flickr.

                             
Cat, a photo by ►CubaGallery on Flickr.

I found this really lovely picture on flickr and I loved the colours and light in this image, and of course the kitty is cute too. ^_^
I trying looking up 'mash ups' and all that I could understand that they are app programs for flickr and other images to be altered online. But Im not to sure if this is correct or not.

I also took an image some of the shelves in the Learning Centre and uploaded it to my flickr account. I tagged it as PolyTAS.

Declicious.

I think the Delicious website is a very useful online tool. I can see how this can help others find reliable information or even a different way of presenting a particular topic. I believe that this can be useful in a library sense that if there are library users who are looking for particular websites, online learning games etc. Delicious could be a good starting point, to see what other people have put onto the website to share with others.

I like the idea that you can save all of your bookmarks externally from your personal computer. This is very useful so if you want to share a website with someone else when you don't have access to your own computer this is a good way to make sure you don't have those limitations.It is also a good way to 'back up' your bookmarks, keeping them online so if you upgrade your computer system or your hard drive is wiped you still have access to your bookmarks.

http://www.delicious.com/dancing.barefoot
On my Delicious page Ive added some links to students blogs, tagging them with Polytechnic Tas, Student blogs etc. I also had some links there that I added last year.

Wiki's & Podcasts.

Exploring some of the library related wiki's that were found on WebCT were interesting to see different ways of how to set up & view a wiki. Some of the wiki's with the same type of layout as wikipedia.org was really easy yet affective way to display a wiki. I enjoyed looking at this particular one.

http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Being set out like Wikipedia made this page easy to use, you are able to navigate either down the right hand side or read the lists of different links under each heading/group which take you to a new page. There is a lot of different links on the first page which are all important topics for library workers with other helpful websites.

The other wiki I thought was interesting and would be helpful for most libraries would be this one,

http://booklovers.pbworks.com/w/page/14034179/Princeton%20Public%20Library

This has reviews on a number of books (grouped by genre) that are also linked to the catalogue record of that particular item on the Princeton Public Library catalogue.

I believe that the above link is a good way to incorporate library services with wiki's making reviews easily accessible to the library users (with links to the libraries catalogue on the main page) and then linking the book reviews to the item records on the catalogue to show users where it is located & if it is available. I believe that, this wiki would be valuable to the library users, and would help recreational readers with choosing reading material.

Podcasts.

Podcasts are a good way to listen to different audio resources without having to directly download them to your computer, (unless the website provides this feature) with the podcast directories you can search through a large number to find topics that you are interested in. Some podcasts that are available from blogs give you the option to chat about it with other users or send it to others you know who would appreciate it. 

Here I have found an interesting podcast about banned books in Australia. They chat about a particular library that housed all of the banned books in Australia as well as the smallest things that would have made a book unsuitable for readers and therefore banned from libraries around Australia. 

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/banned-books/3913308

RSS Feeds.

During this lesson we had to subscribe to a number of library related blogs through Google Reader which is located simply at http://www.google.com/reader. I think the reader is a good application that can be very helpful and a time saver so that you're not constantly searching websites for new information, it is sent directly to you.

I don't really think that I would use this feature too much in my personal life because I do not visit many websites that are constantly being added to with new information and articles. In gerneral I do not spend a lot of time reading/finding new items online, but with the RSS reader I wouldnt have to spend time looking for new stories etc. to view, I can easily view all new updates on the one page of the Google Reader (when I can get them to show up!)

I think that RSS feeds for libraries are a very important online resource which is an easy was to keep up with any new information relating to the information industry and other local services which it can connect too. Library staff members wouldn't have time sent aside to search websites that they constantly use and refer to for updated information, this way they do not have to spent a large amount of time sifting through a large number of websites for new info.

Library blog.

I found this particular blog on technorati by a library tech in rural Vermont

who has posted a lot of useful info.

http://www.librarian.net/

This blog is very user friendly, easy to browse and to locate information in the links at the bottom of the page which are on a number of different library related topics. There are other useful links avaliable on the blog as well including videos and links to other library blogs and articles.

This partiuclar blog has been in use since September 2003 so it has a lot of previous post's to scan through, the only downside to this is that some of the older links are broken and the content cannot be viewed. The rest of the blog is still an interesting read.

Jessamyn West . (September 2003). Big Talk From Small Libraries. In Librarian.net. Retrieved 27/2/2012, from http://www.librarian.net/.

Hi there & welcome to my Library blog for

CULLB003 & CULLB602C.
I'll be posting other interesting blogs about libraries

that I find online.
Wooooo. ^_^

- Abbey.