My Dewey

My Dewey Decimal Section:

028 Reading & use of other information media


Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works


Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.



What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

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Rewards are Nice

What a lovely surprise.

Last Friday 15 August, my Library Manager approached me and said he had a surprise for me. "For me?" He asked me to guess what it could be. My only thought was that I had won a prize for completing my mission of discovery in the Learning 2.0 program.

And I was right...a Certificate of Completion and an MP3 player had been sent to my Library Manager to forward onto me :-)

Thanks to the State Library of NSW and its staff for having this program and helping me keep on track with it.

I had totally forgotten about it, and had gone on my merry way, but now I have another blog entry to add and a reminder to keep using the web "stuff".

Hip Hip Hooray.

Yippee!!! I got through it, without setting off any mines.

I've finally finished the Learning 2.0 program and I've come out on the other side without any scratches.

Being involved with in the I.T side of this library, it's been pretty easy for me to wade through the many new applications and "stuff" on the web, but there will always be more new "stuff", even as we speak.

Hopefully, I'll be able to apply some of what I've learnt in the Learning 2.0 program into my work practice. Onwards and upwards....away.

"To be or not to be...?"

...on Facebook or any other social networks, that is the question.

If you have the time to monitor and add to these networks, it would be another way to reach your public, but being in a small library with little resources, there are more pressing matters with face to face networking and reaching out to the local community.

Don't get me wrong, I love using Facebook, but I don't use it to connect to libraries, it's more a fun factor, a place to catch up with friends near and far.

I need to create a document, but I don't have Word.

What a lifesaver!...these online tools are so nifty. Not only can you create documents, spreadsheets and presentations, you can also share it and ask others to contribute to it, as as the video demonstrated, it sure does save a lot of time emailing documents to each other.

I can see lots of applications for these tools for both inhouse and our clients. But especially as a back of house tool for Librarians, we can save ourselves a lot a time and paperwork, by just working on the one document.

Zoho has extra bonuses with other applications like the planner, creator, chat, wiki, etc.

Mashups

So many fun things to make and do on the Big Huge Lab sites, I decided to try and make a magazine cover. Looks good if I say so myself. Have to make time to try the other programs available.

Had a quick play with Google Maps. That would be a good to plot historical buildings and places of interest for quick reference although I think Council already does quite a bit of mapping.

Podcasting or Vodcasting

This looks like a tool we could use to get any messages across, whether it's internally as a staff training tool or to our public to advertise services and events.

Recording storytelling sessions looks like a new way to reach a wider audience as well.