social interaction

social interaction may be a great idea but first we have the major hurdle of getting beyond IT and their hang ups. this is our major hurdel, and that of many others no doubt, but hopefully the time or day will come when they see this as a positive rather than a negative.

I've enjoyed my time doing this, the only hassle was finding the time to do it...

see you all in the world of 2.0 and beyond...

online tools

microsft must hate this....unless they have their finger in this pie as well....

the benefits of these tools being available free to all and sundry is huge. recently a friend didn't have Word installed on their computer at home so i lent them my copy. If I was more actively aware of this then it would've solved his problem. But, it has solved mine as my laptop has everyother other office program but excel so you can guess where i am headed now...

the benefits of this is people not needing storage devices if they decide to use these programs, but for libraries that charge for word processing do they want this to become more known...?

just a thought.

a little mashed

now this one i find interesting at a personal level, don't get me wrong as all the others have been interesting and useful, but this site i can see myslef returning to and playing with. So many different tools that could be incorporated into library programs, the calendar with local photos to promote upcoming events, id tags/security passess could be incorporated into kids events. I guess its the time to sit down and seeing what we can do with what we have...

I have puzzled two of my photos, one being my backyard the other the local harbour and lighthouse.

podcasts and biographies

Unfortunately I wasn't able to access podcasts due to IT constraints but will give it a go from home. The uses of podcasts would be beneficial especially to those who have remote users and cannot attend library events such as story times, book club discussions, author launches, and other special events.

The family history or local history groups could embrace this technology by recording the stories of people growing up in the area and the likes and make podcasts of these discussions for everyone to have access to. A verbal biography rather than the printed format.

slammin

'Slam the Boards' is a great way to promote libraries and the fact that us librarians are often overlooked as people now see that the only way to source information is from the net, not matter how correct or incorrect the information may be. How a library can use this type of promotional vechile really depends on "management/powers to be" who controls what we can and cannot do. We have a continual battle with IT just to get our library internet system to work let alone allowing access to wikkis, blogs and the likes to participate.

The first hurdle for us is to make our IT department to understand where we coming from and where we are headed....maybe they should be doing this course to understand things better from a library point of few...