I've never really looked at answers boards until the last week or so, but I've had an invasion of spyware, adware on my computer and was hoping to find a solution. They were interesting and gave me a start but unfortunately my computer is still invaded!!!!!
I also browsed through some of the Yahoo Answers Pet section and was a bit horrified by some of the answers people gave- I can definitely see a benefit in librarians/ and experts in some of the fields slamming the boards.
I like social searching elements, I'm a big fan of the site fantasticfiction.co.uk and have found a few different authors to try with their "Visitors to this page also looked at these authors" and "Similar Books by other authors...". I could definitely see this as being a huge benfit for a fiction collection on a library catalogue. The State Library of Tasmania has this and I think it makes their catalogue so useful.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us and LibraryThing
I really like del.icio.us, it's great for keeping all your useful links in one spot and allowing you to tag them with meaningful phrases. We had problems where I work adding delicious as council won't allows us to add buttons to our computer, however IT came up with a great solution:
If you go to the buttons page (http://del.icio.us/help/buttons) you add the two buttons as favourites.
To add the buttons, right click and select "Add to favorites"
Accept the warning about the "dangers" of the shortcut - they are javascript and we know what they do.
Once added, when you are browsing the web, have your favourites open as a tab on the left hand side.
To bookmark a page to del.icio.us, go to the page and then click the favourite "post to del.icio.us" - you can then complete the metadata as per the button.
I also had a look around LibraryThing and loved it. I really like the catalogues that have integrated it. I really, really like the State Library of Tasmania's new catalogue. I created my own catalog and as you can see I'm a bit of a chicklit/ romance junkie: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bex80
If you go to the buttons page (http://del.icio.us/help/buttons) you add the two buttons as favourites.
To add the buttons, right click and select "Add to favorites"
Accept the warning about the "dangers" of the shortcut - they are javascript and we know what they do.
Once added, when you are browsing the web, have your favourites open as a tab on the left hand side.
To bookmark a page to del.icio.us, go to the page and then click the favourite "post to del.icio.us" - you can then complete the metadata as per the button.
I also had a look around LibraryThing and loved it. I really like the catalogues that have integrated it. I really, really like the State Library of Tasmania's new catalogue. I created my own catalog and as you can see I'm a bit of a chicklit/ romance junkie: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bex80
Sunday, April 6, 2008
YouTube
I love YouTube! I've always used it more for a laugh than for anything serious.
Someone I work with has been talking about trying to create videos of how to use our library for a while and also a competition for local youth on what they like about libraries. My only reservation has been having the equipment to make these videos, however as most digital cameras now allow for short videos it's becoming more and more possible for these things to be done!
The clip I've included is old but hilarious! Hope you enjoy!
Someone I work with has been talking about trying to create videos of how to use our library for a while and also a competition for local youth on what they like about libraries. My only reservation has been having the equipment to make these videos, however as most digital cameras now allow for short videos it's becoming more and more possible for these things to be done!
The clip I've included is old but hilarious! Hope you enjoy!
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