Week 7 blues

Its week 7 and I think I have the week 7 information overload blues. I was frustrated finding a unique delicious username and password and then felt almost overwhelmed by the number of tagged and labeled sites. I can see delicious is trying to bring some order to web and help users find what they are looking for easily...mmm sounds familiar. I think that is where a little of my frustration is coming from, should't we, librarians that is, have come up with this idea rather than just being passive recipients of it?

I really like librarything, but again it worries me that we are not out there creatng this type of value add to the web.

YouTube and the Lego librarian

I found this weeks lesson on videos online both addictive and infuriating at the same time. Once you're in YouTube you find you are stuck there, looking at "just one more link" before you log out! I also found accessing some sites at home using my wirless connection very frustrating, the connection kept stalling, I guess we take our internet speed for ganted at work.

I found this video on YouTube , it is quite strange , I'm not really sure about the content but thought I might use it as an example of embedding a video in my blog...unfortunately kept getting an error message...take a look anyway, it is pretty obvious what search words I was using when I found it.

PB WIKI

I tried to add a calendar to the SLNSW visitors guide Wiki but couldn't really get it happening. I think I will have to play around a little more with PB Wiki. It does seem easy enough to add content but I think an events calendar imbedded into an internal or external wiki would be great for the State Library.

Wikis, I love them

I love Wikis! I think they appeal to my need for a sense of order. I also like the idea that you are not working in a vacuum, that you can draw on other people expertise without creating a whole lot of extra work in the process.

I can see lots of opportunities for the Wikis in the library. Building corporate knowledge and documenting procedures seem like very obvious applications for us. I especially liked the Library Success Wiki-sharing stories about what we do well and building best practice guidelines and standards at the same time seems like a good idea to me.

Alerts follow up

It has been sometime since my last post, but just a quick follow up on alerts. Alerts are only to alert you to when someone post a comment to your blog. I guess RSS feeds are the most efficient way to alert you you to new posts on other peoples blogs. I thought I read on the Desk with View blog that you cannot set up an RSS feed for alerting you to comments posted on a blogs, it will obnly alert you to new posts?

At the risk of sounding lazy and I guess a little obsessive about alerts....can you get bloglines to send an email to you about new posts?