Face book and social networking

The facebook application that I like the most for libraries is book iread which allows people to share book titles and write reviews I think this would be a great addition to QBPL for our patrons to communicate among each other. I personally like myFlicker as it allows one to edit and share photos.

Discovering WEB 2.0 tools

I'm picking google docs as a tool that I really like and think is useful. This allows someone to produce and access documents from anywhere they are and then even post them to their blog. All of this without even buying any software or installing it on their machine. For the library this is useful as many of our clients don't own a computer so prior to tools like this they could not even create document or spreadsheet and then save it for future use.

ITUBE YOUTUBE

This is a lecture by Randy Pausch that I think is very good and is posted on youtube.

Let's collaborate and have a good time

I wrote this document in Google docs and uploaded a file to my account of a picture of my family. I paste it into this document and uploaded to my blog. All through Google, wow... cool. Groovey.

Playing around with Wikis

It was interesting to explore and contribute to a Wiki, I found the travel section on Wikihow and there was an article on how to enjoy the Victoria Falls. i have been there with my family so I edited the page and added a tip on having breakfast at the Victoria Falls Hotel. This was easy to do.

my tip

Wiki me this

I found that all the Wikis to be interesting. I particularly liked the SCJPL subject guide, it not only gives reviews and suggest readings but also provides links to help those doing research or writing reports. QBL can apply the Wiki technology for book talks, summer reading programs.

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.