Week 8 Answer boards and social searching

Slam the boards is where reference librarians are answering questions on popular sites such as Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers etc. They are doing this to show what skills they have in answering questions and to let people know that librarians provide reference services. What a great way to help people and promote the library at the same time.

I think it is possible to do this in our library. Maybe have an answer board on our website and where customers can rate or review items in the collection and services that we have. We do have a comments book so patrons do comment on our service but nowhere, where they can review and rate books/items.

Technorati & Library Thing

I have explored Technorati and Library Thing. On Technorati i didn't find a different search result when searching for bookmobile from the advanced search option, i found nswpln2008 photos though. I LOVE Library thing. I think it is a great idea to make your own online library and see what other people have said about different books. Our library's catalogue is on our website so i dont think its worth puting it on again on a different website but i do think that patrons should be aware that this website exists and make their own accounts. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/r.cormick this is the link to my Library Thing catalogue.
I have even added a library thing search bar and what they call a blog widget of my books.

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/r.cormick this link is my del.icio.us account that i made. I have imported my favourites which was on my browser.

I'm definently going to use this very often as im on different PC's all the time at work and i can see it being used for research assistance. The library could make an account and put good websites on del.icio.us and group them under different catagories/tags.

Kids Rock

Week 6 - Videos Online

I have explored you tube, google video and have managed to embed a video into my blog!!! YAY! Take a look at the Crazy Warehouse Guy from Chaser's War on Everything!! Really Funny!! It wasn't as hard as i thought to embed a video. All you have to do is copy the embed HTML, create a new post and paste it in it. First i clicked on "add video" and tried to paste it in there but it didn't work.

Crazy Warehouse Guy In a Library