23 Things was fun and informative learning project. While I did have experience in areas such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Wikis; I had never regularly maintained a blog, used RSS, or Google Tools beyond the basic searches and Gmail. My favorite task was exploring RSS. I really, really enjoy how that connects to Google Reader making my blog addiction easy to keep up with. This is a tool that I will be spending more time with. As far as doing something like this in the future, I say enthusiastically yes! I would be on board with any activity that keeps us up to date with the various Web 2.0 toys that keep cropping up. I think that some sort of technology based, after hours event for teens would be amazing. It could be arranged like some sort of scavenger hunt where they would have to explore different tools and collect data. I think employees and patrons alike benefit from this type of training.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Online Reader Tools
On Goodreads, I recommended The Shadow of the Wind to Joe Patron.
On the Library Newsletters, I subscribed to the following:
LFPL E-News
Fiction Bestsellers
New Fiction
I will probably be signing up for more. I have a lot of patrons at Shively who are very dedicated to certain authors. They seem to know ages in advance when someone has a new release. While I may not be able to play quite the same game, these news letters will at least keep me more well informed than I am right now.
Because I love literary thrillers, I was pretty happy to see a section just for those on Novelist. There were several recommendations that I have already read, but many more that I plan on reading in the future (Sherlockian by Graham Moore, for example). Tools like Novelist are amazingly helpful. No one reads everything. I read some history and biography, and that is about it for me and nonfiction. I am pretty specific about the type of books that I enjoy. With tools like Novelist, you can make a recommendation for anyone regardless of what you really enjoy reading. I also use the website "Fantastic Fiction". I enjoy that most author pages list the author's recommendations for similar books or authors.
On the Library Newsletters, I subscribed to the following:
LFPL E-News
Fiction Bestsellers
New Fiction
I will probably be signing up for more. I have a lot of patrons at Shively who are very dedicated to certain authors. They seem to know ages in advance when someone has a new release. While I may not be able to play quite the same game, these news letters will at least keep me more well informed than I am right now.
Because I love literary thrillers, I was pretty happy to see a section just for those on Novelist. There were several recommendations that I have already read, but many more that I plan on reading in the future (Sherlockian by Graham Moore, for example). Tools like Novelist are amazingly helpful. No one reads everything. I read some history and biography, and that is about it for me and nonfiction. I am pretty specific about the type of books that I enjoy. With tools like Novelist, you can make a recommendation for anyone regardless of what you really enjoy reading. I also use the website "Fantastic Fiction". I enjoy that most author pages list the author's recommendations for similar books or authors.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Things 18 and 19
This week we collaborated on Wikis. I added my comments to the Favorite Books page (The Shadow of the Wind, The Wind in the Willows, and Jane Eyre), and the Favorite Vacation Spot page (Skagen, Denmark). I have gotten to use a Wiki on a couple of occasions. When finishing my MSLS from UK, many of the professors would employ a wiki to help facilitate conversation and the sharing of ideas. In my Children's literature class, we were expected to keep our own pages on the wiki as a reading journal. Each week we would read various award winners, type a summary, and share our thoughts. In our computer science class, the wiki was employed as more of a "crash support" center. As we would try our various projects (and some parts would inevitably fail), we could share code and correct amongst ourselves...and offer support when things went really wrong.
The video Wikis in Plain English was absolutely right--there is no mass collaboration via email. It is just a mess. As far as comparing wikis, I suppose if you build it, they will come. I do think that people are collaborative by nature, and we enjoy sharing ideas with like-minded individuals. Judging by the Wookieepedia and the like, wikis just streamline the process. I really enjoyed "Library Success"--it was easily to browse by topic, and the information appeared to be pretty top notch.
So let's apply this to our mission statement:
"The Library's mission is to provide the people of Louisville and Jefferson County with the broadest possible access to knowledge, ideas and information, and to support them in their pursuit of learning."
A broad access to knowledge, ideas, and information can be found in wikis. If the wiki were employed as some sort of epic book group, a comment/suggestion forum, a classroom forum for people to discuss what they learned in our various educational endeavors, or any other number of collaborative based projects; we would be advancing our mission statement.
The video Wikis in Plain English was absolutely right--there is no mass collaboration via email. It is just a mess. As far as comparing wikis, I suppose if you build it, they will come. I do think that people are collaborative by nature, and we enjoy sharing ideas with like-minded individuals. Judging by the Wookieepedia and the like, wikis just streamline the process. I really enjoyed "Library Success"--it was easily to browse by topic, and the information appeared to be pretty top notch.
So let's apply this to our mission statement:
"The Library's mission is to provide the people of Louisville and Jefferson County with the broadest possible access to knowledge, ideas and information, and to support them in their pursuit of learning."
A broad access to knowledge, ideas, and information can be found in wikis. If the wiki were employed as some sort of epic book group, a comment/suggestion forum, a classroom forum for people to discuss what they learned in our various educational endeavors, or any other number of collaborative based projects; we would be advancing our mission statement.
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