Play week

The web link for my ninja friend is: http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/ninjatext.asp This site is a text generator.

I also included below to the right a bit of graffiti that says the same thing. The generator for this can be found at: http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=image-personalization

My library thing library can be looked at via the link below where my random selection of books are displayed. Not one of the books I selected was selected by just one other person, the lowest I got was 14 people for a barbara Deming book.

In my own search engines is one that I created, called australian unions. They are listed over to the right. Rollyo could be a very useful way for patrons of library patrons to achieve more australian content in their searches. Also, if they have a special interest this can be a fast way to gather information. If you look carefully at Rollyo you will find out a dark secret about me...I play World of Warcraft, an internet based game.

I enjoyed all of these activities.

RSS feeds, bloglines and blogroll

As you will notice, I have put my blogroll from bloglines as a link into this blog. There it is looking great on the right hand side of the page. The address you can use to look at material I post at bloglines is http://www.bloglines.com/public/greenie

I think my first sentence may break a record for how many times blog can be mentioned in a sentence. Sorry about that.

I feel that the bloglines concept is something that I could introduce immediately to patrons at our library who are regular, confident computer users. I only have space to run very small classes on computer related topics. With the right lealfets and targetting at those patrons I believe that there would be a very high take up of this facility. Many patrons come to the library very regularly to keep up with their favourite blogs, web sites etc. This would make the whole process much quicker. Next year I am to propose some computer training that I can do and I can see already that I will offer this.

In addition, I can see how you may be able to provide already compliled lists of RSS feeds that may suit broad areas of interest. This would require consultation with librarians across our service, as one of the challenges that immediately occurs to me is the potential concern about providing publicity for sites that may not be authoriative or appropriate. One of the key resources that libraries can provide to the community is confident access to authoriative information and I wouldn't want to undermine that. So there may need to be protocols that would be developed around it. On the other hand, libraries can be great places for cutting through all the gumph to get to the right information quickly, so hopefully it is possible. I could see tailored blogrolls on:
- geneology
-reading/books/literature
-current topics eg. we already have web based info on issues like climate change
-film
-sport
-particular genres eg crime, romance, russian novelists etc etc
-local community
-world events/politics
-environment
-farming, both organic and mainstream
-viticulture
just to name a few.

This has all been very interesting and inspiring.

#5 flickr

gracie,
originally uploaded by library.community.

This a photo of Gracie our very eccentric 14 year old cow. We hand reared her from when she was one week old. She has had four calves and we have hand milked her after each one. Friends made lots of lovely cheeses, insisiting that her milk made the best cheeses they had ever made. We are her herd and she takes a keen interest in all we do. She is just like having an enormous, loving dog. An enormous pet.

I have uploaded this photo of mine to my blog direct from Flickr. It was a very easy process. I was interested to see the warning from Flickr when I set up my account that malicious third parties are trying to use Flickr for phishing personal details. Some people will try anything!

I'm amused by the possibilities and potential of posting notes on people's photos. Lots of info and humour potential in that.

The African community libraries had interesting photos. They were used to highlight the friends of african libraries organisation and that philanthropy was needed in most cases to establish and support these libraries. It was good to see a photo collection being used for a greater point.

This is going to be exciting

I haven't been able to get started on the Web 2.0 project until now. I am very keen to catch up in the next week with everyone else. I haven't played much with the interactive web based technologies but believe that this will be fun.

I am inspired that some of these technologies may be tools that library staff can use to engage more meaningfully and in a variety of ways with our communities. Both existing patrons and those who haven't connected with libraries yet.

I am hoping that ongoing projects for our library service will be spawned by the ideas that come from these activities.

Anyway...here's the first, of hopefully many, posts.