Wikis Lesson #16

I like wikis because it functions as a public or group drive. Interested people can view and change / add to the wiki. Our Youth Services wiki has some good divisions, so we can post our storytimes, program plans, etc. Wikipedia is a great site for celebrities of the past, cities, any odd bits of info that doesn't have an overtly commercial aspect to it. The good practices Librarians page had an article about weeding travel books, (my section). But I found the ALA New Orleans conference wiki a redundancy over summaries in Library Journal or the ALA website.

Library 2.0 Lesson #15

Library 2.0, oh how can I say the words without paraxyms of intellectual torment? I read the OCLC columns and was alternately intrigued and provoked. I like the idea of the World Cat, and people being able to add tags (i.e. subject headings). But I wonder about security with political or lifestyle choice books and basically anyone with a dissenting view that is not endorsed by the dominant group of library users. Perpetual beta, that makes platforms easy to readjust. Then can Libraries get used to not being in total control of their catalogs / databases? I like the tools, but I don't like "techno gadget lust", as the products go out of date and their piles of junk poison the Third World people. Lets use Library 2.0 to bring the users and the Library together.

Technorati Lesson #14

I searched for "youtube tips" in blogs and got 14,000 hits. Then I just did a tag search and I only got about 500 hits. But I like del.icio.us way of listing the tags and the number of hits better. BTW, the WTF section had some interesting links. This seems like a good site to organize and keep up with your favorite blogs.
The advantages to tags is getting the exact word, and slight variations, to have the most relevance in searches. Too much generalities will just lump one's blogs with the thousands of others on common subjects.

del.icio.us Lesson #13

I have never seen a collection of better articles than the Library 2.0 link to del.icio.us. The links, the words, this concept makes sense to me. I must continue with the lesson. I registered, but of course I couldn't add the icons to the top of the page. I read an article about "online catalogs, paradise lost then found" that was fascinating.

Lesson #12 - Rollyo

I went to the Rollyo link and saw that major categories were already created. So I created "YA Library Spaces" and placed 8 websites on the searchroll. I used it to look about Dr. Bernier, who spoke to SJPL staff about Young Adults in Libraries in the fall of 2006. He has strong ideas about what makes a good library space and his work is credited in many journals. How will San Jose's new Libraries rank in 21st century teen spaces?

Lesson #11

Scrolling through the long list of award winning Library 2.0 meant many candidates were possible for my recommendation. Well, one general interest news site really caught my attention: www.newsvine.com. The site takes feeds from Ap and ESPN and puts them within its site. Users read them and give them a thumbs up vote. The stories with the most votes go on the homepage. Stories are listed by most votes and most comments, which are the more values driven stories. Users decide the importance of the stories.

Image Generators Lesson 10

Here is an image I created from the Image Generator, from the first link. The link is "Generator Blog". I thought the image choices were excellent, but the text entry was limited. It only went to 8 on some of the "signs". But still, Alphabet soup and classic car grill, thumbs up!

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