Week 7 #16

Wikis - What exactly does that stand for? I've used Wikipedia and thought it was really great until I found out that anybody can write anything making the content rather dubious.

I took a look at SJCPL Subject Guides wiki and thought that was kind of cool, but I don't get why, what or how I would contribute to it.

I got sidetracked to the Davis, CA wiki and thought that was more interesting. If I lived in a relatively small town, I think that would be a great way to share information about the town. A Visitor's Bureau of sorts.

I'm afraid I can't think of anything that the university library could use this for it is were open to ANYBODY to edit. Maybe some collaboration with SJPL type of thing. I'm not very imaginative though, so I'm sure there is something we could use it for.

Week 6 #15

I read Away from Icebergs, Into a New World of Librarianship, and To a Temporary Place In Iime. I choose Away from Icebergs because Rick is kind of cute and I liked his analogy of a boat as the library profession and avoiding icebergs like the "just in case" collection, reliance on user education, and the "come to us" model of library service.

He states that libraries need to provide user-centric service. As a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything – digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc.

I found this statement pretty profound: "If our services can’t be used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed—not our patrons." You go Rick!

Here's another one: "We have to be a bit more humble in the current environment, and find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us—whether physically or virtually."

I thought he presented the situation clearly and cleverly. Got my attention.

Week 6 #14

Took a look at Technorati and did a search for Learning 2.0 in blog posts; it brought up over 30,000 blogs. I tried the same search by tags and got only 283. Sensing there is a pattern here, I searched by blog directory and it was even less, 75 blogs. I'm not sure why. Not sure I care.

I checked out "popular" and found several categories: favorited blogs, searches and blogs. Not so interesting ...

I scrolled down and found videos, movies and news. A little more interesting to me so I checked out a Hilary Clinton video. I have to do it again at my own computer with sound because it seemed cool. May even check out a few others.

WEEK 6 #13

I'm thinking my eyes have gone bad from being in the dark so much. I viewed, if you can call it that, the video on Del.icio.us. The video box was so small I couldn't see what the person was doing. Kind of wasted my time.

Went to SJLibraryLearning2 and broused around a bit. Found a bookmark for an article on folksonomy that had been bookmarked by alot of other users. I clicked on it and found the comments and other user tags. Pretty clever. From a catalogers perspective, tags are like adding subject headings to a bibliographic record.

Week 5 #12 Rollyo

You probably thought I was hibernating but I've just been busy.

I checked out the Rollyo site and dug my way around. I created a search roll with three travel sites but when I clicked on the create button I had no idea where it went or how to access it. Went to the dashboard and somehow found it. http://www.rollyo.com/index.html to see My Little Engine.

Kind of cool if the sites don't move or disappear. I not clear how much easier it is than just bookmarking a site ...

Week 5 #11

To brouse the Web2.0 awards list I clicked on the "short list". I selected the music catagoy and broused Last.fm, MusicStrand and Upto11.. Well I wasn't in any of those sites very long because I didn't recognize any of the musical groups they were into. Youngsters I presumed.

Now the video category seemed like it might be fun so I went to Dailymotion.com and viewed a couple of video clips and thought it was pretty entertaining. I think I saw part of "Wii would like to play" on television - sure is clever and entertaining advertising.

Week 5: Play Week #10

This exercise made me feel like groundhogs should just stay underground. Always touted as easy, the two sites I explored wouldn't let me download my silly picture! Once again I had to seek assistance only to find out that the image had to be jpeg for it to work. I found one, it worked, and I tried to save the image so I could load it into my blog. I have no idea where it went. Let's see if I can find it - there it is! I guess you can tell I used "Frames". This is an example of a retired SJSU librarian (smile).
http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/frame.php