I'll be the first to admit that I can't stand Facebook or Myspace. I've friends that live their entire lives on the sites but I'm flat out looking at it once a month. When I first joined Facebook 3 years ago I was amazed at how many people (not the use of people and not friends) that were all of a sudden wanting to be my friend. I'm not just talking about the random people that ask to be your friend but the people that I haven't seen (or thought of) for 10, 15 and in one case 25 years have put my name in the finder and out I come. I always laugh at the invites from high school classmates that I didn't even know and they're asking for a friendship.
I know, I know, very anti-social of me.
That rant said One of the ideas the girls and I had here was to use the site as an online bookclub so we can capture a wider group than is possible to make it to our branch library (and are interested in the sci-fi/fantasy genre). we're still trying to figure out how to run the site (or just let it run itself) and how we can then intergrate it into our library webpages (that being the harder part of the task).
Another way we're looking at using the social networks is for the young adults having a page for them that they can keep up with what is happening in the library for them and a direct line of communication to the YA librarian.
I'd be mad to dismiss the tech just because it bores me. I can see how it can be of use and am all for helping set it up but until I need I'm not gonna use it just for the sake of using it.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Burning the Wiki at both ends
I will confess to have been singing the praises of Wikis for a couple of years now. With all the hype you get about the errors and false information I've been using Wikipedia as a readers advisory tool for a long time now and have yet to be lead wrong.
I've no problems in pointing people to Wikipedia if they've got some research to do I tell them what I tell everyone who is gathering information off the Internet, evaluate the information before you believe it. Try for entries that have references and yes I know that references can be bogus but at some point we have to assume that not everyone out there is trying to twist you around and lead you down the garden path.
As for the other Wiki's I've looked at:
Wookieepedia - what a laugh as bad as some of the puns I throw out sometimes, a nice little fanatical site full of star wars "fluff" (and I know exactly who I'll pass this site onto lol)
BookLoversWiki - What a great idea to have an adults summer reading program may have to acquire the idea for our service.
Public Libraries Marketing Group - In all honesty I didn't look all that closely at this blog. I tried flicking pages to get a feel for it but all that really stuck out at me was the thought "is this a blog or a rainbow?" red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple writing was a bit much for me I'm afraid.
One thing that me and the IT girls have been bandying around is the possibility of getting a Logan Wiki together (in my spare time lol). We've got all this local knowledge here and what better way to disseminate it than to throw it to the world in a Wiki (well that's the theory anyway). I'm fortunate to be working with some IT gals that are proactive and supportive of bringing the library into the 2.0 age of technology.
That's all my pearls of wisdom for now so might as well amble off and pull up a pew at the pub.
I've no problems in pointing people to Wikipedia if they've got some research to do I tell them what I tell everyone who is gathering information off the Internet, evaluate the information before you believe it. Try for entries that have references and yes I know that references can be bogus but at some point we have to assume that not everyone out there is trying to twist you around and lead you down the garden path.
As for the other Wiki's I've looked at:
Wookieepedia - what a laugh as bad as some of the puns I throw out sometimes, a nice little fanatical site full of star wars "fluff" (and I know exactly who I'll pass this site onto lol)
BookLoversWiki - What a great idea to have an adults summer reading program may have to acquire the idea for our service.
Public Libraries Marketing Group - In all honesty I didn't look all that closely at this blog. I tried flicking pages to get a feel for it but all that really stuck out at me was the thought "is this a blog or a rainbow?" red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple writing was a bit much for me I'm afraid.
One thing that me and the IT girls have been bandying around is the possibility of getting a Logan Wiki together (in my spare time lol). We've got all this local knowledge here and what better way to disseminate it than to throw it to the world in a Wiki (well that's the theory anyway). I'm fortunate to be working with some IT gals that are proactive and supportive of bringing the library into the 2.0 age of technology.
That's all my pearls of wisdom for now so might as well amble off and pull up a pew at the pub.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Giving life the Flickr
I've been using Flickr for years now and always enjoy throwing random words in to see what comes out. Something I'm surprised that I never did previously is putting in my own name to see what comes out. While the image isn't very exciting you can still get the same kick as Google-ing yourself (assuming we're all as narcissistic as me lol).
Professionally I'm hoping that we'll be able to adopt a Flickr account for the Local Studies Collection for our contemporary shots of Logan and also aid in the identification of some of the images as well. My personal goal is to drag the library kicking and screaming into the 2.0 era and at least I've got the IT girls on my side.
Professionally I'm hoping that we'll be able to adopt a Flickr account for the Local Studies Collection for our contemporary shots of Logan and also aid in the identification of some of the images as well. My personal goal is to drag the library kicking and screaming into the 2.0 era and at least I've got the IT girls on my side.
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