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Thursday, October 25, 2007

# 16 Wikis

It was very interesting to see how other libraries are using Wikis. I can see it being used as a cross between our newsletter and our current home page. It would be great to have people adding titles to our existing booklists. There could be an ongoing bookclub sort of thing where people could comment on the same book and recommend others. People love to talk about an exciting book they have just finished. This way they can jump onto the local library wiki and have their say and also get feedback. I think this would be very exciting.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

#15 Web 2.0

As was stated in the articles the libraries will know today will be a far different thing from the libraries of 5 and 10 years time. Web 2.0 will help us leap the gap to the library of the future.
We are all learning the new technology associated with web 2.0 and this is expanding our knowledge . There are so many ways that libraries will be using these new ideas.
I read that we should " reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just the centre". I guess that is what Web 2.0 is teaching us.

#14 technorati

Are they new blogs popping up all the time? Mind blowing. I set up a technorati account....needed some help with what to do next. Working by myself today will consult a colleague next week. There may be more to follow.

# 13 del-icio-us

For my first look around del-ici0-us i did a search on the Geelong Football Club and got a list of official web sites and blogs. It was interesting to read the blogs and others musings on the one topic. I then visited the PLCML2 set up for us to have a look. Wow really interesting. Read all about libraries displaying RSS feeds from their catalogs and more.