TASK18 Online productivity web-based applications .

In hind sight, things can always be seen more clearly and this is certainly true for this task.

We have all been using the google docs speadsheet to track our progress from the beginning.

There was a good overview listed of what other (than google!) applications are out there like the Zoho Writer.

TASK 17 : TAFE QLD SANDBOX WIKI

http://kitkatslibrary.blogspot.com/

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Regarding my experience;

To be honest , I was REALLY hoping that i did not DELETE one of the pages whilst playing around.

TASK 16 Wikis

1. Some library wikis and blog about your findings.

Making a quick visit to Princeton Public Library The Booklovers Wiki you are welcomed by the headline of what a huge success the project has been.

So that has got to be good! Get a sense of the community buit around such web interaction immeadiately, which is ofcourse THE BIG reason for this application.

2. Create a blog post about your findings.
What did you find interesting?
Basically got a better definition and better acquainted with the development of WIkis as well as making a summary note as to where they are used from the powerpoint .

What types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki?

• Subject guides
• Internal library
• CMS
• conference , PD
• project space.....as above , book groups
  
  
  

TASK 15 Library 2.0 Perspectives

I chose to read:

Away from the “icebergs” by Rick Anderson

Micheal Stephens Into a new world of librarianship http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/3.htm

and Chip Nilge' s To more powerful ways to cooperate

Create a blog post about your thoughts on any one of these :

Rick Anderson addressed 3 potential disaster areas for providing library patrons successfully with information services in our changing environment.

1. The "just in case collection" with significant drops in circulation statistics of traditional print format it makes sense to to shift expenditure toward accessing Web 2.0 resources. Clearly an evaluation of your own library usage would be used to base strategic decisions upon.
2. Reliance on user education Discussed the need for libaries to engage the best search interfaces to reduce the time customers' self learning to reach their own information needs. This being because in reality the staff ratios are low and it is not reasonable to focus effort on teaching reasearch skills. Handy to read & inspired me to play further with the Google page creator.
3. "come to us " model" nowadays when there is growing equity for patrons getting access to information ......in the developed world......there is a movement away from placing library services in a defined physical or virtual place . Library 2.0 is about integratingin to clients everyday workplaces, study or play.
   

Library 2.0 - It's many things to many people. What does it mean to you?

Something along the lines of Micheal Stpehen's ideas.. Librarian 2.0, then, is the “strategy guide” for helping users find information, gather knowledge and create content.

Learning more about Web 2.0 tools, taking them into my library work and making these adapatations will help better meet the customer needs .

Task 14 Technorati-claim post

Technorati Profile

Task 13 Del.icio.us

The Otter group Tutorial gave a great overview of the features and it was more engaging than digging through the very text based help page of the tool.

On the PLCMCL2 account there was another antipodean 2.0 learner whom i said hello to in a comment.

My experience of Bookmarking / Tags has been on our shared TAFE site for library suppliers I have found at work. Here is our link.

Some of the comments added to the the bookmarks by other users demonstrate the "Free" nature of the language used as tags by the way people are percieving the resource for their own purposes.

I see the value of Del.icio.us as a research tool in the two fold way described in the POdcast
1) Create Reading Lists: - find material on a topic: share it with peers: connect with others
2)Syllabus Buidiing : give access to material via URl : PDF post to Blog use permalink as del.licious ....with permission of course!

TASK 12 Rollyo

Created the account, (this is a note to self user name Cate_ Ab same as for the Library thing )
I needed help...THANKS TANYA :).... to get my Searchbox working here.

So it is definitely time to seek out how to make a great cup of coffee, try BARISTA.
Enjoy!

Select Search Engine...COFFEESearch The Web

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Again glimpsing at the range of the interests users of this site have is just wonderful . The obvious way to transfer it to library work environment was illustrated by the PLMCM Research- Homework site.