My Seventeenth Post

I know I've skipped through a couple of exercises ... but here is #20 done. I've had a play around with YouTube and found this hilarious career advisory video for becoming a librarian - made in 1945!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20

My Sixteenth Post

Alas no furthur progress with Learning 2.0 at the moment - but I did stumble accross this blog from a fellow "well dressed and impressivley talented librarian". Check it out @

http://welldressedlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

My Fifteenth Post

I've been having a play around with Exercise #16 of the 23 Things, which was learning about wiki's. I have to say that I'm a big fan of the wiki and have been a regular reader of Library Success http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page For the library I think that wiki's have amazing potential for policies and procedures manuals, project planning, and user guides to name just a few. Currently I'm participating on a committee that is planning a large librry conference for 2008, and the team is making great use of a closed access wiki to store documents centrally and thus improve collaboration.

Personally I'm very keen for policies and procedures manuals to be available in wiki format tom promote currency and ease of use. Peter Blake's paper (below) gives a great introduction to setting up a wiki in the library environment.

Web 2.0 and wiki's were a key theme of this years Information Online conference, which i was lucky enough to attend. Two fantastic papers that examine the role and use of wiki's in the library environment are:

http://www.information-online.com.au/docs/Presentations/watson.pdf

http://www.information-online.com.au/docs/Presentations/blake.pdf

... and on a lighter note, naturally, I'm still addicted to Flickr (I'm the Flickr Fiddler) - so check out my most recent uploads @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7235365@N07/

My Fourteenth Post

Wow what an incredibly busy Easter Long Weekend. On Thursday I attended a beautiful wedding ceremony - on the right is a photo of us all pressed and preened to within an inch of our lives!

I've finished off exercises #14 & 15 which was reading about the implications of Web2.0 and the future direction of the library service. I think it's a very exciting time to be working in the information industry when you hear all the innovative new service that libraries are offering to develop a more collaborative relationship between staff and patrons ... everything from RFID technology, making use of open source software and even the removal of the traditional reference desk, a somewhat imposing barrier to customer service, replaced with staff armed with PDA's.

Oh and I also found some time to add more photos from my trip to Toronto on Flickr. Have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/7235365@N07/sets/72157594575119420/

My Thirteenth Post

Well that's Exercise #13 finished. I've had a play around with Del.icio.us and set up an account. I'm not really sure how useful it would be for me - I have to agree with he point that Scully made http://scullysworld.blogspot.com/2007/03/doing-14-technorati-linky-thingy.html "at some point I feel one has to say I am linked to enough sites" Now that I have an account I will have a play around again later, but at the moment I just don't find it useful...

Happy Easter Everyone!!