study with, give feedback.
I have to agree with the user review of UQ's facebook "search the catalogue" app - it would have been easier to just go to the UQ library page-catalogue. When you've got a limited budget, how to spend it for best return?
Is it a function of my age that I'd prefer to have a few really relevent tools to use? Is a desire for a relatively simple interface for an institution going to limit what services are offerred? Do people who go online to chat with friends then take that into their study? Personally, I am a little skeptical. Professionally, I can see I have a lot to learn, so shall try to withhold final judgement.
Facebook seems like a nice way to find those friends that have moved overseas or married. In the library context, social networking looks good for big events like conferences. Or perhaps as a way to keep up to date on org change without bogging down the email inbox. So you could have a page for each subject in a faculty, students then can join and keep up to date with changes to timetabling, meet people to study with, give feedback.
I have to agree with the user review of UQ's facebook "search the catalogue" app - it would have been easier to just go to the UQ library page-catalogue. When you've got a limited budget, how to spend it for best return?
Is it a function of my age that I'd prefer to have a few really relevent tools to use? Is a desire for a relatively simple interface for an institution going to limit what services are offerred? Do people who go online to chat with friends then take that into their study? Personally, I am a little skeptical. Professionally, I can see I have a lot to learn, so shall try to withhold final judgement.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wiki time
The start of this session is charming - the plain english guide to wikis - a sweet, old-fashioned feel. Then an interesting article from Information Today (guessing title as last time I saved and navigated away from this post lost all my post. annoyed that public pcs don't have tabs in internet for moments like these)
Finding that the resources listed are very interesting, so am saving them in delicious. Delicious itself has turned out to be better than expected - I had used it over 3 years ago, and when I signed up again it pulled all my old sites out and automatically added them to my new page. Seems like a small modern miracle, certainly not expected (forgotten I had them, actually)
Finding that the resources listed are very interesting, so am saving them in delicious. Delicious itself has turned out to be better than expected - I had used it over 3 years ago, and when I signed up again it pulled all my old sites out and automatically added them to my new page. Seems like a small modern miracle, certainly not expected (forgotten I had them, actually)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Colour coding books
If you've worked in a library for a while, you'll have had someone ask you "I had this book out and it had a red cover..." so let's hear it for the cataloguing by colour scheme. It looks nice, yes?
The tools for formatting this post, getting in pictures, was fairly easy, but it took a few goes even after reading the instructions. I wanted to get a few pictures scattered about. Maybe next time.
ciao!
Monday, February 8, 2010
First post
Of all the Web 2.0 technologies, only facebook is something I use regularly (monthly).
I've created a blog before but wasn't really committed to it. Twitter is something I've only read about in relation to Demi Moore and her boyf! Apparently it's much more popular these days, but life in the real world takes precedence to virtual living unless it is for a particular purpose - like work.
I've created a blog before but wasn't really committed to it. Twitter is something I've only read about in relation to Demi Moore and her boyf! Apparently it's much more popular these days, but life in the real world takes precedence to virtual living unless it is for a particular purpose - like work.
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