Monday, September 24, 2007
Rollyo
This kind of integrated searching could certainly save time for specialist searching. Particular and often visited sites could be grouped together in personalised selections to create another form of 'Favourites' but at a more sophisticated level. Could be useful for reference work, or Rollyos for specific subject areas could be set up by Faculty Librarians.
librarything
http://www.librarything.com
This is truly a mecca for a pathetic soul who has made a written record of every bedside book read since about 1980. Once toyed with the idea of using a small database but life rushed on and now THIS! Well, it's all very well but it's just 27 years too late. I do love the idea of a personal OPAC which could be shared with the world. Nice way of running a Reading List in perpetuity.
How could this be used in an academic library? I guess we could show students how to keep a record of their research reading? In any case, it's very handy to know about and I'm amazed someone has made cataloguing a recreational activity !! Cataloguing IS hot!
This is truly a mecca for a pathetic soul who has made a written record of every bedside book read since about 1980. Once toyed with the idea of using a small database but life rushed on and now THIS! Well, it's all very well but it's just 27 years too late. I do love the idea of a personal OPAC which could be shared with the world. Nice way of running a Reading List in perpetuity.
How could this be used in an academic library? I guess we could show students how to keep a record of their research reading? In any case, it's very handy to know about and I'm amazed someone has made cataloguing a recreational activity !! Cataloguing IS hot!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Image generators
Making up a doll's face, dressing a robot - well - but then there's creating a calendar or poster with personalised text and images. That I can see some use for.
Technology ? Variable...
The most evident aspect of the technology we're playing with is that some doesn't work, some works, some EVENTUALLY does, and some works brilliantly with unanticipated flow-ons. The podcasts on the weekly task pages are usually OK but sometimes 10 seconds between syllables is just toooo much. This blog was good to do, easy and all, and Flickr was great and had an unexpected flow on - someone in TAFE Infrastructure was creating a booklet on water saving in TAFE's, found the images of Noosa Centre's architectural eco water features I'd posted on Flickr in Task 5 and emailed for permission to use them! First time around the Gizmo didn't seeem to load ( the clip in the weekly task page didn't) but then I re-visited and presto, the waitressing wonder woman was born (it took 37 years off me - 1970 lives on!) The RSS feeds are clever in theory, and are designed to save time perusing net sites, but only a Really Sensible Solution if you're one of those out there who do spend time using these sites ( news, weather, whatever else). Tried to set one up on library topics from Feedster etc, but didn't find anything worth spending time reading - maybe that's just dodgy searching on my part. I can see it'd be just the thing for some purposes, a kind of SDI ( libraries been there, done that!) but not my thing. But at least now if I do see the logo on a site I happen to want, then the option's there I guess. Now for image generators...
Monday, September 3, 2007
Nifty technology in Flickr
Never heard of a trading card till today, but just made one and sent it from Flickr to my blog so that's a giant step for this little black duck...mind you I did it on Tuesday 4th not Monday as shown so dates seem a bit on the wonky side.
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