Saturday, November 24, 2007
Library 2.0
I think QPL is already on the way to Library 2.0. The recent Hotpicks is one example of this. We certainly can encourage the public to give us feedbacks, suggestions of what they would like to see in the library and what services made available could be provided through blogging. A newsfeed could be used to up date the public on collections, programs that are being offered and services.
Feeding Frenzy
Syndic 8.com allows you to search for sites with feed while Topix.net and Technorati give more relevant and up to date articles on sites but does not indicate whether they have feeds or not unless you go into each individual one to check.
RSS feeds
RSS is a great tool for getting the up to date information that you want from the sources you trust. It is specially useful for information institution such as libraries to provide instant updates on collections, programs and services.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Technorati
The site is like a central clearing house. It is like a catalog of blogs with comments, rankings, for people to search. Blogs have become a new media forum where the famous and the guy next door can voice and publish their opinions and experiences.
Del.icio.us
It's not only bridges the gap between librarians and the public when providing reference service, but also makes it easier to search subjects that do not exit in the library of Congress subject headings. It helps to identify useful sites because other people already did their homework and share their experience. Knowledge and information is shard internationally.
Rollya assignment
It was fun but hard to post it to my blog. I couldn't have done it without the help of my husband. The Rollya search engine is amazing, it allows you to be able to define a set of relevant sites for those reading your blog can use.
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