Wikis

A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most available content. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. Wiki is a free website that is easy to create, easy to edit and easy to share with others.

Librarians can create a research guide, add content and publish the guide from any computer with an internet connection. Changes can be made from the reference desk, office, from home, or on the road. These changes are immediate and available instantly for users. The most immediate benefit, for both patrons and librarians, is the ease and quickness with which the website can be updated.

Wiki page can be used as a staff home page to store all manner of information. It would be ideal for coordinating social or similar events within the workplace or more broadly amongst other libraries.

It would be very useful to recommend creating a wiki for committee or task-force groups, the page could be used to post minutes or create agendas. Using a wiki page in this way would allow all participants to contribute information and ideas.

I believe that wiki’s are indeed useful in a team environment. With the appropriate monitoring and use they can become a very valuable resource.

Libraries Will Survive

A great YouTube video in support of libraries.Fun to watch and listen.
The following link is provided for direct access to Libraries Will Survive

Popular fiction writers

This web site is useful resource to help you read more books in the style of your favourite authors.
The following link is provided for direct access to Popular fiction writers

Flickr knowledge

Flickr allows you to store and share photos with family and friends , or to the world.  I like it that you can give your photos a "tag", which is like a keyword or category label. Tags help you find photos which have something in common. You can assign up to 75 tags to each photo . 

I like this link which is a guide to help you get the most out of Flickr.  The following link is provided for direct access to the Flickr tools

With Flickr you can see photos from around the world. The world Map lets you see exactly where those pictures were taken. It's like a holiday from your computer chair. You can also tag your own photos and place them on a map.I think the video tutorial on this web site was easy to follow. The following link is provided for direct access to Google earth

View on Delicious

Delicious is the name of a web site that is a social bookmarking web service. The site provides users with the ability to tag, save, manage and share web pages. Registration and use of the Delicious web site is a free service.
Delicious is a useful tool in the library environment; Web sites can be saved, tagged and useful sites easily found at a later date. Delicious can be used to search sites based on a customers requests by using keywords (tags).  In particular, I can see a benefit in the use of Delicious in the adult education component of the Linc (library) where students can use this site to build and share research and items of interest.

The following link is provided for direct access to the Delicious web site. Click here to access Delicious web site

POLYTAS

Rosny LINC is part of LINC Tasmania, bringing together Adult Education, the State Library of Tasmania, Online Access Centres and the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO).

The LINC is situated on the eastern shore of the River Derwent, in the City of Clarence, close to the Eastlands shopping centre.The following link is provided for direct access to the LINC Tasmania Rosny LINC  web site.

Rosny Library

Main Entrance

Technology area

Holiday 2011

This photo represents a snapshot of our travels in 2011.

The main purpose of the trip was to visit family in Wales. We also visited North Yorkshire, caught up with some old friends, and visited the village of "Goathland" the village used in the filming of the popular British TV series Heartbeat.

Our travels took us from Wales and England through many interesting countries in Europe and a stop-over in Dubai on the way home. Over a period of nearly 6 weeks we saw a total of 9 countries. We experienced the history of central eastern Europe particularly the horrors of world war 2 and its impact on Poland; and saw the modern, rapidly developing, Dubai.

The  building   photo is a picture of a typical Bavarian building located in the old town square in Frankfurt. I found this style particularly beautiful and quaint. I hope you like it too!

Goathland (Aidensfield) UK

Dubai

Frankfurt, Germany

View on RSS Feeds

I like RSS  and newsreader because it allows me to have contents from multiple Web sources in one place.  I no longer have to visit different Web sites to obtain the lates information on my topics of interest.  I can decide which articles I wish to read by simply clicking a link.

I could use this technology in my personal life by subscribing to all my favourite stories on Google reader. Google reader allows me to organize my stories in separate folders with headings describing my favourite topics e.g. library, gardening, travel and cooking etc. All these folders can have multiple RSS feeds, and for simplicity, can be read easily through my personalized IGoogle screen.

Libraries can take advantage of this technology in a number of ways. It can be used to keep updated with the latest news e.g. library news, world news, and information technology news and so on.  This technology can also be used to minimize searching for up-to-date information potentially increasing the efficiency of the library. Other applications/benefits include the use as  effective too to network with other libraries e.g. to share what you see, read and learn. Services can be broadly promoted to clients.